ISABC Summer Institute 2009

Build a custom search engine

A set of lessons taking teachers & admins through 23 activities that will introduce you to the tools of the "new internet"

A great wiki, developed by amazing teacher-librarian Joyce Valenza, which gives tons of options of places to look for copyright-friendly images, sounds, and more.

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration. Initially an annual conference, the scope of TED has expanded to include a bi-annual global conference, a humanitarian prize, and free audio/video podcasts of extraordinary talks.

National Educational Technology Standards for students, teachers, and administrators.

A wiki where myself and others from my district have been adding links to terrific, free, interactive activities/sites that would work well on an interactive whiteboard.

A wiki where I've been compiling free, web-based tools that I think would be useful to educators.

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting. You can pay for a classroom or school account on ed.voicethread, or as a teacher there is a way to get free, unlimited Voicethreads on the regular site.

An inspiring blog post which shares some ideas for creating poem projects on Animoto. As teachers, you can apply for a free Animoto account.

Information about an awesome conference coming up in October on the provincial professional development day. This is your formal invitation to come to the beautiful city of Kamloops and attend several days of inspired learning!

A really cool blog post about how a teacher has been using the game "Myst" to help his students improve vocabulary and creative writing. This is his second year using this particular game with his students, and you can link back to his posts from the previous year detailing how he got started using it with his class.

Lecture One: Introductions - part of Michael Wesch's course @KSU. The questions he asks his students here are worth a consideration. "Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all." - Thomas Szasz, 1973 "Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all." - Thomas Szasz, 1973

Lecture One: Introductions - part of Michael Wesch's course @KSU. The questions he asks his students here are worth a consideration. "Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all." - Thomas Szasz, 1973

Good list of tips for making podcasts.

Jennifer Wagner's great collection of online project resources.

I've been a fan of this teacher and some of these projects for a while.

Outline for Howard Rheingold's social Media course. Good insight on one of leading thinkers in world of SM

An incredible repository of tools and ideas reagarding 21st century learning. Organised according to the stages of Blooms Digital Taxonomy.

An incredible repository of tools and ideas reagarding 21st century learning.

Good advice on running a Twitter account for you school/