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This is a self-professed, blatant all-out "steal" of a great idea begun by Gina Hartman for Twitter users in education. As a plurker, I thought we plurkers needed one of these for us. I've even "borrowed" her very well done directions: This wiki was created to easily help new teachers (or teachers new to Plurk) connect with other teachers that have the same interests as them (that teach in the same content area). Check out the list of teachers below. To add your Plurk name to the list, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of this page, and then enter yourself in the appropriate category or categories! But first you have to create an account. Just follow the instructions to the right.

Touchcards is an iPhone app that supports loading cards from Quizlet and StudyStack, two of the most popular flash card sharing sites on the web. Thousands of great free sets are already available, and you can always create your own. You get the benefits of the hard work you or other people have put into creating sets on Quizlet and StudyStack, but also have the freedom to study the cards on your own. If the flashcards are edited and changed after you've imported them, you can easily re-sync them with Touchcards, so you'll always be up-to-date. If you need to create your own flash cards and don't want to use Quizlet.com or StudyStack.com, you can create a simple spreadsheet in Google Docs, with one column for questions (the front of a card) and one column for answers (the flipside of a card). Publish your spreadsheet as a web page and tell Touchcards where to find the set. Touchcards is easy to use and interactive, relying on swipes, taps, and shakes to study a flash card set. You can make your own cards in Google Docs or through Quizlet and StudyStack (both sites are free to use and have active communities). Thousands of free flash cards are already available, covering topics in math, Spanish, French, English, music, anatomy, the GRE, MCAT, SAT, LSAT, weather, body parts, history, algebra, geometry, chemistry, accounting, and many more. Flashcards can be an integral part of learning new material. It's important to mentally anticipate the answer or definition to a given card. Doing this increases retention of knowledge and facilitates building a mental model around the material. In short, you'll do better on tests.

Blog to eBook in Minutes How it Works: Import posts from your site or blog, or copy/paste from a manuscript. Edit content and drag it into chapters, then congratulations ... you're an eBook author!

"If, like most people, you haven't "layered" since last winter and only "merge" at speeds of 60 mph and over, getting accustomed to the lingo and layout of Photoshop (Adobe Photoshop) can be daunting. These nine free resources are good places to learn how to lasso, dodge, burn, paint, filter or do whatever else you need to in order to accomplish your desired photo editing task. If we didn't mention your favorite Photoshop tutorial, add it in the comments below and let us know how it helped you in your design endeavors."

"Ever wonder what it would be like if we let our students pick the tools we use in class? This collection of web 2.0 tools is just that- a list of tools and ideas for what students see as being useful for their learning in and out of school. To begin the project, 8th grade students were engaged in a conversation about what school would look like if all of the rules we currently had were disbanded. They were no longer bound by walls, schedules, age restrictions or standardized tests. No technology was outlawed. It was a bit of a hurdle for them...after eight years of the current school arrangement, it was difficult for them to imagine anything else. With a little encouragement and a push they rose to the occasion, and here are the tools they think we ought to consider using. As this is a dynamic site, there may be some entries in need of editing. We will get to them! We left the duplicates in for emphasis as well as different points of view. Enjoy!"

"NYU School of Medicine Virtual Microscope " * Parasitology * Histology Supplementary Slide Collection * Histology Slide Collection * Pathology Most Viewed: Slide Views Artery, vein, ... 5,075 Dentine formation 2,581 Thick skin, ... 2,218 Spleen, small ... 2,070 Pig head 1,994 Kidney, cardiac ... 1,765 Endochondral bone ... 1,540 Tag Cloud 771 slides available. 137,853 views. 227 chat messages. 127 Faculty Markers. 780 Student Markers. NYUSM Students and Faculty: When you log in via an ALEX course you can: * SlideChat: real time chat across lab rooms or dorm rooms with synced microscope viewing * Add/Edit slide markers * Tag slides with any terms you want * Take practice quizzes * Within ALEX this application is available in Foundation for Medicine or by joining the Virtual Microscope course from the Course Browser within your My Workspace Get started by checking out some sample slides from the collection:

"Lesson Starters and World Cup Teaching Ideas" Welcome to the secondary weekly update, all the latest videos delivered straight to your inbox! The May edition of The Guide is now available. It's packed full of video suggestions to help you prepare for the summer term with features on outdoor learning, sport & PE.

"Gmail, Calendar, Docs and more. Google Apps Education Edition offers a free (and ad-free) set of customizable tools that enable faculty, staff and students to work together and learn more effectively."

"There are many excellent platforms that teachers and students can use to create and maintain a blog throughout the school year. Depending upon your chosen purpose for student blogging, some platforms are better than others. But if you just want students to occasionally publish an essay to the web for peer review, you might not need a full-fledged blogging platform. Here are five ways that you can have students publish their essays to the web in under a minute (writing and editing time excluded)."

iMovie has made a surge into classroom instruction, in part because of the rapid growth in the field of digital video and partly because of Apple's superior software design that offers tremendous ease for the user. Like all educational technology, desktop video editing is not a ubiquitous solution for all of the challenges teachers face in today's classroom. Teachers using digital video, in particular iMovie, have provided an abundance of anecdotal evidence for encouraging individual expression, spawning creativity, revitalizing content, promoting collective knowledge construction and individual reflection, and offering students of a variety of backgrounds and experiences to engage in authentic learning.

"Please join us in discussing how the National Educational Technology Standards for Students are being implemented in classrooms around the world. Please feel free to comment on another's ideas, ask a question, and develop ideas together by selecting "Edit This Page." To be kept notified of the changes and updates to this page, use the Notify Me option. NEW! Download, give ISTE feedback, and test the draft NETS for Students Summary Rubric on the Rubrics Page. Help ISTE develop what you need: NETS Adoption Survey: Tell us if your school, school district, or state/province has adopted the refreshed NETS. NETS Resources Survey: Tell us what resources you need to implement the NETS. "

"Chartophiles and students, have you heard that Google has made it incredibly easy to generate your own slick-looking charts? It's true, and all it takes to make one is the ability to read and edit a URL. This has made it possible to get creative with charts and wow the audience for your next classroom presentation. Read on to see what's been done, and how you can easily do it yourself."

"Creating videos used to require that you own expensive equipment and software. Fortunately, that is no longer the case. In fact, now there are many tools you can use to create videos online. Here is a collection of some of my favorite tools for creating videos online."

"Welcome to the most popular online photo editor in the world! Open Pixlr editor (Advanced) OR Open Pixlr express (Efficient) OR Open Pixlr-o-matic (Playful)"

Vail's List of Web Tools Wabash, IN Heed this Advice... create a document for username and password or put it on a sticky. I have highlighted my favorite tools.