One of the great things about Twitter is the wealth of useful links that get shared between users. My conservative estimate is that 25% of the resources that I've bookmarked over the last few years have come from Twitter users. The one thing that I wish Twitter had was an option for bookmarking those links without having to open them outside of Twitter. Packrati.us was built to do just that, bookmark links without leaving Twitter.
To get started using Packrati.us authorize the service to access your Twitter account and your Delicious account. Once you've authorized Packrati.us it bookmarks in Delicious all of the links you Tweet or reTweet. If you're a frequent user of services like Four Square or Gowalla you can tell Packrati.us to ignore links from those sources. Packrati.us also allows you to specify hashtags to ignore or to add to your links.
his site will provide you with links, ideas, tips, and much more for supporting the use of infographics as an assessment option in the classroom. The site has three informational pages, linked on the right.
The first page provides a list of links to support my infographics presentation.
The second page includes a Google Form for you to add your own ideas, practices, or links to information you have found.
The third page provides contact information for me, in case you have ideas, suggestions, criticisms, witticisms, or just want to chat!
"A short time ago I published a list of "starter apps" for the iPad, most of them free. I've had several questions about how I created this app list, so I made a video describing the process. The method I describe isn't the only way to build an app list document or to share a favorite collection of apps with others. For example, you could save a step and just drag and drop the title of the app into a document once you find the app in the store. It will become a live link and look like this - Merriam-Webster Dictionary HD"
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Thank you for attending the Education Leadership Summit 2010 recently held in Dallas, Texas.
We are pleased to provide the following resources from the Summit to continue the conversations begun in Dallas and hope they will help facilitate new discussions in your own institutions. You will find links to a variety of materials ranging from links to our keynote speaker, videos of our student panelists, presentations from our workshop presenters, and access to the summit "back-channel" contributions.
The links on this page lead to hundreds of thousands of images. Each page of images is VERY large and will take a few moments to load .... even for the fastest of internet connections.
The current size of the image library is over 10GB! For a perspective, the average link on this site loads a web page that closely matches the size of the Old and New Testaments combined.
I'll be posting links to creative projects on the 52 Projects Facebook page. I've been having fun on tumblr and twitter, why not join the Facebook party (where everyone seems to be spending their online time these days - so much so that even Google is worried.). I used to post more links here on the site, but it just makes more sense to post them into the social networks. It's less about blogs these days, and more about wall posts and feeds. I get it.
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Keep students connected to your curriculum from home and back.
If you use iPod Touches in your classroom and students have access to either an iPod Touch or an iPhone, here are some "Apps" that we have on the AUHSD iPod Touches that can help with continuity of learning. iTunes required to access the links.
Use the "Sort" link to find Apps by discipline. Items labeled "z-Possible" are possibilities to add to the iPod Touch library once they are evaluated by teachers."
GistWeb will give the gist of any web page's actual content. It's goal is to provide a "summary" version of any page, giving you the meat and discarding the fluff. This saves loads of time when doing research online.
To use GistWeb, drag this -> Gist It! Open) and click your GistWeb bookmark.
One last note: As a rule, GistWeb only works well on English documents. Using it on documents of any other language may produce low quality results.
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others.
Glog for organizing some Web 2.0 Teacher Tools that I thought teachers in my building should start utilizing. I linked to several videos explaining what they were and how they worked. I also linked to several other presentations, websites, publications, etc. that listed several Web 2.0 tools that teachers should and could be using to make life easier. Feel free to pass it along to your staff.
ecently while viewing the wonderful tweets by people that I follow on Twitter I came across a tweet by Andrew Marcinek (Here is a link to his Blog http://iteach20.blogspot.com/). He was sharing a Wiki that he created for his staff and students. The Boys Latin School Ed-Tech Resource Wiki serves as a home for all the links that he shares with his staff broken down by content level.
"Brief.ly is a state-of-the-art link sharing service provided to you free of charge by Name.ly blogging platform.
The first best places to read about Brief.ly are the following articles describing key features, a paradoxical story of why some smart people are using it, a random link, and the tour page:
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"HomeschoolMath.net is a comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents and teachers: find free worksheets, math ebooks for elementary grades, extensive link list of games, interactive tutorials & quizzes, curriculum guide, and math teaching help articles/lessons. The resources emphasize understanding of concepts instead of mechanical memorization of rules."
"HomeschoolMath.net is a comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents and teachers: find free worksheets, math ebooks for elementary grades, extensive link list of games, interactive tutorials & quizzes, curriculum guide, and math teaching help articles/lessons. The resources emphasize understanding of concepts instead of mechanical memorization of rules."
E is for EXPLORE is a one stop resource for teachers and parents. We develop unique learning activities, and search the internet and compile additional great ideas from other sources. Our index helps you find what you need quickly and easily. Where we have posted ideas from other sources we provide easy links to those websites. Please visit those as well to see what else they have to offer. All E is for Explore activities conform to state common core curriculum standards."
"We here at the ol' Online Education Database can't promise that following these Twitter feeds by periodicals, bloggers, agents, editors, and writers will score you a coveted publishing contract. But we can promise that you'll more than likely find at least one of them extremely useful when researching the five Ws (and one H) of getting your name out there as an author. And if these don't work, chances are they link up to a microblog that does. And if that doesn't work, then the blame probably sits with you."
Hey everyone,
Please go to link and watch the boys' video, "We're Hungry and You Know It." Not perfect but they worked so hard on it ...and it' s pretty clever! I had absolutely nothing to do with it...Zachary and Tristen (8th graders) really ran the show and saw this project to completion. They need lots of views so share with your friends!
I'm a little bit excited since this is our first iMovie attempt, AND the very first time I've ever posted to youtube! In case you weren't aware, our students have been working on a protest against the federally mandated reduction of calories in school lunches. They have been bringing sack lunches to school since August, have written letters to state representatives, emailed the White House, and have received recognition by mail, local news, and some national syndicates who have called the school and picked up the story. They'd like to keep the momentum of the movement going, so please help by spreading the word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u748SRboxVc
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