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This article reflects where the Learning with Computers group has been for years!

This inaugural column on I-Blog by James Shimabukuro distinguishes blog content from architecture, and highlights collective and corporate advances into blogging as a medium for web-based communication, especially those by the staff of Innovate. Shimabukuro, J. 2008. Innovate-Blog: A step into Blog 2.0. Innovate 5 (2). http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=695 (accessed December 3, 2008)

Social learn is an application aiming to move beyond web-feed based interoperability. They will use SL-aware apps communicating via API..

Rec. Gladys. She based her piece in the LWC wiki on this site.

Gleaned from Carla Arena's collection

Alan Levine's list of 50 tools you can use to tell stories, rounded out with examples from him and others.

"The Fifty Tools Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something. I have used each tool to produce an example of the original Dominoe story, plus links are provided, where available, to examples by other people. Please share your own examples or thoughts in the discussion area of this wiki. But before rummaging around the toolbox, have you done your prep work? Do you have your story idea or presentation concept outlined, developed? This should be on paper or in a document file or scribbled on the back of a napkin, but do not rely on making it up as you go! If not, go back 2 spaces and do this now. Next- do you have your media assets available, your images, video clips, audio files-- if not go find your media now."

A site-based questionnaire generates printable and revisitable multiple intelligence profiles based on Gardner's eight intellingences. Site also allows compilation of group or class results, if you get reference code numbers keyed to individual responses.

This is a deep bookmark for a survey represented in a site that Mary bookmarked earlier (2008.07.07 JST): kis21learning wiki / A "Digital Arts" Menu for Multiple Intelligences

The survey itself is from the Birmingham Grid for Learning, "arguably the most comprehensive learning resource of its kind to be found anywhere in the UK" (BGfL: About Us, retrieved 2008.07.08 from http://www.bgfl.org/index.cfm?s=1&p=1945,index).

Resources I have collected for using video online and creating student video projects. Includes vlogs, tutorials in editing software, project-based learning support (e.g. rubric makers), models, contests, etc. (Rec EHS)

Just put in a URL and this will generate a cloud based on word frequency

I found this tool via Bamboo Project Blog this morning. It is really fun to put in the URL of your own blog and see what words you use most often.

Tons of worksheets for songs.

Songs and lyrics for teaching English. Grammar based handouts using authentic songs

Univ. of Southampton's evaluation of a "Web 2.0 Service" offers a brief description and assessments from three perspectives: 1) accessibility, 2) disability-tailoring, and 3) activities for which Type with Me is useful, namely: a) Group Discussion; b) Text-based Editable Information [compilation], c) Note Taking, and d) Collaborative Writing.

Projects in science are provided which take full advantage of Internet resources to help students develop a better understanding of the world in which they live.

Students learn how to conduct science investigations in the same manner as scientists, as they learn to analyze sets of online real time data to solve problems.

resource base for connecting teachers in learning teams

Wikis are the most popular Web 2.0 tool being used in science and math classrooms. Based on a survey of readers - 43 percent use them to support their teaching and student learning. A Wiki is appealing, encourages participation, supports collaboration, and promotes interaction by students who love to use technology. By the way - this includes most students today!

Aviary, the company behind a suite of collaborative web-based image editing software, has released a Firefox plug-in that's a must-have. Create an account at Aviary, download the plug-in called Talon, and within minutes you'll be joyfully clipping full and partial screenshots into the very full-featured Aviary web editor. It's so easy, but at the same time so full-featured, that's a real pleasure to use.

FROM the Creator/Owner of WORDLE: "I'm happy to announce that from now on, the Wordle front page will never feature images or links that are inappropriate for classroom use. It's now possible to configure an institution's "site-blocking" software to keep Wordle safe for classroom use." Simply have your networking administrator block the following base URLs1: * http://www.wordle.net/gallery * http://www.wordle.net/next * http://www.wordle.net/random

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