LearningwithComputers

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.

About the hidden purposes in using technology in the class; about the absolute need for reflection on how to enhance students autonomy and learning skills through the new web tools.

I haven't listened to them yet. I'll add comments to any I find really good

also see the website: edtags.com

This looks like a great resource for posting to blogs and sharing. A more personal type than diigo - less social, but still useful in its own right

Guide to careful reading and evaluation of online resources

Original post by Stephen Downes (2005.07.16), remixed with ads and graphics in "How To Evaluate A Web Site['s] Trustworthiness and Credibility" by Luigi Canali De Rossi (2008.08.21)

As Sue Summerford suggests, especially for non-adult learners, "carefully preview any sites before sharing ... with students!"

Web 2.0 tool catalog in Web 1.0 form, updated 2008.02.12, revised 2008.06.27 (2008.07.30)

How to say it. You write a word ,send it and listen to it. Thanks Monica

Thanks to Sirin for pointing this out (Learning with Computers, Message #5331, Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:16 am)

An "investigation of how to improve the procedure of known (or new) pedagogical activities for asynchronous delivery" (header, tagline, 2009.02.12)

Thanks to Buthaina Al-Othman (Learning with Computers) for pointing this out!

represents six types of visualization: compound, concept, data, information, metaphor, and strategy; with dozens of illustrations nested as pop-ups in a periodic table-like frame

copyright info!

Authors and developers request acknowledgments when you use these images.

"This library consists of about 3000 images which we hope will be useful in the teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. The characters and objects depicted are as culturally neutral as we could make them" (paras. 1-2).

another collaborat-able online writing venue

pointed out by julianna07 in Resources for Languages

BIG on strategic self-development: "Career Development, Technology and Learning Strategies for Lifelong Personal and Professional Growth (TypePad blog subtitle, 2008.07.10)

Thanks to Mary for sharing this wonderful blog with the LwC group. I'm bookmarking it now, sharing it with friends, and going to add it to a blogroll as soon as I'm done here!

Mark Federman interprets Marshall McLuhan's "enigmatic paradox, 'The medium is the message.'"

An ongoing exchange on the Authorship 2.0 blog inspired me to rethink a famous quotation. I found that this essay sports a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license (Notice to Students and Teachers).

worthwhile reading; pedagogy seems to be transforming into andragogy?

very cool!!

this is an AWESOME site -- please try it. Saves oodles of time and is so easily editable to fit what you want -- and to adapt for different levels of proficiency. I love it!

EXCELLENT

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).

reminder messages via twitter. Send reminders to yourself via twitter

Wonderful Resources for teaching online

1.About having a research agenda: 1.1."It is a list of questions to focus on, the organizing principle around which you work" 1.2.Benefits from having a personal research agenda: Keeps the track of meaning like following a thread while your thought mules over those questions. 2. Sharing of personal research questions: They turn around the future web - The Editable Web: finding "a web browser that deeply embeds collaboration and editing." 3. The fabulous "Web-utopia": "people, collaboration and usability are first class citizens; ... seamless community as a major component of the browser...unifying editing and community (Tim Berner)...collaborative hypertext... 4."How can we create communication technologies that provide ever greater levels of interpersonal connection...? 5. "How can we create information technologies of focus and minimal distraction...?" ("The law of conservation of attention") 6. On search systems 7. On transforming how we link and talk about information and docs 8. Lightening the handling of events 9. On effectiveness at creating ideas 10. On creating technologies as important as writing