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"Screencasting is the capture all of the action on a computer screen while you are narrating. Screencasts can be made with many tools and are often used to create a tutorial or showcase student content mastery. This page provides links to information, ideas, rubrics, and tools for the creation of screencasts by both teachers and students. "

Among the stats - 500 Billion minutes/month spent on Facebook - and it's only been in existence for 5 years.

What implications does this have for Education? For us?

and we are already hearing about "Facebook addiction" For education, FB or a site like FB would be like one stop shopping at Wal Mart. Announcements, pictures, email, video, games. I prefer getting and sending messages in my FB mail than having to go to my yahoo mail and for posting videos than using my youtube account- I can do several things in one place. It is a lot easier to post pictures on FB then to send through email, especially a large group of pictures.

An open source application similar (VERY similar) to Microsoft's Zoomit. Give this to every teacher (Windows users only. Mac users have it built in) who uses an interactive whiteboard.

Thanks for sharing this. Even though I do not have an iwb (yet), I think this will be useful when using a projector.

Publish full articles without needing a blog or site. There's no setup or login. Just write your text and Write4net will publish it using your Twitter account. That's it. So easy. And free! You can format your text with several features, including pictures and YouTube, Vimeo and DailyMotion videos. Your text will be published and instantly tweeted. Plus you get a personal page, blog style, where everybody can find all your articles (it even has RSS!).

stinto offers you a comfortable, yet also easy to use chat, which you can create with one click and which will be deleted after a longer period of inactivity.

Like etherpad

Notely is the new tool for students of all ages looking for help to get better grades. Notely has all the tools a student could need, schedule, calendar, note-taking, homework planner and more.

How to attribute a Creative Commons photo from Flickr

A straightforward explanation of Creative Commons in easy to read cartoon format.

Nice description of the new features in Diigo v4. Nice videos, too

Nice description of the new features in Diigo v4. Nice videos, too. This is just SUCH a great tool for kids!

"We all love Google. It's a great place to search and find things that we do not know about. The beauty of Google is its all powerful algorithm that executes billions of search queries. In addition to showing top notch search results, Google's algorithm has a few interesting features."

Watch this presentation. Watch the video included in it.

Understanding a boolean search. How to get what you want.

wikified research papers

"A WRP, or wikified research paper, is made on wikispaces.com and allows students to link to resources within their papers, along with embedding various images and videos within their papers."

I've been saying for YEARS that school newspapers should be online, and here's a great, local example.