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Group conversations around images, documents, and videos. This voicethread is Adding to Your PLN. You can find other teachers to add to your PLN. The wikis with this information have been helpful - but it is more powerful when you see a face or hear a voice.

Group conversations around images, documents, and videos. This voicethread is Adding to Your PLN. You can find other teachers to add to your PLN. The wikis with this information have been helpful - but it is more powerful when you see a face or hear a voice.

Isn't this a great example of the power of that tool. It's so much more than just a neat place to post a picture. It's a place to gather and talk and share. Great find.

Notice that she gave each student the navigation requirements (left side of screens) and they could choose what they wanted to put inside each section. Some added audio files, others made screencasts, and others added games, etcc.

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."

Shared today in the Classroom 2.0 group, this points to a free e-book download, or you can purchase the print version. It's written FOR educators.

Great place for information on GoogleWave

I want a Google Wave beta account, but I'm not willing to spam all the twitterverse to get it. This appreally will be a game-changer

"Printing was considered vulgar and only for the poor. Many aristocratic bibliophiles refused to disgrace their collections with the presence of a non-manuscript text. It fell to the lower classes to recognize the importance of the printing press. And they did - by the end of the fifteenth century, more than one thousand printers had printed between eight and ten million copies of more than forty thousand book titles. "

Change is difficult, isn't it? We're going through a big change in Education right now, where Social ANYTHING is considered taboo. You'll live long enough to see folks laughing at how foolish we were.

Four videos showing the new features of Diigo v4

This is a good place to point teachers who are investigating/considering using Diigo with students

Finding images on the web and documenting them.

Nice find, Vicki!

Great place for virtual field trips. See panoramic views of places around the world. Drag mouse to rotate, shift and Ctrl (or Comand) keys will zoom in or out.

Great place for virtual field trips. See panoramic views of places around the world. Drag mouse to rotate, shift and Ctrl (or Comand) keys will zoom in or out. Was share in Educators group today.

This is a great site for all kinds of worksheets - especially math and language arts.

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!

Great site for classroom tools

Image Database from University of Washington.

Wordle with cool items.

Chris Sherman, president of Searchwise, said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and newcomer WolframAlpha are the four main search engines that benefit researchers.

Chris Sherman, president of Searchwise, said Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing, and newcomer WolframAlpha are the four main search engines that benefit researchers.

Nice page for sample questions that reach higher in the Bloom's scale

Acquire and apply core knowledge and critical-thinking skill sets that are essential in an information age;

Steve Hargadon presented at the Classroom 2.0 confernece at IU15 via web.

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Teachers can submit a paragraph for plagiarism detection for free.