MACUL SIGOL

Looks like a useful guide!

Interesting presentation of WWII on Facebook - who would have thought?

Conference that took place July 20-23, 2010

Streamed sessions require Microsoft Silverlight (download available at the site)

"Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge." Requires registration.

"Cacoo supports real time collaboration. Multiple users can simultaneously edit and complete a single diagram."

My favorite part of this was the "Facebook 'Like'" button at the top of the page! Lots of good references at the bottom of the article

Education apps for smart phones - recommended by James M-D. Flashcards for AP exams, MCAT and reference tools

Create a public collaborative document instantly and invite others to join you. Great tool if you're working with groups of people that don't have Google accounts, want to do collaborative note-taking, or are working together during a professional development session.

Interesting rubric for students to use while grading/assessing other students' presentations. Simple rubric that would be good for introducing students to the concept of self-assessment and/or rubric-based assessment.

"Social network for people who love books. Create a virtual bookshelf..." has widget that can bee added to your blog. Click on book image on the "shelf" to get to an editable wiki where you can review, comment or join a booktalk about the book.

Some of the keynote speeches are archived here to enjoy anywhere / anythime

Help resources on getting started with Twitter. This would be a great place to send new users either during a session on using Twitter, or at the end so they can start to support themselves.

An overview of how access to new forms of media, dating all the way back to the printing press, has elicited fear and calls of eroding morals.

Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Watch Stephen Wolfram's into to see the awesome range of this tool! Currently best for calculations. (Recommended by Bob G in MaculSpace)

"free, customisable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites." Templates include game generators, flashcards, countdown timer, animated book, timeline and more. Screencast tutorials show how to use templates. Site is from the UK.

An extensive "resource for teachers and students who are interested in how multimedia can be integrated into a variety of educational activities. The site was originally begun in 2004 by faculty members and graduate students in the Instructional Technology Program at the University of Houston College of Education. It continues to be revised with new content added as more students and faculty members become involved in the digital storytelling process." Includes examples, resources, tutorials, rubrics and much more

Great list of tools for students to use in the research process. Each tool has a brief description. My son in Grad school is a big fan of Zotero, a Firefox extension.

great set of tools, many new to me!

CyberSafeFamily.com believes educating parents and teaching kids safe online behavior is key in keeping kids safe online.

I heard about this site on National Public Radio on the way home today (12/28/2009). I do not know how well it will do in educating in the schools, but it looks good to this non-teacher.

This is one of the sites I told you about at "Let's Talk Technology." I think the site has a lot potential for use in schools. The main issue is that the videos are housed on YouTube and many schools are still blocking this site due to the wealth of inappropriate content that is there too... However, students could use the Kahn Academy math videos as tutorials for concepts they didn't understand. Teachers could have substitutes show a video of how to do something that was outside of their comfort level or skillset and learning could continue. Do others have suggestions?