MAIS-TEC

This second video is a bunch of educational quotes that we will run inthe background during discussions, lunch etc...

 create online playable puzzles from your own photos or copyright free photos

Vokis are so much fun to create- choose and edit a character, choose a background, add text or record your voice and you have a Voki to tell your story!  Halloween characters include a pumpkin, skeleton, and vampire.

"My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. You cannot go back and edit a story once you have ended it but, if you click "yes" when asked to share it with others, you can print it out again by entering the magic number it gives you in the box on the right. Since lack of space forces us to delete story files older than 1 month, please save the .pdf file that prints to your own computer."

Teacher to text to Students

Very neat article about new books and how kids must research for clues. Very engaging!

America's sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) is revered for ending slavery, and preserving the Union by winning the Civil War. But perhaps he is best known for his Gettysburg Address of 1863 and being the first assassinated U.S. president. Learn more at these top Lincoln sites.

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Game like instruction to practice and gain knowledge about the states of matter.

"NBC Learn, in partnership with the National Science Foundation and National Football League, unravels the science behind professional football. Check back every Friday through October 29, 2010, for a new video. For lesson plans and activities, visit our partner at Lessonopoly."

Apparently so. A crowd-sourced game-based effort to figure out how proteins fold. You should definitely have students in your school who are interested in biology take a look

Upload pictures, add word balloons, speech bubbles, and thought balloons, then export it. Once you've got a balloon photo done, you can email it to a friend or save to your hard drive as a JPEG. You never have to login or subscribe to anything.

 free iOS app for creating videos on the go. The concept behind Videolicious is similar to that used by services like Animoto. Using Videolicious on your iPhone or iPad you can mix together images, video clips, music and your voice to create a short video. The user reviews of Videolicious are generally quite favorable, but there are some complaints that you have to turn on location services to use the app. Watch the video below to learn more about Videolicious (warning, the background music is annoying). 

leads you to a suggested MLA citation format, based on grade level, for grades 1-6

an interesting service that is best described as a collaborative search tool. The purpose of Search Team is to enable small teams to collaborate on finding the best information on the web. Here's how it works: sign into Search Team and enter the topic you're searching for, this becomes known as the "search space." The search space is where you will enter your search terms, refine searches, and save the best results. When you share your search space with others they can see what you've saved and what you've eliminated.

speaker handouts from some of the larger edtech conferences of the year; look at the last entry on the SOS page and you will find links to tons of great things to peruse and plan for next year!

Electoral College

I ran across this today. Youtube has a moderator page on the top of their website to ask Elmo questions. http://www.youtube.com/user/SesameStreet First, how cool to introduce kids to moderator. Second, how cool to embed a moderator page in Youtube Third, I want to know how to customize moderator to be able to embed Youtube videos also :)

The social curation community - Organize, discover and share the stuff you like. Very similar to Scoop.It in the actual activity, but quite different in the way that they are visualized. More like interconnected spokes showing links between different curated topics. Worth a visit