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Video in which a teacher surveyed his students about the use of technology in education

Latest installment from Michael Wesch. Video is encouraging us to rethink education in the 21st Century.

RT @ktenkely: How Tru could be huge for education- building credibility on web, digital footprints "Revealing the veracity of information through credibility HowTru enables you to share your knowledge and expertise with the crowd, working together to measure the accuracy of news, blogs and more."

New site- the wikipedia of website veracity. Could have lots of use in a class

Another URL shortner, but better: Allows you to shorten mulitple links to one short link. So many applications for classroom.

This tool has so many applications for the classroom! Link takes you to video about the Fur.ly url shortener.

8th grade social studies created a lunchtime skype series with his students.. During lunch students interview leaders during lunch and turn the interviews into podcasts

Check this assignment out!!!

is a multimedia encyclopedia containing more than three million entries. Qwiki publishes narrated, illustrated, interactive reference entries. To use Qwiki, enter a topic in the search box or select a topic from the featured topics on the homepage. Then watch, listen, and read the Qwiki entry for that topic. Below your chosen Qwiki you will see a selection of related Qwiki entries. You can also find related materials by clicking the "Q" symbol that appears at the end of the Qwiki play bar.

Historical images from Google Maps. Select a location and get a time line of images from Google Maps.

Suggests skills we should be teaching in classrooms. Lists 7 skills prized by the professional world

Podcasting sites from Tony Vincent

Newspaper template. Different versions for different levels of writing ability. Not free but cost is very low.

Great template for creating your own newspaper. Not a newsletter!

Great article on student research

Interesting interactive graph of adults with college degrees in the US, by county.

Can get historical data as well.

Next video from Michael Wesch

Collaborative space to build a western civilization course

Sites for student designed learning

Mike Eisenberg, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the University of Washington iSchool, shares a growing series of video conversations in partnership with ABC-CLIO. The first four are on information literacy and you can view them below or on YouTube.

Great vodcasts on info lit.

Great overview of diigo

Another excellent overview of diigo

How to use diigo with student accounts.

Great overview of diigo educator accts and how diigo facilitates learning

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It not only finds cool copyright-friendly images from Flickr's CC pool, it emphasizes a respect for intellectual property.

Great search engine for images