The Best Online Sources For Images | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - 1 views
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List for special instances and deals with copyright issues as well.: "I'd lay odds that most people, including myself, just use Google Image Search when they need to find an image. However, there might be instances when you want to use another tool - perhaps you're a language teacher searching for just the right clip art or photography to illustrate a verb, maybe you have very young students and are concerned about what they might find on Google, possibly you're particularly teaching about copyright issues, or you want your students to easily connect an image to a writing exercise and have them send an E-Card."
Twitter as a Personal Learning Network (PLN) | - 0 views
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Personal Learning Networks are all the rage at the moment. As with a lot of “modern” things, they’re existed for a long time but have now got a snappy new name.
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these people are, in Web 2.0-speak, friends.
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A PLN can take advantage of lots of different services – Facebook is perhaps the best-known, Ning is also very popular
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Reflections on Open Courses: Curation, Ombuds, and Concierges | Learning and Knowledge ... - 0 views
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Part of the focus in LAK11 is to explore how we can better use data to make sense of complex topics such as:
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How students interact
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patterns of activity
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hrheingold: How I use Twitter, search, Diigo Delicious, DEVONthink, Scrivener to find, ... - 0 views
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"How I use Twitter, search, Diigo Delicious, DEVONthink, Scrivener to find, refine, organize information -->knowledge" A nice illustration in a Screenr screencast of how a Stanford professor uses various online tools to organize Internet information. Focuses on vertical (deep) learning, rather than horizontal (social) learning. Created for his students to demonstrate how to organize Internet resources efficiently.
Documentary Tube - Watch Documentaries Online for FREE - 1 views
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Lots of documentaries on an enormous variety of subjects. These can be used to spark conversation and get students ready to do their own research for a paper. Professionally produced, and free. Many are award-winning. Categories are listed, and there is a search function. Not specifically directed to ESL/EFL, but good authentic content.
Academics and Social Media: #mla09 and Twitter - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 1 views
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One category of informal gatherings this year was the “Tweetup” — a meeting of convention attendees who happened to be using the micro-blogging social media tool Twitter.
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What makes this development significant is the (still, unfortunately) marginal and somewhat disreputable status of social media in academia:
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via our own Twitter account, ProfHacker solicited answers to the following question: “How did Twitter affect (positively or negatively) your experience of #MLA09?”
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Free Pictures of Everything on Earth -- Ookaboo! - 0 views
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"All pictures on Ookaboo are available free under public domain or Creative Commons and can be used on web sites and for classwork and other creative projects." The site begins at a map with pegs for locations, or you can use a modet search engine. It willtake a little time to find something you want. Commons licensing for most pictures.
How to: Export, Import and Migrate Your Delicious Bookmarks - 1 views
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It was announced today that Yahoo is shutting down the popular social bookmarking service Delicious. So we thought we’d help you out with some solutions to export the bookmarks to other services.
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You can choose to export your bookmarks into an html file and import them into your browser or directly import using services like Diigo, Xmarks and Faviki.
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With Delicious leaving, you might want to fill the void by signing to up one of the following bookmark services.
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Searcheeze Beta - Search Collaboration for Content Curation | Searcheeze.com - 1 views
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Collect, curate, and publish content about your favorite topics in a group. Content can be text, images, video, and audio streams (podcasting), with no cutting or pasting. Mix up content, organizing as you wish, and you can do it with a group, then publishing a magazine of what you found. You can share your work on blogs and other social accounts.
EduDemic » 1,001 Staggeringly Helpful Social Media Resources - 2 views
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Web 2.0 Search Engine,
News: Technologically Illiterate Students - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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definition of technological literacy needs updating. In the 1990s, she explained, the U.S. Education Department defined it to mean the ability to operate a computer. These days, computers are so user-friendly that being capable of operating one does not say much about a person’s competence.
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a line between computer users who can handle only basic programs such as word processors and search engines, and those who understand the structures and concepts that underlie modern technology, and how to think critically within them
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less about who has hardware, but who has access to information; who has those problem-solving skills
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The eXtended Web and the Personal Learning Environment « Plearn Blog - 0 views
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developments in their relation to Personal Learning Environments as several people over the past months have asked me why I think there is a need to develop a Personal Learning Environment at all.
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Applications and aggregators of information are freely available and people can take their pick of their preferred ones and create their own network
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easy it is for conglomerates to take over the development of tools and applications
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Weaving a Personal Web: Using online technologies to create customized, connected, and ... - 0 views
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Abstract: This paper explores how personal web technologies (PWTs) can be used by learners and the relationship between PWTs and connectivist learning principles. Descriptions and applications of several technologies including social bookmarking tools, personal publishing platforms, and aggregators are also included. With these tools, individuals can create and manage personal learning environments (PLEs) and personal learning networks (PLNs), which have the potential to become powerful resources for academic, professional, and personal development.
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This paper explores personal web technologies (PWTs) and their learning applications.
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Connectivism and the need for continuous learning In today’s world, learning needs extend far beyond the culmination of a training session or degree program. Working adults must continually update their skills and behaviours to conform to the constantly changing demands of the workplace (Lewis & Romiszowski, 1996). In times of rapid change, it is not always prudent or possible to offer formal training for each individual’s every need, and some needs may best be addressed by the individual him/herself. Using freely available personal web technologies, employees can create a personal learning environment (PLE) to manage their own learning resources; whether these are wikis, news feeds, podcasts, or people.
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SitesLike - Find and Share Similar Websites - 1 views
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Find and Share Similar Websites SitesLike is a free service that allows you to find, tag, rate and share websites that are similar to each other. The websites listed on SitesLike are constantly monitored so the content is always fresh and up to date.
critical-thinking - Crap Detection 101 - 1 views
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Network Awareness Self organization (Smart Mobs) - There are examples of people organizing and mobilizing using networks in Spain, in Chile (penguin revolution), and here in the US (immigration protests).
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Building trustworthy networks (part of crap detection) is a skill that students need to learn.
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Attention - Collaboration - Critical Thinking - Network Awareness All of these skills need to work together. They aren't taught in schools. Students aren't teaching each other these literacies, though they are teaching each other many other things.
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4 principles of using digital tools in humanities research | nicomachus.net - 1 views
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what is needed is something more closely approximating fluency in another language: the language of digital environments.
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ess useful to know one program very well and more useful to achieve a level of comfort navigating digital tools for oneself.
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1. Think of your computer less as the place where all your data lives and more as the thing that gives you access to your data.
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The PLN Staff Lounge - 2 views
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next thought. question I could use feed back on: how to use a twitter account for multiple purposes, e.g. professional (whatever that is for someone retired), community, personal, special interest (advocacy, avocation research), etc. Not including elements of personal in "professional" affects voice, makes it too institutional. Tweets are a writing genre and voice counts.
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5) You only ever tweet stuff about your daily life
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WordSift - About - 0 views
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WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners.
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WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.
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a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts
Top Topic Trackers (Updated List) - 0 views
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leading topic-tracking tools on the Web.
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Feed and/or Email Services
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These are services that output RSS and/or other formats, such as email notification. We think this type of topic feed tool is the most flexible
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