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Diigo and Prezi I think that diigo is wonderful. It is such a good way to organise your bookmarks. It's also a great way to collaborate on resources. I often find great websites that my colleagues may find useful, though I'm never quite sure if they are worthy of clogging their inboxes. With diigo I can just add to a group list and then everyone can access them. Getting something like that up and running is definitely a goal for next year. The head librarian at my school is also very excited about diigo and I have drawn her a very messy diagram of how diigo groups can work. In order to tick two things of my list I thought I would use prezi to put together a clear explanation of diigo.

Today, I had the privilege of teaching a high school staff about tech tools that I have used in my iPad filled classroom. Next year, the high school students will be using an iPad on a daily basis. The iPad will be theirs to use during the school year. This school did the correct thing by getting the iPads into the hands of the teachers well before they are asked to lead students with them. Teachers have had the iPads for about 2 months. The presentation that I used is below. Highlights are listed below the presentation.

Excellent Aussie site on all things ipad

Worth a read, as an English language only speaker i forget other languages can say things i haven't the words to say.

Conjugate visits? The only good thing about prison....no wait.

Another great list of things to use for all your it needs.

Clean up youtube so just the vid you want to be seen is seen! Watch YouTube videos without comments, suggestions, or the 'other' things. Click here for an example.

huge resource library of things to use with your projector (made originally for IWB classrooms) From cool apps like random grouper (puts your kids in new groups for discussion/work randomly and on the screen) Word magnets (create poetry/writing as group/class using fridge magnets, have a look!

Free teacher guides to lots of books All Sorts of Things (Grades K-2) Here Alone in the Desert (Grades 6-8) Here Animal Clues (Grades K-2) Here Body Maps (Grades 3-5) Here The Cat on the Chimney (Grades 3-5) Here Crazy Weather (Grades 3-5) Here Cut and Join (Grades K-2) Here Fins and Feathers (Grades K-2) Here Habitats (Grades K-2) Here How Many Eyes? (Grades K-2) Here The Paper Skyscraper (Grades K-5) Here Sharks (Grades 3-5) Here Skeleton (Grades K-2) Here Small Worlds (Grades 3-5) Here What Did You Eat Today? (Grades K-2) Here What Do They Eat? (Grades K-2) Here You Are Here (Grades K-2) Here

Stuff that makes you go Wow...or just scratch your head. Definitely a weekend watch

A whole lot of games that encounter things like conflict, environment, health, economics, human rights

Hard to explain To be clear, Qwiki isn't a piece of hardware. Instead, it's a piece of software meant to run on the web and as an app on mobile devices. What it does is present to you data about millions of topics in an extremely interesting and visual way. Imagine if someone created a movie highlight reel of Wikipedia pages - that's sort of what Qwiki is like. You search for something - a topic, a person, etc - and Qwiki talks to you, telling you all you need to know about what you searched for, while also showing you key things about the subject or person. You can also click on sub-topics or related topics to access more Qwikis with vast amounts of other information. It's a fairly incredible way to consume information. And the data isn't just from Wikipedia. Say you do a search for a person, Qwiki can look at their social connections and tell you about their LinkedIn profile, for example. It is very, very impressive.

It doesn't matter if you're a veteran teacher or a newbie just now taking college courses - finding new ways to get students engaged in the classroom is always a great thing. One way many teachers are reaching out is with the multitude of material found on the web, allowing them to turn everyday lessons into a multimedia experience.

Some very easy explanations for how to use web 2.0 things with students.

Some neat ideas to extend use of tech in class

There's no such thing as a free lunch. Or is there? Check out these free Apple iPod Touch apps for English and Language Arts teachers. These are among the best apps for education available today! Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/education/k-12/articles/62720.aspx#ixzz0ecNbooZA

All living things need water to stay alive, which is why water is our most precious natural resource. For this reason, it is important to learn about the causes of water pollution.

There is no iPhoto for Windows users, but these free programs could just be the next best thing. Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/71252.aspx#ixzz0oXfqI124