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What if every student (and educator) was a good online researcher?  I know, you don't have the time to teach information fluency skills.  What if you could get a significant advance is skills with just a 2 -3  hour time commitment?  Here's a great Prezi 'fly by" of the new Information Investigator 3.1 online self paced class.  Watch the presentation carefully to find the link to a free code to take the class for evaluation purposes. 

Make powerpoint presentations with video embedded and share with others. Store in the cloud!

Oh, this is sooooo neat! If you are disappointed with the lack of sophistication of google presentations (on google docs), you have to check out 280 Slides! I haven't used it, but it looks like it provides high quality themes and you can easily embed videos!

I can seeing using this as a pre and post for writing, collaborative writing, and an interesting way to determine expectations and rules for a writers' workshop.

In this presentation site, the users are able to tell the story through photos, music, video and audio. What an interesting way to take our writing and then move into another form of presentation.

This site will be useful in a writing workshop course. Students can collaborate and provide scaffolding and support for one another or work independently. I like the organizational feature also.

I plan on using this tool because I believe my students will need some modeling of how to operate within my moodle. (much like we have been provided.) :-) Does anyone have any hints in using this tool or recommendations of other tools to do the same job more effectively?

Jing is pretty cool!!! I have downloaded and can't wait to try it!!!

What can I say about this except that Scott McLeod is a wealth of information.

I often get questions from teachers on interventions for students. This is a pretty comprehensive site which also includes some tools that might be useful.

This looked like list of items to consider when designing web pages. I'm not sure I shared this correctly with the group. If I didn't, would someone tell me how to it?

Simply put, we can't keep preparing students for a world that doesn't exist. We can't keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they're developing on their own. And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don't happen to possess it. An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture.

Thanks Larry for collecting high quality sites to help ESL, ELL, EFL teachers and students!  These sites will appeal to all language and writing teachers as well!

Many of the participants in the UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program use Google Sites to create their e-portfolios.  The portfolios are created and used throughout the program. During the practicum, when students become teachers by teaching in one of our graduate classes, they also refine and polish their portfolios. Ultimately the online portfolio becomes a job search tool that helps our graduates show a potential employer what they know. 

Standing up, Not Standing By: A Free Cyberbullying Toolkit for Educators

Create historical twitter character then tweet based on history research  Quote from Mark Rounds Web-Ed Tools Paper.li, "Participants choose a historical event, create Twitter accounts for individual characters, pore over primary source documents and think critically about the times, dates, and durations of events to create hundreds of Tweets as they might have been broadcast had Twitter existed before the 21st century. They then submit all those Tweets to the engineers at TwHistory, specifying a start date for their event, and then watch it unfold - over a day, a week, a month or more - reflecting the event's actual duration."

Might help create a blended classroom, even when you have to share the blender.  Common sense advise for the real world of underequipped classrooms and stretched thin teachers.