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Here is a great use of a Wiki for students and teachers: a compilation of videos about grammar. The concept is really simple : contributors to the wiki add embeds of videos from YouTube about grammar concepts. Videos currently included on the wiki include the passive voice, negative forms of "must" and "have to", prepositions of place (at, on, in), who vs. whom, I vs. me, which vs. that, personal pronouns and many more.

This page has all manner of links and embeds related to Twitter including slideshare, YouTube, Prezi and e-books. The author list includes Jane Hart, Tomaz Lasic and Dean Shareski. Though it is quite comprehensive, because it has so many embeds the page can take quite a little time to load up.

Check this out ... cleaning up YouTube clips - here's a sample.

"Flat Classroom Project 2010 - 1"

Keynote for Flat Classroom Project 2010 -1 created by Judy O'Connell, Sydney, Australia

A beginner's guide to the Mac OSX from a nuts and bolts perspective. Half hour long - but I paused to try apply what I was learning as I learned so took me a few hours. Well worth it - I feel much more comfy with what is for me a whole new OS!

Mashpedia is a real-time, multimedia and social encyclopedia with millions of articles providing dynamic, fresh information; it's free to use and open for public participation, allowing users to discuss specific topics, post and answer questions, share relevant links or contribute in new creative ways. Mashpedia presents an organized mashup of results from Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Google News, Books, Blog Posts, and further contextual information, thus providing a quick, practical outlook for every topic.

Thanks to Public Library Services and SA's public libraries, anyone with an SA public library card can now access full 'page-by-page turning' electronic versions of the Advertiser and the Australian for free. www.libraries.sa.gov.au

3 year old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony

QR Stuff generates codes from the following Text, Website URL, Telephone Number, SMS Message, Email Address, Email Message, Contact Details (VCARD), Event (VCALENDAR) Google Maps Location, Wifi Login (Android Only), Paypal Buy Now Link, Social Media , iTunes Link & YouTube Videos. You can also use their pay for service for other options eg t-shirts etc.

A free website that lets educators search for relevant video content from YouTube and other sources, add video clips from these sources to an online library, and then share these clips with their students-without the inappropriate ads, comments, or outside links that might accompany them.

"Ever wondered how Alfred Hitchcock would have used YouTube? Many of his techniques work well with video, for example, the sharp editing, cutaways, sudden sounds and pacing. These nine ways will jazz up your videos and turn the most ordinary scenes into more compelling videos."

Good resource that explains with some examples, how to jazz up your videos.

would require a steep learning curve anyway. But incorporating lesson plans and info and assignments into the tools that students already use would be both cheaper and more likely to actually be used. Of course, some will decry that these sites are automatically bad for kids -- or that it makes no sense to waste time on such issues. But the fact is kids are going to use these sites no matter what. Ignoring that doesn't change that. Banning the sites doesn't change that. It just makes the activity more underground without any oversight or reasonable lessons. But incorporating

free ebooks ePub children's reading Like YouTube for them.