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Creative Commons: What every Educator needs to know - 19 views

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A very appealing introduction to the concept of Creative Commons suitable for students as well as teachers.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A very appealing introduction to the concept of Creative Commons suitable for students as well as teachers.</div>

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Mashpedia, the real-time encyclopedia - 5 views

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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.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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. </div>

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Interactive Graphic Organizer - 15 views

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This page has a set of graphic organizers downloads in pdf form, many familiar and some not so.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This page has a set of graphic organizers downloads in pdf form, many familiar and some not so.</div>

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Recommended iPod Apps (Grade Levels & Subjects) Escondido Union School District - iRead... - 6 views

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Another quite extensive list of iPod/iPhone apps from the Escondido Union School District.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Another quite extensive list of iPod/iPhone apps from the Escondido Union School District.</div>

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Every Drop Counts on Vimeo - 7 views

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"This video is an animated short about water conservation targeted at elementary school kids. Marisa DeLuca created this video as her senior thesis project while working on her undergrad in Communication. It was her first attempt at animation, and she created it using still pictures of characters made from paper. She manipulated the pictures in Adobe Photoshop and then edited the still photos together in Final Cut. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"This video is an animated short about water conservation targeted at elementary school kids. Marisa DeLuca created this video as her senior thesis project while working on her undergrad in Communication. It was her first attempt at animation, and she created it using still pictures of characters made from paper. She manipulated the pictures in Adobe Photoshop and then edited the still photos together in Final Cut. "</div>

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Story of Bottled Water Video | Inside the Bottle - 4 views

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The story of bottled water is a great short video questioning why we drink bottled water and the way that "manufactured demand" pushes us to purchase what we don't need.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The story of bottled water is a great short video questioning why we drink bottled water and the way that "manufactured demand" pushes us to purchase what we don't need.</div>

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Online debate community for logical, passionate people - CreateDebate - 8 views

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Create debate is an online space to browse a debates on an ever expanding range of topics, create your own debate or popularity contest, participate in a debate amongst other activities.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Create debate is an online space to browse a debates on an ever expanding range of topics, create your own debate or popularity contest, participate in a debate amongst other activities.</div>

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The Best Free Facebook Proxies - 4 views

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In order to better understand students and others use proxies to get around system filters, (and also to perhaps argue against the ultimate futility of filters), this article from makeuseof.com on how to use proxies and hacks to check your Facebook account behind a filter, makes for sobering reading.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">In order to better understand students and others use proxies to get around system filters, (and also to perhaps argue against the ultimate futility of filters), this article from makeuseof.com on how to use proxies and hacks to check your Facebook account behind a filter, makes for sobering reading.</div>

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The Wikipedia Game - 2 views

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You're given a start Wikipedia article, like "Banana" And a winning article, like "Britney Spears" Now click as few links as possible to get from "Banana" to "Britney Spears", as fast as you can!
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John Pearce on 27 Apr 10

Via Adrian Camm, a link to The wikipedia game is played by having you begin with a start Wikipedia article, eg banana and a winning article eg "Britney Spears". The task is to get from the start article to the winning article in as few clicks as possible.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Via Adrian Camm, a link to The wikipedia game is played by having you begin with a start Wikipedia article, eg banana and a winning article eg "Britney Spears". The task is to get from the start article to the winning article in as few clicks as possible.</div>

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Education Twitter People and Lists on Listorious - 3 views

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"Listorious makes it easy to find who matters on any topic with the best Twitter people search on the web." This is a site where you can find who or which list is hot in education in Twitter at the moment.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Listorious makes it easy to find who matters on any topic with the best Twitter people search on the web." This is a site where you can find who or which list is hot in education in Twitter at the moment.</div>

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Mapped historical photos, film, and audio | SepiaTown - 3 views

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"SepiaTown lets you view and share thousands of mapped historical images from around the globe." In most cases you can then compare the historical image with current images. At the moment there don't appear to be any Australian images posted so there is a great opportunity for Australian schools to become involved.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"SepiaTown lets you view and share thousands of mapped historical images from around the globe." In most cases you can then compare the historical image with current images. At the moment there don't appear to be any Australian images posted so there is a great opportunity for Australian schools to become involved.</div>

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5 Great Tutorial Websites To Learn How To Do Something - 8 views

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The internet can be a very powerful tool to learn how to do things that you might need to do but don't really know how to do it. From Make Use Of comes links to five great tutorial sites.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The internet can be a very powerful tool to learn how to do things that you might need to do but don't really know how to do it. From Make Use Of comes links to five great tutorial sites.</div>

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30 Useful Photo Editing Softwares | Psdeluxe - 5 views

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Another list of photo editing software both online and offline. It has most of the usual suspects plus a few more. The nice things about this list is that it has a discussion on the features each tool offers.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Another list of photo editing software both online and offline. It has most of the usual suspects plus a few more. The nice things about this list is that it has a discussion on the features each tool offers.</div>

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JISC Digital Media - Cross-media: Finding Video, Audio and Images Online - 7 views

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There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it's not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">There are countless websites offering images, video and audio files for use in education, but it's not always easy to know which sites are most useful or appropriate. This advice document discusses general tools and strategies for finding digital resources and looks at many of the sites you can use as reliable sources.</div>

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Daily on Twitter as shared by John Pearce - 2 views

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paper.li collects and aggregates tweets from your Twitter stream and then categorises them under sections in the fashion of a newspaper. The newspaper is created and updated every 2 hours using all the links (articles) shared in the past 24 hours by the selected Twitter account (curator) AND the people being followed by that user (contributors)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">paper.li collects and aggregates tweets from your Twitter stream and then categorises them under sections in the fashion of a newspaper. The newspaper is created and updated every 2 hours using all the links (articles) shared in the past 24 hours by the selected Twitter account (curator) AND the people being followed by that user (contributors) </div>

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Cool Tools For Schools: Options to etherpad - 7 views

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With the demise of etherpad, this page from Lenva Shearing lists some alternatives sites including ietherpad, typewithme, piratepad and piratenpad.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">With the demise of etherpad, this page from Lenva Shearing lists some alternatives sites including ietherpad, typewithme, piratepad and piratenpad.</div>

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How to: Use Twitter Search Effectively | Ask Aaron Lee - 1 views

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From Aaron Lee comes a great article on being more efficient in using Twitter to locate information. It is based around the use of the Firefox Twitter plugin though this is not mandatory.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">From Aaron Lee comes a great article on being more efficient in using Twitter to locate information. It is based around the use of the Firefox Twitter plugin though this is not mandatory.</div>

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Google Tools for Schools - Home (Google Tools for Schools) - 11 views

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This Google site, (what else :), from Jennifer Dorman, a Google Certified Teacher is designed as a clearinghouse of Google resources to support her Google Boot Camp workshops. It is so far the most comprehensive Google resource I have seen.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This Google site, (what else :), from Jennifer Dorman, a Google Certified Teacher is designed as a clearinghouse of Google resources to support her Google Boot Camp workshops. It is so far the most comprehensive Google resource I have seen. </div>

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Edmodo | Guide - 2 views

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Want to get started with Edmodo, then these are the official getting started notes?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Want to get started with Edmodo, then these are the official getting started notes?</div>

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Will Your College Be Covered in Virtual Graffiti? - Technology - The Chronicle of Highe... - 1 views

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Looking at the use of apps like Foursquare and Gowalla to geotag this article picks up on both the positives and negatives. A great read keeping in mind the process in which other similar technologies develop and grow.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Looking at the use of apps like Foursquare and Gowalla to geotag this article picks up on both the positives and negatives. A great read keeping in mind the process in which other similar technologies develop and grow.</div>

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