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"Organize your frequently visited web sites in tabs. One for your social bookmarks. Simply set it as your homepage and you are ready to jump into your favorite links in only 2 clicks."

Distributed Story Online - Workshop Template More here personalizemedia.com - Being used as part of a course but openly published for general use. Please attribute (draft in further development with other assets). This cross-genre, new format, online story development sheet should be printed A3 and ideas for each area can be sketched in. It helps media creators understand how to develop across multiple online channels and spaces and what fragments of the story can be cross connected. It is suggested that you number each instance with the 'release' date to help aid the campaign thinking. The axes indicate the likely 'maintenance' required - top right most maintenance (rich living environments) and bottom left least maintenance (ad hoc textual updates). NOTE: All the below can be on PC or mobile or console.

Transmedia storytelling template - awesome!

"Just as some of us are last-minute shoppers, we also may be last-minute vacation planners as the holidays approach. For the network administrator, taking any vacation time can be a challenge. And if you are the only person in the IT shop, it can be a little daunting for your users. Here are a few tips that will help you plan effectively so you can get away!"

A handy list of 10 things to think about before school network administrators clock off for the year.

Nassi-Shneiderman diagrammer. Structorizer itself has been written by Bob Fisch and is published, since version 2, as open-source under the terms of the GPL license, which means that everyone is free to change the code to fit their own needs as long as the header comments remain intact, so that each code can be tracked down to it's orignal author.

If you carefully choose the right sort of game it will engage the children in your class - in my opinion you have to take that as a given. It is what you do with that engaged group of children and how you make a difference to their learning that counts.

Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources and a New York Times Best-selling author. He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the world's leading cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education? (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was been honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005 he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN's Principal Voices. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts and education. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.

Find great conferences to attend. Discover what's hot while it's on Track what's going on during the conference, even if you aren't there. Catch up on anything you missed.

Content Clips helps you find and organize multimedia clips to quickly assemble simple web-based teaching activities and presentations. Use the collection of free resources or make your own. Create and save personal links to web sites or even to images from other collections and sites.

New words created by smashing together capitalized words to remove word breaks. SomePeopleConsiderThisAnExample.

In recent years there has been an explosion of virtual worlds intended for early childhood populations; however, because the majority of research on games and such worlds has focused on adults and adolescents, we know very little about these spaces. This article attempts to address this gap by providing a qualitative content analysis of the affordances that Webkinz World an online environment that as of March 2010 had over 3 million unique site visitors per month, offers for children's literacy and language development. Analyses suggest that the site provides unique opportunities for immersion in literacy-rich contexts and academically-oriented practices that may enhance those that are readily available in many children's daily lives. However, looking beyond the discrete linguistic and technical aspects of learning in Webkinz World reveals a designed culture with limitations on learning and a constrained set of literacies and social messages that warrant further critical exploration.

In recent years there has been an explosion of virtual worlds intended for early childhood populations; however, because the majority of research on games and such worlds has focused on adults and adolescents, we know very little about these spaces. This article attempts to address this gap by providing a qualitative content analysis of the affordances that Webkinz World an online environment that as of March 2010 had over 3 million unique site visitors per month, offers for children's literacy and language development. Analyses suggest that the site provides unique opportunities for immersion in literacy-rich contexts and academically-oriented practices that may enhance those that are readily available in many children's daily lives. However, looking beyond the discrete linguistic and technical aspects of learning in Webkinz World reveals a designed culture with limitations on learning and a constrained set of literacies and social messages that warrant further critical exploration.

This is Will's wiki - Why the Read / Write Web Changes Everything. "It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" - Charles Darwin "The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- Alvin Toffler

Elevate yourself above the competition by building your personal brand and establishing a remarkable online presence that wows employers when they pre-screen you in Google.

"With more and more people are using social media to communicate with loved ones during a crisis (and being advised to do so), it is critical Twitter users do their best to pass on correct information .. Here's seven ways the average person can be a good Twitter citizen during a crisis:"

Netiquette or list of rules that Twitter users will find handy during a disaster.

Powerful online chart and graphing tool by Google.

"Updates/Posts * Facebook status updates: 700 per second * Twitter tweets: 600 per second * Buzz posts: 55 per second And compared to searches * Google: 34,000 searches per second * Yahoo: 3,200 searches per second * Bing: 927 searches per second"

"Matt Locke originally came up with the concept of the Six Spaces of technology (test.org.uk/​2007/​08/​10/​six-spaces-of-social-media/​). I added a seventh earlier this year, Data Spaces, and have played around with how education could harness these spaces, and the various transgressions between them, for learning. This short presentation tackles the potential of adjusting our physical school environments to harness technology even better. What happens when we map technological spaces to physical ones?"

"Online fraud and related crime is on the rise, affecting more lives and costing individuals and businesses more money year after year .. In this infographic, created by Sam Franada of Lines & Moodswings for KGBPeople and based on data from Wikipedia, the I.D. Theft Center and other sources, we learn that 10% of Americans have had their identities stolen .. Check out more facts about identity theft - including the best ways to protect your own identity."

A graphic charting online fraud and identity theft in the USA. It would be interesting to get students to look up the figures for Australia.