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More than 100 alternatives to static slideshows. Worth checking out. It's pretty much guaranteed to have something you've not seen before.

"While multitasking may seem to be saving time, psychologists, neuroscientists and others are finding that it can put us under a great deal of stress and actually make us less efficient."

Allows multiple people to vote on the best times for a shared event.

"The five Cs below will empower educators to discover how they and their students can begin building personal learning networks specific to the learner's needs extending relevant learning connections to like-interested people around the globe." 

A slick interactive map of learning objectives according to Anderson/Krathwohl's revision of Bloom's taxonomy.

Interactive animation of Bloom"s revised taxonomies

A slick interactive map of learning objectives according to Anderson/Krathwohl's revision of Bloom's taxonomy.

Very powerful application of Google Apps to create a system of assessment and feedback for teachers and students. It's complex, but he's provided the whole template.

"New Horizons for Learning identifies and communicates successful strategies as a leading-edge web resource for educational practice."

Examples of iPad applications that can support the different levels of the taxonomy. Based on Anderson/Krathwohl's revision, not Bloom's original.

"Despite the American Academy of Pediatricians' longstanding recommendations to the contrary, children under 8 are spending more time than ever in front of screens, according to a study scheduled for release Tuesday." (Oct. 25, 2011)

"Just as effective teaching demands that teachers establish routines to guide the basic physical and social interactions of the classroom, so too thinking routines need to be established to help guide students' learning and intellectual interactions..."

interactive visual animation of brain development

Loved the graphics - thank you Rose for sharing this!

The big dog of the link shorteners.

Another article that discusses the effectiveness of technology in learning. . while also including marketing information

Research showing the effectiveness of Carnegie Learning's math curriculum. "The reports published here provide information about this evaluative research, including an overall summary of findings, a reference guide to aid in interpreting results and reports summarizing individual studies."

"Researchers who have investigated expert and novice performance have uncovered important distinctions between deliberate practice and other activities, such as work, play and rote repetition. Rote repetition - simply repeating a task - will not automatically improve performance. Effective practice is deliberate."

Overview of many educational technology vendors and systems. For our purposes, pay attention to the Curricula section.

A classroom music experience in which 24 kids (many on iPads) and several professional musicians collaborated on a piece of digital music. The piece they created may not shatter any sales records (though it is actually on sale in the iTunes store), but it's certainly not bad for student work. It's unclear how long they worked on this piece, or how many takes were involved, but the resulting music and video are good. And the students are left with a downloadable song that they created. So here are my questions: - are these students learning music? - is their learning transferable to real instruments? - to tweak Sting's words: is technology a legitimate teacher in this case?

Free video chat with up to 6 people. Sounds pretty cool.

Information and resources on PLNs for educators.

Tips and tools for educators on how to build a PLN, with lots of examples of great content and resources.