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CogDogRoo » 50 Ways - 0 views

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creativity digitalstorytelling edtech storytelling tools

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Alan Levine's compendium of a lot of storytelling tools.

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Patrick Higgins on 12 Sep 08

If you are looking for alternate ways to tell a story, or to have your students represent information, try these.

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GoodGuide | Home - 0 views

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goodguide green products shopping

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Green shopping made easy!

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Eyejot - the easiest way to send video - 0 views

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communication eyejot messaging webcam

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This is great for personal video emails.

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21st_century_skills_education_and_competitiveness_guide.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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21stcenturyschools 21stcenturyskills change schoolchange

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Check out this report from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. It is loaded with support for the types of thinking and writing we are doing.

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Patrick Higgins on 12 Sep 08

Partnership for 21st Century Skills new publication. Worth reading.

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ASCD - 0 views

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ascd joy learning mustread pedagogy schoolchange

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This one is a no-brainer--meaning that not only should we be reading it, we should also be creating our schools in its likeness.

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Patrick Higgins on 09 Sep 08

I'd like to think that we are doing this through the Connections class.

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ASCD - 0 views

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ascd joy learning mustread pedagogy schoolchange

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This one is a no-brainer--meaning that not only should we be reading it, we should also be creating our schools in its likeness.

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WikiMindMap - 0 views

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mindmapping research2.0 research20 search wikimindmap wikipedia

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Try this before searching wikipedia

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Patrick Higgins on 08 Sep 08

Streamline your wiki searches by using this tool.

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9 Ways to Motivate Kids | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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motivation

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Pick and choose from this list to meet your needs.

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100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers | Smart Teaching - 0 views

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100best teachers video youtube

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Patrick Higgins on 08 Sep 08

Collection of videos on variuos topics that might be useful in the classroom.

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Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies - Wikibooks, collection of open-content text... - 0 views

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learning opencontent siemens spartastaff web2.0 wikibooks

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Wonderul resource put together by studets from Universities across the world.

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Patrick Higgins on 07 Sep 08

This is definiltely worth bookmarking.

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definr - incredibly fast dictionary - 0 views

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dictionary reference web2.0

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Very cool

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Patrick Higgins on 06 Sep 08

How cool is this?

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Textnovel - - Home - 0 views

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cellphone cellularphone mobilephone textnovel

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Write a collaborative novel from your cellular phone.

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PicLits.com - Create a PicLit - 0 views

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piclits.com writing piclits education languagearts piclit pictureprompt poetry visual connections

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Excellent site for helping kids with writing from a prompt. Offers word selection or freestyle writing.

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QuarkBase : Everything about a Website - 0 views

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research research20 search tools

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Interrogate internet sources

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Patrick Higgins on 01 Sep 08

A different version of easywhois.net

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Global Education Collaborative Project Database - 0 views

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collaboration collaborative projects

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Patrick Higgins on 29 Aug 08

Great database for global collaborative projects

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Patrick Higgins on 29 Aug 08

If you are looking for a great global project to join, these are worth looking into.

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Cell Phones Make Headway in Education - 0 views

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article from businessweek about cell phone usage for educational purposes.

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TagCrowd - make your own tag cloud from any text - 0 views

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election tagcloud tagging visualization

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Totally ripping off John Becker's latest post for ideas here, but imagine using tag clouds to show meaning in public speeches this election season.

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Patrick Higgins on 27 Aug 08

There is some value in this one. See me and I'll explain.

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FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right - 0 views

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538 connections election politics socialstudies

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Lots of great data to expose our students to here. Let them go nuts with the graphs and write their explanation and rationalie.

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Patrick Higgins on 27 Aug 08

I like this one for its simple use of polling data to make projections. As John Becker said, they take a baseball stats approach to the election.

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Steli Efti : Throw Down the Gauntlet: Break the Chains of Bad Practice, Build Our Future - 0 views

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21stcenturyschools change education

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Consider letting students create teacher PD as part of their technology education program.
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Move towards a model of embedded professional development.  Binge professional development that happens in one day rarely creates sustainable, system wide change.  Move toward embedded programs like the 23 things that involve teachers in their own pd and requires them to research, reflect, and use the tools.
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Patrick Higgins on 23 Aug 08

Give this a read. What do you think?

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Patrick Higgins on 23 Aug 08

Great article at Supercool School.

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Education Olympics - 0 views

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competition education international spoofs

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This is great! A site dedicated to showing our student's performance on international assessments.

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