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Historiana - Your Portal to the Past - is an international programme coordinated by EUROCLIO - European Association of History Educators. Historiana is an educational website that offers young people free access to quality education on history and heritage from a global perspective.

Twitter is an online social networking tool in which users post 140 character updates of what is going on in their lives along with links to things they think are interesting, funny, or useful to their followers ("following" being essentially what "friending" is on other sites). People use twitter in many ways, some as a newsfeed by following prominent people or networks, some as a pseudo-chatroom by limiting their followers and whom they follow to close friends and family, and some as a microblog for updating people about the work they are doing and their personal lives.

"hese videos and support materials will give you another weapon in your answer arsenal. In the videos, students meet people whose everyday, real life includes just the kind of mathematics they explore in Math by Design. Use the Discussion Questions and Related Practice resources to extend and enrich your students' video watching experience!"

Imagine a timeline of the universe, complete with high-resolution videos and images, in which you could zoom from a chronology of Egypt's dynasties and pyramids to the tale of a Japanese-American couple interned in a World War II relocation camp to a discussion of a mass extinction that occurred on Earth 200 million years ago - all in seconds. Based on an idea from a University of California, Berkeley, student, ChronoZoom - essentially a zoomable timeline of timelines augmented with multimedia features -- is coming to life.

 there now is an edtech app store! Well, it's more like an app directory but you get the point. It's called edshelf and is an easy-to-use directory all the great web 2.0 tools out there just waiting for educators to try them out. You can share your experience with the tools, add your own, store a 'shelf' of your favorite tools, and more. 

What a great idea! :)

The ICT4U-project aims to enable educators that want to have a more intensive use of ICT in their classroom. Today the students often have more knowledge about the latest tools and therefore there should be a 2-way exchange of knowledge. Moreover many tools exist and teachers do not have time nor expertise to identify the best solution for their needs.

Evaluating the Value of Apps for Educational Use

Very versatile tag cloud generator: possible to generate tag cloud directly from a twitter stream for example

Deze publicatie gaat over webquests: leerzame speurtochten op internet. Hiermee verwerven leerlingen niet alleen kennis over een specifiek onderwerp, maar ze leren ook informatie te verzamelen, beoordelen en verwerken in relatie tot een zoekvraag. Bij een webquest werken leerlingen samen aan betekenisvolle opdrachten en gaan actief op zoek naar antwoorden.

7 Tips For Using Social Media in Your Classroom