Group items matching

in title, tags, annotations or url

"The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do. The real difficulty kicks in when you click down into your search results. At that point, it's up to you to sort the accurate bits from the misinfo, disinfo, spam, scams, urban legends, and hoaxes. "Crap detection," as Hemingway called it half a century ago, is more important than ever before, now that the automation of crapcasting has generated its own word: "spamming.""

Enter data and this programme generates a reference for your bibliography - abridged or full Harvard style.

Still love this tool! Perfect for Australian schools that need Harvard style.

By developing this wiki with reading lists, information on texts, study guides, rubrics, book trailers, book reviews, directions and general requirements, students in years 9-12 (and their parents) have a head start on the year's required reading for English classes. Well done to Joyce Valenza for supporting her students in this manner.

See section "Reference List" (students required to identify parts of a work to complete a reference entry). "Citing" section may also be useful. The site has Havard style focus but good for generic skills.

Make a newspaper clipping with your own headline and story. In example to surprise friends and coworkers, send a birthday greeting or to give your next blog entry a special look.

This site gives lots of links under the following headings: Plagiarism and the internet Plagiarism in schools General resources on plagiarism Helping students avoid plagiarism Papermills and plagiarism detection Teaching about plagiarism

For Pennsylvania Librarians: HSLC/Access PA created WebJunction Pennsylvania in partnership with WebJunction, an online learning community that incorporates social software features to encourage community building. Members of the WebJunction community share their ideas and experience and promote best practices in libraries. Pennsylvania joins over fifteen other states in this cooperative educational system. Course content is contributed by the cooperative. The WebJunction system keeps track of courses taken and can generate a certificate upon course completion.

"PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of your pictures in just 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the video. There are several output possibilities for VCD, SVCD, DVD up to FULL-HD. The effect of the slideshow is known as "Ken Burns". Comments of the pictures are generated into a subtitle file. Furthermore an audio file can be specified to setup the background musice for the slide show. In contrary to other projects i know so far, PhotoFilmStrip has the opportunity to render slide show in Full-HD (1920x1080) resolution. "

For the Google generation, closing school libraries could be disastrous. Not teaching kids how to sift through sources is like sending them into the world without knowing how to read.

LA Times

For creating presentations generally but relevant to multimedia.

Description: Digital Preservation is a series of thought-provoking videos produced by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, highlighting its efforts to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content for current and future generations. Learn more about digital preservation at the Library of Congress by visiting http://www.digitalpreservation.gov

I'm going to apply this next term with one of my Year 11 classes.  I've generated videos using iShowU app (only for Mac, I think it was around $10) from app store.

The Microsoft UK Blog for schools, featuring news from MS, case studies within education, and generic education IT advice

VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save. Select any word on the list and you'll see a snapshot of the Visual Thesaurus map

Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

In celebration of Media Awareness Week (November 2-6, 2009) we are encouraging students, teachers, and the general public to create videos, digital stories, text, images or any digital media that showcases the different ways they are Media Literate.

There are no digital natives. There is no net generation. We are all in this together. That is all