UWCSEA Teachers

Great variety of music mixes

when you eat an egg you are not just eating an egg

I don't like the s is for scarecrow art idea, but some of the other videos look interesting - such as using art for critical thinking 

a free program that lets you take a photo and make it into any size wall posters. At first glance it looks good and it is free.

allows you to automatically upload PDF created to your Google Docs

Really interesting article by Katie Roiphe about why danah boyd thinks you should not monitor your kids' web surfing.

Jane Hart of the United Kingdom's Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies has been assembling a list of the best resources for the past five years. But these resources aren't just randomly organized by popularity or something, the order is decided by a crowdsourced vote. What could be better than that?

An example of using Storify to collect all the tweets about the first day of the Tech Mentors' Retreat

Generate colourful QR codes. Looks pretty neat. 

this is an old post, but I like how it looks at changing questioning style i order to get the most out of our students No more trivial pursuit. No more topical research. No more hunts for simple facts - deadly, tiresome and lacking in value, mind-numbing activities without import. This article offers something like a cider press - but one that easily produces intriguing questions from the mass of curriculum content that usually inspires mere collection or varieties of trivial pursuit.

A critical analysis that challenges the myths in children's books about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Custom toys made from children's drawings! Unreal

Great tips for google apps schools including: Create and assignment In Box with Google forms How to use the revision history Create and use templates

Student-Centered Coaching introduces a new way of looking at and delivering school-based coaching that puts the needs of students' front-and-center.  By focusing coaching on specific goals for student learning, rather than on changing or fixing teachers, a coach can navigate directly towards a measurable impact and increased student achievement.

Here is where early childhood education students will post their ideas for how to connect to, and extend, children's books.

Facts about water (great for presentations

A neat advent calendar of Web2.0 tools - very cleverly done, and beautiful images. A super idea for a blog.

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George Couros's Diigo list on Cyberbullying.