UWCSEA Teachers

the iPad, ooooh yeah.....

good for students

  Just how important is information fluency? Well, when you consider that today more information is created in a day than we can even imagine, I'd say it's an increasingly useful skill to retain. 

tutorial on using ebooks with students

Google+ (have to figure out what it is)

interesting video

"Would you like to develop an iPhone or Android application? If so, it just got much easier with the Buzztouch content management system. Visitors don't need to know any coding, and after creating a Buzztouch account they can get started building their own application. Visitors should look over the "How Buzztouch Works" area to get acclimated to the program and they should also check out the "FAQ" section. This version is compatible with all operating systems and users will need to have access to an iPhone, iPad, or Android phone to test their application's functionality. "

10 videos Total length: 13 minutes Description: Where did the phrase 'a wolf in sheep's clothing' come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts? Voiced by Clive Anderson, this entertaining romp through 'The History of English' squeezes 1600 years of history into 10 one-minute bites, uncovering the sources of English words and phrases from Shakespeare and the King James Bible to America and the Internet. Bursting with fascinating facts, the series looks at how English grew from a small tongue into a major global language before reflecting on the future of English in the 21st century.

One panellist suggested that a library should be regarded as a function, with its resources tying in with the school curriculum and meeting the needs of both staff and learners. The need for integration between the teaching curriculum and a school's library were echoed by other panellists. Much emphasis was placed on the transformative potential of school libraries, with speakers describing libraries as "agents of change" and "hubs of creativity," and librarians as "transformational agents."  

another site like LongReads or The Browser or Arts & Letters Daily -- that curates great articles online

Recommended restaurant in Siem Reap

Prezi on reflection

lots of things to explore to up you twitter experience (eg.twapperkeeper- t enables you to make an archive for tracking a precise hash tag, keyword, or username and gather the data and the number of mentions. If you are concerned in getting logic for how many times a exact hash tag was tweeted, it gives you a total number, along with the capability to search accurately through the archive that you produced.

ideas from Fraser Speirs on using the ipad 2 in the classroom