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Kwiry allows users to text any subject to 59479. Then Kwiry will immediately search the web, finding resources for the subject, and post the results in multiple places (your email account, your private or public Kwiry account, and any of your friend's accounts that you would like the Kwiry posted).

Principles for Evaluating WebsitesBy Stephen Downes How do you know whether something you read on the web is true? You can't know, at least, not for sure. This makes it important to read carefully and to evaluate what you read. This guide will tell you how.

YTPodcaster is a YouTube podcaster tool that lets you convert Youtube videos into video podcasts. All you have to do is enter YouTube username into provided field and click on "Get Feed" button. The application will process your query and create a video podcast from 20 most recent YouTube videos posted by that user. just chose feed type you want and subscribe.

The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros' Networked Teacher. I hope that teachers will use it to help their colleagues, parents, and students understand networked learning in the 21st century.

convert PowerPoint presentations to Flash for free! Free PowerPoint to Flash converter creates web friendly Flash movies from your PowerPoint content keeping its visual parameters and animation effects. Generated Flash slideshows will look as if they have always been a Flash movie.

With Moviestorm, you're the director of your own movie. You'll go from initial concept to a finished film. You'll design your set, pick your actors, direct the action and set up cameras to film it. Even if you have never even thought about making a movie, Moviestorm will let you tell your story quickly and easily. It's fun, it's fast, and the core program is absolutely free.

Each day seems to produce a new hack, tool or tip for better Gmail use. In this post, I want to highlight only the very best, hand-picked from hundreds of resources. This is not another resource list you'll bookmark and never look at again. These tips, monster resources and tools will change the way you use Gmail.

Curriculum and technology go hand in hand today to help students learn both basic and 21st century skills. Yet it's often confusing to figure out what technologies will make a difference and how to integrate them. This web site is designed to take the mystery out of technology practices by providing resources for building a Model Intelligent Classroom.

Tired of assigning the same old boring PowerPoint presentations again and again? Want to challenge your students a bit more than the traditional tri-fold or poster project? Come learn a whole host of new tools to spice up your students' projects and your lessons. Explore and experiment with a variety of Web 2.0 tools including animated avatars, comic creators, digital scrapbooks, image creators, interactive timelines, logo generators, slideshows, streaming video, and the web resources that will serve as "containers" for the different elements.

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copy/paste text into LessonWriter and it will create vocabulary lessons and provide a template for questions.

Twinverse is a virtual world which reflects the real world. Through your twin (avatar), you will travel around the globe, meet and communicate with other people, discover geo-tagged web information, and contribute interesting content for the benefit of others. Include google maps, satellit, open street map... and twitter.

See how global warming will affect each part of the world over time

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Use this site to create, read, and share engaging digital books that build reading skills for students. Your universally designed books will engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

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These new readers are starting to get to what we need in the classroom. "The e-reader screen is used with a stylus that can underline or highlight text, take notes in the margin, pull up a blank piece of e-paper for solving math problems, or touch a link for a video of a chemical interaction that is then displayed on the LCD screen." I've heard predictions that even more flexible devices will be developed this coming year.

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