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This is where you can create a private virtual ToonDoo space for your educational institution, business organization, community or group. Publish, share and discuss your comic strips with your group members in a secure and private environment!
The past few years have seen an explosion of disruptive technologies that challenge the way we think, the way we operate, and the status quo of educational practice. Understandably, critical questions have emerged regarding the use of these technologies in education. Do they actually lead to new literacies, or do they simply provide a new context for the development of skills educators have always valued? What impact are they really having on students and schools? How can organizations implement, evaluate, and sustain these technologies in the service of learning?
Collection of interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 80+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web for any topic you specify.
* Facts about your topic are organized as a table of items and attributes (we call them "Squares" for fun).
* Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you're interested in.
* See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square.
* Save and share Squares with others.
Club Time Machine™ became an adventurous world and a perfect example on how kids in the age of 6-12 years can be educated and entertained at the same time. It is our goal to keep kids challenged on a daily bases by adding new games, e-learning modules and by organizing events.
LearnCentral is a new social learning network for education, sponsored by Elluminate. More than a social network or a learning community, this free, open environment represents the next logical step of combining asynchronous social networking and the ability to store, organize, and find educational resources with the live, online meeting and collaboration provided by Elluminate technology.
Not just for Elluminate customers, LearnCentral is for any educator who is passionate about teaching and learning and wants to find and connect with like-minded colleagues to share content, develop best practices, and collaborate on a global level. While still in its early stages, LearnCentral has the potential to make a significant historical difference in how educators work together for professional development in their own careers.
new social bookmarking service that provides you with an easy way to include visual clues in your bookmarks. You can include links, images, videos within your bookmarks. All of your bookmarks can be organized into folders which can then be shared publicly or privately.
2.5 min video explaining Toobla - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV3TKcm56f0
Customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12.
CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.
"TEDxNYED will be an all day conference designed to examine education and the impact of new media and technology. Speakers are challenged to share innovative insights and inspire conversations about the future of education. Attendees are challenged to rise to the occasion: learn for themselves, educate each other and, following the spirit of TED, spread these ideas."
Notely is the new tool for students of all ages looking for help to get better grades.
Notely has all the tools a student could need, schedule, calendar, note-taking, homework planner and more.
The innovative nonprofit organization Creative Commons turns the process around, making the concept of protecting and sharing work online not onerous, but positive.
The alternative is to label educational objects located all over the Internet with a set of shared attributes and allow them all to be accessed through a customized search engine.
Imagine hundreds of thousands of great short videos, and other media, explaining every topic taught to school kids. Imagine them rated and sorted into a giant Directory, making them simple to find. WatchKnow--as in, "You watch, you know"--is a non-profit online community devoted to this goal.