York Ed Tech Council

We hear a lot about the 21st century learner - but what about the 21st century teacher? Andrew Churches investigates what makes them succeed.

Phew! That title is a bit of a mouth full. However, it does describe well the 10 websites below. They are awesome, use flash for the animations and are interactive.

eLearning Learning is a community that tries to collect and organize the best information on the web that will help you learn and stay current on eLearning.

Looking for the best iPhone® and iPod Touch® Apps but tired of seeing the same lists over and over? AppBeacon is your personal App discovery engine for the iPhone. * Start at the New Apps link above. * See the list of all apps you haven't reviewed. * Don't like an App? Sink it. You'll never be bothered by it again. * Find a gem but not ready to buy yet? Bookmark the App and get updates on prices and new features. * Already own an App? Mark it as Owned. AppBeacon will help you keep track of news and information on it.

These pages includes free or almost free apps for K-12 teachers and students. The list is by no means definitive, but I will add new content as it becomes available.

MobilAP is a web-based, platform for creating interactive conference and classroom experiences. It contains features like question/response, discussion, link sharing and scheduling. The cornerstone of the project is a Mobile Safari based front end that has an optimized experience for users of the iPhone and iPod touch.

Welcome to our Web.20 Challenge. Join us each week to learn about a helpful Web 2.0 tool and then take the challenge. Share your results and you could win great prizes and worldwide fame.

Ann Johnston's Instructional Technology Blog

We are committed to providing you with the staff development that meets your needs -- and that's where you come in! Tell us what you'd most like to see us develop for SDSD -- you can submit your own idea, or vote for the ideas that have already been submitted that you like best!

Took me a week, but I read the whole thing:)

Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama's BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation.

A visual search engine that aggregates search results from multiples sources including Yahoo, Flickr photos, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, etc. and then arranges all these results a large, interactive collage.

Here's a library I'd like to hang out in!

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.

Soundzabound Royalty Free Music supersedes Fair Use in that we fully license the music with unlimited rights for education and sign off that you are protected. Fair Use has limitations in use and states the you are liable should there be a claim. Soundzabound also provides the solutions for: * Education Approved Content in a searchable database * Artist branding rights not covered under Fair Use * User statistic reports * Web-based interface formatted for all your production purposes

Like animoto -- but supports audio, music, photos, and video

Activeworlds Inc. launched The Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). The AWEDU is a unique educational community that makes the Active Worlds technology available to educational institutions, teachers, students, and individual programs in a focused setting. Via this community, educators are able to explore new concepts, learning theories, creative curriculum design, and discover new paradigms in social learning.

Listed below are 23 Things (or small exercises) that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0.

Master list of web 2.0 tools mapped to Marzano's strategies.

The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them. Hundreds of free and inexpensive web tools are available for school library media specialists to use that can make us more productive, valued, and, perhaps, more competitive.