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  • UVic’s Language Teaching Clipart Library

    tags: clipart, Graphics

  • Photography - National Geographic

    Photography, Pictures, Galleries, Wallpapers, Screensavers, Photo Tips, Biographies - National Geographic

    tags: photography, science, screensavers

  • ASL Browser

    If you have a student that uses sign language, this may be a resource for you.

    tags: ASL, language, sign

  • - Animoto For Education -

    I have been impressed with how easy this tool is to use and how my students liked to use it in our classroom.

    tags: education, web2.0, animoto, slideshow, tools

  • Earth Products & Accessories

    Interesting device to use with Google Earth, and might be a good device to use in the classroom.

    tags: earth, accessories, mapping, CS

  • Top News - New resource helps teach 21st-century skills

    “Social studies teachers now have a new resource to help them integrate 21st-century skills into their lessons: a free online document that maps various social studies projects, tasks, and outcomes to corresponding skills–such as problem solving and critical thinking–that are becoming increasingly important for 21st-century success.”
    By Laura Devaney, Senior Editor, eSchool News

    tags: 21st-century, school


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  • Clipart ETC Homepage

    Free clipart for students & teachers!
    38,000 pieces of free clipart and growing every month.

    Welcome to quality educational clipart. Every item comes with a choice of image size and format as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. No advertisement-filled pages with pop-up windows or inappropriate links here. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 items in a single, non-commercial project without further permission.

    tags: clipart

  • Pics4Learning - Tech4Learning

    A categorized list of images found in the Pics4Learning collection. The number in the parentheses indicates the number of sub-categories for that topic.

    tags: education, clipart, photos, resources, Graphics, image, tech4learning

  • How to make a Basic Claymation - Instructables - DIY, How To, photography, tech

    tags: claymation

  • clip art for macs - Google Search

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  • newsobserver.com | Reader geeks tackle Office 2007

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    • Herb Depke of Cary suggested that to solve compatibility problems from their end, folks with Office 2003 can download the program FileFormatConverters.exe to open, edit and save Excel, Word and PowerPoint 2007 files. To find the download, go to microsoft.com/downloads and search for “FileFormatConverters.exe.”

    • Office 2007 users can download an add-on from Microsoft that allows them to save documents in the PDF format, eliminating the middle step of using Adobe Acrobat or one of the many programs available online.

      The file, called SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe, also can be found at www.microsoft.com/downloads.

  • NEA: Works4Me - Using Technology - Technology in Class

    Works4me
    Practical Classroom Tips from Teachers Like Us
    Using Technology » Technology in Class

    tags: works4me, technology, classroom management

  • Works4Me E-Newsletter Archive

    Ideas and Tips for teachers, by teachers.

    tags: works4me

  • digitalstorytelling » home

    tags: digitalstorytelling, digital_storytelling, digital

  • Beyond the Basics: Super Subs Bring the Arts to Underserved Kids | Edutopia

    The message of the day, that you can achieve what you aspire to achieve, is not news to him, but he says the way it was presented was entirely different. “They did it with music and it was . . . wow,” he states. “This is the first time in three years here I’ve seen anything like this.” Then he smiles widely and adds, as though he invented the idea, “You learn better when you’re having fun.”

    tags: music, underserved

  • From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning: Create your own Cell Phone Radio Show…or just hear your favorite podcast on your cell!

    tags: 1to1

  • MiddleWeb | New MS Teacher Resources

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  • DonorsChoose.org Blog: Calling All Math & Science Teachers in North Carolina!

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  • Weblogg-ed » Kids Prefer Reading Online…

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    • So here’s the crux of the debate:

      As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.

      But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write.


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  • n2teaching: Choices Teachers Make

    tags: PLC, PLN, Professional Learning Community, n2teaching

  • Maximizing Your PLN - 7. 24. 2008. 12:54:45 GMT-0500, n2teaching Ustream.TV: At MACE, July 24. Education,DIY

    Creating a Personal Learning Communities online.

    tags: n2teaching, ustream.tv

  • The Levelator from The Conversations Network

    What is The Levelator™?

    Do you believe in magic? You will after using The Levelator to enhance your podcast. And you’ll be amazed that it’s free, now even for commercial use.

    So what is The Levelator? It’s software that runs on Windows, OS X (universal binary), or Linux (Ubuntu) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It’s not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It’s much more than those tools, and it’s much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler’s application window, and a few moments later you’ll find a new version which just sounds better.

    Have you ever recorded an interview in which you and your guest ended up at different volumes? How about a panel discussion where some people were close to microphones and others were not? These are the problems the post-production engineers of Team ITC here at The Conversations Network solve every day, and it used to take them hours of painstaking work with expensive and complex tools like SoundTrack Pro, Audacity, Sound Forge or Audition to solve them. Now it takes mere seconds. Seriously. The Levelator is unlike any other audio tool you’ve ever seen, heard or used. It’s magic. And it’s free.

    When we developed the IT Conversations component-based show-assembly system, we realized all the components had to be of the same loudness or the results would sound awful. We limped along for many months using the RMS normalization functions in various applications, but the results weren’t satisfactory and it required tools and skillsets that some of our post-production audio engineers didn’t have. One of our best engineers, Bruce Sharpe, offered to write a standalone software RMS normalization utility, which we’ve been using as part of our production system CNUploader since 2005.

    The CNUploader’s normalizer acts similar to an intelligent RMS-based compressor/limiter combination, and it therefore affects primarily the short-term (transient) sounds and the long-term overall loudness of the file. It doesn’t make the kind of adjustments that a skilled audio engineer can perform in software or at a mixing console, riding the levels up and down to compensate for medium-term variations.

    There are some hardware devices such as various AGC (automatic-gain control) components that can do moderate leveling, but since they have to operate in real time (i.e., without look-ahead), they can’t do much. And they aren’t cheap, let alone free. Even a skilled human can only react to changes unless s/he is lucky enough to be present during a recording session and can use visual cues to anticipate coming variations. Software can do better by performing multiple passes over the audio, generating a loudness map of where the volume changes. (It’s not actually that simple, but the metaphor is helpful.)

    Bruce, with help from his son, Malcolm, had proven that he knew how to tackle these problems in ways that no one else anywhere in the audio/software industry has done to date. So we asked him, “Bruce, do you you think you can write a leveler that corrects for medium-term variations in loudness instead of the short-term and long-term variatons processed by compressor/limiters and normalizers, respectively?” Bruce and Malcolm took on the challenge, and eight months later we began testing The Levelator.

    You’ll believe in magic.

    tags: audio, software, podcast, podcasting, tools, freeware, tool, mp3

  • Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds in the classroom

    Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

    tags: visualization, web2.0, cloud

  • » The fallacy of community - Marketing Conversation - New Marketing and Social Media by Abraham Harrison LLC Marketing Conversation - New Marketing and Social Media by Abraham Harrison LLC

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    • And often those users or customers have no desire to be “engaged”. They simply want to buy the product, use it, and move on.

  • Video Series

    I like this page. It shows how the classroom looks, not just words!

    tags: no_tag

  • Classroom Management in a One-to-One School District for Laptop Integration … Irving ISD - Irving, Texas

    tags: 1-1, classroom-management, laptop

  • 7 Things You Should Know About… | EDUCAUSE

    This page provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:

    tags: emerging learning technologies, 1 to 1 Learning, 1to1, 1:1

  • Real Classroom Ideas - 6 + 1 Traits

    tags: traits

  • Hunt High School - Laptop Project

    tags: hunt


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  • Sharing Places Information - Google Earth User Guide

    tags: earth, googleearth, places, sharing

    • Sharing Data Over a Network

      In addition to saving placemarks or folders to your local computer, you can also save place data to a web server or network server. Other Google Earth users who have access to the server can then use the data. As with other documents, you can create links or references to KMZ files for easy access. Storing a placemark file on the network or on a web server offers the following advantages:

      • Accessibility - If your place data is stored on a network or the Web, you can access it from any computer anywhere, provided the location is either publicly available or you have log in access.
      • Ease in Distribution - You can develop an extensive presentation folder for Google Earth software and make that presentation available to everyone who has access to your network storage location or web server. This is more convenient than sending the data via email when you want to make it persistently available to a large number of people.
      • Automatic Updates/Network Link Access - Any new information or changes you make to network-based KMZ information is automatically available to all users who access the KML data via a network link.
      • Backup - If for some reason the data on your local computer is corrupt or lost, you can open any of the KMZ files that you have saved to a network location, and if so desired, save it as a local file again.
      Note: Before you can create a network link to an item in Google Earth, you must first store that place data on a server.

      This section covers the following topics:


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  • SmarterMail Help

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    • s for any group on your account. A

  • TLC = Tech + Library + Classroom

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    • TLC = Tech + Library + Classroom

      finding ways to bring the three together…

    • Tara
      Shanghai, China
      A library lady having fun with technology and wanting to spread the news that it’s not as tricky as it looks!

  • Getting Started Guide : Lively’s Getting Started Guide - Lively Help Center

    a chat experience in which you can communicate and express yourself using avatars in your very own space.

    tags: lively, virtual

  • YAKiToMe! Free Text To Speech Audio Book Podcast

    tags: yakitome

  • Edtags.org: Bookmarks for the field of education

    tags: no_tag

  • Chatzy - Podcasting for the Absolute Beginner

    Chatzy is a free private chat service which you can use to communicate with people you already know or people who visits your blog or website. With Chatzy you can create a chatroom and send out email invitations very quickly and easily. No registration is required.

    tags: chatzy

  • podcastingforbeginners » home

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  • Add to Google

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  • Cool School is presented by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

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    • Authored by blakej. Hosted by Edublogs. ]]>     http://blakej.edublogs.org/2008/07/12/science-teaching-weekly-8/feed/     NECC 2008 Through Distance Learning http://blakej.edublogs.org/2008/07/08/necc-2008-through-distance-learning/ http://blakej.edublogs.org/2008/07/08/necc-2008-through-distance-learning/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:10:08 +0000 blakej http://blakej.edublogs.org/2008/07/08/necc-2008-through-distance-learning/ And yet another summer passes sans attending the mega ed tech conference NECC.

    No, I will not be bummed out by not have the seeming unlimited funds of districts around the our nation. Districts that sent hordes of eager participants to this years bash at San Antonio. I will not get any cheese with my whine. On the positive side, I have been lapping up the scraps and crumbs of leftovers from NECC. I have found streaming video http://www.kzowebcasting.com/necc/ and the best part is that I could fast forward through the presenters crowd warm-ups, self-promos, shout-outs, and even parts without audio. Would I pay for this? No. Would I recommend it to others. Absolutely! The chat feature is wonderful. Send you fellow teachers a link to the site on Twitter or IM or Plurk, or Pownce and have them comment and give feedback while viewing a particular presentation. Now, I have been a fan of David Warlick for many years and always love to listen to his presentations. Here is how I see sharing these videos with my fellow teachers in my school.

    Set up a Professional Development schedule. Maybe call it NECC via Distance Learning, or Converge, Connect, and Transform Learning. Then, using our email server, set up a group of teachers interested in earning credits in technology. From this group of names, have them create a Pownce account. The reason for using Pownce, is that users can setup Events. When the time for the training comes, send the group a link to one of the NECC webcasts and ask the participants to post their comments and questions in the chat room. I have been impressed with backdoor chat. Our teachers would be using MacBooks, so we could launch iChat with Bonjour to connect the laptops. Now, will our wifi handle the streaming or will we encounter buffering issues? That may be the “$24,000 Question”.

    Other cool “take-aways” that I have picked up include Edtags.org. Edtags.org is a social bookmarking site for educators. Diigo and Del.icio.us are great bookmarking site that I use all the time, but they are blocked by our content filter at school. Edtags.org is unblocked and is now high on my personal list of sites to use. I lacks lots of the numbers of users that the other great social bookmarking sites have, and that is fine. I have been busy adding my bookmarks in Edtags.org and marking them for use by my friends only. This way, I can add teachers in my school as users and add them as my friend so they can access my educational bookmarks and add another tool to our learning community.

    Mogulus.com is really exciting. However, it does not make the cut of the content filter in our district. It is also flagged for inappropriate content.

    I will not be so bold as to consider this to be a master list of tools for the classroom. Hopefully, I will be able to find time to post additional resources.


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  • The LoTi Connection - LoTi Projects: LoTi Certified Training

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    • ication for LoTi Professionals who wish to participate in our Great Expectations with LoTi program. A LoTi Certified Professional represents a classroom teacher, instructional specialist, or building/district level adm

  • Sequential Art, Graphic Novels, & Comics: Technology-Enhanced Learning

    Explore online lessons related to comics in the classroom:

    tags: technologyenhanced, comics


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  • Wesley Fryer’s notebooks

    tags: technology, resources, web2.0, fryer, google, googlenotebook

  • Doodle: Easy Scheduling

    tags: web2.0, collaboration

  • VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, docs and videos

    tags: voicethread, education, storytelling, technology, web2.0, collaboration

  • learninginhand.com - Podcasting for Teachers & Students Booklet

    tags: learninginhand, podcast, podcasting, resources, learninginhand.com

  • Using Google Docs in the classroom: T…

    This guide provides some six tips and tricks for teachers who’ve mastered the basics of Google Docs. It covers how to keep student work organized, revisions and revision history, and how to publish student work.

    tags: classroom, docs

  • Freedom to Learn

    “Freedom to Learn (FTL) is a statewide initiative aimed at improving student achievement and engagement in our Michigan schools. FTL is the catalyst for changing the way students learn and teachers teach. The demands of a 21st century educational system make this change necessary.
    FTL empowers teachers to individualize instruction for every child — truly to leave no child behind. FTL creates an environment where every child can have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), where learning occurs anytime and anywhere, where students are motivated by their own medium of expression. FTL accomplishes this new educational vision through a one-to-one learning environment, in which every student and teacher has access to his or her own wireless laptop in a wireless environment.”

    tags: freedom

  • ReadWriteThink

    tags: lessonplans, writing, teaching, literacy, reading, english, education, lessons, resources

  • EXPLO.TV - Webcasts, Video Clips, and Podcasts from the Exploratorium

    tags: explo.tv

  • Exploratorium: Educate

    tags: science, exploratorium

  • Concept to Classroom: Tapping into multiple intelligences - Explanation

    Tapping into Multiple Intelligences

    tags: intelligences, multiple

  • Tech4D.I. » home

    the Technology for Differentiated Instruction wiki
    The purpose of this public wiki is to collect and share resources linking Computer and Information Technology with Differentiated Instruction.
    All educators are invited and encouraged to contribute and edit as well as reading and using the ideas and strategies found here.
    Please Note: Mac users are advised to use the Firefox browser to edit these pages.

    tags: differentiatedinstruction, technology, Wiki, differentiation, resources

  • sig1to1 » home

    The goal of SIG 1-to-1 is to enhance teaching and learning in one-to-one environments in K-16 classrooms.

    tags: sig1to1

  • Education Week’s Digital Directions: 1 to 1 Learning

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    • school leaders did not seem to be willing to stick with the programs for the long haul
    • a lack of attention to the components needed to fix computers and keep the models current and operational.
    • must pay attention to policies and procedures, including consequences for inappropriate use of the laptops and whether the machines may be used at home.
    • consideration of the goals of one-to-one programs need to be undertaken at the school, district, and state levels so that overarching questions of “why one-to-one?” are answered.
    • needs a mission statement that really answers those questions and provides a road map for how the program will move forward. The mission for some is to improve students’ technology skills; for others, it is to create more opportunities for self-directed learning.
    • a vision committee should be established to outline what else is needed for the program to succeed.
    • holding back on communicating about one-to-one computing initiatives, not wanting to tell people about incomplete plans.
    • he vision committee and people involved in running the program to become informed about best practices. Fanning out to observe and question schools, districts, and statewide programs results in an understanding of what’s working and what might have been tried along the way but didn’t work. Attending conferences that specialize in one-to-one computing is also helpful.

  • Apple - Education - Texas Technology Immersion Pilot, pg.4

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  • High School Rollout.

    High School 1 to 1 Rollout.

    Theme idea: On the Journey or TV Show

    Goal for the night: Set the stage for change, programs, curriculum, teaching and learning

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  • Project Inkwell - Project Inkwell

    Project Inkwell Mission Statement:

    The goal of SNS Project Inkwell® is to accelerate the deployment of appropriate technologies onto K-12 desktops worldwide.

    Project Inkwell is developing international standards for pre-university teaching and learning. Having now defined version 1.0 of the minimal technical requirements for an Inkwell learning device, we are moving to incorporate additional advance technology in version 2.0, even as we set standards for servers, infrastructure, teacher professional development, software, and business models.

    tags: inkwell

  • Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer wiki / onetoone

    tags: fryer, 1 to 1 Learning

  • Every One Learns - Pedagogy, Technology, Motivation: NY Times Article Pounds 1to1

    tags: 1to1, laptop, 1:1

  • One to One Computing Blueprint

    tags: education, 1:1, technology, 1to1, blueprint, laptop, laptops

  • One-to-One Information Resource

    tags: 1, 1:1, education, technology, laptop, 1to1, laptops, learning, onetoone

  • Inspirational Talking Points Justifying 1:1 Computing

    tags: 1to1, education, laptops, teaching

  • Facebook | My Photos - Beverly Perdue Fundraiser in Columbus County

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  • Podcasts Find Use in Classrooms - TIME

    A campus-wide “grandma rule” kept students from uploading anything that their grandmother wouldn’t find appropriate to listen to or watch. And teachers had the ability to designate certain areas as “No Zune Zones,” do periodic Zune checks and tell students when they must turn off their Zunes.

    tags: handhelds, management

    • Eric Langhorst led the pilot project at South Valley Junior High in Liberty, Mo.


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    Wow, this is awesome. Can you name all the technology skills they are using in this video?

    • Computer:  what brand?
    • Software and apps?
    • Cell phones?
    • camera?

    Update: This morning, I noticed that Wes has done a super job filling in the details concerning the “Live from I-35: Moving at the Speed of Creativity enroute to NECC” event! Even after reading about it, I am blown away by how slick and interesting it really was.


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  • Google Reader -JB’s shared items

    tags: sharing

  • EDTECH: Focus On K-12 - Unleash Your Digital Natives

    “Lesson Description:

    Students will create their own multimedia presentation. During this lesson, students can choose from a variety of video or sound sources online or they can use audio provided by the teacher. Students will use a software editing program to capture the sound and export it as a WAV file. Then they will identify and look for visual images (about one per every five seconds) to compliment the content. Once they have all the images and video, they can join them with the audio to create movies.”

    tags: 1 to 1 Learning, edtech, technology, teaching

  • EDTECH: Focus On K-12 - Reel Projectiles

    Students use slow-motion movies to help understand the principles of physics.

    tags: physics, physical science

  • NEA: Podcast Powerhouse

    tags: podcasting

    • fifth graders struggle with reading and have poor oral language. While working toward her master’s degree in instructional technology, Beebe learned to create podcasts with the software GarageBand. Combining her newfound skill at making podcasts with her desire to provide an authentic way to address reading fluency, Beebe began recording her students?

  • Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer wiki / voicethread

    tags: voicethread

  • How To: Get Students to Use New Skills | Edutopia

    tags: no_tag

    • Identify the core questions of your
      subject area
    • let students
      create their own labs to test hypotheses
    • Integrate lots of
      interviewing into a history curriculum and have students
      compare stories they hear. Add a five-minute reading component
      to journal-writing time, emphasizing to students that
      real authors share their writing and need to have a sense of
      their audience.
    • Performances, presentations, displays,
      publications, and entries into contests are essential for student
      buy-in. ULS’s hula class spends the semester gearing up for a
      final performance, and Hamilton’s seventh graders forget how
      hard they’re working on their writing when they focus on creating
      podcasts. “When I tell students they are going to create a
      podcast of their own stories, they get excited,” she says. “This
      buy-in from the students gives them a purpose to learn new
      skills and a reason to come to school.”

  • Timer for Mac OS X - Freeware stopwatch, alarm clock and countdown utility for Mac

    tags: stopwatch, all_teachers, math, science

  • TeachClever | Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Becoming a More Productive Teacher

    tags: teachclever, classroom management, Productivity

  • ABC News: 3-Day Weekend: Schools Out for Gas Prices

    tags: 3day


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