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An international nonprofit training, project development, and research organization that assists youth and adults around the world in using digital media tools to craft and record meaningful stories from their lives and share these stories in ways that enable learning, build community, and inspire justice.
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This Google Site has been set up by Dr. Helen Barrett to focus on the use of Google Apps to create ePortfolios. On this site, there are instructions on how to use the different elements of Google Apps to maintain e-portfolios.
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Classroom Presenter is a Tablet PC-based interaction system that supports the sharing of digital ink on slides between instructors and students. When used as a presentation tool, Classroom Presenter allows the integration of digital ink and electronical slides, making it possible to combine the advantages of whiteboard style and slide based presentation.
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As building work gets underway for a new school, Gareth Nutt, head of property and regeneration at Neath Port Talbot council, describes its unusual circular design. The classrooms in this new school will be circular so all pupils feel included.
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Laughing at:”Cartoons from the Issue of October 11, 2010 : The New Yorker” http://j.mp/bld5n4
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Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Earth, an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other’s work.
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MusicPLN.org ~Professional Learning Network for Music Teachers
Welcome to the Music Educators Professional Learning Network! -
Hilarious collection of bad newspaper headlines
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Celebrity Death Match is a fun and effective game to play with whole classes and can be used in any subject area. This can be played on an interactive whiteboard, though it can be played in any classroom with a digital projector. Be prepared for a noisy time as your students battle it out to see who will win, but by the end your students will probably all know the correct answers to all of the questions in your game
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Sparrow is a minimalist mail application for Mac. It was designed to keep things simple and efficient. No fancy stuff here… just your mail and nothing else.
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On October 7, 2010, Facebook opened up the Facebook groups feature to allow anyone with a Facebook account to arbitrarily add any other Facebook user that the person is “friends” with (meaning they have a connection on Facebook) to any group he or she chooses without asking first. In other words, beware of your Facebook “friends” adding you to random groups that you’ve never heard of or have no interest in.
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Microsoft: virus-infected computers should be quarantined
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Where in the world are those link shorteners taking you?
Many countries’ letter extensions are used by link shorteners for services such as Google. But which ones are where? -
Lots of digital resources in the public domain.
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If you’re running a business, then one of the highest costs you may be faced with is equipping your IT systems with the relevant software.
However, over the past few years, independent programmers and companies alike have developed free software that have come to replace their more expensive, well-known counterparts. Below are 101 free alternatives tocommonly used paid software that could help save you or your business a lot of money. -
Making comic books and strips is always fun. Well, probably not always if you do that for a living, but surely if you do it just to satisfy your passion, or make other people laugh. Today we bring you 19 online places to make your own comics just by using predefined templates, button clicks, sliders, or even your own artwork.
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The Edusim application is a slimmed down verion of the core Open Cobalt Metaverse Project. Edusim is a 3D multi-user virtual world platform and authoring toolkit intended for your classroom interactive whiteboard (but equally powerful on the students laptop or desktop computers !).
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This is the front page of the Simple English Wikipedia. Wikipedias are places where people work together to write encyclopedias in different languages. We use simple English words and grammar here. The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English.
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Library of Congress resource for kids and families.
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Online encyclopedia/portal for students
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Reference encyclopedia for young students
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The first online open source database of city sounds and soundmaps from around the world, using found sounds and field recording. The sounds can be listened to, used in performances on laptops, or played on mobiles via wireless networks.
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Strategies for teaching social studies
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CobaltWorlds is a part OpenCobalt project. OpenCobalt is a free and open source metaverse browser and construction toolkit for accessing, creating, and publishing hyperlinked multi-user virtual worlds. Powered by Croquet technology, Cobalt uses peer-based messaging to eliminate the need for virtual world servers and makes it very simple to create and securely share deeply collaborative virtual worlds that run on all major software operating systems.
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Ultimate tool for tracking a conversation between two Twitter users
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Web 2.0 for teachers categorized by type
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Find hundreds of hands-on, standards-based lesson plan ideas designed to:Integrate the arts into the daily curriculumStimulate independent thinking through visual learningSearch ideas by grade, subject, theme, and/or Crayola product.
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Tonido allows you to access and share ALL of your desktop’s files, documents, photos, music and videos from any where through a web browser or your smartphone.
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Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.
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This is a basic introduction to creating a post in WordPress highlighting 15 points of note in the admin area that you should be familiar with as soon as possible. Some are quite self explanatory and of course some need a bit more explanation. I have started out by highlighting the essential three in red and following on from there.
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In this film, Heppell makes his way through London, describing his vision for schools, meeting with kids at the Be Very Afraid conference, and exploring ideas for classroom design in a technology pilot school in Teddington.
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I came across one of those links that analyze your writing for you (I can’t remember where from now). It’s fun to know about your writing, and some of these might even in fact have a pedagogical use too. This is a short little post but that could end up wasting a LOT of time
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Reading:”Should Steve Jobs “man up” and kill the iPhone 4? | ZDNet” http://j.mp/9lQ0oJ
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You know the story. You sign up to Twitter, add a few friends, meet a few like-minded folk, add a few celebrities and all of a sudden you’ve got more tweets than you can handle. Information overload means that you’re no longer seeing the most interesting Tweets. And where’s the fun in that?
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Supporting Writing: Text-To-Speech and Spellcheck for All of Us
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Using our simple and intuitive text to speech/audio converter, you can record (English, French, Spanish or German) PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, and web pages, and convert them to speech automatically. Using it you can easily create audio recordings (in English, French, Spanish and German) of any text content.
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Free text to speech. Uses the world’s best text to speech (TTS) software.
Upload documents, cut and paste text or link to feeds. Text reader converts text to speech automatically. Download audio and podcasts.
It’s fast and easy to use. Get started right away! No software to download or install.
Unlike all other TTS websites, YAKiToMe! is 100% free! -
Small Basic is, in my opinion, one of the really cool platforms for introducing programming to younger students. A simple IDE, a simple subset of BASIC, and built in turtle graphics all resonate with me.
The content of this blog is generated by whatever strikes my fancy at any given point. It might be computers, weather, political, or something else in nature. I experiment and comment a lot on things so don't take anything here too seriously; I might change my mind a day later but what you read is my thought and opinion at the time I wrote it! My formal education includes a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Toronto. Ontario Ministry of Education and Training qualifications are in Data Processing, Computer Science, Accounting, and Mathematics. My personal website is at: http://www.dougpeterson.ca Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dougpete I'm bookmarking things at: http://www.delicious.com/dougpete
