Word(le) Up!

Lee Kolbert, from A Geeky Momma’s blog, put out a Can I Have a Wordle With You? meme recently for some folks to feed their blog RSS feed into Wordle and then analyze the resulting image. I had used Wordle for a variety of reasons over the past few months, but had never input an [...]

To play or not to play?

Cross posted from my ITS course blog ~ Learning (with) Web 2.0

I have to admit that as soon as a presenter or workshop leader says, ‘It’s time to play’ or ‘There will be time to play’, I am instantly turned off. I’m not sure why, because I always enjoy the opportunity to use said ‘play [...]

Sites to See 11/19/2008

Paly Voice: Home
Student newspaper online. Organized using google docs.
tags: journalism

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Sites to See 11/18/2008

Google News Archive Search
News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.
tags: google, news, search, archive, history, reference, research, socialstudies

AutoMotivator: Make Your Own Motivational Poster
AutoMotivator is for making (or faking) [...]

Sites to See 11/17/2008

Interview Questions for EdTech Personel
A wiki with interview questions for various types of educational technology positions with some links to other sites.
tags: interview, computing, education, technology, edtech, questions, career, job, coordinator, integrator, director

Interview questions for Technology Focused Schools
Here are a few interview questions and sample responses for schools that are “technology focused.”
tags: technology, teaching, interview, [...]

Sites to See 11/14/2008

Guides to the 2007 Office system user interface
Interactive guides to learn Office 2007 from Training @ Microsoft Office Online
tags: office, howto

Video Tour of Google Office in New York
tags: google

OneRiot.com – Find the Pulse of the Web
Unlike other search engines, we prioritize that information based on its current popularity with our community. This makes OneRiot’s [...]

Sites to See 11/13/2008

Google Flu Trends
Google is using aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity by state.
tags: google, health, statistics, stats

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Sites to See 11/11/2008

The Media Spot | Media literacy through collaborative production
The Media Spot builds media literacy by producing multimedia messages with youth and educators in their learning environments.
tags: medialiteracy, copyright, fairuse, creativecommons

Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » Automatic merging
Multiple users can edit a wikispaces wiki page at the same time!
tags: wikispaces

Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Footprints in the [...]

Sites to See 11/10/2008

Stumbling Blocks: Playing It Too Safe Will Make You Sorry | Edutopia – Annotated
tags: web2.0, filtering, cipa, edutopia

Being able to explain your instructional purpose for using a particular tool is critical, Knee says.

Internet Free Expression Alliance
INTERNET FREE EXPRESSION ALLIANCE
‘The Internet is a powerful and positive forum for free expression. It is the place where “any [...]

Sites to See 11/07/2008

Cone of Learning (Edgar Dale)
Triangle diagram showing % of remembering by category and nature of involvement
tags: statistics, stats, 21st

leadingict » Qualities of effective lead teachers
tags: tribes, leaders, leadership, teaching, 21st, ict

Wattzon » Home
WattzOn gives you tools to track your energy consumption, compare it to others’ and understand its consequences in order to discover how to [...]