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Links for 2009-03-19 [del.icio.us] Posted: 20 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PDT Top 100 Edu Tweeters | Online Degree World Twitter is a growing tool for personal, business, and educational conversations. Not surprisingly, many schools, educators, and other educational entities have jumped on the bandwagon, and they have lots to share. Check out this list to find some of the best educational sources on Twitter today. From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning: Cell Phone Conferencing A Free Tool for Teaching! Cell phones can be a handy conferencing tool for teaching and learning. Part of teaching is being able to conference with students, parents, experts, and members of the community. Often conferences and meetings are conducted face-to-face. Recently with the rise of web conferencing tools some schools are starting to take advantage of these internet-based tools for virtual conferencing and even professional development. However if students, teachers at home, parents, or other community members do not have access to the Internet, they are unable to participate in these web conferences. BUT...They can if they have a cell phone (any cell phone will do).

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Links for 2009-03-13 [del.icio.us] Posted: 14 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PDT lizbdavis shared http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1425 Edublogger Liz Davis was recently interviewed by Sheila Coles of the Morning Edition about Twitter. She talks about some of the implications of Twitter for teaching, learning, and privacy. Wired Campus: A Professor's Tips for Using Twitter in the Classroom - Chronicle.com January 28, 2008 - Chronicle of Higher Education A Professor's Tips for Using Twitter in the Classroom Using Twitter as an Education Tool - Search Engine Watch (SEW) Using Twitter as an Education Tool By Ron Jones, Search Engine Watch, Sep 25, 2008 Web 2.0 Teaching Tools: Twitter Tweets for Higher Education A list of great resources and ideas for using Twitter in the classroom academhack » Blog Archive » Twitter for Academia I thought I would explain how I use it, specifically for academic related uses, and teaching.

Links for 2009-03-12 [del.icio.us] Posted: 13 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PDT peer2peersharing » Web 2.0 Sites to Make your Projects Come Alive several sites and resources with which you can create elements to put into your website or digital portfolio.

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Links for 2009-03-11 [del.icio.us] (03/12/2009 12:00)

• Classroom 2.0 LIVE
  Classroom 2.0 is a wonderful resource, but this tag site is specifically for their upcoming Moodle Live training. Haven't used a moodle before? Check it out!
• Atomic Learning's eBook on How to Flatten Your Classroom - Movies
  Seven Steps to Flatten Your Classroom is a new e-book by edublogger Vicki Davis. Download it here for free. And while you are at it, check out the Atomic Learning site. It is chuck full of great lesson plan ideas.
• Royalty Free Music, Free Sound Effects, Free Royalty Free Music Loops
  Looking for royalty free audio files to use with your Photo Story or Movie Maker project? You'll find hundreds of files here.
• Dangerously Irrelevant: Slide - Banning students' computers
  Dr. Scott McLeod posted this slide on the banning of cell phones in school. Where do you fall on this debate? Check out the comments that follow the image to read how other educators feel about cell phones in school.
• Langwitches » Don’t Believe Everything You See Online
  Why is our first impulse to believe something that we see, read or hear? Especially if it is in print, online or comes in an “officially” looking packaging? How do we teach ourselves and our students, that another impulse has to follow the first one immediately: Evaluate…critical thinking… learn to listen for and to your own “gut feeling”… cross referencing… Information literacy is an important part of being literate. Being able to know how to read and write alone, just doesn’t “cut it anymore”.
• Prezi - The zooming presentation editor
  With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide, it only takes 5 minutes to learn how to use Prezi.
• Content Partners - Free lesson plans, homework help and professional development for teachers, students and parents | Verizon Thinkfinity
  Thinkfinity Content Partners produce nine discipline-specific, standards-based web sites that include lessons for teachers, activities to use in and out of the classroom, games for young children and teen, adult literacy resources and reference materials for anyone in the education field, as well as for parents and after-school practitioners.
• Web English Teacher
  Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English / Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.
• English Companion - Where English teachers meet to help each other
  If you're an English teacher, I hope you have heard of Jim Burke. His website (http://www.englishcompanion.com) and books are wonderful resources for English teachers. This ning site is a wonderful extension of his work and a place to engage with other English teachers.
• PLP Visioning Boot Camp for Leaders : Powerful Learning Practice, LLC
  Join Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson this summer for PLP’s “Visioning Boot Camp for Educational Leaders,” an intensive, small-group, three-day workshop for school leaders who want to understand how 21st Century technologies are challenging curriculum and pedagogy and providing economical new ways for learning.
• creative writing prompts . com ideas for writers
  Use the creative writing prompts and creative writing ideas to create stories, poems and other creative pieces from your imagination. The writing prompts can even help you come up with creative content for blogs and blog stories.

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Links for 2009-03-07 [del.icio.us] Posted: 08 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PST Best of History Web Sites A wonderful resource for history teachers with links and materials from just about every period of time. Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads Looking for royalty free music to use with your Window Movie Maker or Photo Story projects? Well, look no further! Copyright in the K-12 Classroom An excellent resource on educational copyright laws. A must see for teachers. Best Online Interactive Museum Exhibits for Students | Making Teachers Nerdy A wonderful resource for all teachers, but social studies teachers in particular might find this list of online museum exhibits particularly useful. Connecting Peers, Perspectives, and Pedagogy Online C3PO stands for Connecting Peers, Perspectives, and Pedagogy Online. This website is designed to give educators the resources they need to connect with other classrooms from around the world in order to collaborate and learn in an authentic 21st century environment. There are a number of high school English teachers looking to make connections. English teachers - this is a must see! Social Networks in Education » home Looking to connect with other teacher? This is a wonderful list of teacher social networking opportunities. ed4wb » Blog Archive » 30 Discussion Starter Videos Looking for videos to start conversations in your class, especially around ideas of 21st century learning? Check out this list of 30 Discussion Starter Videos by Bill Farren at ed4wb.org.

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Links for 2009-03-06 [del.icio.us] Posted: 07 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PST Interactives Put together by Annenberg, this portion of Learner.org offers wonderful interactive lesson plans by content area. A great resource! Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter Wonderful resource for finding fellow edubloggers.

Links for 2009-03-05 [del.icio.us] Posted: 06 Mar 2009 12:00 AM PST From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning An interesting blog about using cell phones in schools. jason ohler : Home A great resource for digital storytelling. Incompetech Royalty free music sites Freeplay Music, Broadcast Production Music Library, Free and Mp3 Music Downloads, See Usage Terms. Royalty free music source

Not Really A Post

It has been a while...okay, a long while since my last post. Turns out motherhood has changed a lot - my perspective, my priorities, and a vast number of diapers. I'll be sure to write a bit more on what these changes have meant to me as an educator, but for now, I have a resource that I would like to pass along.

MrsSugar over at Making Teachers Nerdy has posted an excellent list of educational blogs you should be investigating. It is impressive and very well organized. I was especially impressed by her blogroll of English/Language Arts bloggers. It includes a number of teacher-writers that I haven't yet had a chance to read. So set aside an hour or so to lose yourself in all the wonderful links.

Generation We

I haven't yet had a chance to read Eric Greenberg's Generation We: How Millennial Youth Are Taking Over America and Changing Our World, but after Scott McLeod's recent post popped up in my Google Reader, it is certainly something I am interested in learning more about.

What is Generation We?

Generation WE: The Movement Begins... from Generation We on Vimeo

Find out more at http://www.gen-we.org.