April 18, 2009
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Twitter Blog News from the Twitter microblogging platform including service updates, developments, applications, plus handy tricks and tips to help you get more out of Twitter.
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http://www.kyliedunstan.com.au Homepage of Australian illustrator
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Ideas to Inspire – Ideas for Inspiring Writing in the classroom ’Ideas to Inspire’ is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.
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Quick Start Tips For New Flickr Users: Part III | The Edublogger Very good site from Sue Waters explaining tool that integrate with Flickr and have cool effects. Explains about manipulating your images, tagging, slideshows and Creative Commons (brief)
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http://www.nmc.org/news Learn the latest from NMC and its members. This page aggregates content from several sources within the NMC web site. The New Media Consortium (NMC) is a community of hundreds of leading universities, colleges, museums, and research centers. The NMC stimulates and furthers the exploration and use of new media and technologies for learning and creative expression. All content Creative Commons
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Differentiated Instruction ; Educational resources that help classroom teachers adjust their teaching process to their learners needs Sites that help classroom teachers adjust their teaching process to their learners needs learning styles, articles, strategies lesson plans
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Learning with ‘e’s: Teaching with Twitter Interesting post on E-Learning Blog – written by Steve Wheeler at the University of Plymouth – with examples of how twitter can be used in educational environment. Particularly like the notion of summarising article in 140 words
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Adobe – Vlog It! : Create Vlogs, Video Blog Software Add video to your blog similar to a professional newscaster. Could be a great tool for teachers who are using blogs
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A Vision for Teacher-librarianship « LifelongLearner Rhonda’s Weblog A blog post that includes video and a flow chart on "integrating technology into every aspect of the inquiry process"
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IATEFL Cardiff Online 2009 Online coverage of the 43rd Annual International IATEFL Conference. 31st March to 4th April 2009
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Magnum Photos Part of a photo exhibition about slums around the world. "Places We Live is a powerful collection of images, sounds, and stories of life in four of the world’s poorest slums. The introduction to The Places We Live starts with a slideshow containing statistics from the UN regarding the world’s population that lives in slums and the UN definition of the term slum."
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Tutorials | Planet Photoshop A good collection of video tutorials for Photoshop. Learn how to spice up your photos, and use some very cool effects to create interesting backgrounds, movie posters, logos, and more. Ranges from beginner to advanced users
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Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Project Great source for teaching poetry and for motivating students. Offers many poems, lesson plans, poetry reading
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Where is ICT Leading Education ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes From a lecture he gave in Australia
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LiteFlick: Nice Flickr Search Tool A interesting Flickr search tool that provides you with a cool visual interface for searching and browsing Flickr images. You can search images by text or by Flickr username. It enables you to sort search results by recent, interesting and relevant images. You can go through 80 photos in seconds and easily get more information about them.
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Make Your Own Sign Generator! Your Text On An Any Image You Choose. Stamp, Mark And Tag The World Around You. Create your own sign generator! Just find an image of a sign or a photo where there is a clear area to place text. Choose your own text on any chosen image. Stamp, Mark And
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Ideas for Inspiring Writing – Google Docs This Google Doc initiated by Mark Warner is a collection of ideas to use for stimulating writing that includes examples. It draws on a range of online as well as offline activities and applications. Use it to get some great new ideas or even better add and share a couple of ideas of your own.
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Rising Voices » Projects Rising Voices aims to extend the benefits and reach of citizen media by connecting online media activists around the world and supporting their best ideas.
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NSW Migration Heritage Centre, Australia Good site on Australian immigration. Migrants have journeyed to Australia and settled in the State of New South Wales both willingly and unwillingly, legally and illegally, as convicts, prisoners of war, as free or assisted immigrants or as refugees…
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
