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• Microphones: Make Your Podcasts Sound Great

  tags: podcasting, microphone, audio

• Penmachine.com: Our quality basement podcast studio setup | Derek K. Miller, Writer & Editor, Vancouver, Canada

  tags: podcasting, microphone, audio

• Free Acid Loops Beats & Audio Samples Acapellas Vocals Music Sounds FX Tutorials Vsti Plugins

  Looperman is a Free pro audio community for musicians, film and video producers, djs and multi media designers.

  tags: audio, mp3, loops, music, podcasting

• Thoughtcrime Experiments

  Thoughtcrime Experiments is a free 2009 anthology of fantasy and science fiction stories and art, published under a Creative Commons license. It’s available online as HTML, as a downloadable PDF, or as a print-on-demand physical book (coming soon).

  tags: creativecommons, science_fiction

• Communication Arts Collaborative Resource

  Resource for Montana teachers--teaching strategies, assessment ideas, and resources & links.
  

  tags: opi, communication arts, curriculum

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• A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education | Edutopia

  tags: textbooks, textbook, education

• Report recommends state science, technology, engineering and math education strategy (WTN News)

  tags: STEM, science, curriculum, TransformingEducation

• Mind-Reading Device Sends Twitter Messages | LiveScience

  tags: Brain research, computer interface, futurism

• Sixty Symbols - Physics and Astronomy videos

  tags: physics, astronomy, science, curriculum, math

• The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham

  tags: science, chemistry, education, periodictable, curriculum

• Viewzi — What are you looking for?

  tags: search, searchengine, visualization, Viewzi

• ICT in Education: --> A teen's view of social networking and digital citizenship

  tags: technology-integration, web2.0, social networking, digital citizenship

• Technology Integration Matrix

  The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.

  tags: Technology, technologyintegration, tech_integration, pedagogy, edtech

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• Top News - Survey shows barriers to Web 2.0 in schools

  tags: web2.0, education, research, filtering, censoring, techintegration

• Seattle Public Schools | MS Cyberbullying Curriculum

  tags: cyberbullying, internetsafety, cybersafety, curriculum

• Learning is…

  tags: learning, professional_development, professionaldevelopment

• Sharing Podcasts across your Network « The Thinking Stick

  tags: podcasting, podcasts, audio, multimedia

• Micro Learning Spaces

  Creating Micro Learning Spaces means replacing 50-75% of student desks and chairs with comfortable and movable age-size furniture and equipment (built to last) for a great majority of K-12 classrooms.
  

  tags: classroom, school design, classroom design, design

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• Take My Teacher Home

  tags: literacy, kindergarten, iPod, technology-integration

• Study Ties Student Achievement to Technology Integration : April 2009 : THE Journal

  tags: technology, achievement, professional_development, technology-integration

• YouTube - LibraryOfCongress's Channel

  tags: youtube, library of congress, video, social studies, curriculum

• DesignShare Home

  Frank Locker - speaking to MCPS at end of month

  tags: education, design, future, architecture

• Free Teleprompter application

  tags: teleprompter

• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky - Annotated

  collapse of traditional information economies

  tags: journalism, media, future, publishing, transforming_society, TransformingEducation, presentations

• Nine Inch Nails iPhone App Extends Reznor's Innovative Run | The Underwire from Wired.com

  tags: NIN, mediaproduction, media, socialnetworking, social networking, transforming_society

• 10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine

  tags: WebDesign, design, techniques, presentation

• Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop | How-To | Smashing Magazine

  tags: GIMP, Photoshop, design, tutorial, howto

• 8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs | CSS | Smashing Magazine

  tags: typography, presentation, webdesign

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• YouTube - EDU

  tags: youtube, education, youtube.edu, web2.0, lectures, academic, learning, resource

• Related Top News - What do students want from their schools?

  tags: speakup09, speakup, students, TransformingEducation, project_tomorrow

• Don Tapscott: Colleges Should Learn From Newspapers' Decline

  tags: education, transforming_teaching, TransformingEducation, professionaldevelopment, professional_development

• » The Hierarchy Of Tweets - Analysing The Psychology of Twitter

  tags: twitter, maslow

• When Dad Banned Text Messaging - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

  tags: texting, cellphone, nytimes

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/oneminutewonders/

  tags: education, science, curriculum, video

• Montana Link Share Project

  tags: educational-technology, links, professionaldevelopment, professional_development

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• Rives tells a story of mixed emoticons | Video on TED.com

  tags: emoticons, TED, ted.com, tedtalks, literacies, communication arts, communication

• ed4wb » Blog Archive » 30 Discussion Starter Videos

  I’ve bumped into many interesting videos while flowing through the intertubes and I’d like to share some of them here. I’d say they are appropriate for most middle school students, up to adult. You, of course, will know best.

  tags: youtube, education, professional_development, professionaldevelopment, video, video in the classroom, video_in_the_classroom

• Education Week: Breaking Away From Tradition

  tags: online_learning

• K–12 Online Learning: A 2008 FOLLOW-UP OF THE SURVEY OF U.S. SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS | The Sloan Consortium

  tags: online_learning

• VOISE Academy High School - Virtual Opportunities Inside a School Environment

  tags: online_learning

• ACCESS

  tags: online_learning

• Please Sir, how do you re-tweet? - Twitter to be taught in UK primary schools

  No, it is not April 1st yet. The British government is proposing that Twitter is to be taught in primary (elementary) schools as part of a wider push to make online communication and social media a permanent part of the UK’s education system. And that’s not all. Kids will be taught blogging, podcasting and how to use Wikipedia alongside Maths, English and Science.

  tags: twitter, education, TransformingEducation

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Bypass Content Filtering with Toonel

  tags: filtering, censoring, censorship

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: So if Teachers Wont "Read It" What are We doing with Kids!

  tags: professional_development

• No Future Left Behind - grownupdigital

  tags: grownupdigital, professionaldevelopment, professional_development, video in the classroom, video_in_the_classroom, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, netgened

• homepage | Open Source Cinema - An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright

  tags: opensource, creativecommons, documentary, remix, cinema, copyright, collaboration, mashup, video, video in the classroom, video_in_the_classroom

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• Ideas to Inspire

  tags: education, teachers, lessons, lessonplans, curriculum, web2.0, integrating_technology

• Revolabs Wireless Audio Products

  tags: audio, microphone, podcasting, video, multimedia

• Comparisons of Inaugural Addresses

  In these visualizations, a given text—the “specimen”—is compared to some larger group of texts—the “normative” text—using the Dunning log likelihood statistical analysis, which gives weight to words in a text according to how their frequency of use in the specimen text differs from the norm.
  
  All visualizations feature a cloud that varies from gray to blue. In this cloud, the size of the word corresponds to the number of times the word was used in a given address. The word's color depends on how statistically unlikely the word is in the normative text; in other words, a blue word was used more in the given speech than in the others it is compared to.

  tags: inaugural, wordle, social studies, curriculum, history, literature, language

• Funds For Learning Assists E-rate Service Providers and Applicants with E-rate Compliance - E-rate Blog

  tags: erate

• Flickr: otisarchives1's Photostream

  Collection of photographs and illustrations from Walter Reed History Collection

  tags: otisarchives1, medicine, creative_commons, flickr, photography

• Mistrial by iPhone - Juries’ Web Research Upends Trials - NYTimes.com

  Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge’s instructions and centuries of legal rules. But when the judge questioned the rest of the jury, he got an even bigger shock.

  tags: mistrial, nytimes, TransformingEducation, social networking, integrating_technology

• http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com

  This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more!
  

  tags: googleearth, geography, maps, google, english, literature, literacy, communication arts, curriculum, GoogleEarth

• Power Lines Upset Cows' Compass : NPR

  tags: google, GoogleEarth, science, research

• Remixing YouTube, One Video At A Time : NPR Music

  tags: remixing, npr, remix, copyright, Music

• Education Software for Schools: Free Software, Open Source | School Forge

  tags: opensource, FOSS, k12opensource

• Open Source Software Listings and Descriptions

  tags: k12opensource, FOSS, opensource

• THRU YOU | Kutiman mixes YouTube

  copyright? the old rules just don't apply...

  tags: youtube, remix, mashup, multimedia, Mashups, Music

• In Seattle, the World Still Turns, a Beacon in Memory of a Lost Newspaper - NYTimes.com

  tags: 21st-century, professional_development, TransformingEducation

• The Age of Composition « The Thinking Stick

  tags: composition, communication arts, literacy, curriculum, ncte

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• Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning - Emerging Technologies for Learning

  This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities

  tags: technology, professionaldevelopment, learning, web2.0, professional_development

• Dimdim: Web conferencing that just works. Dimdim provides easy, open, affordable collaboration. Use for online meetings, eLearning, desktop sharing, training, distance education, unified collaboration, webinar, free web meetings and more.

  tags: collaboration, webconferencing, web2.0, Videoconferencing, presentation, dimdim

• techchicktips / iApps

  tags: techchicktips, iphone, iapps, iPod

• edublogs: Fresh research showing the damage of filtering 'real world' technology

  Students in schools around the world find that their research, creativity and learning potential is seriously curbed by filtering and lack of use of their own mobile and gaming devices in schools. This comes from research spanning the Americas, brought to my attention by its author, Research Consultant Kim Farris-Berg.

  tags: filtering, research, policy

• Recording Audio with Your Computer While You Walk Around: Wireless Mics (Practical Practice)

  tags: mics, audio, podcasting, microphone

• Best Practices for Meeting CIPA Requirements

  tags: CIPA, filtering, censorship

• PhET: Free online physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math simulations

  tags: science, physics, simulations, interactive, chemistry, math, biology, education, curriculum

• Maine's Gorham School District Goes Wireless with High-Performance 802.11n Network from Meru

  tags: 11n, wireless, laptops, 1:1, 1to1, onetoone

• University of Southern Maine ~ Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation

  tags: 1:1, 1to1, onetoone, laptops, techintegration, technology-integration

• A Review of One-to-One Laptop Programs in America - One Laptop Per Child News

  tags: onetoone, 1:1, 1to1, OLPC, laptops

• FREEDOM TO LEARN REPORT: One-to-one teaching program increases student technology skills and motivation to learn

  tags: onetoone, 1:1, laptops, freedom to learn

• Freedom to Learn: Michigan Students Unplugged - State of South Dakota K-12 Data Center

  tags: 1:1, laptops, freedom to learn

• Computrace Asset Tracking Software - Computer Theft Recovery Solution

  tags: 1:1, security, laptop security, laptops

• What is fencing? « Olympian’s Life

  Great video posted on fencing.net about the sport.

  tags: fencing, video

• New Technology Foundation

  tags: pbl, Technology, 21stcenturyskills, education, projectbasedlearning, new tech foundation, grants

• WTHR | Indianapolis -Daniels, Ohio group boost high-tech schools

  tags: TransformingEducation, new tech foundation

• Daily charts, maps, graphs and tables | The Economist

  tags: economist, charts, graphs, data, social studies, curriculum

• Political cartoons by Kevin Kallaugher | The Economist

  tags: economist, kallaugher, political cartoons, visual, social studies, curriculum

• Special reports: analysis in depth | The Economist

  tags: economist, social studies, curriculum, visual

• Instant Rimshot

  tags: rimshot, humor, audio, sound effects, professional_development

• Sad Trombone

  tags: trombone, audio, sound effects, professional_development

• Instant Crickets

  tags: crickets, sound effects, audio, professional_development

• Emergency Yodel Button

  tags: yodel, sound effects, audio, professional_development

• Just Another Nonsense Blog Post | Taylor the Teacher

  tags: BlogsinSchools, Blogging, writing, communication arts

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• Continuums of library use - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

  tags: library, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, school2.0

• What do you get when you take free will and solitude out of education? - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

  tags: video, transforming_teaching, TransformingEducation, school2.0, library

• inspiredclassrooms » home

  If you want the whole story on Inspired Classrooms but are short on time, this is for you. I have condensed the major ”selling points” of Inspired Classrooms into these five videos. OK, its a little more than 20 minutes, but its really good stuff. Just grab a coke and popcorn and enjoy.

  tags: technology, classroom, design, InspiredClassrooms, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Moodle Tip - 3 RSS Feed Tips

  tags: moodle, RSS

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Doing the Moodle Mambo: Facilitating New Literacies

  tags: moodle, literacies, literacy

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Moodle Video Tutorials Online

  tags: moodle, video, tutorial, professional_development

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Moodle - K-12 Schools' Trojan Horse

  tags: moodle

• Moodle as glue | Learning is Change.

  tags: moodle

• The Innovative Educator: Ten Ideas for Getting Started with 21st Century Teaching and Learning - Annotated

  tags: 21stcenturylearning, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching, classroom2.0, integrating_technology

• A Post on Remixing that bears repeating. | Learning is Change.

  I am sitting in a session at Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation on Remixing in the classroom and I was drawn back to an activity that I did with my kids to teach them about remixing. I think that it allowed them to own the topic in a way that telling them the rules does not. Does this activity still work?

  tags: remixing, copyright, fair_use, fairuse, mashup, web2.0

• The Killer App: Google Apps and Moodle Integration? | Learning is Change.

  tags: google_apps, moodle

• The Missing Community for Google Apps? | Learning is Change.

  tags: google_apps, student_email

• Best Senior Project, Ever. | Learning is Change.

  tags: google_apps, TransformingEducation, student_email, student_blog

• DigiGogy: Digital Bloom's Visual

  tags: blooms_taxonomy, web2.0, constructivism, classroom2.0, bloom

• Digital+Blooms.JPG (image)

  Great visualization of Bloom's and which web2.0 tools align with the various levels.

  tags: bloom, constructivism, web2.0, integrating_technology, classroom2.0

• Microeconomic life lessons: Is handraising a race to the bottom? « An (aspiring) Educator’s Blog

  Imagine a race where everyone is trying to lose.

  tags: engagement, constructivism, professional_development, TransformingEducation, transforming_teaching

• Seth's Blog: Personal branding in the age of Google

  A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper.
  
  Three interesting resumes came to the top. She googled each person's name.

  tags: privacy, personal_branding, internet_safety, clickable

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• Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics - Annotated

  tags: reading, education, literacy, phonics, K-2

• Lessons from TED: 5 Simple Tweaks | slide:ology

  tags: slide:ology, presentation, powerpoint, professional_development

• Artist programs - Scholarships, Courses, Awards, Resources, Critiques, Challenges and more!

  tags: Art, art_education, graphic_design, integrating_technology, scholarships

• This SLA Students Believe - Practical Theory

  SLA English teacher Zac Chase had his 11th graders read and then write essays from the "This I Believe" project. Many of the students submitted their essays to NPR, and we just found out that many of our students had their pieces published! Congratulations to all the kids and to Mr. Chase for inspiring them!

  tags: sla, audio, digitalstorytelling, this_I_believe, integrating_technology

• 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools

  Welcome to this Wikipedia Selection. This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words).

  tags: wikipedia, education, encyclopedia, research

• K-12 Open Technologies

  tags: opensource, k-12, FOSS

• K-12 Open Source Community - Free and Open Source Software in K - 12 Education

  tags: opensource, Ning, FOSS

• Open Source Freeware : 400+ free applications and utilities : eConsultant

  tags: freeware, opensource, FOSS

• k12opensource » home

  tags: opensource, k12opensource, FOSS

• Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Update: Fred's Map/Fix It!

  SNL's Fred Arminsen demonstrates the pointless uses of interactive technologies.

  tags: interactive, interwrite, iwb

• YouTube - Virtual Pizza Pie Chart

  Anderson Cooper demonstrates a pointless use of virtual technology.

  tags: iwb, interactive, professional_development, video

• Google Apps for Education Coming to Moodle : February 2009 : THE Journal

  tags: moodle, google, google_docs, google_apps, student_email

• Curriki - WebHome

  tags: education, curriculum, wiki, web2.0, resources

• Top 50 iPhone Apps for Educators | OEDb

  tags: iphone, Education, itouch, web2.0, iPod

• 100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better | OEDb

  tags: ipod, podcast, education, podcasts, iTouch, elearning, audio

• AppCraver | iPhone Apps: iPhone Application Reviews, iPod touch Apps, iPhone Troubleshooting, and News

  reviews of iPod apps
  

  tags: iphone, apps, iTouch

• iPhone Apps, iPhone 3G apps and iPod touch Applications Reviews ituneappreviews.com

  Reviews of iPod applications
  

  tags: iPhone, iTouch, ipod

• Prensky-What_Can_You_Learn_From_a_Cell_Phone-FINAL.pdf (application/pdf Object)

  tags: cellphone, CellPhones

• From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning

  tags: cellphone, CellPhones, digitalcitizenship

• 8 Ways to use Camera Phones in Education « EduTechie.com

  tags: cellphone, CellPhones, video_in_the_classroom, video

• Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System (ARS), PowerPoint Polling | Poll Everywhere

  tags: poll, survey, cellphone, sms, CellPhones

• Google Mobile - SMS

  tags: sms, cellphone, CellPhones, google

• Author Touts Cell Phones as Vital Economic Resource for the Poor

  tags: cellphone, CellPhones, poverty

• Ed Labs

  tags: research

• Becta Emerging Technologies - How mobile phones help learning in secondary schools

  tags: cellphones, CellPhones, censorship, becta

• Research . Cellphone . PBS KIDS Raising Readers

  tags: cellphone, cellphones, CellPhones

• Cell Phones - Time to Lift the Ban on Mobiles in the School Setting? — Open Education

  tags: mobiles, cellphones, CellPhones, cellphone

• The Innovative Educator: The Value of Using Cell Phones to Enhance Education and Some Concrete Ways to Do So

  tags: cellphones, cellphone

• NECC 2008, July 1, Hall Davidson on Cell Phones in Education « Ubiquitous Thoughts

  tags: CellPhones, HallDavidson, aup, cellphones, cellphone

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• RTG-LLC.com

  tags: online_learning, curriculum

• Magic Pen by Alejandro Guillen

  tags: game, physics, interactive, science, SmartBoard, iwb, interwrite, Geometry

• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Texas Students Take Computers Home

  Texas school districts--and open charter schools--can send computers declared as surplus equipment home with students to keep.

  tags: corner-mguhlin.org, computers, community

• Peer Coaching Program :: Sponsored by Microsoft

  The Peer Coaching Program is designed to train teacher leaders to serve as peer coaches for colleagues. As coaches, these teachers will assist their peers in identifying ways to enhance standards-based instruction and to offer their students engaging, technology-rich, learning activities. In doing so, peer coaches will help their colleagues to develop the necessary technology skills and instructional strategies needed to integrate technology into teaching and learning.

  tags: peercoaching, instructional-coaching, technology-integration, peer_coaching

• Wilson Middle School

  Wilson Middle School in Yakima, WA
  Technology Peer-Coaching team
  Saw them at an NCCE presentation on peer coaching

  tags: Technology, technology-integration, instructional-coaching

• Center for Creative Leadership - CCL Publications: Visual Explorer: Picturing Approaches to Complex Challenges

  tags: picturing, visual, professional_development

• nccesummit2009 / FrontPage

  What are the key issues school and district leaders must address to create 21st century teaching and learning environments? This annual event connects superintendents, school principals, chief information officers, IT directors, curriculum directors and instructional specialists from across the Pacific Northwest to engage in a frank conversation around 21st century education.

  tags: nccesummit2009, leadership, NCCE

• 1001 Fonts .com

  tags: fonts, typography, webdesign

• 1001 Free Fonts - Download Free Fonts - Free Windows and Mac Fonts

  tags: fonts, typography, graphics

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• Videos for PD » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

  The following are links to educational videos I use for professional development workshops and presentations with teachers. If you know of other videos that should be included in this list, please add a link as a comment to this page. Some of these videos are hosted on YouTube, TeacherTube, or other sites as embedded Flash media - Tips for downloading offline copies of Flash videos are also available.

  tags: professional_development, video, professionaldevelopment, pd, resources, web2.0, presentation

• Acer Aspire One and the ESL student | A Piece of My Mind

  Then, the Acer Aspire One came on the scene. We bought a few to try out for our elementary students thinking they might be a nice low cost alternative for our small handed friends in K-5.

  tags: 1:1, laptops, ell, language, world language

• Letter Monsters - a set on Flickr

  "These are letter forms I designed to help my son learn his alphabet."

  tags: letters, alphabet, elementary, fonts

• Metacafe - Best Videos & Funny Movies

  tags: web2.0, entertainment, video_in_the_classroom, video

• Instructional Coaching

  Change is complicated...
  
  Instructional coaches can help alleviate some of the burden of change.
  
  Instructional coaches are on-site professional developers who teach educators how to use proven teaching methods.

  tags: Coaching, professional_development, instructional-coaching

• HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework

  tags: curriculum, resources, math, science, history, social_studies, elearning

• Web 2.0 Tools - Web 2.0 That Works: Marzano & Web 2.0

  tags: marzano, tools, web2.0, professional_development

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