Free educational games and songs games for kids
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - The Best Online Resources To Teach About Plagiarism
Richard Byrne's Favorite Tech Resources for Teachers (Google Site, sitemap)
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… - The Best Sites For Learning About The History Of Technology
The site provides accurate results for virtually everyone, from very small children (with answers input by parents) to professional linguists. It can calculate vocabulary sizes from less than 100 words to more than 40,000 words.
Free games to reinforce the usage and spelling of contractions.
Free Technology for Teachers: Activities for Introducing Google Tools to Teachers and Students
TheInterviewr: A Really Easy, Fast, Free Way to Record Telephone Interviews
Online converter - convert video, images, audio and documents for free
Convert media files online from one format into another. Works with audio, videos, images, documents, ebooks and archives, and also includes a "hash generator (?). Introduced to me by Marta Costa. Looks cool!
No Projector? Use QR Code & SlideShare to Share a Presentation on Smartphones - SocialTimes.com
The State of Digital Education Infographic - #edtech #edutech #edchat
Tips for Learning Foreign Languages
The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual | SpyreStudios
List Sharing - SpellingCity.com
Word lists from textbook series
Pegby: Peg it up, Move it Around, Get it Done.
Come to the board with friends, family and/or coworkers and get stuff done. Make your plans by pegging up cards to your board or boards. It's simple and fun.
Grisker | Free Online Magazine, Blog, Portfolio in a unique way
5 Ways Teachers Are Getting Inspired This Summer | MindShift
The Secret to Managing Your Social Stream | Social Media Today
Not The “Best,” But A List… Of Online Video Editors | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
8 Great Free Digital Presentation Tools For Teachers To Try This Summer
Science vocabulary for all content areas and age levels (K-12)
Common Core Curriculum Maps | Digital Resources
Common Core resources
Radical Curriculum Sharing at the Open High School of Utah | Edutopia
Nice set of open source learning resources
Did you know Spelling City offers more than just spelling practice? There's vocabulary and writing, too. Check us out http://bit.ly/c3xqWy
The KYVL for Kids Research Portal - How to do research Home Base
Teaching with Technology in the Middle: Revisioned Student Blogging
Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Crowdsourcing Knowledge with Students
Peachey recommends "a very simple brainstorming and voting website called tricider ... that it is incredibly quick and simple to use" (¶1, retrieved 2011.07.05).
111 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest July 3, 2011 | Tech the Plunge
Nice compendium of web-based learning resources from Thomas
WebList - The place to find the best web lists on the web
YouTube - ISTE 2011 Opening Keynote: Dr. John Medina (full-length)
ISTE keynote looks to the next generation of teaching software that "reads" students
Abeywickrama, Priyanvada. (2011). The validity of nonnative speaker input in listening comprehension tests. [TESOL] Applied Linguistics Interest Section Newsletter (June 2011).
ManyBooks.net - Ad-free eBooks for your iPad, smartphone, or eBook reader
WiredKids, the ultimate online safety project for kids and teens!
HotChalk Learning Management System Connecting Teachers, Students and Parents
Education Eye - Mapping Innovations
Education Eye is a free, engaging and easy-to-use online space that gives access to a wide range of exciting, relevant and useful innovations which are selected from the best of the web and updated daily.
The Eye provides a way to discover, explore and share new ideas. It maps hundreds of the top educational websites, forums and practitioner case studies. With additional features like saving your own favourite innovations, Futurelab's favourites, customisable email digests and a downloadable widget version, it's invaluable for exploring educational innovations.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - Global Education Challenge - Idea Display
H Mifflin - Globl Ed Chllge - Dorit' Eilon's goal-setting program = perfect for individ, networked learning http://diigo.com/0hy1x #edtech
our educational system practices have a tendency to foster dependence, passivity and a "tell me what to do" attitude.
Effective learning is that students are in charge of their own learning and progress. A growing body of research indicates that when students are working on goals they themselves have set, they are more motivated and efficient, and they achieve more than they do when working on goals that have been set by the teacher.
..should teachers and students really be interacting with each other in this way? With proper adherence to respectful and professional interaction, and with the understanding that our personal and professional cyber presence cannot really be altogether separate and based on different standards...yes! Yes, we should! Who better to teach students how to develop online identities aligned with the same character education standards modeled in “real” life? Who better to guide them on what is acceptable interaction? I believe this is a wonderful opportunity for mentoring young students, and for the most part, we are currently opting out.
Digital Life: Today & Tomorrow on Vimeo
"Digital Life: Today & Tomorrow"
"Online programs for recording, uploading, mixing, and interacting" (tagline), found thanks to Carla Arena's micro-review of one of the tools: Audio Delivery Made Super Simple (Collablogatorium, May 23, 2011).
Mobile Perspectives: On teaching Mobile Literacy (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
News: Tablets, Yes; E-Texts, Maybe - Inside Higher Ed
"Claims that tablets will revolutionize the learning experience often go hand-in-hand with a push for more digital textbooks, but the Pearson survey showed that students don't often link the two. While most students perceived an educational value to tablets, only 35 percent said they preferred digital editions to print editions, and only about half of those preferred tablets to other digital devices" (Keving Kiley, 2011.05.25, ¶8, retrieved 2011.05.30).
A practical guide to creating learning scenarios: part 2 | Onlignment
In part 1 of this series, we looked at what a learning scenario is, its basic structure, capabilities and applications. We move on now to look in more detail at the steps involved in creating simple scenarios to support learners in understanding the principles underlying everyday problem-solving and decision
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Long-term memory, the Bjorks said, can be characterized by two components, which they named retrieval strength and storage strength. Retrieval strength measures how likely you are to recall something right now, how close it is to the surface of your mind. Storage strength measures how deeply the memory is rooted. . . .
. . . [L]aws of memory wreak havoc on students and teachers. One of the problems is that the amount of storage strength you gain from practice is inversely correlated with the current retrieval strength. In other words, the harder you have to work to get the right answer, the more the answer is sealed in memory. Precisely those things that seem to signal we're learning well — easy performance on drills, fluency during a lesson, even the subjective feeling that we know something — are misleading when it comes to predicting whether we will remember it in the future. . . .
(Gary Wolf, The problem of forgetting, ¶¶6-7, 04.21.08).
