TMI – Project Able – Authentic Based Learning Environments

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How to Add a Retweet Button Inside Your PDF Documents | The Social Media Guide

how to create a retweet button: http://twitter.com/home/?status=

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How To Improve American Education

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JASON Mission Center : Coaster Creator

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Apple Learning Interchange – Collaboration 2.0

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Teach with Technology

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Prezi – The zooming presentation editor

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Blogs

Educational Web Sites

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Playing With Pixetell: Giving Students Feedback – The Educators’ Royal Treatment

Take a look at this gnarly software called Pixetell which enables you to quickly add voice, screen recordings and video to email and other electronic documents”.

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Law & Education

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2¢ Worth » 10 Ways to Promote Learning Lifestyle in Your School

10 ways to promote learning lifestyle in your school.

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Are you a planner, problem solver or a pinball? – Page 1 – IT Workplace

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3 Tools to Sync Your Files with Google Docs

Back your computer files using Google!

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The Value of Brand in Education – The Educators’ Royal Treatment

This article by Eric Sheninger from Milford High School fits perfectly with our last class discussion on making your own brand name. Check it out!

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Apple in talks with education publishers over its tablet computer | eSchoolNews.com

Oh snaps, take a look at an eduction possibility for the new apple tablet computer coming out next week.

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Official Google Blog: Understanding the web to make search more relevant

How to make your searches on Google more relevant and SAVE time!

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What Makes a Good Teacher? « Werner Krieglstein Ph.D.

when asked, “What makes a good teacher” he said…

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Goal: Seek Feedback | Teacher Reboot Camp

Feeback from your own students is your source to become a better teacher. Just like a business, use the feedback from your customers.

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Tech & Learning

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How students can use tech to enhance their presentations.

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BBC – Schools Online World War One – Homepage

History teachers…this is a must for you

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Compare and contrast – Video games as educational tools – Dangerously Irrelevant

Video Games in the Classroom

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ShoutEm – Roll your own Microblogging Social Networking

The ShoutEm blog is your guide to all things microblogging. Founded by the team of ShoutEm,which lets your create your own microblogging network, this blog gives you the latest news, guides and insight into microblogging and the mobile web

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Technology Fridge

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Sample interview questions for teaching candidates

Here’s another website with sample interview questions.

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My Subscriptions – Posterous

Thanks Elizabeth! I will definitely be using this website to help prepare me for upcoming job interviews… such a great resource!

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Math Teaching Tips

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10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About

As many of us are imbedding youtube videos in our websites and blogs, this article will be of much use to you and your students.

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Smart Board

Do you use a Smartboard? Are you interested in know how Smartboards can be used? This site has everything from tutorials, to plugins, to teachers tricks. Check it out

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Google Wave in the Classroom??!!

Check this this Google Wave conversation between students and educators entitled: Uses of Google Wave in the Classroom. If you have a google wave account, joint the conversation

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The Fischbowl: Google Goggles: Why Didn’t I Think of That?

This way cool app for Android or Droid phones allows you to take pictures of things and and get all kinds of information about it. For example, take a picture of a book and get all the info on it. Just think of the endless possibilities for classroom students????

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Tips for Managing Tech Tools in the Classroom | always learning

Tips for using tech in the classroom.

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Building a Social Learning Environment: Comparison

Building a social learning environment – I think we can all agree that social networking is where education is going. Take a look at three mainframes (Free public tools, Google tools, and Elgg) as they are compared to help you with enhancing learning in your classroom.

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160 Ways to Use a Document Camera – The Educators’ Royal Treatment

160 Ways to Use a Document Camera

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What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Google: Tips and Tricks for Google Tools in Support of Teaching and Learning

This article talks about these sweet tools every teacher should know about google:

Google Docs: Online Collaboration
Communication and Collaboration: Google Groups
Notebook: Online Google Note Taking Tool
Earth’s Sky: Google Cross-Curricular Activities
Search Engine: Google Search Tricks

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CNNTech

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HTC Nexus One (T-Mobile) Cell Phone reviews – CNET Reviews

Interested in the new Google phone (Nexus). Check out the review from CNET. I thought this would be a good sit to post on our class Digg page because we use our phones everyday and could affect how we teach

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Glogs

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Google Tips

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Due Dates

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Wiki Reader

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Odosketch

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Classroom Summary Report

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The Tech Savvy Educator » Blog Archive » Video Sharing for Schools Done Right – Thanks SchoolTube!

Steps to adding videos online. Useful for for educators.

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Music and Classroom Management – Rick Morris – Education Driven

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6 Step Process for Finding Jobs Using Twitter

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Class Struggle – Best education blogs for 2010

Here are the top 10 education blogs for 2110. This weeks blog rant for our 515 class was how are you going to stay on top of the cutting edge technology…well here is one option.

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Class blogmeister: Learning as Conversation

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Education Podcast Network

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TED

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Mr. Wrights Class

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Adventures in Educational Blogging

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DSJ comments on 7 computer sites that you might want to take a look at.

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Blackboard Blogs

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Blog Away on a Paperless Journal

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Simple K12 Blogs

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What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Google

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Children and Technology – Education Driven

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2009-10 Coffee Breaks: Google Tools for Educators

20 for guests. F

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Night Watch Web Design & Edtech Blog

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http://www.billselak.com/educ515/archives/227 http://www.billselak.com/educ515/archives/227#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:10:57 +0000 billselak http://www.billselak.com/educ515/?p=227 Select a current, historical, or emerging technology not discussed in class. Submit your case study proposal by week four, indicating the focus of your case study. Write a 2-3 page paper about the selected technology. Develop a case study to include a written and visual component covering the following areas:
• Implications of a technology in the classroom environment
• Ethics of using the technology in the classroom
• Evolution of a technology

Present your finding to the class. Focus on your researched technology, and address your paper in the presentation. Include a podcast (or small video), links to a blog site, and other applications that enhance your message. Presentations should be six to ten minutes in length.

Due January 27, week 9.

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Pro Teacher. net

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How to Free Yourself From Gossip | Learn This

Gossip is a relationship killer and knowing how to avoid it and free yourself from it will strengthen your relationships and give you more genuine communication.

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Weblogg-ed » I Don’t Need Your Network (or Your Computer, or Your Tech Plan, or Your…)

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New Teachers and Well-Seasoned Teachers.

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Web Conferencing – Train Up a Child…

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How to Blossoming Your Students – Teacher’s Bag of Tricks

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Does your school organization reflect our new digital information landscape? – Dangerously Irrelevant

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] CASTLE has been doing a great deal of technology leadership training for the School Administrators of Iowa, some of the Iowa Area Education Agencies, some of the Minnesota Service Cooperatives, and other school organizations across the country. One of the discussion activities that we’ve been doing lately…

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Biology information for children

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Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day: My predictions for Top Tools in 2010

2010 Preditions and 2009 Reflections

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Langwitches Blog » 2010: 1 Year- 365 Days- 365 Photos

The 365/2010 Challenge

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What Readers Of This Blog Learned In 2009 | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

A refreshing post of reflections from teachers!

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Free Technology for Teachers: Google SketchUp Education Uses and Tutorials

Tutorials and resources for Google Sketch

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iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » iLearn Technology a winner in the 2009 Edublog awards!

Worth checking out this blog since they just won for Best Educational Tech Support Blog @ the Edublog Awards.

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Thematic Units-Teacher Website #4 – Elizabeth’s Posterous

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Polldaddy.com: Account Home

like polleverywhere, but easier to embed in a website

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Twelve Tips and Tricks to Get the Most Out of Posterous : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum

tips on getting the most out of posterous!

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Stories In Flight | FlickrPoet

This is so COOL!!!!! You have to try this. Put any story in the body of the page and press Show Story. Flickr takes pictures on their sites to make your story visually awesome!!!!

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mediaFlow – Simple File Sharing for Photographers, Artists, and Creatives

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9 Great Document Collaboration Tools for Teams

I think google is going to take over the world. Haha. Really, I am curious how the google phone is going to compare with the other android phones and iPhone.

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John Spencer: Musings from a Not-So-Master Teacher: useless advice people give new teachers

See my comments on site

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Free Technology for Teachers: Vokle – Host an Online Show or Video Conference

I think this video Conference and Chat room resource is great to include guest speakers into your classroom. It take the power of Skype and DimDim and combines them into one program

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Bar set low for lifetime job in L.A. schools — latimes.com

Who is going to do something about this? I have been researching and following articles on this issue for years and all I ever hear is teachers, principals, policy makers, governors, and superintendents say, “That’s aweful,” or “that needs to change!” Of course this needs to change but we need to stop talking about it and do something about it. I would devote my life to making this change.

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Need a teaching job? Well here’s how to get one! – Teacher Website #3 – Elizabeth’s Posterous

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Free Technology for Teachers: My Seven Edublogging Secrets

Edublogging Secrets!

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Internet can boost brain function

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Literature books on Children w. disabilities

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