Archive for May, 2009

links for 2009-05-31

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Welcome | Teaching Copyright
EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.
(tags: copyright resources lesson_plans)

http://www.morguefile.com/
Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!
(tags: images photos design stock)

Katie Christo's Wiki / Presentations 101
7 Steps to a Great PowerPoint [...]

Moving on … 21st Century Learning

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Cross posted to Tech & Learning  Advisor Blog

Image by hubertk
It was graduation day for 6th graders at my school a few days ago. WhenI started working at the school, I was teaching these same students (as 6 year olds) Spanish. It was bittersweet to hear them sing “Time of your Life” from Green Day, since [...]

links for 2009-05-29

Friday, May 29th, 2009

CamSpace.com: Kiss Your Keyboard, Mouse & Joystick Goodbye! Play Games With Your WebCam!
(tags: webcam games wii)

Lure of the Labyrinth
Your beloved pet's gone missing and you've got to find it – but how? Before you know it, you're dropped into a strange (and extremely smelly) world where your only friend is a mysterious bean-loving girl with [...]

links for 2009-05-28

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Fascinating Egyptian Mummies – Mummification Process
(tags: egypt interactive social_studies)

Pintando una cancion
Painting a song.
(tags: drawing music inspiration interactive)

Texting May Be Taking a Toll on Teenagers – NYTimes.com
Texting is beginning to worry physicians and psychologists, who say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.
(tags: parenting teenagers texting)

movingforward
The Moving [...]

links for 2009-05-27

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Use Twitter in PowerPoint | Poll Everywhere
Your audience is tweeting
How do you draw them into your presentation? By asking for their opinion, and displaying their tweets directly in your slides. With Poll Everywhere, you can invite people to tweet a short comment directly to your slide in real-time, while still blocking inappropriate or off-topic tweets. [...]

links for 2009-05-26

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

DontGrossOutTheWorld.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
(tags: culture etiquette global_awareness swf)

Creating Comics in Word
(tags: comics project-ideas)

links for 2009-05-25

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Glogster Tutorial
(tags: howto glogster)

NASA – NASA Featured Images and Galleries
(tags: photography images copyright_free)

New York Public Library's photosets on Flickr
(tags: photography flickr images copyright_free)

Flickr: The Library of Congress' Photostream
(tags: photography flickr images libraryofcongress copyright_free)

Flickr: George Eastman House's Photostream
(tags: photography flickr images copyright_free)

Smithsonian Institution's photosets on Flickr
(tags: museum images copyright_free flickr)

!Eye 2 Israel
“NO to hatred and animosity; [...]

links for 2009-05-24

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

JayCut – Online video editing
(tags: video editor digital_storytelling)

Ideas to Inspire – Online games and simulations for use in the Geography classroom
(tags: geography games)

What Are You Doing In That Computer Lab?, Larry Ferlazzo
At times, I've used the computers as "babysitting" devices.
I've brought students to the lab without being sufficiently prepared, and, as a result, have had [...]

Education & Learning Quotes

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

I enjoy creative images, creating visuals from ideas and connecting quotes to a visual representation.
When I found Famous Quotes: Educational Quotes for the 21st Century- Quotes to “Re-Imagine” Schools for the 21st Century, it literally begged me to “Re-Image” these quotes.
You can find them on a Quotes Set on my Flickr account. They are all [...]

Skyping in Author and Illustrator Jan & Phil Huling

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

After the success of Skyping in Author and illustrator Mike Artell (from Louisiana) into our sixth grade classes this past February, the fifth grade classes had the opportunity to visit with Jan and Phil Huling (from New Jersey).

The Hulings are the author and illustrator of “Puss in Cowboy Boots”, a remake of the traditional fairy [...]

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