- Google SketchUp - Layout
- sketchyphysics - Project Hosting on Google Code
See the video at http://3dvinci.blogspot.com/2010/02/classroom-rage-with-sketchup-physics.html for how this SketchUp plugin can be used. - Citrify Free Photo Editor for the Web
A free easy-to-use online photo editor. - U. releases Kindle pilot data - The Daily Princetonian
The University's e-reader pilot program, which experimented with the use of the Kindle DX in three courses last semester, reduced the amount of paper students ...
Friday, February 26, 2010
My Bookmarks for 02/26/2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
My Bookmarks for 02/25/2010
- Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Why Do We Have To Learn This?
"I can remember some days when kids would ask me that. I could be in the middle of a conversation about convection currents and a kid would raise their hand and ask, "What's the point? Why do we need to know this? What's the point!" I would get so angry. They needed to learn it because I was teaching it, that's why!" - Malaysian women redefine gender roles in technology | Gender News
- The Book of Wisdom – 101 Posts for the All-Around Balanced Life | Balance In Me
"For over a year now I have been writing about different aspects of balance and I know that I have not covered even half of them yet. Because there is SOOOO much to cover. Every day I learn a lot and face challenges that make me come up with new strategies for my own life balance." - FRONTLINE: digital nation - life on the virtual frontier | PBS
- FRONTLINE: digital nation: an online interactive learning tool for frontline's digital nation: the digital you: attention, multitasking and addiction | PBS
- Artists Wanted - Rebekka Portfolio
- Free Online Photoshop or Image Editing Software Applications | Notebooks.com
- Diigo Web Highlighter and Bookmark - Google Chrome extension gallery
- AdBlock - Google Chrome extension gallery
- Learning Zone
- Mobile phones, texting and literacy
- suewaters - twitter
- The Canadian Press: Students failing because of Twitter, texting and no grammar teaching
For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.
Almost a third of those students are failing.
the failure rate has jumped five percentage points in the past few years, up to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.
Some students in public schools are no longer being taught grammar, she believes.
Emoticons, happy faces, sad faces, cuz, are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, say professors and administrators at Simon Fraser.
"Little happy faces ... or a sad face ... little abbreviations," show up even in letters of academic appeal, says Khan Hemani.
The Internet norm of ignoring punctuation and capitalization as well as using emoticons may be acceptable in an email to friends and family, but it can have a deadly effect on one's career if used at work.
"These folks are going to short-change themselves, and right or wrong, they're looked down upon in traditional corporations," notes Postman.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
University Dropout Student Speaks Out
I often point out that we are not teachers -- we are facilitators of our students' education. There's a huge difference in those two viewpoints. In the first, the teacher is the center of focus, in the latter, the student is the center of focus.
Sometimes that means it's best for us to just get out of their way and let them get on with their learning.
My Bookmarks for 02/24/2010
- Education Week's Digital Directions: Students Sound Off on School Tech Use
"Discussions of technology in education typically center on what policymakers, academic experts, and educators would like to see happen in the classroom. Rarely heard are the voices of those who are actively test-driving new forms of technology: the students."
tags: ICT, students, #otfretreat2010, education, issues - The Comprehensive Guide to Saving Images for the Web
"On the surface, saving images for the web can be a pretty straightforward process. However, if you dig deeper there’s a wealth of information and techniques you might be missing out on." - Note-taking
Rules for effective note-taking
Select. Omit trivial and redundant details. Omit anything you'll recall anyway!
Condense. Replace lists with a category term.
Organize. Choose headings and topic sentences.
Rephrase. Use your own words.
Elaborate. Make connections to existing knowledge.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
My Bookmarks for 02/23/2010
- 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials] | Photoshop Tutorials
Looks like an incredible list of tutorials for Photoshop
tags: photoshop, Effects, tutorials, list, TGJ2O - Brizzly / A simple way to experience the social web
Great web-based client ("front-end") for Twitter and Facebook. I prefer using this website over twitter.com because it automatically displays pictures and videos. - Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups
"Share your classroom usecase, ideas, reviews, features, and wishlists for making Diigo a great resource and platform in teaching and learning. Let's explore the full potential of Diigo as an educational tool." - ALA | AASL Best Web sites for Teaching and Learning Top 25 Award
This looks like a great list of websites for teaching and learning, organized into Organizing and Managing, Content Collaboration, Curriculum Sharing, Media Sharing, Virtual Environments, and Social Networking and Communication.
Monday, February 22, 2010
My Public Diigo Bookmarks 02/22/2010
- Flickr: Discussing BMW 2010 Calendar competition - beware! in Motorcycle On The Road - (Only bike with landscape, no racing)
This page mentions a promotion BMW is having where you submit your photos but then BMW is free to use the photos however they wish. It may be a good starting point to discuss the subject of copyright with your students.
This video introduces developers to building apps on Google App Engine.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Thursday, February 04, 2010
BDSS Website Views
One of my tasks at school has been to create a new website. After much testing with a complex site that was extremely difficult to maintain and troubleshoot, I switched to Google Sites to create it. The address of the new site is:
http://www.beamsvillesecondaryschool.org/
The principal asked me to put a page counter on it, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the new site had been viewed almost 1400 times in less than a week. That's with almost no advertising, other than amongst the staff to get them involved in its creation.
The following graph was created in Google Documents, and should automatically update as I update the data. I'm hoping to do this on a weekly basis, at least for the first little while. Once it gets to 10,000 or so, I'll probably update the graph less often.
http://www.beamsvillesecondaryschool.org/
The principal asked me to put a page counter on it, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the new site had been viewed almost 1400 times in less than a week. That's with almost no advertising, other than amongst the staff to get them involved in its creation.
The following graph was created in Google Documents, and should automatically update as I update the data. I'm hoping to do this on a weekly basis, at least for the first little while. Once it gets to 10,000 or so, I'll probably update the graph less often.
Monday, February 01, 2010
My Public Diigo Bookmarks (weekly)
- Looks like a good site to convert media files.
- - post by rjleaman
- What happens when you try to do three things at once?
- Many teachers go to school each day, teach their students and leave. If they're struggling with how to teach a lesson that will engage their students, they might ask for advice from the teacher down the hall, but a lot of times, they struggle alone.
That's not the case for educators who have built a network of people who share resources, advice and techniques, whether they call it a personal learning network or something else. Here's why educators should start a personal learning network, or PLN.
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