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Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
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Create a Friend list on Facebook « Moving at the Speed of Creativity
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School Clip Art for Teachers and Kids - Free Clipart for Educational Purposes
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nrich.maths.org :: Mathematics Enrichment :: Current Posters
Math posters to print
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Successful Teaching: How the iPhone Can Help You Be a Better Teacher
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Quickstart Guide for iMovie ’09 « Moving at the Speed of Creativity
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There are over 800 universities with active iTunes U sites. Nearly half of these institutions — including Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, and UC Berkeley — distribute their content publicly on the iTunes Store. In addition, cultural and education institutions such as the Library of Congress, public broadcasting, and state departments of education also contribute to this growing educational content repository which now includes over 325,000 free lectures, audiobooks, lesson plans, and more. iTunes U is the ideal resource for educators who want to gain insight into curriculum being taught world wide, get access to primary resources, and find inspiration for enhancing teaching and learning with technology.
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Home Energy Efficiency | Wellhome.com
infographic mentions calories as well as watts and speed measurements. Well Home's infographic could be printed and displayed in health, physical education, and or mathematics classes.
Well Home's Energy in Sports infographic reminded me of another resource for that contains mathematics and science lessons in the context of sports. ESPN's series Sports Science looks at the mathematics and science involved in various athletic feats. Embedded below is an episode about the bicycle kick in soccer.
Applications for Education
I'm always looking for "hooks" that will get students interested in the lessons I teach. If I was a mathematics teacher or science teacher I might look for some episodes of Sports Science to hook students into a lesson. -
NOOKstudy Download Free, Digital Textbooks, eTextbook Application - Barnes & Noble
Nook Study is now available for free as a free download for Mac and Windows. Nook Study gives students access to more than 500,000 free ebooks. Students can also purchase and download other titles.
Nook Study provides more than just ebooks for students. Nook Study provides students with the ability to sort titles according to the courses they're taking. Students can use Nook Study to highlight and annotate ebooks. Nook Study also provides a search function that enables students to highlight a word then in one click search for it on Google, Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia, and other online reference tools.
Applications for Education
Nook Study seems to have been designed for college students, but high school students could use it as well. Nook Study's highlighting and annotating function could be very helpful for students when they're gathering research. -
one of Google's lesser-known tools. Google Scholar is a search engine designed to search scholarly journals, Supreme Court records, and patent records. In some cases the results will link to abstracts of books and articles that you will then have to obtain from a library or book retailer. In other cases results will link to fully viewable documents.
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Wolfram|Alpha—Computational Knowledge Engine
billed as a computational search engine and this is exactly what it does. If students have any questions involving numbers, Wolfram Alpha is the place to go. Wolfram Alpha can be used for other searches, but it's not nearly as useful for general inquiries as it is for computational questions.
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the kid friendly, kid safe version of the popular search engine Ask.com. Ask Kids is divided into five categories of which one is a general search option. The five categories are School House, movies, games, images, and video. The School House category provides students with suggested topics and links to resources for those topics. The School House also serves as a general search tool. In the other search categories Ask Kids makes suggestions for search refinement. A great aspect of the search results that Ask Kids provides is the option to refine searches based on a student's age.
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Famhoo Search Engine - Weather, News, BP Oil Spill Video
another option for kid friendly searches. Famhoo draws on the collective results of the major search mainstream search engines like Google, AOL, and Yahoo. Famhoo simply provides a stricter family filter than the filters available on mainstream search engines.
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RefSeek - Academic Search Engine
a search engine designed for academic use. Ref Seek seems to eliminate the advertising and paid links found on Google, Ask, Yahoo, and other commercial search engines. Ref Seek's intention is to serve only search results that are academic in nature. The difference between Ref Seek and a generic Google search lies lower than the top results in search returns. As you compare search results between Ref Seek and Google you will find that the second and third pages of search results on Ref Seek contain results that seem to be more "academic" than what is found on the second and third pages of a generic Google search.
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KidRex - Kid Safe Search Engine
a new kid-safe search engine powered by Google custom search. KidRex uses a combination of Google's safe search mode and their own database of filtered keywords, phrases, and websites. In the event that a questionable website does get past the filters, KidRex has a site removal request form
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a search engine that searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and research experts. In all there are 35,000 websites that have been reviewed and approved by Sweet Search. In addition to the general search engine, Sweet Search offers five niche search engines. The niche search engines are for Social Studies, Biographies, SweetSites (organized by grade and subject area), School Librarians, and Sweet Search 4 Me (for elementary school students).
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The Innovative Educator: 5 Ways to Build Your 1.0 and 2.0 Personal Learning Network
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ISTE 2010 - Challenging The Gifted Student Using Google Apps and Web 2.0
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» Backchanneling In Grade 1 A Grade 1 Blog For The 21st Century
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Langwitches Blog » Backchanneling with Elementary School Students
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YouTube - Bloom's Taxonomy According to Pirates of the Caribbean
Ed tech guru Steven Anderson shared the following video this morning on his Facebook page. The video is a humorous mash-up of scenes from Pirates of the Caribbean that demonstrate the levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
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Vanilla - Free, Open-Source Forum Software
free, open source software that anyone can use to host an online message board community. As you might imagine message boards powered by Vanilla allow your users to create member profiles, give you administrative control, and the ability to create sub-forums. Vanilla Forums software can be downloaded and installed on your own server(s) or you can use one of the hosting packages offered by Vanilla. The hosting packages range in price from free to $199.
Applications for Education
Since Ning went to a fee-based model, many people have been looking for alternatives. If you have someone in your school that can install Vanilla Forums on a server, Vanilla could be a good way to build a school message board. You could also explore the free hosting package offered by Vanilla to see if that suits your needs.
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