Talk is cheap video

This is a great video. I am very impressed by this principal.

Elementary School video

I love this video. This is where we need to start with technology.

Synch Microsoft Offict with Google Docs

This is great news. This is a blog post from Free Technology for Teachers.

Free Technology for Teachers: Synch Microsoft Office with Google Docs via kwout

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

Great presentation.

Joe's Non-Notebook

I love this video.

DropBox

I just signed up for a DropBox account and I am loving it.  You can save all the documents that you use in a Dropbox and the access them from anywhere. When you install DropBox on your computer, it will synchronizes you files with that computer. No more flashdrives.

Here is a video that explains Dropbox:

Resource for 21st Century Librarians

This is a great e-book resource for librarians. It contains lesson plans for using 21st Century tools.  It is free and downloadable.

Author: Marilyn P. Arnone From the Creative Minds of 21st Century Librarians is CDL’s first e-book project made possible in part through an IMLS grant awarded to CDL in 2008 to update the AASL standards in the S.O.S. for Information Literacy database. This 275-page free downloadable resource contains dozens of lesson plans that implement AASL’s Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in the context of the curriculum. Contributing authors include more than 30 teacher-librarians. The book, edited by Marilyn P. Arnone, Ruth V. Small, and Barbara K. Stripling, was more than a year in the making and features a foreword by Barbara Stripling and graphic design by Marguerite Chadwick-Juner. If you are looking for creative ideas that target the standards to implement in your school library, this book will help you jumpstart the process. Download the publication and please pass on this link to your colleagues in the school library field.

A Teacher's Thoughts: Best Sites to Connect with Other Classes

This blog list some great sites for global collaboration and project based learning.

A Teacher's Thoughts: Best Sites to Connect with Other Classes: "If you are like me, you have big dreams of building an awesome connection with another classroom (maybe in your state or even around the wor..."

11 Techy Things for Teachers

From the Free Technology for Teachers Blog: 11 Techy Things for teachers to try this year. I have personally used 9 out of the 11 and love all of them. I several wikis on wikispaces and this blog. I've used Animoto to create great videos - you can get a teacher version which allows for longer videos.  I have a Twitter account and use Diigo and Delicious for social bookmarking. I've also gone beyond Google and just recently participated in a Wolfram Alpha webinar. In addition, I use Google docs and plan on trying Aviary and TodaysMeet.

Free Technology for Teachers: 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year via kwout

Glogster Widget

This is from the Wikispaces blog. It's an easier way to embed a glog into your wikispace pages.


New Glogster Widget

from Wikispaces Blog by Carole

The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed that we’ve added a new option to your Widget menu. If you have a Glogster account, now you can embed your posters directly into a wiki page, without ever leaving Wikispaces, and without having to copy any code.
Here’s how it works:

1. Go to your page and click Edit.
2. Click the Widget icon.
3. Choose Poster from the Widget menu, then click the Glogster EDU logo.
4. Enter your Glogster nickname and password, and click Log In.
5. Pick the glog you want, and either Insert it into the page, or View a preview.
6. Save the page.

It’s that easy!
We’re pretty jazzed, because this is the first widget we have that lets you embed media without copying and pasting complicated code and without leaving Wikispaces. But it won’t be the last. Let us know how it’s working for you with a comment below or an email to help@wikispaces.com.

MLA and APA

This is so true. Do we really need all that formatting?

The Fischbowl: Dear MLA and APA via kwout

Great blog post on Technology Integration

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Thoughts On School Leaders And Technology Integration... via kwout

Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter...

"Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter"

Student Blogging

Great post on Blogging in the classroom.

What You Wanted To KNOW About Student Blogging | The Edublogger via kwout

The Book Seer - A Book Recommendation Engine

Looks like a great site.

The Book Seer - A Book Recommendation Engine

Priceless Education

Great Video

Senior Plans Wall

Here is our second annual "Senior Plans Wall." Seniors create postcards with their senior and freshman pictures and tell us what they will be doing after they graduate.

Free Technology for Teachers

This is a great ebook that explains useful 21st Century tools for the classroom. They are all web-based and free. I have demonstrated the use of several of these tools to students and teachers at HV including glogster, blogger, google features, diigo/delicious, wallwisher, wordle and wikispaces.

Open publication - Free publishing - More 21st century

Helping Educators Learn About New Media Practices � Libraries and Transliteracy

This is a great blog on literacy. It is written by several leaders in 21st Century education. The groups focus is "to share information about the all literacies (digital literacy, media literacy, information literacy, visual literacy, 21st century literacies, transliteracies and more) with special focus on all libraries."

Helping Educators Learn About New Media Practices � Libraries and Transliteracy

Howard Rheingold Keynote Speech: Social Media, Participative Pedagogy, and Digital Literacies

Great Video on Social Media and Digital Literacies. It is a little long but worth it.

Howard Rheingold Keynote Speech: Social Media, Participative Pedagogy, and Digital Literacies

Social Media Revolution

10 Sources of Educational Science Games

10 Sources of Educational Science Games

Free Google Guide for Teachers

Free 33 page guide - Google for Teachers

Free Technology for Teachers: Free 33 Page Guide - Google for Teachers via kwout

Saving the Google students - latimes.com

Saving the Google students - latimes.com

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Reasons to blog

Reasons to blog in the classroom:

This site lists many ideas for classroom blogs including book blogs and reflective blogs.

SimpleK12 » Blog Archive » I blog, you blog, let’s ALL blog! – Reasons YOU should have a classroom blog! via kwout

US News on How to Write a Paper

US News on How to Write a Paper: "

It was a little affirming to discover this lovely piece on college research in USNews.com this week.

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The Donkey Library

Came across this video today. It makes you really appreciate our libraries which we sometimes take for granted.

Reasons to stay in school

From the uscollegesearch.com. This study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the more education you have the less likely you will be unemployed.

Science of the Winter Games

Although I have a special interest in the Olympics this year, this is a really cool site to learn about the science of the Winter Olympic games. NBC and the National Science Foundation has teamed up to produce this 16 part series on the science of Olympics sports. The series includes skiing, figure skating, curling, ski jumping, speed skating, hockey and snowboarding, in addtion to other sports.

Teenreads.com blog

Harper Collins launches Inkpop

Teenreads.com - Blog via kwout

Protecting Reputations

We should share this with our students and each other.

Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation via kwout

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