Terry Freedman has released a free ebook on Web 2.0 projects. The book of a compilation of interesting classroom activities using Web 2.0 technologies submitted by several dozen contributors. It’s pretty light and breezy, but the information is well-structured (using …
Snap Groups – Create Private Message Board Groups
Snap Groups is new service that allows anyone to create private or public message groups. In Snap Groups you can create your own group in which to share short messages with other group members. Of most value to educators is …
How To Install Windows 7 On Your Netbook From A USB Flash Drive
Installing a new operating system on a netbook without a CD/DVD drive should be an easy task thanks to Unetbootin, but when it comes to installing Windows 7, there are a few extra steps that need to be taken before …
Jeopardy Labs: Make Your Own Online Jeopardy Game
Playing Jeopardy-style games is a review method that teachers and students have been using for quite a long time. Jeopardy Labs provides a good way for teachers to create a review game that students can play independently or in the …
Nine Tools for Collaboratively Creating Mind Maps
Mind maps or graphic organizers can be invaluable tools for visual thinkers and visual learners. The process of creating a mind map can help students gain an overview perspective on complex, multifaceted concepts. Mind maps can also help students outline …
20+ Ways to Use Flip Cameras in the Classroom
Great ideas to engage your students in using flip cameras in the classroom
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Sprdword: The Best Controversial Documentaries
This website indexes documentary videos that offer alternative perspectives and worldviews. You will find a collection of best controversial documentaries that you wouldn’t normally find in traditional media.
Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious
This site provides a useful and very simple bookmarking service for Twitter. They follow your Twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains a URL, they add it to your delicious.com bookmarks. You can optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies …
Auto-captioning Available for All YouTube Videos
There are some good tools on the web for captioning videos and even a video sharing site, DotSub, created for the purpose of captioning videos. Today, YouTube made it easier than ever to caption videos. Earlier today YouTube announced that …
How to Put Multiple Intelligences to Work in Your Classroom
Incorporating multiple intelligences in your teaching will ensure that you tap into your students’ full potential for learning. By teaching in more “brain-compatible” ways, teachers can engage more learners and educate more authentically and fairly.
Robot Teachers Enter the Education Workforce
You may have had some instructors during your school years that seemed like they were simply carrying out pre-programmed, robotic orders, but not quite as literally as these profs. Singularity Hub reports that robot teachers have successfully passed a first …
Please Rob Me: Fun Website Shows How Social Networks Can Expose You
Everybody loves social networks but not everybody understands the risks associated with it. PleaseRobMe is a great tool that shows you how exposing your location on social networks can make you vulnerable to burglars. It uses actual examples from FourSquare …
EssayRater: Checks Essays for Plagiarism & Helps to Improve
EssayRater is a free web app that reviews, grades and checks essays for plagiarism, and helps you to improve them. This tool goes beyond the usual online proof-reading tools by checking your paper for the quality of word choice, sentence …
3 Ways To Use Google Reader As An Online Archive
Like many of you, for the past few years I’ve been using Google Reader to subscribe to blogs and news feeds. Instead of having to go out and scan each and every one of my favorite blogs for new and …
Lingt: Webtools for Language
Lingt helps people learn the massive number of vocabulary terms required for basic competency in a foreign language. We think the biggest problem with learning a new language is simply giving up, so we’ve built something that we think makes …