Websites I Tagged Recently (weekly)
By Paul McMahon on Jan 18, 2009 in Ideas for Great Lessons
-
Danasoft IP and City Sign Widget – For Myspace Layouts and Backgrounds, Forum Signatures, Blogs
A couple of great blog widgets that might be fun to add to my blog site.
-
provides a slide show, step by step approach of taking viewers through Web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each Web page. The viewers can reply posting their comments and/or ask questions. As a WebQuest designer, I find myself wishing for the opportunity to “be with” my students to ask questions and guide them as they read linked sites from my WebQuests. While I provide scaffolding via questions to be answered they are not so specific to each Web site or its individual pages. Jog the Web provides the further scaffolding opportunity that I am looking for.
The students with stronger research skills and more adept at answering complex questions can skip the steps thus supporting the differentiated nature of my WebQuests. Now by using the Jog the Web designed tracks within my WebQuests, I have a much more precise way to differentiate the multiple pathways students can take in doing their research.
Outside of WebQuests, Jog the Web provides a nice way to create short learning tasks along the lines of Web scavenger hunts. To get a feel for the potential of this tool around a topic we all know so well, check out the 21st Century Skills track created by Elizabeth Holmes.
-
MixedInk – Free Collaborative Writing Tool
MixedInk takes a fresh approach to collaborative writing. It’s a fun, democratic and elegant way for people to weave their best ideas together. (Plus, it’s free!)
-
One of its useful features is a toolbar that is easily downloaded (after a quick registration process) that gives you instant access to the site’s many features. As part of that, there is a tab for Web 2.0 tools and this gives you access to Web 2.0 tools suitable for K-12 arranged by categories including
Blogging
Productivity and Creativity
Digital Storytelling
Wikis
Online Surveys
Podcasting
Photo and Video sharing
Learning Management Systems
RSS Feeds
Social Bookmarking
Collaboration and Networking
-
This is a resource site by a teacher with lots of resources and links to using Gamemaker across the curriculum.
-
Computers in Education Group of South Australia – Digital World
Digital World is our doorway to ideas, resources, links and discussion about digital technologies that support learning. It will be ever-changing as new topics emerge and old ones lose their importance. It is not a fixed body of ‘wisdom’ but an up-to-date collection of information and feedback and sometimes debate. Each section has a manager, and, hopefully, a band of contributors to edit the page and sub pages as new information comes to light. Many of the pages have links to the Forum, where all members can ask questions and help provide answers. If you have suggestions about Digital World contact John Travers
-
The Education Podcast Network | A Landmark Project
The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
1 Trackback(s)