Websites I Tagged Recently (weekly)
By Paul McMahon on May 17, 2009 in Ideas for Great Lessons
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ScreenToaster – Online screen recorder. Capture screencasts instantly.
This comes highly recommended by teachers who use it to do screencasts themselves or get students to record screencasts of their work. Looks like a great tool!
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GCSE Poetry Podcasts which could be used as an ideas base for students to do their own.
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Panwapa is a cool place for primary aged kids to come and play. It supports 5 different languages.
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This blog has been set up by the Visualiser Forum to help promote the effective use of visualiser technology in schools.
It has experiences of using visualisers in teaching, information on how to use them, stories and other items of interest to people in education.
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MoodleShare – Your Social Source for Moodles and Digital Learning Networking
MoodleShare is a community of Moodlers sharing their Moodles, Moodle Sites, and Moodle Lessons.
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The individual pages (see sidebar) not only contain the original TED talks but also additional references, resources, and activities about the topic and/or speaker. Using it is simple. Please add! Just choose a page from the RH sidebar and dive in. You can add your own comments or suggestion by selecting the ‘Edit’ tab.
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A Guide to Protecting Your Online Identity – Annotated
Being online is like being in public. Nearly anything that gets posted can come back to haunt you. Here is a guide to protecting your online identity.
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Witness someone ruin a “Fatty Cisco Job” with a single post on Twitter, and become an overnight Internet sensation.
This would be good to show in a class on online profiles -
Fresh Brain, a non-profit funded in part by Sun Microsystems, provides teachers and students with ideas for technology projects. On Fresh Brain students and teachers can find projects in which they build games, build iPhone and Facebook apps, make web pages, and mash-up videos. Fresh Brain provides space and a forum for students to connect and collaborate. To complete each project, Fresh Brain provides a list of suggested tools and getting started guides for completing each task.
Some of the popular projects on Fresh Brain right now are a project in which students create a webpage about cultures and a graphic design competition.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
