Swimming In The River » Blogging http://kcollazo.edublogs.org Ripples and Splashes from a 21st Century Educator Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:01:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Cool Sites from Today’s Surfing! 07/21/2009 http://kcollazo.edublogs.org/2009/07/21/cool-sites-from-todays-surfing-07212009/ http://kcollazo.edublogs.org/2009/07/21/cool-sites-from-todays-surfing-07212009/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:30:11 +0000 Kim Collazo http://kcollazo.edublogs.org/2009/07/21/cool-sites-from-todays-surfing-07212009/

  • 3336 Project Based Learning Lesson Plans Reviewed by Teachers

    Great resource for PBL units

    tags: pbl

  • NATURE: For Teachers

    Great site for lesson ideas incorporating Nature videos and PBL

    tags: science, pbl

  • OpenDNS | Providing A Safer And Faster Internet

    Free content filtering – maybe good for 1:1 kids at home?

    tags: contentfilter

  • Primary Games Arena – School Curriculum Games

    Great interactive games with formative assessments and build it type activities. Very cool!

    tags: games, interactive

  • Motivating Boy Writers.ca

    Blog to get ideas for motivating boys

    tags: boys

  • Getting Boys To Read

    Website all about addressing the learning needs of boys.

    tags: boys

  • Knowtes – Online flashcard-based study and learning community

    Flashcard builder with web 2.0 options

    tags: flashcards, web2.0

  • The Why Files | The Science Behind the News

    A site that explains the science behind recent news events. Geared toward elementary/ms. Teacher support docs too!

    tags: science

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • Learning in Hand – Netbooks

    Great post on netbooks with links to web apps for them

    tags: netbooks, 1:1

  • Bloom%u2019s Activity Analysis Tool (via activehistory.co.uk / classtools.net)

    Great chart for analyzing activities using new Blooms!

    tags: blooms

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • BeFunky.com – Photo effects with one click, Turn your photos into artwork.

    a simple tool for turning digital photographs into digital comics

    tags: web2.0, photos, comics

  • Royalty free stuff | Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age

    Collections of free photos, sounds, music, gifs, clipart, fonts, icons, satellite images, cartoons, graphics, animations, etc.

    tags: photos, music

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • Video Cameras in the Classroom | Clif’s Notes

    Great ideas for using the Flips in the classroom.

    tags: video, flips

  • Wordle in the Classroom | Clif’s Notes

    cool ways to use Wordle!

    tags: wordle, web2.0

  • Slatebox :: Visualize Everything – Welcome!

    Cool new collaborative mindmapping tool. Nice thing is, the kids can use their google accounts as logins.

    tags: collaboration, mindmapping, web2.0, slatebox

  • FriendFeed

    A better alternative for my students than Twitter at this time…

    tags: web2.0, socialnetworking, friendfeed

  • HeyWhatsThat: July 2009 Solar Eclipse

    Google Earth site for teaching about a solar eclipse.

    tags: science, eclipse, space

  • Free Technology for Teachers: Turn Your Blog Into a Newsletter With RSS to PDF

    Wow! Creates a PDF of your blog entries using your RSS feed. Great way to keep parents who aren’t using computers up to date!

    tags: blogtonewsletter, rss, pdf

  • Wiki:Participatory Media Teaching and Learning Resources | Social Media CoLab

    Great resource for teaching about social media with kids!

    tags: resources, socialmedia

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • Bloom’s Taxonomy Blooms Digitally, Andrew Churches – Annotated

    Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy graphics

    tags: blooms, bloomstaxonomy

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • District Dispatch » OITP releases new online copyright education tools

    Educational Copyright tool

    tags: copyright

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • EduPic Graphical Resource for Educators

    Over 6000 free photos for kids to use.

    tags: photos

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • It takes time to focus a back channel chat | The Thinking Stick

    Progression of starting to use backchannel in class.

    tags: backchannel

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • gettingtrickywithwikis – Add a Background Image

    Adding background to a wikispace page. Bad thing is you have to be in IE to do and view!

    tags: wiki

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • OLogy

    Short game to learn about the Incan culture.

    tags: Inca, socialstudies

  • SmartBean

    tags: parents, smartbean

  • WorldImages

    Collection of images the kids can use in their projects.

    tags: photos, pictures

    Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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