Archive for January, 2008

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Learn More - Tutorials

http://librarystream.wordpress.com/about-the-learn-more-series/ 
This is a very cool series of tutorials on web 2.0 technology.
The site has tutorials on

avatars
Flickr
YouTube
Delicious
tags and tag clouds
LibraryThing
wikis
social networks, pt 1
social networks, pt 2
Twitter

Thanks Derek - nice find

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My Global Life

http://www.myglife.org/
This is a site I will be visiting time and time again. Stuffed full of resources, this is a global project which allows students to create and share in the development of online games. While doing this they are breaking down barriers of race and creed.
The site is clean, well laid out and fun. It [...]

Paper Toys

http://www.papertoys.com/ 
This is a fun site.
The site contains templates for building paper models of various objects. Some are downloaded as PDF files or GIF, some are images that you can copy or email from the site
Very useful for the kinesthetic learner.

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Creating Digital Documents or content

I have been thinking about students creating digital content or digital documents.
I am currently reviewing one of my courses for the new teaching year. So I wanted something I could use to look at digital publishing, whether it was preparing a word processed document, a DTP product like a brochure, a web page or blog [...]

Podcasting Rubric

 
Podcasting is an activity that can be achieved by students of all ages with limited resources. Using tools like Audacity or Garageband students (and teachers) can create high quality products.
I have drafted a rubric for developing podcasts. This a higher order thinking task - Blooms creating level of activity.
publishing-podcasting-rubric.pdf
I would appreciate your comments and suggestions.
Feel [...]

Newspaper Headline Generator

 
http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp 
This is a cool site with lots of cool toys to play with - try these

or
http://www.fodey.com/generators/movie/clapper_board.asp

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Advanced Searching Rubric

I went to google and I entered EDUCATION into the search field and was rewarded by over 1 billion pages. One of the skills we need and our students need is the ability to refine searches to be able to mine the vast mass of information out there.
I am still on holiday, so I thought [...]

Validating information rubric

This is a draft on a rubric for validating information.
The rubric looks at two aspects
1. Sourcing and validating information from multiple information sources
2. Referencing the data sources to support the students decision on validating information
Comments and suggestions would be appreciated
validating-rubric.pdf

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Validating information

http://www.dhmo.org 
This is an excellent website for teaching students about validating information. The site is well laid out, looks professional, uses well structured english, has few grammatical and spelling mistakes, refers to reputable sites and appears to be written by a suitably qualified professional or professionals. Everything we would look for in a site at first [...]