Robin Good’s - A Beginner’s blog publishing guide
This is a really good resource for staff (and student) professional development. It covers:
what is a blog
why should I write it
platforms
blogging from the desktop
what should I write about
Publising your blog
image sources
resources
Its a thorough detailed and useful guide and one I will be using with m,y students and staff
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http://www.commoncraft.com/socialmedia
These guys are great. Another video from the Commoncraft Show.
I would have to say that these are some of the best professional development resources about. Simple, straight forwarded and fun.
Here is the blurb on the latest offering
“This video focuses on basics of social media: new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give [...]
www.aniboom.com
This is a useful site for animation. The site has two different animation tools that you can use. Shapeshifter and MicroSmotion
MicroSmotion, uses you web camera to make simple animations. Its simple and straight forward. It creates you movie as an animated GIF.
Shapeshifter, does not require a web camera. Instead you make your object and then [...]
http://www.uctv.tv
University of California Television is a great resource for studennts and teachers alike. The site hosts streamed video video on demand and audio and video cast on a wide range of subjects.
Teacher’s Pet or Professional Education for Teachers is a great resource for staff. They have resources for most subject areas and curricula:
Biology/Life [...]
I must be honest, I have not played seriously in second life. My lack of participation does not come from any philosophical agenda, from any technical impediment or from anything other than time. I think 2nd Life has great potential, but I don’t have time to exploit this potential.
Second life allows its participants to [...]
http://www.tweetwheel.com/
If you use twitter you may find this site useful and interesting.
Essentially it draws a relationship circle between you and your friends. As you hover over a follower its shows you who else follows (or has a relationship) with that person. Clicking on the person will open their profile. Here is my Tweetwheel. Simply [...]
Most of us have used google images to find suitable images for product we are creating. Well here is a specialised search engine for images.
http://elzr.com/imagery
The search does work quite nicely and the interface is cleaner than google’s images interface, but it renders out the much the same data for the search. Its a choice [...]
http://www.googlelittrips.org/
This is an interesting approach to a virtual field trip. Using Google Earth, a browser and your internet connection you are able to take a literature trip on your favourite story (well from the selection they have available) .
This one is Homer’s Odyssey Submitted by Matthew Hart, Granada High School, Livermore, CA.
Here is what [...]
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/46666
Educause has released their latest in the Seven Things you should know series. This installment looks at Ning. I like Ning, it was first brought to my attention by Sheryl with her excellent PLP sites - Powerful Learning Practice - for teacher education. A useful and flexible tool.
Here is [...]
http://www.commoncraft.com/podcasting
Yeeha - another great resource from Lee and the crew at Commoncraft. This is a excellent resource and well worth using with students and staff alike.
Good effort.
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