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PowerPoint and Other Stone Age Tools | SeansDesk.com
This is the YouTube generation, and these students need to be creating content, not consuming it. There are too many tools out there to simply fall back on outdated ways of presenting and sharing information. Basic presentation software makes it simply too easy to cut and paste information without actually learning anything. Students need to be creating content that reaches a broader audience than the people sitting in their classroom. Whether it’s making videos, podcasts, or infographics, there are plenty of ways to present and share information in new and unique ways that open the doors to the highest levels of Blooms Taxonomy.
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TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing
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Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog | TechCrunch
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Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley – YouTube
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
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Australia’s worst natural disasters – ABC Sydney – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Holiday rentals, private rooms, sublets by the night – Accommodations on Airbnb
‘Resources’ Category
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New and interesting links (weekly)
May 26, 2013 by Heather
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New and interesting links (weekly)
May 19, 2013 by Heather
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Ice Breaker Activities for Teacher Professional Development | eHow
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Hamish Curry: The playful library cocktail: Libraries shaken but not stirred – YouTube
Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/G4CANZ/hamish-curry-g4c-anz-presentation Libraries around the world are exploring initiatives that use both passive and proactive measures to encourage playfulness. As public services and spaces, they offer …
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Compfight / A Flickr Search Tool
Compfight is an image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research.
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90+ videos for tech. and media. literacy – Open Thinking Wiki compiled by Dr Alec Couros
Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
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Using Twitter & the PLN in Education – @Ideas_Factory The blog of Julian S. Wood
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create YouTube Photo Slideshows – A Good Alternative to Animoto
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15 Great Free iPad Apps for Professional Development ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Teach with your iPad: app reviews
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Google Chrome & Physical Education – Apps & Extension – YouTube
Google Chrome & Physical Education by The PE Geek
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Primary Schools (K – 6) | SES Stormsafe
The NSW SES has developed, supportive materials for teachers’ to deliver StormSafe education and awareness lessons to primary students and encourages teachers’ to contact their local NSW SES unit to arrange a visit to their school.
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How to insert images into Google Forms
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New and interesting links (weekly)
May 12, 2013 by Heather
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130502WRCD-2013-internal – YouTube
Attn Siane
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Don’t Give Up – Christchurch Red Cross 2011 Earthquake Appeal Song – YouTube
After February’s devastating 6.3 earthquake that hit Christchurch, claiming hundreds of lives, iNNK made the decision to write and produce a free early release of their new song ‘Don’t Give Up’. It was written to support the affected residents of …
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Challenge Based Learning – Welcome to Challenge Based Learning!
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QRCodify Chrome Web Extension App – YouTube
A demo of my QRCodify Google Chrome Extension allowing people to easily generate QR Codes from any webpage or highlighted text
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12 years in the making: John Traxler’s big 4 mLearning certainties
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Re-building a fire affected school using Social Media – splash.abc.net.au
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Cheap Flights At Best Flights-Online Travel Agents Australia
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New and interesting links (weekly)
May 5, 2013 by Heather
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Disaster Resilience Education – Educating the Educators – Slide to Learn
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Transforming the Way We Learn: Why Minecraft is an Amazing Learning Tool | thinktanK12 Blog
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How to add a video from your computer to an iPad camera roll – YouTube
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How to add a video from your computer to an iPad camera roll – YouTube
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J.S. Bach – Crab Canon on a Möbius Strip – YouTube
The enigmatic Canon 1 à 2 from J. S. Bachs Musical Offering (1747), The manuscript depicts a single musical sequence that is to be played front to back and back to front. Video by Jos Leys (http://www.josleys.com) and Xantox ( …
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New and interesting links (weekly)
April 28, 2013 by Heather
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A Great Project Based Learning Checklist for Teachers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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Coping With Crisis – Helping Children With Special Needs
“When a crisis event occurs—in school, in the community or at the national level—it can cause strong and deeply felt reactions in adults and children, especially those children with special needs. Many of the available crisis response resources are appropriate for use with students with disabilities, provided that individual consideration is given to the child’s developmental and emotional maturity.”
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Stop Disasters (iLearn Technology blog post)
Stop Disasters is a collection of disaster simulation games created by the ISDR (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction). As students play the games, they learn about natural disasters and actions that people can take to help protect themselves and others. The student’s job is to plan and construct a safer environment for their population.
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20 Ways to Teach About the Disaster in Japan Across the Curriculum – NYTimes.com
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Get Most Out of Your Device — Tony Vincent – Learning in Hand
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New and interesting links (weekly)
April 21, 2013 by Heather
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How to Create Student Digital Portfolios Using Evernote on Vimeo
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10 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Mobile App Developer | Entrepreneur.com
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Building Relationships on Twitter: 3 Tips to Help you Make a Head Start Today – Reviewz N Tips
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Is resilience still a useful concept when working with children and young people
Published by Australian Institute of Family Studies.
This paper reviews some of the complexities and issues surrounding the concept of resilience
in order to ascertain its usefulness for practitioners working with children. The paper offers a
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Municipal Association of Victoria
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New and interesting links (weekly)
April 14, 2013 by Heather
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“Book reviews, tips for parents and more from an Australian writer who’s passionate about children’s literacy and literature”
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EDEN – Extension Disaster Education Network
The Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN) links Extension educators from across the U.S. and various disciplines, enabling them to use and share resources to reduce the impact of disasters.
From food safety to field safety, from physical to psychological, and from government to community development, EDEN has resources you can use.
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New and interesting links (weekly)
April 7, 2013 by Heather
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Lessons Save Lives: The Story of Tilly Smith – YouTube
Tilly Smith, an eleven-year-old schoolgirl was on holiday in Thailand with her family when the tsunami hit in December 2004. She recognized the signs of the receding sea and warned her parents of the impending tsunami, which led to hotel guests being rapidly cleared from the beach and saved the life of dozens of people. Tilly’s story highlights the critical importance of basic education in preventing the tragic impacts of natural disasters.
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Education for disaster preparedness – UNESCO on YouTube
Education for disaster preparedness can provide life-saving and life-sustaining information and skills that protect in particular children and young people during and after emergencies.
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New and interesting links (weekly)
March 31, 2013 by Heather
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An easy recipe to share your Scoop.it newsletter with Twitter and Facebook | Scoop.it Blog
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10 Things School Leaders Do to Kill a Teacher's Enthusiasm for Technology
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Free Technology for Teachers: 20 Chrome Apps & Extensions for Teachers and Students
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Macleod College Students perform the soundtrack to this cartoon at the 2011 Macleod goes to the Movies Concert
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The Secret Weapon: Evernote and GTD smoothly integrated into TSW
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New and interesting links (weekly)
March 24, 2013 by Heather
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Brief (7 min) demo of Haiku Deck, a presentation app for the iPad.
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21 Google Chrome Extensions For Increased Productivity. TeachThought
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36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do. TeachThought
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Challenge Based Learning – Resilience
“Ringwood North Primary School’s experience as a part of Apple’s global ‘Challenge Based Learning’ program. Our Big Idea was ‘Resilience’ and our challenge was to ‘Help a community recover from a disaster.’”
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“The best thing about ImageQuiz is that you can make you”
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Lesson Plans – Search Education – Google
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A parody of the first music video to appear on MTV : Buggles with “Video Killed the Radio Star”. This is my first endeavor on my own (I miss Herb!) so I went completely low-key – all video shot on the iPhone 4 and edited in iMovie with no frills. …
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Teaher’s Guide to Information Crap Detection ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
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