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ALA | AASL Best Web sites for Teaching and Learning Top 25 Award - Annotated
Check out this list of tools for learning from the ALA.
- Tip: Sticky notes are an effective way to start a virtual conversation among teams of students on the merits of a website.
They tell me that this one isn't blocked in many schools, for some reason
compfight + a flickr™ search tool
Another image search engine for finding images tagged with Creative Commons license
Google For Educators - Web Search
Computer teachers take notice. A nice set of lessons to help kids learn how to search.
This one is fun for all ages, but especially nice for the science teachers. A great site for discovery.
Interesting look at the teaching profession. Crisis or Opportunity?
Remix Culture & Fair Use: Best Practices for Online Video : Victor Godot
'Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload'
Sarah Houghton-Jan explores different strategies for managing and coping with various types of informational overload. Ariadne Issue 56
Augmented Reality Gaming with YouTube | Rocketboom
Project THIS one out about ten years - when textbook makes begin to produce this for schools. WOW!
HBO Archives: Archival Collection: The March of Time®
WOW! CHECK THIS OUT!
Graduation exam compromise earning mixed grades
In defending this exam idea, one person said that she felt it was BETTER to give these tests than one PSSA test every three years. "Wouldn't you rather take the test when you can still remember the material?"
The latest version of Keystone Exams calls for the state to provide 10 end-of-course exams, beginning with English literature, Algebra 1 and biology in 2010-11, with other subjects being phased in through 2016-17.
The state would ask the federal government to permit the first three to be used to satisfy the No Child Left Behind Act beginning in 2012-13, thus enabling the state to discontinue the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment exams in 11th grade.
- For graduation purposes, school districts would need to count the exams for at least one-third of a student's final grade or districts could use validated local assessments or Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate exams instead.
Is Virtual Life Better Than Reality? - CBS Evening News - CBS News
If you're not familiar with Second life, check out this intro from CBS news from a few years ago. Yes, it's cool, but after you get past the wow factor, do you think it offers anything for teachers?
View Details on July 22 Total Solar Eclipse in Google Earth | Google Earth Blog
Don't you just LOVE what Google Earth is allowing us to do? And if the gearthblog isn't in your reader, put it there!
Justin Reich - Better Strategies Needed for School Internet Access - washingtonpost.com - Annotated
Great article about school filters. Read it and pass it along to your administration, maybe. But certainly, discuss it with them.
- The millions of stimulus dollars to be spent on modernizing classrooms won't transform learning if students can't participate in the online forums that are reshaping the economy, journalism, government and society. If government has any helpful role to play in making school Web surfing safer, it should fund the development of online safety curricula and research into effective supervision software and strategies. Requiring more filtering would throw more resources at a failed approach. Another emerging and misguided strategy is requiring certain Web sites, such as social networks, to use age verification software; evading these new obstacles won't be much harder than evading filters.
Creative Commons licenses - Jamendo
All the music on jamendo is available under one of the six Creative Commons licenses. They authorize free download and enable the artists to promote their music while protecting their rights.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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