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This is an excellent and very comprehensive Glog on QR codes created by Jean Anning.

"A batch of “I Am Captain America” variant covers will give real-world heroes like farmers, cops and medical professionals a supersoldier makeover this summer. The Captain America-themed covers, by artists including Joe Quesada, Marko Djurdjevic and Ed McGuiness, will adorn various Marvel Comics starting in June."

Here are some Acceptable Use Policies from schools – Shelly S Terrell (ShellTerrell)

A post that rates some of the male charcters in lit. "The biggest jerks..all those jerky guys in books..those who truly WERE asshats and those who just acted like one but could be quite loveable! "

"This blog is maintained by the editors of Children’s Book Insider, the Newsletter for Children’s Writers, and was created to help demystify the process of becoming a published children’s author. They provide tips, full-length articles, links to writing resources and industry news and more."

A good resource, showing creative commons media sources for audio, images and video

A collaborative videoconference project gives you and your students an opportunity to learn with another school or classroom.\nCAPspace is a social networking tool for educational videoconferencing built into the new Read Around the Planet registration system. Login to find colleagues and schools interested in collaborative videoconference (H.323 and H.320) projects, and participate in TWICE sponsored matching projects.\nThere are currently 2706 educators from 17 countries registered with CAPspace.\n

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Teacher information and facts on how to use google docs to import data into Gapminder to plot it yourself. Statistics teachers may find this very useful.

Top stories, headlines, world reaction, breaking news -discover what the world is talking about; compiles blogs, twitter, etc.; broken into categories - has a sci/tech category

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Fabulous review of edtech (ncluding LMS) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Proposals were developed by the Learning Technologies Review project group, steered by the DVC Student Experience. The group presented its findings through a set of scenarios, which set threshold aspirations for staff and students. The scenarios were endorsed by MMU’s ICT Strategy Group and used to review learning technology options.

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Here is a great use of a Wiki for students and teachers: a compilation of videos about grammar. The concept is really simple : contributors to the wiki add embeds of videos from YouTube about grammar concepts. Videos currently included on the wiki include the passive voice, negative forms of “must” and “have to”, prepositions of place (at, on, in), who vs. whom, I vs. me, which vs. that, personal pronouns and many more.

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This is an on-line resource for ESL teachers. A UK site set up eight years ago and now includes a wide variety of resources for both learners and teachers. Even though most of the content on the website is based on British English, some of the content was also developed by English contributors from the US, Canada and other English speaking countries. It includes References, Worksheets, Handouts, Lessons Plans, Articles, Tests, Quizzes, Essay Samples and many more.

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The End of Education as We Know It is a good post about inspiring educators to incorporate technology in their classrooms.

A wiki resource to support the Engaging Middle Years Students in Learning