Connexions is:
a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:
Here are the procedures for how we use the Diigo group with the flat classroom projects - we've used this with flat classroom and we've used it with the digiteen projects and ad4dcss (advocates for digital citizenship, safety, and success)
in list: Research 2.0
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Groups have linkrolls that you can embed on other blogs and wikis and in other places.
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This is an excellent summary of the tools shared in Web 2.0 smackdown.
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Add sound effects and morph your video using rifftrax. So, this is how you can take things and remix and re-embed. There are some obvious reasons when you go to the site that I would ONLY use this for college level and above.
in list: Cell Phones in Education, web2smackdown
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Set up free conference calls and allows as many people as you like to set up and participate in the conference call. Many of us use skype, however, if you go over 10, and people are just in the US, you could use this instead.
The great things is that this gives you recording of the conference with no time limit. The MP3 file is given to the host.
in list: Cell Phones in Education
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This website lets you record both video and audio from your cell phone or online and automatically send it to your blog or other website. This is also a for-pay service.
in list: Cell Phones in Education
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Dr. Shephard from Walden University uses this for her phd class to record reflections -- she says it is easier than grading papers. Great for a field trip.
in list: Cell Phones in Education
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So, you want to understand twitter hashtags (when people use the # in front of letters) - this video from Mike Wesley might help.
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The collection of firefox add ons that I'm setting up for my students. I'll just keep this set up and the students can see the firefox plug ins I recommend.
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A website that will let you find people on twitter based upon what you are interested in.
more fromtwitseeker.com
Twitter becomes monetized with the launch of Tinker.
more fromwww.techcrunch.com
Connexions is:
a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.
Interesting website with fascinating applications.
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Really cool -- "Quizlet: the end of flashcards as we know it. These are cool and they connect with facebook!!
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Free productivity tool - looks a lot like Remember the Milk to me. Not sure if I'm going to swap but would love to hear from people who like it
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Website recommended by Bob Sprankle for keeping up with the 5 things you accomplished today - see his blog post (also linked here) for how he uses it.
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New way to publish to create interactive publications. Anyone used this?
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Creation tools for Worlds and Open Sims
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We needed a way to color code a map and mashable reviewed simple map generator that helps you color code a world map. This is GREAT!
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Jeff Utecht has put tweetbacks on his blog - I see a wordpress plug in but I can't yet figure out how to do this on blogger! It is cool. Wonder if it slows the load?
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My computer tech highly recommends this for synchronizing important teacher files to the server from their local machine. I'm going to use it here for our teachers to synch to their folder.
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