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backchan.nl is a tool for involving audiences in presentations by letting them suggest questions and vote on each other's questions. backchan.nlis intended for conference or event organizers who want a new way to solicit questions from the audience and make better use of question and answer time.
teachem allows anyone to create a class from YouTube videos by adding time stamped flashcards and review questions.
The 30 Best Web 2.0 Tools For Teachers (2012 Edition). and and The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools for 2012
SounCli.ps - thousands of free downloadable sound effects. This is one I use for my publication broadcasting course.
Google Moderator - submit questions and audience members can vote on them. The program then orders questions by number of people who are interested in the answer.
Storify helps its users tell stories by curating social media.
Hacks/Hackers, a worldwide organization bringing together journalists and technologists
VOKI: Voki is a great way to have students share their knowledge of a topic in 60 seconds or less. Makes students organize their thoughts to focus on key details.
Weebly - I am surprised that I forgot to add this - Weebly has been around for awhile. A good webpage for classes and blogging. Teachers at our school in China (meaning it is not blocked) are using it for grades three and up for their portfolios and other web creations. I am currently using it for my Broadcast Journalism class
Since attending the EARCOS Teachers' Conference 2012 in Bangkok and other sources I have worked with these sites and programs. For Internet telephone I have been trying ipadio,
One of the buzz sites at the conference was Socrative - Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms. Run it as an app or on any web browser at www.socrative.com.
Another highly used site is Free Technology for Teachers
Udacity's CS101! - offering free university online courses. I am taking CS101 Building a Search Engine and progressing slowly due to 12 hours a day at school but it is an excellent course.
For library information > dearlibrarian.wikispaces.com - Ann is a librarian in China and this site has great ideas for implementing tech into your lessons and site for your students to go to (check out the Reaching Kids Through Web 2.0 and Teaching with Web 2.0 sections)
todaysmeet.com - Allows students to take notes and make comments on the class discussion. It can also be retrieved at a later date.
openetherpad.org -Similar to todaysmeet.com. Start 2-3 per class (if your class size is big) Great resource for parent conferences and student portfolios.
libguides.com -Search site for content. Tons of information and free!
qwiki.com and scoop.it- Format for students to show information graphically.
Debate sites: 1.) procon.org 2) idebate.org 3)debatewise.org
Kim Cofino - I attended a couple of her workshops and she is well worth the following.
Center for interactive learning and collaboration
Diigo Education - is the bookmarking service most used by folks at the conference
Google Reader is the most used RSS reader - I use it the most.
appsgeyser for example here is the app for DAISlive - our school's broadcasting services
Some free educational web-sites (current as of January 29, 2012): Asia for Educators, Asia Society (Arts, culture, history, math, and other topics are found here), Choices for 21st Century Education Program (Sponsored by Brown University, this site has videos from scholars with correlating lesson plan), Cleveland Museum of Art (Students can view art and interact with museum curators), Global Dimension (This website is managed by Think Global, an education charity that promotes global learning; it connect current events with curricula via background information, news reports, research, videos, and more), iEARN (Made up of over 25,000 schools and youth organizations in over 125 countries, this network provides opportunities for collaboration and cross-cultural communication), One World Education (Promoting youth literacy, this nonprofit organization displays middle and high school students' writing/essays), Peace Corps/Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools (Visitors to this site can read journals of Peace Corps volunteers and even listen to podcasts of the volunteers' adventures; additionally, current volunteers are willing to correspond with students about their experiences), TeachUNICEF (This website has curricular units, lesson plans, videos, and more that deal with poverty, education, gender equality, water sanitation, and more to help students better understand the plight of the world's poor).
Compfight is an image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research. They make good use of the flickr™ API, but aren't affiliated with flickr. Along with that is shutterstock that claims to have 16,168,604 royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, and vectors as of five minutes ago. I am not sure why we need so many photos ~ my students are given a camera and requested to take and manipulate their own photo for any project we are doing; if they can not take the photo then they can draw it - come on educators let the students be creative and do not give them everything.
Contour Drawing Demonstrate how to "draw" using the computer and Photoshop.
Pecha Kucha (Japanese: ペチャクチャ, IPA: [pet͡ɕa ku͍̥t͡ɕa],[1] chit-chat) s a presentation methodology in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each, usually seen in a multiple-speaker event called a Pecha Kucha Night (PKN). This will be good for student prenetations. Pechaflickr = the sound of flickring is a good start, from CogDog - one of the top people to link to in Twitter for ideas. Bookmark his blog CogDogBlog Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology
Other examples of Pecha Kucha: architects: A O K I J U N ~ Toyo Ito (we need some of his buildings here in Kai Fa Qu ~ Tom Dixon (industrial designer)
50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, from CogDog
Mendeley a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research: Automatically generate bibliographies; Collaborate easily with other researchers online; Easily import papers from other research software; Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading; Access your papers from anywhere online; Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app.
Flubaroo (need VPN for it to work) part of google apps have Google apps registered in the States not part of the education account because the school’s google account is not registered in the states. It is free once it is past China's Firewall.
Issuu A useful site to find an online magazine on any topic. Of course these are popular magazines and not the peer-reviewed papers a student should be using to get information from a school library but it does fill in some gaps.
Voki is a FREE service that lets you create customized avatars and add voice to your Voki avatars and Post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile.
PDF Pad is a comprehensive online destination where you can download and print the high quality documents you need for work, school and play, free of charge or registration hassles.
Karen Lloyd's storyboarding Blog ~ Visual Storytelling Insights, Tips and Advice for anyone who's interested
Internet Radio may be a lot easier with http://www.spreaker.com/ I hope to try it in the classroom soon then I will write up an evaluation.
Cacoo makes Real-Time Collaboration a reality! A diagram created with Cacoo can be edited by multiple people at the same time. Changes by users are reflected in real-time. Working with Cacoo makes it seem like everyone is working together in the same room and brings new meaning to the word, Collaboration. [This is also an app (free) in the Google Chrome App shop]
Having students create courses benefits in many ways from improving confidence/self-esteem to learning and communication development - showing/explaining to others enhances our knowledge of what we want to teach/share/learn. Udemy provides a platform for this. Give it a go.
Konnects connect with others of similar interests
sabsebolo Sabsebolo gives you a high quality, easy to use, crystal clear CONFERENCING SERVICE for FREE.
Psykopaint like the name implies - do wonderful? things with images
Sharing Diagrams Instant Powerful project collaboration, inline commenting, one click publishing and team management. it is $75 though free if using in Google apps
Virtual Worlds Education Roundtable - my avatar is terrellneuage (original huh?) ~ Do we want this to be our future educational method? My continued work in 2nd life.
Kinect is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console. See KinectEDucation ~ Blog Kinect Education
Frontpage news from around the world - http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/ it has been around for awhile but just a reminder of it. I used this in middle school several years ago and it is a great resource.Create your own quizzes
With Microsoft taking over Skype we hope the teacher's edition will continue - check it out - Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It’s a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms. Email me for my skype username.
As of the 4th of March (2011) two software packages have become free: WinX DVD Author "This suite does not only convert any movie to DVD, but also allow you to author or re-pack a DVD with themes, chapters and everything you’d expect from a payware program." and Chasys Draw IES "Chasys Draw IES is a suite of image editing tools featuring a powerful bitmap editor that supports Photoshop style layers and plugins... The whole suite is UAC aware and is designed to take advantage of multi-core processors, touch-screens and pen-input devices." I use Photoshop and Fireworks but for a quick loading product to do something in a short time this is best.
The reinventing school project at http://reinventingschool.com.au/ has challenges and ideas that may be worthwhile for a classroom.
If your class is doing research on places in the States a good site is zipskinny; Just enter your zip code and learn all sorts of interesting factoids about your neighborhood. Now I can see why we are so anxious to move - China here we come.
- Pixelpipe - "a content distribution gateway that allows users to publish text, photo, video and audio files once through Pixelpipe and have the content distributed across over 100 social networks, photo/video sites and blogs, and online storage around the globe."
- Group Spaces may be a good alternative for collaborations.
- Creaza - "Creaza is the cloud-based online video service designed to enable users to collaboratively produce, stream, share and store user-generated video. By combining the power of broadcast-quality HD and the vast reach of social media, Creaza is at the vanguard of a rapidly emerging market in which millions of users in thousands of communities are beginning to continually interact via user-generated online video."
- What's not to love about Quora? Wired magazine (May 2011) says it will be one of the top three sites this year (after Facebook and Youtube) mine is at Quora
- TinyChat - up to 12 people can simultaneously broadcast to the group - great for collaborations between schools. I am at http://tinychat.com/neuage
- Another collaborative site though having a ten person limit is Vyew allows you to meet and share content in real-time or anytime. Upload images, files, documents and videos into a room. Users can access and contribute at anytime.
- Group Greeting - sort of a collaborative site - A group card that multiple people can sign.
- CamStudio - Make a video of your screen - great for tutorials. This is free so has limitations. Here is my example.
- CrocDoc Review a Word document, fill out a PDF form, mark up an image, and more... All with Crocodoc, all online, all for free... Re. The Partner Program works with Yammer (Yammer is the free private social network for your company)
- Online Graphical Dictionary
- Go beyond Google Docs Typewith.me is a great tool for collaboration http://typewith.me/
- Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges.
ChaCha 1 billion questios answered. - Two voice-to-text tools useful to use in classroom assignments is Jott.and Dial2do.
- Digress.it Building Communities Around Text: TEACH > Imagine a different kind of writing assignment: have your students use digress.it to co-author their own critical edition of an essay or story, inside that essay or story ANNOTATE > People have been scribbling on the side of pages for centuries. digress.it makes this private space public, allowing communities of readers to turn documents into conversations. CRITIQUE > They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. Use digress.it to collectively dissect public documents like political speeches, corporate contracts or government transcripts.
5 National Ed Tech Goals for 2015.
Newspond is another site that keeps up with the latest technology news.
student brain changes from technology
DoudouLinux: A Fun Linux Distro For Kids "Linux is really a versatile piece of software. You can use it as your daily working OS, a server that runs most of the website in the world, as a multimedia center or even as a way to promote your religion. A more creative use of Linux is to turn it into an educational piece of software for kids..."
Featured learning software - Timeliner from Tom Snyder Productions though it has a fee and is not free as Time Toast's Animated Timelines it is a great and easy way for students to make interactive timelines.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has embraced gaming to help teach children civics. iCivics.com is a Web site free to all schools and students. STORY
10 Global Trends in ICT and Education A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education (really a blog to follow) A quick glance @ what others are doing on a global scale will help within the individual classroom.
Other international educational blogs: ICT in Education, UNESCO, Keris (Korea), Gesci (UN ICT), Education for Global Development
New links as of 24th September before I go off to NYC - send me links that would be useful - tneuage@gmail.com I will put them up when I land somewhere user friendly. The ones below are some apps great to use in your class.
- Grockit - Social Learning Platform for Students
- Aardvark Ask any question and Aardvark will discover the perfect person to answer in minutes!
A social platform for learning that provides students with collaborative, real-time study rooms and relevant coursework to achieve various educational goals. - Weespr A unique tool, blending the best of social networking with the strengths of traditional publishing. Publish your own magazine, quickly, regularly and automatically, both print and online. I have played a bit with this and can see how a class newsletter could be well done using this free service - free for a classroom size if your class newsletter grows to the size of TheNew York Times or the Victor Harbor Times then you need to upgrade.
- Google labs - If you like to keep up with what Google is offering - they are constantly adding, of course they are a business - some of their new apps are really worth a look at to see if you can use them educationally or just to have an excuse to spend more time at the computer - like I do. For example, this very usefull tool - A tool to add missing diacritics to Arabic text, Tashkeel only at Google labs you will find such great stuff.
- New study dispels myths about teachers’ experience with technology and its effectiveness in the classroom June 28, 2010
- Educators Connect Digital Games to Learning
- Atomic Learning now has a unit on Facebook for Educators
"DAILY MEDIA USE AMONG CHILDREN AND TEENS UP DRAMATICALLY FROM FIVE YEARS AGO"
NOTE: This is USA based if anyone has seen stats for Australia please pass them on to me.... cheers
Mobile media driving increased consumption. The increase in media use is driven in large part by ready access to mobile devices like cell phones and iPods. |
Over the past five years, there has been a
online communication a PhD thesis on chatrooms and other online communications 1998 - 2004 South Australian Certificate of Education |
contact DALIAN CHINA ~ TOFU ~ PICTURE POEMS collaborative project between schools in India and Dalian American International School
Blog updated June 3, 2013 K - 12 technology (updated June 5, 2013). Travel Site (2012) updated June 12, 2013. Videos/Blogs on Youtube, Twitter, Wordpress, Photo albums. Updated 15 Second Street, Round Lake, New York and photos from parent's 1943 wedding as well as Leigh's page. Farmville page updated Thursday, March 17, 2011 5:58 PM. neuage.org updated June 10, 2013 10:31 PM neuage.us updated Wednesday, June 1, 2011 7:21 PM. Resume updated june 05, 2013
Technology Coordinator and Computer Teacher at Dalian American International School, 2 Dianchi Road, Golden Pebble Beach, Dealian Development Area 116650 P.R. China
Blog updated / Integrating Technology Blog June 04, 2013 also: terrell.neuage.us and/or neuage.me, neuage.info, neuage.mobi, livejournal, Serendipity, neuage.co, drupal-gardens
Today working on picture poem links starting around "better" (June 3, 2013). Picture poems are the digital format of work I did as a street artist in New Orleans in the 1970s, as well as New York City, Honolulu, San Francisco and Adelaide South Australia. Follow @neuage
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