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Edublogs 2009 Awards: Inspiration in Education

November 26th, 2009 · 12 Comments

My blog is relatively new and has become much more than I ever would have expected. I owe this to the various people and organizations I am nominating below for the Edublogs 2009 awards! I have learned by their examples. My knowledge as well as my passion for learning and collaboration I owe to them. [...]

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Tags: Cool Sites · Thought-provoking

Cool Sites: Video Mashup, Animation, Language Tools…

October 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Every week, I share my favorite websites! My goal is to post this weekly series regularly on Saturdays so you can test these tools out. However, you can get access to these fantastic websites as soon as I find them by connecting with me on Google reader!
Open Source Cinema
Open Source Cinema allows the user [...]

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Tags: Cool Sites

Cool Sites: PicApps, DocVerse, Sketchcast…

October 9th, 2009 · 6 Comments

I found several cool educational tools from Ziipa! My goal is to post this weekly series regularly on Saturdays so you can test these tools out. However, you can get access to these fantastic websites as soon as I find them by connecting with me on Google reader!
PicApp Images
I found the picture above on [...]

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Tags: Cool Sites

Social Media: Which Tools?

September 6th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Recently, in our morning #Edchat discussion, we discussed how to prevent social media burn-out. Those who participated in the discussion offered several tips on time management and skills to teach students involving social media. Click on the mindmapping link to view some of my favorite tweets from the discussion. You can make this mindmap smaller [...]

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Tags: #Edchat · Tech Tips

RoohIt Highlighter: New Way of Online Research?

August 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

In my pursuit to improve your personal learning on this blog, I have added a few new widgets. One of my favorite new finds is the Roohit web highlighter, which I learned about at Ziipa. Roohit is more than a highlighting tool. This tool allows you to actually interact with the materials in blogs and [...]

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Tags: Tech Tips · What Works for English Language Learners