Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Diigo Ed Picks - Apr 3, 2012

http://d97cooltools.blogspot.ca/2012/02/digital-differentiation-get-wired.html - cool interactive infographic made with Thinglink
http://www.thinglink.com/ - here's Thinglink - image interaction tools
http://stunlaw.blogspot.ca/2012/03/computational-thinking-some-thoughts.html - thoughts about abduction - process of recognition of patterns and uncovering their relationships in sets of data was called 'abductive reasoning'
http://pressbooks.com/wp-signup.php - pressbooks - easy authoring of eBooks
http://thelearninglot.blogspot.ca/2012/03/five-trends-to-watch-in-educational.html - 5 trends to watch in Ed Tech
http://googleblog.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/street-view-goes-to-amazon.html - Google street view to view world sites
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/ - multiplayer HTML5 browser game from Mozilla
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2011/12/11/10-innovative-schools-allowing-smartphones-in-the-classroom/ - 10 schools allowing smartphones in the classroom
http://thinkbinder.com/ - thinkbinder - students create online study groups
http://goo.gl/mWUw9 - MIT Open + Flat World = Free online textbooks - also http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com
http://resourcelinkbce.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/12-reasons-teachers-should-use-diigo/ - Reasons to use Diigo in education - nice tutorial
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos?categories=topics_common-core - TCh - teaching channel - great presentation of videos with lesson ideas
http://www.youtube.com/user/SteveSpanglerScience - Excellent collection of hundreds of YouTube videos on science for all age groups - short, professional quality
http://mgleeson.edublogs.org/2012/04/03/ipads-and-literature-circles/ - iPad literature circles - uses Edmodo iPad app
http://www.tes.co.uk/chemistry-secondary-teaching-resources - UK chemistry teachers resources page
http://www.pdfescape.com/what/ - PDFEscape - new online PDF editor - free, no watermarks, etc.
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream_04.html - NOAA research ship live cams - include dialog - interesting!

More:
http://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation
http://groups.diigo.com/group/ed-tech-crew
mrhenryslz.blogspot.com