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• Welcome – digizen.org

  “Digital citizenship isn’t just about recognising and dealing with online hazards. It’s about building safe spaces and communities, understanding how to manage personal information, and about being internet savvy – using your online presence to grow and shape your world in a safe, creative way, and inspiring others to do the same. “

  tags: digitalcitizenship, digitaletiquette, cybersafety, esafety

• Ahead – Playground for creative minds

  With Ahead you can layout, share and publish content of any kind and any resolution on the web. It works like an online version of InDesign that instantly transforms your layout into a zooming presentation, rich media blog, personal scrapbook or … your imagination sets the limits.

  Very similar to Prezi!!

  tags: prezi, presentation, web2.0, visualization, presentations

• Jane’s Learning Pick of the Day: 25 places to find instructional videos

  “25 places to find instructional videos

  Recently I have received a number of emails asking about places that offer free instructional videos (on all subjects), so I thought I would put together a posting of the main ones that I know about”

  tags: videos, movies, education

• Wildlife Filmmaker, Video Mashups, Animal Videos, Wildlife Footage – National Geographic

  Make a custom nature film with animal clips, sounds, and more. Then share your masterpiece with friends.

  tags: science, animals, web2.0, nationalgeographic, video, wildlife

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• langalot :: Fast Online Language Dictionary (German, French, Italian, Spanish, English)

  “Langalot is a collection of tools to help you learn a foreign language. Right now, you are using the dictionary. Langalot also contains tools to learn vocabulary, study sentences and phrases, and learn from the community.

  Langalot also provides the same audio programs used by the Foreign Service Institute (the U.S. State Department) for language learning. All of the audio programs are available in the language lab. “

  tags: language, worldlanguage, dictionary, translator, translation

• WordItOut – Transform your text into word clouds!

  “Simply enter some text and create your word cloud!

  * Customise many settings
  * Share your word cloud (or keep it secret!)
  * Embed it on your own website”

  tags: wordle, wordcloud, worditout, tools, cloud, visualization

• Memoov – Animation Studio online

  Memoov is an open online platform that enables you to create and share your animated videos.

  tags: animation, digitalstorytelling, web2.0, tools, storytelling, movies, videos, avatars

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• Search Tools for Kids

  A nice reference of kid friendly search engines. Great to use with students.

  tags: research, students, elementary, middleschool, searchengines

• Kid Reference

  A nice resource to use with students who are doing research. A much better avenue to take than Google.

  tags: research, students, elementary, middleschool

• KidVideoSearch

  Great resource for kids searching for videos.

  tags: videos, searching, reference

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• Psychology of Cyberspace – How to Resolve Conflict Online

  “Have you ever noticed how conflict can get blown out of proportion online? What may begin as a small difference of opinion, or misunderstanding, becomes a major issue very quickly. Conflict can be difficult at the best of times, but what is it about online communication that seems to ignite ãflamingä and make conflicts more difficult to resolve? “

  tags: onlinelearning, facilitating, conflict, onlinconflict, etlo, opd

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• Être à la Page

  Learn French communicatively through popular culture! This site features authentic readings, realia, worksheets and activities to learn French for free online in an authentic context. Learning French is easier and more fun when you focus on learning real, up-to-date things from the francophone world, through the use of French music videos, movie posters, trailers, art puzzles and more!

  tags: french, worldlanguage

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• Wearing Four Pairs of Shoes: The Roles of E-Learning Facilitators – 2002 – ASTD

  n this model, an e-learning facilitator “wears four pairs of shoes”–acting as instructor, social director, program manager, and technical assistant.

  The emergence of e-learning comes at a time when education and training are undergoing important transformations. The teacher-centered model that has dominated instruction for centuries is slowly giving way to a learner-centered model with instructors in the roles of facilitators or “guides on the side.” E-learning is no exception. But e-learning’s use doesn’t preclude facilitators’ responsibilities for structuring learning experiences. The effectiveness and success of e-learning programs are dependent on facilitators’ roles in delivering and managing instruction.

  tags: facilitation, onlinelearning, opd, etlo

• Ten Tips for Effective Online Facilitation

  Ten Tips for Effective Online Facilitation

  tags: opd, onlinelearning, facilitating, facilitation, etlo

• FRONTLINE: digital nation: digital workshops: online resources for parents and educators | PBS

  “Digital Workshops Online Resources for Parents and Educators”
  Learn how to be a better parent, teacher or caregiver to the “digital natives” in your life and gain the knowledge and skills for understanding, analyzing and participating in our technology-infused world.

  tags: digital_citizenship, PBS, digitalcitizenship, web2.0, frontline, digitalparents, parents

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• Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP)

  The concept of developmentally appropriate practices refers to providing an environment and offering content, materials, activities, and methodologies that are coordinated with a child’s level of development and for which the individual child is ready. Three dimensions of appropriateness must be considered: age appropriateness, individual appropriateness, and appropriateness for the cultural and social context of the child.

  tags: differentiatedinstruction, differentiation, DAP

• Index of Learning Styles

  The Index of Learning Styles is an on-line instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman. The instrument was developed by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman of North Carolina State University.

  tags: LearningStyles, education, differentiatedinstruction, differentiation

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• Online Course Elements

  A nice outline of how an online course should be set up. Includes items for Course Structure and Course Content.

  tags: opd, onlinelearning, etlo, professionaldevelopment, onlinecourse

• Guidelines for Professional Development of Online Teachers

  tags: opd, onlinelearning, etlo, professionaldevelopment

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• National Council for the Social Studies – National Council for the Social Studies Community Network

  Share knowledge, resources, and ideas and connect with other social studies educators!

  tags: socialstudies, ning, history

• springfieldlessons – home

  An AWESOME list of technology infused lessons from Springfield Township school district.

  tags: lessons, teched, edtech, technology

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• Welcome to NBC Learn- Science of the Olympic Winter Games

  NBC Learn interviews athletes, coaches, and scientists in this original 16-part series, and unravels the physics, biology, chemistry, and materials engineering behind the Olympic Winter Games. The Science of the Olympic Winter Games is made possible through a partnership with the National Science Foundation.

  tags: Science, Olympics, Videos

• Welcome to NBC Learn

  NBC Learn is the education arm of NBC News. We are making the global resources of NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities.
  NBC News Archives on Demand (K-12 and Higher Ed) unleashes the power of the NBC News archives and makes thousands of video clips available to teachers, students, schools, colleges and universities.
  What’s Your iCue? is the video trivia challenge that blends learning and gaming.
  Original video content from NBC Learn is engaging, innovative, and makes learning fun!

  tags: NBC, news, education

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