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TechUniversity: Mac Video Tutorials & Screencasts
TechUniversity is a video tutorial and screencast site dedicated to teaching you how to use your Mac and Apple products better. We’re launching with close to two dozen screencasts and will be adding new videos every week. You can watch the videos directly on the site or download high-quality, DRM-free videos with chapter markers. And to get your feet wet, you can check out a few free episodes in the Freebies section.
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The Innovative Educator: The Ten No Nos of Teaching with a Projector or Interactive Whiteboard
“I spend a lot of time visiting innovative classrooms in New York City. As I do, there is something that I’ve noticed in many classes I’ve visited – there are still some educators that don’t seem to know the no nos for teaching with a projector or interactive whiteboard (IWB). Perhaps it’s easier to notice when you’re sitting as an audience member or an observer which is not often the case for teachers. If you’re an innovative educator teaching with a projector or IWB, you too might be engaging in a no no or two”
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Milestone Documents · Your primary source for historic texts and analysis.
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Web 2.0 Guru – Tools By Subject
“Core Content Area Resources
Interactive resources for specific core content areas. Also listed are the PA State Standards to match assist with standards implementation and accountability.” -
Creative Teaching Strategies in the Special Needs Classrooms
“I was browsing through YouTube last evening, searching for videos to show my students about new and emerging technology. I was quickly side- tracked by looking to see if there were any good videos made by teachers about how they use technology in their special education classroom. I was quite surprised to see the number of results , in-depth explanations, about variety of assistive technologies being used, and how many teachers are going to YouTube to share their creative teaching strategies. Below is a synopsis of links to great videos with great ideas!”
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Create Your Own Comic | Marvel Super Hero Squad | The Official Web Site
Create your own comic strip or comic book using Super Hero characters.
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the graphical knowledge engine – visual search engine
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Social Bookmarking in Plain English – 28 Translation(s) | dotSUB
“We made this video because we want others to experience the power of social bookmarking and how it makes web pages easier to remember, organize and share.”
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Audio Books, Podcasts, and Free Downloads
Collection of audio and video resources for classroom use.
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The Education Podcast Network | A Landmark Project
Compilation of podcasts from teachers, students, and other educators about a wide range of issues.
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Comprehensive list of copyright friendly images and sounds for use in student multimedia projects.
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List of videos available from the History Channel.
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Welcome to Discovery Education
Streaming, Discovery Education Streaming video and classroom resources from Discovery Education.
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Interactive media and lesson plans in all subject areas.
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Gizmos! Online simulations that power inquiry and understanding. | ExploreLearning
5-minute interactive gizmos for math and science.
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Free, open-source instructional materials for K-12.
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Online textbook and interactive resources.
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digitaleducators2 – Social Bookmarking with Diigo
“Diigo
This is the most versatile social bookmarking tool! Why is this our social bookmarking service of choice? It provides so many other useful features in addition to saving and sharing bookmarks! Diigo enables you to forward your saved sites to others, enhancing collaboration. It’s also a great tool for researching because it allows you to highlight text and add sticky notes to any web page. Diigo provides another tool for collaboration by allowing the creation of user groups and discussion forums. Diigo also interacts with Delicious and other bookmarking tools through the use of the Add Elsewhere button. Web pages can be linked together through the use of the webslides feature.” -
A Guide to Delicious Social Bookmarking | The Social Media Guide
“Delicious is a social bookmarking site that allows you to tag, save, share and discover bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser.
With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.”
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web2tutorial – social_bookmarks
“Before Web 2.0, when you discovered a really good website, you bookmarked it in your browser so that you could quickly visit it again in the future. This worked well for the most part. However, a couple of problems arose with this method of bookmarking. When you bookmarked a site on one computer, it was only available on that specific computer. Change computers, and you lose your bookmarks. Another problem with this method of bookmarking is that you couldn’t easily share your bookmarks with other people. And other people couldn’t share their bookmarks with you.”
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ELI 7 Things You Should Know – 60 Resources | EDUCAUSE
“EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about ELI 7 Things You Should Know.”
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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