Last Week’s Links
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The Essential Role of Information Fluency in E-Learning | E-Learning & Online Teaching – Annotated
- reminds me of the IST inquiry cycle – post by todbaker
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Curiously, most educators think they are competent searchers and evaluators, when they are really just beginners. Their disposition is to ask for help rather than search for answers.
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Teach Engineering – Free Curriculum for K-12
This teacher resource, TeachEngineering.org, helps teachers enhance learning, excite students and stimulate interest in science and math through the use of hands-on engineering.
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Thanks to the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation, open access electronic versions of all the books in this series are available. Follow the links from each title description below to read these editions.
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Latest News – Digital Learning
(November 20, 2008) — Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online — often in ways adults do not understand or value. Read the press release. Read a two-page overview of the study (PDF). Read the 30-page white paper. Read the full study on the Digital Youth Project’s website. Watch a video interview with the study’s lead researcher, Dr. Mizuko Ito.
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Idea Lab – Becoming Screen Literate – NYTimes.com
Everywhere we look, we see screens. The other day I watched clips from a movie as I pumped gas into my car. The other night I saw a movie on the backseat of a plane. We will watch anywhere.
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Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing – NYTimes.com
Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation.
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Education Edition
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24×7digital – PhotoCopy – iPhoto Backup and Sharing for Mac OS X
Do you use iPhoto and Flickr? Then PhotoCopy is for you! PhotoCopy lets you combine iPhoto’s ease of use with the great sharing features of Flickr. PhotoCopy makes it easier than ever to share your iPhoto library through Flickr and to create offsite backups.
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Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor – Award Winning Touch Typing Tutor – Free Online Typing Test
Ten Thumbs is the award winning, easy and fun way to get typing. Learn the proper way to type without looking at the keys. Our unique personal trainer approach adapts to you, teaching the best habits from day one.
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K-12 Open Source Community – Free and Open Source Software in K – 12 Education
Free and Open Source Software in K – 12 Education
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Free PDF to Word Doc Converter – easy and powerful pdf converter software.
The world’s best Free Software to convert Adobe .pdf file to Microsoft .doc file!
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Once Upon A School » 826 Valencia Workshop Podcasts
The podcast series is an opportunity for students to share their hard work with the community at large and to become familiar with important 2.0 technologies.
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5 Apps To Get More Out Of Your NEW Mac | MakeUseOf.com
Back in March, Jackson Chung reminded you of the 10 Essential Mac Apps to Install After a Reformat. Here, in this post, I will endeavour to purloin some of his ideas and add some of my own. If you are a Mac newbie, I hope that the suggested applications are new and useful to you. If you are an old hand, read ahead and correct me with your own better alternatives.
