ICT Tools
Website or social network creators
This post was inspired by a request from a reader for a tool that can be used to mash-up YouTube clips. YouTube is full of great content that can be useful in the classroom (YouTube is also full of nonsense that causes schools to block it). Sometimes you only need to show a part of a video to illustrate a point.
Three Ways to Cut, Mix, & Mash YouTube Videos
This page is where you can find resources related to my presentations about creating effective blogs and websites to complement instruction. How to create a Blogger blog. How to turn on comment moderation in Blogger. How to add or subtract contributors to your Blogger blog. How to create an Edublogs blog. How to create a Wordpress.com blog.
Creating Blogs and Websites
100 Websites To See Before You Die (Part 1) | Maximum PC
Here at Maximum PC, we've always done our fair share of website recommendation articles--including a couple of doozies from the past few years. And of course we're not the only ones who do this sort of article either; it's a proven popular format. But this year, we thought we'd mix things up a little bit. Rather than just focusing on what's services are popular, or which web apps will make you the most productive, we wanted to take a look at what's fun on the Internet. In that spirit, our February cover feature is going to be 100 Websites You Need to Visit Before You Die.
Social Storytelling | Online Timeline Maker | Share Photos, Videos, Text, Music and Documents Easily
The possibilities for social media tools in the classroom are vast. In the hands of the right teacher, they can be used to engage students in creative ways, encourage collaboration and inspire discussion among even soft-spoken students. But we’ve already made our case for teachers should consider using social media in their classrooms . What about the ?
7 Fantastic Free Social Media Tools for Teachers
100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers | Online College Courses
YouTube has earned a reputation for featuring brain cell-slaughtering fare such as the truly abysmal Fred and playing host to the some of the most depressingly stupid comments this side of Yahoo! News. But for every participant liberally dishing out misspelled racist, sexist and homophobic talking points, there is at least one whose channel genuinely offers something provocative and educational.Yesterday I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 list. Many thanks to the 545 people who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning and contributed to the building of the list. Although this list is available online, I also created this presentation which provides the information as a slideset - embedded below. Last year's presentation has been viewed over 90,000 times on Slideshare, so I hope this one is equally useful. I have also produced a number of other pages that offer different view on the results. The Winners & Losers 2010 page shows the tools that have gone up and down the list or fallen off it completely or are new entrants this year.
