Be a Buddy

1. Reading about buddypress http://speckyboy.com/2010/02/19/12-amazing-buddypress-themes-and-getting-started-guides/ example http://www.teach42.com/challenge/ awards http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home site http://buddypress.org/ 2. http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/how-to-reference-material/how-to-theme-and-silo-your-wordpress-blog/ How to Theme and Silo Your WordPress Blog 3. http://www.proteacher.org/c/650_Persuasive_Writing.html Persuasive Writing – Ideas for Teaching, Resources for Lesson Plans, and Activities for Unit Planning 4. My One Great Lesson This Year http://educationontheplate.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/my-one-great-lesson-this-year/ 5. post about leading tech learning with Pre-service Teachers [...]

Walk the Naplank

1. Naplan testing http://www.nswtf.org.au/media/latest_2010/20100921_wu_address.html Margaret Wu 2. iread blog YA library http://ccgsnrlib.globalteacher.org.au/ 3. Generation M Manifesto http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2009/07/today_in_capitalism_20_1.html 4. Ebooks http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm 5. Map sites http://www.openstreetmap.org and http://www.nearmap.com/help/map-features 6. Free critical thinking guide http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/critical_thinking.aspx 7. Search the most shared pages on the internet here: http://allthingsnow.com http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/import.html http://www.lrs.org/ http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/4schools.html#other 8. Talk to any iPhone user in the world, [...]

Don’t Text While Driving

1. Don’t Text While Driving documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DebhWD6ljZs 2. http://21stpresentation.blogspot.com/2010/12/little-robots.html Scrabble flash game http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/en_US/shop/details.cfm?guid=1584D8B3-19B9-F369-10D2-0A943216A214&product_id=27312&src=endeca 3. Poem grammar http://www.wimp.com/speaktypography/ 4. Web2Guru: Online tools by subject http://bit.ly/i7SSaq and The 101 Most Useful Websites for solving common problems & efficiently completing tasks http://ow.ly/3u9i5 5. 2010 in review & plans 4 2011. http://bit.ly/fROEAl 6. Reading http://www.persnicketysnark.com/2010/08/final-list-top-100-ya-novels-2010.html great series http://www.thetalescompendium.com/2010/12/great-series-persnickety-snarks-five.html 7. [...]

Kringalicious

1. Library wiki http://thedaringlibrarian.wikispaces.com/ 2. Reading blogs for YA http://yaaddict.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-ten-tuesday-most-anticipated-books.html http://yaaddict.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-nightshade-by-andrea-cremer.html http://www.burnbright.com.au/my-top-5-ya-of-2010-amy-parker/ 3. Check out Scholastic’s new website, You Are What You Read, and create your own bookprint– a list of 5 books that… http://soc.li/uNVK8hN 4. Being Present http://bit.ly/fTP3Dy 5. Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Visually Appealing Ways to Publish Documents Online http://bit.ly/e5Qs5A 6. Use [...]

Ignite the Light

1. Amazing, wonderful video by students at Magnolia HS http://bit.ly/eheeWX 2. really futuristic and cool ptint translare LOTE http://questvisual.com/ 3. November 2010 Unquiet Library Multimedia Monthly Report Available: The November 2010 library month… http://bit.ly/gf4R9O 4. Great use web 2 Maths – Zooburst on Exponents – Geometry Project! http://screenr.com/R9q nice dance addition http://screenr.com/99q pemdas http://screenr.com/o9q http://screenr.com/29q [...]

Information literacy 21

Big 6 Matrix explanation of Big 6 http://www.janetsinfo.com/big6info.htm Big 6 site with resources http://www.big6.com/ Summary of Big 6 http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/Big_Six_Steps.asp General article on Big 6 http://www.suite101.com/content/teaching-information-literacy-skills-using-big6-a123619 The Big Six Information Skills As a Metacognitive Scaffold: A Case Study (effect on testing) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volume62003/bigsixinformation.cfm Michael Esienberg Eisenberg, M. The Library Game-Changer: Summon the Future. Keynote, Serial Solutions Breakfast, [...]

Bookaboo

1. Meat Loaf is a gifted reader of children books! Bookaboo http://bit.ly/hHqKDM 2. Teacher-Librarian Susan Grigsby: Data Driven Collaboration and Reader’s Theater: http://bit.ly/htgXII 3. Educational Twitter chats – list of hashtags http://cybraryman.com/chats.html 4. Google Custom Search just introduced ability to search using metadata better http://goo.gl/pS4Fp 5. Artsonia added “Artist Statements” so kids can write about [...]

Roll out the red carpet – Eddies 2010

1. Winners edublogs awards http://edublogawards.com/announcing-the-2010-edublog-awards-winners/ 2. Inanimate Alice http://www.inanimatealice.com/ digital storytelling 3. The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative http://j.mp/ggVxy9 4. Top youtube videos 2010 http://www.youtube.com/rewind 50 top YouTube videos (compiled by Time in 2010 to celebrate 5 years of YouTube) http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1974961,00.html 5. Nerdfighter, John Green – Funny – author of Looking for Alaska, [...]

“The internet of things will likely have a greater impact on humanity than social media”

1. The internet of things http://wordpress.bialik.vic.edu.au/emerging-tech-watch/83-the-internet-of-things 2. Reflection on Storytelling unit- http://bit.ly/iblTYh Covered: Storybird, podcasts, writing, G Docs, reflection & more. 3. Voice Threads for Math Journals http://bit.ly/fJ3UFV 4. Learning tools directory! http://bit.ly/SKi7K 5. QR codes http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/2010/12/hot-qr-codes-in-classroom-library.html?spref=tw 6. Google for parents http://mashable.com/2010/12/13/google-teachparentstech-launch/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_content=Twitter 7. Free tools 4 teachers http://mashable.com/2010/10/16/free-social-media-tools-for-teachers/ 8. Ebooks http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/ipad/the-future-of-books-is-a-real-pageturner-20101212-18u27.html 9. State of the [...]

What would happen if…

1. Creativity http://www.slideshare.net/betsystreeter/the-best-question-in-the-world 2. Funny cartoon- wireless http://www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/?p=2601 3. youtube ends time limitshttp://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2010/12/09/youtube-ends-time-limits.html 4. Turning texting teens into published novelists http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/12/help-turn-your-texting-teens-into.html 5. 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020 http://post.ly/1JyRX 6. What Works in the Classroom? Ask the Students http://nyti.ms/i1HCdk 7. Gates Foundation report on effective teaching http://bit.ly/e3AuCy 8. 15 yr old [...]