• World’s best note regarding blog comments? – Mind Dump

  Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

  tags: blog comments anonymous

• New Media Literacies

  Our Space is a set of curricular materials designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in new media environments. Through role-playing activities and reflective exercises, students are asked to consider the ethical responsibilities of other people, and whether and how they behave ethically themselves online.

  tags: digitalcitizenship Media curriculum ethics New_Media ethik tl2014

• Draw a Stickman

  Interactive drawing fun!

  tags: animation stickman fun draw creative inspiration webdesign flash

• The Learning Network Reading Club – NYTimes.com

  From the New York Times: “Every so often, we’ll post an article that we think has great appeal for young people and invite them to come to our blog to discuss it. Yes, we do something like this every day via our Student Opinion question, but Reading Club will have a few very important rules to make it different:”

  tags: reading nytimes tl2014 social reading discussion k12

• Pearltrees

  From a central node (or as is called here “pearl”), you connect other pearls. These other pearls are web resources that connect to the central pearl. Pearltrees automatically organizes the content in a circular fashion around the starting pearl.

  tags: web2.0 bookmarking mindmap pearltrees visualization mapping social web tl2014

• The 4 Components of a Compelling Elevator Pitch | Michael Hyatt

  Learn the 4 components of an elevator pitch…and why you even need to have one.

  tags: components elevator pitch

• The Asshole as Leader | Thinking is Hard Work

  What is the importance of EQ in being an effective leader?

  tags: Leader thinking leadership

• Top 10 Sites for Online Tutoring and Teaching

  “Over the last few years online tutoring sites have really boosted in popularity. The reason for this is people just don’t have the time or the money to spend at an actually tutoring center. Online Tutoring is an ideal solution as it can be done at home on a computer or mobile device and is usually a much cheaper alternative. Also, online tutoring/teaching is a nice way for educators to earn some extra money doing what they love to from the comfort of their own home and setting their own schedule. Plus, students should love the ability to view and choose courses that work for them.”

  tags: tl2014 tutoring teaching online

• BBC – Dimensions

  Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Type in your postcode or a place name to get started.

  tags: tl2014 maps visualization geography history bbc dimensions interactive education

• BBC Dimensions: How Many Really?

  This is a BBC interactive site that shows how many people were affected by or participated in major historical events.

  tags: tl2014 history dimensions infographics bbc data math

• TeachPaperless: Fifteen Paperless Math Strategies

  Math is so much more than numbers on paper. Here are 15 ways teachers can go beyond paper and get their students to really think like mathematicians.

  tags: tl2014 math paperless strategies assessment web2.0 technology

• Google Earth 6.1 released | Google Earth Blog

  Google Earth 6.1 has just been released, and it comes with a handful of very nice features. Learn about all of them here.

  tags: tl2014 google google earth web2.0 update

• Magisto – Magical video editing. In a click!

  Magisto is an amazing service that takes your unedited video and turns it into a beautifully edited & produced clip perfect for sharing. And it does it all in a click. The magic is that there are no people involved in the process!

  tags: tl2014 VideoEditing video_editing Slideshow technology magisto tools sharing web2.0

• How to Make a Timeline: How to Easily Create any Kind of Timeline

  “The internet is filled with useful web sites, and among them are timeline generators that can help you easily create a timeline”

  tags: timeline web2.0 tools timelines tl2014 collaboration history visualization

• Dipity – Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines

  “Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web’s content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps. “

  tags: tl2014 timeline web2.0 tools timelines collaboration history visualization dipity

• Pronunciator – Learn to Speak 60 Languages – 100% Free

  Pronunciator is a free service offering self-paced lessons for sixty languages. Each lesson is comprised of flashcards that are read to viewers in the language that they are trying to learn. Additionally, each flashcard has each word written in the student’s native language and the language that he or she is trying to learn.

  tags: tl2014 languages audio vocabulary language

• PD session 2: Multimedia extravaganza « Westminster Science

  “It’s a no brainer that multimedia is an essential part of science and science education. Our focus today is going to be on learning some tools that make it much easier to incorporate multimedia into your lessons, and a few new ideas for using multimedia in your lessons you might not have thought of.”

  tags: tl2014 multimedia tutorial professional development science imovie screencasts images video editing

• The Top Ten Lessons Steve Jobs Can Teach Us – If We’ll Listen – Forbes

  What can we learn from Steve Jobs?

  tags: stevejobs lessons

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