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World Wide Web
Blogging in Education
Submitted by kgallagher on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 11:17.
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This blog was created to accompany a presentation on blogging given to VT educators as part of a VTCite Summer Institute on 21st Century Classrooms. The purpose of this blog is to provide ideas and suggestions for how to effectively use blogs in education. It was created collaboratively by a social studies teacher, a science teacher and a technology integration specialist.
Popfly
Submitted by dmoore on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 02:42.
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Popfly can be used to make mashups in student projects. Students can combine visuals from several sources into one single visual. For example photos can be combined with Virtual Earth to create global nature journals.
QuizStar
Submitted by dmoore on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 02:35.
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QuizStar is an online site where teachers can create quizzes and organize the results. Teachers sign up their classes and students obtain passwords. There are tools for managing results.
Vermont Second Life
Submitted by David Wells on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 16:54.
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If you want to use Second Life as an avenue to collaborate with other educators, this site will help you get started. You will find resources, tutorials, and folks to contact.
Infinite Thinking Machine
Submitted by jmorris on Sun, 03/30/2008 - 12:29.
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You'll find some nice educational handouts here:
* Blogger in the Classroom
* Google Docs & Spreadsheets in the Classroom
* Google Earth in the Classroom
* Google Search in the Classroom
* Picasa in the Classroom
* SketchUp in the Classroom
and
Presentation Handouts
* "Google Search" (Chris Walsh)
* "The Google Universe" (Chris Walsh)
* "Build Your School Media Empire" (Chris Walsh)
* "Learning Everywhere, All the Time" Links (Chris Walsh)
There is also a Blog going on 24/7 discussing different ways to use technology to prepare 21st century students.
