Best iPad word processor

Textilus: The iPad’s best word processor | Slanted Viewpoint
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100 Best Learning tools for 2009

Now that technology has become some prevalent, teachers need to stay abreast of what works in other classrooms. This slideshare presentation will bring the most popular tool to the forefront.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

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Free Technology Resource

Free Technology for Teachers

A review of free technology resources and how teachers can use them. Ideas for technology integration in education.
The author of this blog presents some great tools and resources for the classroom teacher who is interested in utilizing new technology.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

New Media demands new literacy

http://inanimatealice.com/education/index.html

This graphical interactive novel will definitely connect with today's students.
Check it out.

“'Inanimate Alice' has proven to be popular across a broad range of ages as well as with a broad range of viewers, including both book-lovers and gamers. Because the level of interactivity starts out low in episode one, increasing with each subsequent episode in order to reflect Alice's own growing abilities, we've found that we can take an audience unfamiliar with multimedia fiction with us. Educators like 'Inanimate Alice' because of this; students from primary to post-graduate level find the work engaging.
Today educators face a quandary. On the one hand there are anxieties about the reliability of internet sites and concerns regarding how to educate students to make informed online decisions. On the other hand there are, for example, government initiatives like the National Curriculum in England and Media Literacy outcomes in Canada which emphasise the important role technological skills play in all sorts of learning environments. But how can teachers successfully integrate new media literacies into the classroom?

'Inanimate Alice' is easily assimilated into learning environments; its use of multimodality (images, sounds, text, interaction) enables students to see storytelling in a new, multi-sensory light. 'Inanimate Alice' is a new media fiction that allows students to develop multiple literacies (literary, cinematic, artistic, etc.) in combination with the highly collaborative and participatory nature of the online environment.”

There is a downloadable Education Pack (.pdf) is available free of charge to teachers and educators wherever you are. http://inanimatealice.com/education/iteachregistration.html

Check out this technology device used to develop storytelling:
iStori.es - http://www.istori.es/ "the authoring tool for teachers, primary and secondary school students, university undergrads and, in fact, just about everyone.
If your students relate to Alice they are going to love working with iStori.es.
iStori.es is a supremely easy-to-use story-telling device that requires no manual. All of the instructions necessary to create dynamic output are available from the on-screen wizard. Load up some pictures, add text, music and sound effects and BOOM! you have your own interactive story in minutes."

Glogster - Interactive poster

If you haven’t seen www.glogster.com/edu , you must take time to enhance your classroom toolbox. Glogster is an interactive on-line poster maker that will bring creativity and enthusiasm to the forefront in the classroom and for homework projects. Students can combine pictures, graphics, text,and audio/video to create an on-line interactive poster. When completed the glog can be hosted on the Glogster site or embeded into a blog, wiki, personal website, or facebook page.
There is almost endless possibilities for curricula adaptations. Once the students start realizing the audio/video connectivity, they can start to create full scale multimedia projects that could include podcasts and other presentations.
Check out this YouTube video about Glogster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40zmLiFqjG8&feature=channel_page
Facebook application
http://www.glogster.com/news/16-12-08-facebook-application

Acronyms can be fun and frustrating when you don't know them...

Acronym Interaction, Expansion and Extrapolation Engine
by Lore Sjöberg

Tired of practicing your blank stares for when someone says they need a TCP/IP-based LAN set up and a USB-to-SCSI adapter ASAP? Do you wish you could throw around acronyms with that same casual attitude that pisses you off so much? Here's your chance. With this tool, you can enter any combination of letters you like (from 2 to 6) and we'll expand them into a handy, technical-sounding, completely made-up phrase that borders on the plausible.

So invent your own. Go to: http://www.brunching.com/acronymer.html

Print 3D Buildings from Google Earth

SketchUp and 3D Printing the Disney Concert Hall - Sweet Onion Creations

Another company has come out with a solution for making 3D prints from Google Earth. This time the solution is actually based on SketchUp 3D models. The company is called Sweet Onion Creations, and they describe how to click on a 3D model seen in Google Earth (or any found in the Google 3D Warehouse) and using their "3D printing" service get back an actual physical model. Here's a video they've made showing how it works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLiReajlXrg

Slideshare now has keynote plug-in

Slide share is a great way for online educators to share powerpoint and keynote programs with both student and parents.
This is a video that explains the basics:

Upload Keynote to SlideShare

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: keynote slideshare)

Use geography to send a greeting

http://www.geogreeting.com/main.html
The surface of the earth holds a message for you. You just need to look a little closer... Investigating the Earth from the sky will find some surprising tools for classroom teachers. This is a great way to develop geographical skills.

Add some excitement to your life--Blabberize

http://blabberize.com/view?id=50944
Sometimes it is attention catching to add something a little unusual. This web app will allow you to easily create a talking picture that you can use personally or professionally. It is quite creative and fun to use.
Here are some examples:
Mountain Lion Cub http://blabberize.com/view?id=52036
Shawn Johnson http://blabberize.com/view?id=52437
Share Web 2.0 Tools http://blabberize.com/view?id=52345
Happy Halloween http://blabberize.com/view?id=52152
Thanksgiving http://blabberize.com/view?id=17574
Santa http://blabberize.com/view?id=20054

What will the future bring to us??????

Google Earth Interface
Perceptive Pixel, Inc. was founded by Jeff Han in 2006
as a spinoff of the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
to develop and market the most advanced multi-touch system in the world.

Click here to see video

The power of social bookmarking......

This video was created by commoncraft.com to show the power of social bookmarking and how it makes web pages easy to remember, organize and share.

What is the big deal about blogs?

Need an explanation? View this video.
http://www.commoncraft.com/show
A video for people who wonder why blogs are such a big deal.

Conversion tools for educators

Zamzar http://www.zamzar.com/ is one of my favorites. A great converter, it is fast, free, educationally friendly. It converts almost anything to anything else you want it to be. The list is endless, so for one stop conversions, this is my pick. The other item, like Zamzar, is a converter. ConvertTube will allow you to convert online video like YouTube to more popular formats like wmv, mov, mp4,mp3, 3gp. http://converttube.com/ Having this tool in your teacher toolbox will make it easier to get around those firewalls.