Weekly Tech Tip - Using Visuals With Language Learners

Weekly Tech Tip:


related links:

• Creative Commons Search
• Internet Archive

Video Festival:

• JOHN CLEESE WCF- explains where ideas and creativity come from
• Noam Chomsky on the Role of the Educational System
• Chris Anderson: How YouTube is driving innovation
• Seth Godin at Gel 2006 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.
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• Seth Priebatsch: Building the game layer on top of the world

Link Stew:

• Join.me - Free tool that lets you share your computer screen with others online.
• Wordmapper - collection of world maps resized to illustrate demographic information like income, population, disease, etc.
• QR Code Generator from the ZXing Project
• Dede, C. Leadership Without Followers. G. Kearsley & W. Lynch, Eds. Educational Technology: Leadership Perspectives (pp. 19-28). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications, 1993. (an abbreviated version was published in The Computing Teacher 20, 6 (March, 1993), 9-11).
• Example of how you can balance chemical equations with Wolfram Alpha
  

Newsreel:

• Why Michelle Rhee's Education 'Brand' Failed in D.C. - The Atlantic
• Children develop own language in cave - nine.msn
• Public Schools Face Lawsuit Over Fees - NYTimes
• Why I don’t believe in “reform” Posted by Marc Waxman - Education News Colorado
  

Blog Carnival:

• Ten Free Project Based Learning Resources That Will Place Students At The Center Of Learning by Michael Gorman on Tech&Learning
• Is Teacher Effectiveness a Myth? by Jarrod Drysdale on Good Education
• What does it mean to be well-educated? by Sabrina on Failing Schools
• Movie Review: Waiting for Superman: Or just another Clark Kent playing dress-up? by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY on Teacher Revised
• Programming vs. Nurturing by Greg Thompson on Cumulative Knowledge
• Another “expert” weighs in on education reform. by Eric Brunsell on Teaching Science 2.0
• Are we edubloggers too harsh on our kids’ teachers? by Scott McLeod on Dangerously Irrelevant
• Nostradamus and Arne Duncan by Gary Stager on Stager-to-Go
• The Education (Non)Debate and Progressive Teachers by David Wees on teach(R)evolution
• I'm Not Who You Think I Am by Lee Kolbert on A GeekyMomma's Blog
• The Augmented Reality Library by Kelly Tenkely on iLearn Technology
  

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