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Project Based Learning

Posted in PBL on Aug 24th, 2008 No Comments »

Here are some great websites on Project Based Learning:
Project Based Learning
ThinkQuest
The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science

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A Poem

Posted in Videos To View on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »

“If I Controlled the Internet” by performance poet and multimedia artist Rives.

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Songsterr

Posted in Music on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »

Songsterr is a flash-based guitar tab player. It offers over 150 songs to choose from.

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New Search Engine

Posted in Internet on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »

Searchme is a visual search engine which lets you see a preview of the site, as well as highlighting all occurrences of your key words.

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Changing The Default Web Browser

Posted in Internet, Tutorials on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »

In order to change the default web browser on your mac, you must do the following:

Launch Safari
From the Safari menu choose Preferences
Make sure the General Tab is selected
Next to “New Windows Open With:”, choose a browser from the default popup menu.

My personal favorite web browser is Firefox.

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Literacy

Posted in Digital Media Literacy on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »

Two interesting articles have been published this month:
NY Times: Online, R U Really Reading?
Atlantic Monthly: Is Google Making Us Stupid?

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Did You Know?

Posted in Teachers on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »

Shift Happens 
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: technology globalization)

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Posted in Videos To View on Aug 15th, 2008 No Comments »

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Digital Storytelling

Posted in Digital Storytelling on Aug 14th, 2008 No Comments »

Animoto is an easy to use website. You upload your images, choose a song from a bank of their songs, or upload one of your own, and then press create.  In a few minutes, you are presented with a video clip. (A free registration is required)

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Plagiarism

Posted in Research on Aug 14th, 2008 No Comments »

Article Checker checks websites and articles for plagiarism. Copy and paste a block of text in the text box, select the search engine you want to use (google or yahoo) and then click on compare. I copied and pasted a paragraph from a wikipedia article and within seconds I was given a list of websites [...]

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