Free, online. Converts most file types in seconds, and gives you the option to download the converted file or host it online for up to 120 days.
Free Scheduling Software - Integrate Outlook, Google Calendar & Exchange Availability. Recommended by Diane and Losira Okelo (IEARN)
Schools Online uses information technology and the internet to empower youth and promote intercultural dialog. As the educational division of Relief International, Schools Online is dedicated to serving the educational needs of vulnerable communities worldwide.
Online graphical dictionary and thesaurus. Reviewed in "How to teach English with the Internet". Cool, different and free!
1. Mloovi translates blog feeds from one language to another using Google Translate. 2. The translated version is available as a feed so people can directly subscribe to it in any news reader.
There is no software to download or install. Just login to your account, record or upload your video, and send! The recipient gets a friendly email message telling them they have a new video message, and they can watch it with a single click. No registration required.
Some of these songs are old, familiar childhood favorites. Others are new lyrics set to classic tunes. All are songs that I have used successfully in the preschool, kindergarten, or early elementary classroom.
a good explanation by Stephen Downes of the differences in technologies that are oriented more toward groups or networks-- and the implications of those differences.
Vance Stevens discusses connectivism
the project group seeks to explore possible answers to the following questions: 1. What types of communities of practice (CoP) are found in universities? 2. Why bother with CoPs in universities? 3. What opportunities are afforded by CoPs in universities? 4. What challenges do CoPs in universities face? 5. What are the enablers/disablers that influence the work of a university CoP? 6. Can we identify some of the reasons why ‘Universities, paradoxically, are not always conducive to communities of practice and the kind of collective learning they thrive on’?
Several good plans on Geography, History, Science and Technology, Mathematics, Language Arts and Social Studies
Microsoft lesson plan. Great for teaching "the weather" and future (Laser B1 - Unit 6)
A list of links to presentations by Webheads on CoPs
This wiki is dedicated to members of CoP for teaching and educational purposes. Use this space to share any collaborative initiatives, projects, research work, presentations, or reflections you may have had about CoP. Run by the Webheads!?!
Defining Communities of Practice... where it all started?
This literature review and synthesis aims at developing a knowledge base to inform the Ministry of Education on how to develop, implement, and maintain online communities of practice (CoPs), and how communication technologies can be used to support them. Author: Kwok Wing Lai, Keryn Pratt, Megan Anderson & Julie Stigter Published: 2006
This study addresses the challenge of the educational design and implementation of two online Masters’ programs within the humanities and education. The empirical basis for our investigation is the conception and delivery process of both courses from two different educational cultures, respectively; Ireland (MIC) and Denmark (OL). The core intention of the study is to explore, describe, compare, and discuss the extent to which collaborative learning in communities of practice (COPs) (Wenger, 1998) may be said to have developed throughout the learning process. From a perspective of learning as a matter of change taking place through participation in COPs, this paper attempts to assess — using a set of identifying criteria for COPs — the learning value of the processes that emerged from the viewpoint of, both designers as tutors and students.
This course has been developed by staff in the Educational Development Centre of Otago Polytechnic and is designed to help both formal and informal learners access and interpret models, research and professional dialog in the facilitation of online communities.
Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, ... DO START HERE!
questioning interactionism?
Many resources on communities of practice, looks worth browsing in more detail
Etienne Wenger's blog on "Future learning". Must browse through it!
Home page for "A case study of a Community of Practice" (EVO2003 - Webheads in Action)
Excellent list of resources!
If we, the educators, do not want to be left stranded on the ‘platform’, ongoing professional development is essential as we enter further into the technological workplace and an information-based society! By Hala Fawzi
Restore files which are deleted from the recycle bin or deleted while holding down the Shift key by mistake. Conversely, this program has another function that makes it almost impossible to restore all deleted files. Recommended by Bob Rankin.
Allows you to quickly create cool messages with a background photo, video and/or music (from your pc or the Web), which can then be emailed or embedded. Reviewed by Marina Cantarutti at LWC.
Get a limited account to get up to 20 fax pages a month for free (NB: if you go beyond the limit without updating your subscription, your account may be suspended or terminated). Reviewed by Bob Rankin at http://askbobrankin.com/free_inbound_faxing.html
First came across this site as Vance Stevens shared a video he had created... Makes animated .ppt look like a handwritten sheet of paper! Must give it a try...
Interesting tips to enhance our blogging... Not mastered this art yet!
The Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach
What social networking is, and how it can help you! (3:24). Reviewed by Digital Inspiration.
Take a diagnostic test to find out which level you need to practise. Then click on your level to practise.
Great idea to get people started in the blogosphere! It's as important to help people learn to listen and show they care than to make themselves hear, right?
A hyperlinked text helping us know how to blog.
Send your Flickr pix to Twitter and show people what you're up to. Reviewed by Ana Maria Menezes
Put two Twitter screen names into the boxes below to see their conversation via @ replies! Reviewed by Ana Maria Menezes
Free way to create a video recording of your screen (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install! You can embed screencast-o-matic in your own site so people can create screencasts and upload them to a channel you create. Recommended by Ma. Lorena Recio.
Useful to record tutorials. Recommended by Lorena Recio... must try it soon!
A "safe, restricted network for students" (wonder who checks this). Useful tips in the Sidebar. An option to submit files for publication. Paul Allison twittered about this.
Online lesson on Immanuel Kant (in Spanish)
Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other! Reviewed by Ana Ma. Menezes.
JotForm is the first web based WYSIWYG form builder. Design forms to use somewhere else. Design forms and let us collect the data for you as well. Learnt about it on Erika Cruvinel's Blinklist.
The easy way to build, host and process online forms. Use for marketing campaigns, surveys, order forms, event registration, and more. Learnt about it on Erika Cruvinel's Blinklist.
You can search through a huge collection of videos from various video sharing sites and when you find something you like the site will download and convert it to a file type of your choosing,including ones suitable for mobile phones and i-pods. Recommended by Nick Peachey (Quick shout)
La Asociación Venezolana para la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje de Lenguas Mediados por (el) Computador, en adelante AVEALMEC, es una asociación sin fines de lucro que tiene como propósito agrupar docentes, estudiantes e investigadores venezolanos, latinoamericanos y de otras nacionalidades, dedicados a la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de Lenguas mediados por el computador, en Venezuela. Mentioned at WIA
A place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them. Recommended by Carla Arena
Crowdstatus is made up of crowds, each crowd contains people and each person in the crowd has a status. This means that you can see what everyones current status is in a crowd. Only works with twitter at the moment. Vance has started one for WIA at: http://crowdstatus.com/webheadsinactioncrowd.aspx
Screencasts which show how to use various Web 2.0 tools, by Liz Davis. Reviewed by Larry Ferlazo.
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