Jane Hart over at the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies has compiled some great lists for e-learning tools. The lists are geared more toward educators, but I think a decent majority of the items are relevant for students as well, especially grad students who spend their days walking that line between penniless student and underpaid educator.
There’s the…
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Added by Sabrina Fu on December 31, 2008 at 2:30am —
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Writing teachers can turn their favorite teaching tricks into gold in a contest aimed at gathering best practices for teaching writing in the classroom. The contest rewards the best ideas submitted by teachers as judged by their peers. Now through January 1, 2009, teachers who submit tips at
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Added by John Costilla on December 17, 2008 at 7:48am —
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The
Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources (represented as "packages") that support student learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges.
The key to
MLX is it being a place for exchange of ideas. Anyone from anywhere can browse and search the warehouse. Each "package" is represented by a descriptive "packing slip" that…
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Added by Kevin Chilton on December 9, 2008 at 7:12am —
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By Alix E. Peshette Cross-posted from The Impetuous Geek The web is an expansive collection of the good, the bad and the ugly. Wouldn’t it be great if our students could search online in a safe environment? What if teachers could focus student searches towards specific resources? Sounds complicated and full of java scripts and html?
Welcome to the happy collision of… Continue
Added by Alix E. Peshette on December 5, 2008 at 3:00pm —
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So is this caused by a down economy with cut backs or is this a result of less than desirable traffic, revenue models and stickiness? Earlier, I made a
post about "Free" services moving to different models including the embedding of ads inside the content and deeper into the application vs. traditional banner ads. That did not sit well with some…
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Added by John Costilla on November 20, 2008 at 8:22am —
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"Just discovered five minutes ago that Edublogs.org has all of a sudden decided to force Kontera Content Links upon all its blog users. So here's what my blog looks like now-- and all my students' blogs."
from…
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Added by John Costilla on November 10, 2008 at 8:25am —
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What are people's experience with virtual classrooms ? WiZiQ offers a virtual Classroom that doesn't cost $100,000 for a site license. That's what attracted me to the WiZiQ VC platform.
Mark
www.WiZiQ.com is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment for teachers to interact online and teach students in real time. Teachers can also build a…
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Added by Mark Cruthers on October 27, 2008 at 7:30pm —
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FLOSS Manuals, located at
flossmanuals.net, is a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software.
The FLOSS acronym stands for Free/Libre/Open-Source Software. The manuals are friendly and simple, and they are intended to encourage people to explore the wide range of free, open source alternatives to expensive and restrictively licensed software.
Added by Kevin Chilton on October 13, 2008 at 5:19am —
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Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential.
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Added by Kevin Chilton on October 8, 2008 at 4:08am —
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Please consider joining our
Cool Tools and EdTech (
http://groups.diigo.com/groups/cooltools) and/or
Parent Learning Board (
http://groups.diigo.com/groups/parent) group at Diigocom.
You might also enjoy checking out and downloading the
FREE Teacher Toolbar (listed among Jane Hart's best elearning tools in…
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Added by Ellen on September 24, 2008 at 9:30am —
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These free worksheets will help your child brush up on language arts, math, science, and other important subjects. Select the learning level below to get you started.
Preschool
Kindergarten
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Added by Amy James on September 23, 2008 at 2:42pm —
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PBwiki has announced that they are offering educators & librarians who sign up as part of the 2008 PBwiki Program for Educators a free premium wiki (regular price: $250/year). This program is also open to home school parents as well.
You can learn more about all the ways you can use a wiki in your classroom to enhance and support student learning over on the
PBWiki Education page, or the
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Added by Derek Baird on September 9, 2008 at 4:00pm —
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TeacherRated.com is a free resource website created by teachers for teachers. Using TeacherRated.com, educators quickly locate the very best teaching tools, lesson plans, reference websites and student activities available online because resources are suggested, rated and reviewed by teachers.
Whether searching for lesson plans, teaching resources or student activities, many educators turn to the Internet for help. With thousands of…
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Added by Greg from LessonGateway.com on September 1, 2008 at 8:00pm —
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A free weather poster is available in PDF format for download at
www.uskoob.com
This is available 8 up in A4 as you see it here and as 8 individual A4 pages- hope you find it helpful
Added by Uskoob on August 26, 2008 at 7:14pm —
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Heres a few of the new resourses available for free at
www.uskoob.com
Added by Uskoob on August 18, 2008 at 5:34am —
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The Virtual Laboratory Toolkit provides an extensive set of free person-to-person (P2P) communication tools (audio and video conference, scientific text chat, whiteboard, collaborative authorship, portal and mailing list management, etc.), and also basic advice on person-to-equipment (P2E) tools.
The toolkit is available for download at:
http://virtuallab.tu-freiberg.de/
Added by Kevin Chilton on July 24, 2008 at 10:24am —
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Just a quick post to alert people to a new ‘
ning’ group that has been set up by
Oscar Stringer.
Animation for Education is for those interested in learning how to make simple animation films in the classroom, and equally for those who already know how, to share tips and tricks to get the best results. There are recommendations for free and/or cheap…
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Added by Jo Rhys-Jones on June 15, 2008 at 2:23pm —
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Hi Everyone,
I believe online learning should be free and available worldwide. If
you feel the same, join me at
Integrating Technology: Exploring New
Domains where you can learn and create your own online courses using
Moodle course management system (CMS). Free Moodle training and
professional development courses will be offered free of charge to
teachers who wish to provide free learning for others.…
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Added by Dr. Nellie Deutsch on May 25, 2008 at 4:10am —
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Not all people in USA earn fat salary cheques, there are many people in USA who fall in lower middle class. They also have duties and commitments towards their children education. The point is they have limitations in terms of money to be spend on children education, keeping their budget tight they have to manage everything. It is comfortable if their child is scoring good grades in school but the problem arises if their child is scoring poor grades and he/she needs tutoring. We, all know the…
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Added by Jasonrichmond on April 30, 2008 at 1:48am —
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How can web 2.0 tools be used in education?
Join free online professional development courses and find out how you can integrate web 2.0 into your classes. Live online presentations will be scheduled and added to Exploring New Domains. The sessions will focus on how web 2.0 tools can be used for instruction and learning.
Added by Dr. Nellie Deutsch on April 25, 2008 at 2:19pm —
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