Liz B. Davis’s 21CTools wiki was added to the sidebar today. She provides very clear explanations of web tools like Diigo, Flicker and Ning. Just click on the name in the navigation bar to find the resources. I really don’t like reading tutorials, though I don’t mind searching the tutorials if I know what specific capabilities exist.
I learned more about networking with del.icio.us today then I’ve learned using the tool for 3 years. And it was short and sweet. That is very important when the new school year is starting tomorrow.
4Teachers.org’s customizeable checklists for students use during PBL lessons was listed on the Technology in Education Resource Center web site. Wish I knew about this site while creating my Visual Storytelling PBL assignment for SDSU’s Comet program this summer.
I’ve been mining a wordle of web tools by checking out the sites during commercials.
Quizlet a vocabulary learning tool was created by Andrew Sutherland, a 15-year-old student. He says…
My mission for Quizlet is to make learning vocabulary not a chore. I know a lot of teachers assign vocabulary to students, but few students actually “absorb” words into their vocabularies after they take their test. Which kind of defeats the purpose, right?
It allows teachers or groups to create and learn vocabulary using techniques from computer flashcards (boring) to playing games like space race. One of the lists available by the now about 18-ear-old Andrew 100 most common SAT words.
Mystudiyo.com lets you create interactive quizzes with images and videos that can be embedded in blogs and websites. They had a competition for educational uses and this image links to the winner.
I just didn’t want to take the time to open Safari and find the activity file and download it. Someday I will figure out how to copy video using firefox, but it won’t be today. I have more applications to track down.
