The Fridge's Weekly Bookmarks (weekly)

• Is this asking too much of ISTE? - (SM)eech - SMeech.net

  Technology in Education isn't the Future... It is the Present!

  tags: necc, iste, netaboard

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The Fridge's Weekly Bookmarks (weekly)

• News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media

  How social media has opened up news reporting to everyone and changed the way news is gathered.

  tags: news, research, eylptt

• SnagFilms

  Get free documentaries and the ability to snag the pieces that you want.

  tags: documentaries, education, Videos, free_tech_4_teachers

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The Fridge's Weekly Bookmarks (weekly)

• Tequipment's Educator Resource Center: News

  Tequipment Educator Resource Center

  tags: iwb, smartboard, smart_board, resources

• Yudu Library

  Use it to publish pdf files as online magazines. Would be great for tech manuals.

  tags: publishing, pdf, magazine, web2.0

• Action! Get the Cameras Rolling with Digital Storytelling | digitalstorytelling digital_storytelling video_production | Making Teachers Nerdy

  Lots of great resources to get started with digital storytelling.

  tags: digitalstorytelling, digital_storytelling, writing, video, photos, video_production, language

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The Fridge's Weekly Bookmarks (weekly)

• Staff Development 2.0

  8 ingredients to a high quality staff development program

  tags: pd, research, training, hp

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The Fridge's Weekly Bookmarks (weekly)

• Triptico | Word Magnets

  A very cool website that converts the words you type into magnets that can be moved around.

  tags: no_tag

• YouTube - SMARTClassrooms's Channel

  SMART Technology's YouTube channel

  tags: youtube, video, smartboard, resources, resource

• Raylit

  This may be more of an at home activity, but it's designed for 3-7 year olds. Different games and videos to help them with all content areas.

  tags: teaching, education, primary

• Toy Theater - Home

  Lots of game-type activities. An interesting one may be the Road Signs under reading...could see some abstract uses for that.

  tags: games, creative

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NETS & P21 - Brothers From Different Mothers?

As I'm getting ready to "attend" the Cyber Summit on 21st Century Skills, I got to thinking about the other project I'm working on, which is aligning some new curriculum activities to the ISTE standards. So this begs the question: Which one should your curriculum be aligned to? Or does it matter? Is this a Ford vs. Chevy (pre-bankruptcy) debate?

As I'm reading through both of them (P21 -- ISTE), they basically stress the same things. Are they two separate ideas and both should be taken into consideration as we move forward with curriculum writing? I don't have a good answer. I think it's important that one of them be placed in the back of your mind as curriculum is being developed, but which one does your district try to align to? Would love your feedback.

The Fridge's Weekly Bookmarks (weekly)

• NeoK12

  Categorized videos from K-12...most videos come from YouTube.

  tags: youtube, video, collection, education

• Dangerously Irrelevant: Why should I come at all? Why should I come back?

  From Scott McLeod's blog, discussion on what the purpose of your blog should be: a relevant place for your readers.

  tags: blogger, blogging, scott_mcleod

• Project New Media Literacies

  tags: research, 21st-century-skills, 21stcenturyskills, resource

• Great Source iwrite - Students: Grammar Handbook

  Cool interactive and narrated resource for student writers.

  tags: free_tech_4_teachers, grammar, writing, language, resources

• Creaza - Home

  All-in-one digital storytelling website.

  tags: digitalstorytelling, digital_storytelling, language, writing

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