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• Guest speaker Skypes in

  
  CIT Blog — Authority: 113
  Owen Astrachan (Professor, Computer Science at Duke) invited a graduate of Duke, Ge Wang , to be a guest speaker to his Technical and Social Foundations of the Internet course ( CS 82 ). Dr. Wang, at Stanford University, used Skype to connect with the 340 students at Duke, alternating between a video of himself ...
  11 hours ago

• Economics Lessons Using Planet Money Podcasts

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Planet Money is a production of NPR covering the global economy. One of the services Planet Money offers is regular podcasts containing news and lessons about the economy. Patrick Black recently emailed me to share a link about Planet Moneys podcasts being used in a high school economics class. Economics teacher ...
  1 day ago

• Darwin, A Naturalists Voyage - Virtual Journey

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Darwin, A Naturalists Voyage is an outstanding virtual tour of Charles Darwins nearly five year journey on the Beagle . Darwin, A Naturalists Voyage has fourteen segments chronicling Darwins voyage from start to finish. Through the tour viewers will see sketches from the journey, hear readings from Darwins ...
  1 day ago

• PicLits - Inspired Picture Writing

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  PicLits is an interesting website that aims to provide inspiration for writing short stories. PicLits tries to accomplish this goal by providing users with images upon which they can build their writing. To get writers started, PicLits provides a list of words which can be dragged and dropped into sentence form. ...
  1 day ago

• A Simple Plug for a Great Ed Tech Podcast

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  It occurred to me recently that the last time I plugged Wicked Decent Learning , there were about 10,000 fewer subscribers to this blog than there are now. Therefore, I just want to pass along to those of you who might not be familiar with Wicked Decent Learning my strong endorsement of it. Wicked Decent Learning ...
  2 days ago

• 60 Second Recap - Short Summaries of the Classics

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  60 Second Recap has been circulating around the edu-blog-o-sphere for about a week so I decided that I had to check it out. 60 Second Recap provides book summaries in sixty second video segments. There is a sixty second summary of each chapter of each book. Along with the chapter summaries there is a general ...
  2 days ago

• Creating an Online Personal Learning Network

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Through a Tweet by Steven Anderson (follow him if you dont) I learned about a great slide presentation created by Bethany Smith (another person you should follow on Twitter) about creating an online personal learning network (PLN). The presentation tells the story of how Bethany created her PLN before moving on to ...
  2 days ago

• More Videos About the Berlin Wall 20 Years Ago

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Perhaps because it was one of the iconic television moments of my childhood (I was into the news even as an 11 year-old), but I have become very interested in finding videos from the Fall of Berlin Wall twenty years ago. Here are three videos of ABC News reports from November 9th and 10th (I remember watching these ...
  2 days ago

• Documents and Videos from the 1960 Presidential Election

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Yesterdays document from the National Archives daily document feed was an image of the Massachusetts Election Ballot from 1960 . Seeing the ballot reminded me of a good resource for teaching about Presidential campaigns and elections. The Living Room Candidate has videos of almost every Presidential campaign ...
  2 days ago

• More on the Berlin Wall from CNN Student News

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall . Last week CNN Student News had a video tour of the remains of the Berlin Wall . Yesterday, I posted a video produced by CBS News about the Fall of the Berlin Wall. This mornings episode of CNN Student News contains another segment about the Berlin ...
  2 days ago

• Fall of the Berlin Wall - Video and Photos

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Tomorrow, November 9, marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall . CBS News has two visual resources looking back at the events of November 1989. The Fall of the Berlin Wall is a slideshow of twelve images with captions from twenty years ago. Berlin Wall in Pictures is a three minute documentary of ...
  3 days ago

• Maps of War - Animated Thematic Maps

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Maps of War has a collection of seven animated maps based on the themes of war, religion, and politics. Click here to see the History of Religions map . You can embed these maps into a blog or website, but I found that my blog loaded very slowly when I tried embedding the maps. Maps of War also has an extensive ...
  3 days ago

• Learn English - Games for Kids to Learn English

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Learn English Kids is a project sponsored by the British Council . Learn English is designed to help young ESL students. Students can visit the website to play educational games, listen and read along with short stories, or listen to and sing along with English songs. Learn English Kids also has a number of ...
  3 days ago

• Why Teachers Use Twitter

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  At the 140 Character Conference in Los Angeles last month, Parentella hosted a discussion panel with four educators that are in my PLN. During the panel discussion these four educators discussed how Twitter is changing education. The video is embedded below. Thanks to Beth Still for sharing the video. Twitter ...
  4 days ago

• Wet Mount Helps You Organize Web Research

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Wet Mount is a website designed to organize findings from the Internet. The organization process is based on a simple number-line concept. When users find information (text, image, or video) that information is placed in a chart. As more information is found the chart can be reorganized to accommodate more ...
  4 days ago

• Chemistry Never Sleeps and Free Chemistry Lessons

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  My colleague and chemistry teacher, Walter Perry, started a blog this summer as a companion to his classroom blog. Over the last four months hes slowly added some useful content to Chemistry Never Sleeps . Chemistry Never Sleeps is a mix of Walters personal commentary about teaching with links and examples of ...
  4 days ago

• Copyright Advisory Network Offers Copyright Clarity

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  The Copyright Advisory Network offers four resources that will be of particular interest to librarians and teachers. The Fair Use Evaluator helps you make a fair use determination. Exceptions for Educators provides a step-by-step guide to determining if you can use copyrighted materials in your instruction under ...
  5 days ago

• Intro to Wikis Video Created By Kids

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  This afternoon one of the teachers I follow on Twitter, kjellstrom , posted a link to a video his students made to introduce teachers to Wikispaces . This video is a good example of students teaching teachers and a good example of digital storytelling. The students used Xtranormal to create the video. You can ...
  5 days ago

• 3 Guides to Using Google Earth for Virtual Fieldwork

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Digital Explorer is a service that offers instruction and guidance on using GIS and Google Earth to enhance learning experiences. To that end, Digital Explorer offers three comprehensive guides to using Google Earth for virtual fieldwork and physical fieldwork around your schools grounds. The first two guides in ...
  5 days ago

• Google Earth Historical Imagery of Berlin

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 605
  Today, on their Lat Long Blog , Google announced the addition of historical imagery of Berlin to Google Earth. The new imagery includes images from 1945 and 1953. For more historical imagery, turn on the Rumsey Historical Maps layer in Google Earth. Applications for Education Next week marks the 20th ...
  6 days ago

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