Resources
Index
WEB 2.0 TOOLS (ONLINE TOOLS)
- Animoto: Image and video creations
- Avatar Creation
- Blogging with Edublogs, WordPress or Blogger
- Citation made easy
- NoodleTool’s NoodleBib Express
- Landmark Foundation’s Son of Citation Machine
- DimDim: Live Webinars
- Flickr Social Image Gallery
- Google Labs: Find all the crazy tools the mad scientists at
Google are dreaming up - Google Reader: With RSS, Subscribe to Internet content
- Google Sites: Create your own home page
- Google Blogs: Find your favorite blogs
- Google Books: Find your favorite books
- Google Scholar: Find research materials
- Google Groups: Find interest groups
- Google Docs: Create Word and Excel compatible documents
online - Delicious: Social Bookmarking
- Evernote: Save your ideas, things you see, and things you
like. - GenYes.com: Manage a project-based classroom
- Keep up to date with blogs at Technorati
- MyStudio: Create quizzes for your web site or blog
- News articles at Digg and Reddit
- Pageflakes: Pagecasting; Make your own newspaper
- Podcasting
- Podblaze: http://www.podblaze.com
- Podomatic: http://www.podomatic.com
- Quizlet: Create flashcards
- Rubistar: Rubric making
- Screencast.com: Screencast hosting with Jing program
- Second Life: Create your virtual self in a virtual world
- Slideshare.net: Publishing and Sharing Slideshows
- TeacherTube: YouTube for firewalls
- TextTheMob: Input via cell phones and posted directly to
the web for quick surveys - Web Hosting with Free-Webhosts
- Wiki: Collaborate, publish and manage
- YouTube (Publish thy self)
- YuGiOh Card Maker
- Zamzar: File conversion
- Zoho: Online productivity suite, document creation, project
management and so much more
OPEN SOURCE and/or FREE PROGRAMS FOR YOUR COMPUTER
- Audacity: Audio recording and editing (Win/Mac/Linux)
- Firefox Web Browser
- FreeMind MindMapping Program (Win/Mac/Linux)
- CamStudio: Screencasting (Win)
- CutePDF:PDF Creation in Windows (Win)
- Drawing For Children: Free drawing program (Win)
- Firefox: Web Browser (Win/Mac/Linux)
- Gimp: Image editing (Win/Mac/Linux)
- Google Earth: Interactive 3D map (Win/Mac)
- iPhoto: Managing photos (Mac)
- iMovie: Making movies (Mac)
- iTunes: Managing music (Mac)
- Jahshaka: Video editing
- Jing: Screenshots and screencasting
- KompoZer: Web page creator (Win/Mac/Linux)
- Movie Maker: Create, edit, and share your home movies (Win)
- Open Office: Productivity Suite (Win/Mac/Linux)
- Pencil: Free drawing program with animation features (Win/Mac/Linux)
- PhotoStory: Bring photos to life (Win)
- PMWiki: Wiki publish on your own server (Win/Mac/Linux)
- SCP, Secure Copy Protocol: Accessing remotes servers with
WinSCP (Win) or Fugu (Mac) - Thunderbird: Email Client (Win/Mac/Linux)
- TaskJuggler: Task Manager
- TuxPiant (Win/Mac/Linux)
- VLC: Media player (Win/Mac/Linux)
HARDWARE
- Apple Computer (Education Pricing)
- Canon G11
- FlipCam
- MicFlex Microphone
- One Laptop Per Child Computer
ONLINE LEARNING RESOURCES
- Bloom’s Digitally Taxonomy
- Brain Rules by John Medina
- Chant Poetry and Music in the Classroom
Common Craft Video Tutorials
- Creative Commons Copyright
- Daggett.com: Leadership in education with William Daggett
Department of Education
- Edutopia
- Flashcard Maker
- IBM Project-based Learning slide show and curriculum
- International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
- Jensen Brain Research
- Kennedy Center for Arts Education
- Learning Mastery: Students teaching students
- http://learningmastery.org
- Scott Le Duc’s Web Site
- MindMapping
- Multiple Intelligences
- National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
- Open Source Software
- Passionate Users: Explore brains and what science can tell
us about good design and education - Presentation Zen: Learn about effective presentations
- RSS Subscribing: Taming the Internet
- TED.com: Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the
world - Thinking Maps
- Total Quality Learning with the Langford Institute
- Visual and Media Literacy
PRINT AND ONLINE RECOURCES REFERENCED
Allen, D. (2001). Getting Things Done. New York, NY: Penguin Group. Armstrong, T. (2000). Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Burmark, L. (2002). Visual Literacy, Learn to See, See to Learn. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Chen, M., Armstrong, S. (2002). Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Eisner, E. (1987). Why the Arts Are Basic. Instructor, 97(5), 43-35. Florida, R. (2002). The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. New York, NY: Basic Books. Freeman, E., Freeman, E. (2005). Head First XHTML with CSS. Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly Media. Friedman, T. L. (2006). The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fritz, R. (1989). Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life. New York, NY: Fawcett Columbine Heathcote, D. and Bolton, G. (1995). Drama for Learning: Dorothy Heathcote's Mantle of the Expert Approach to Education. Portsmouth, NH: Greenwood Publishing Group. Jensen, E. (1998). Teaching with The Brain in Mind. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Lefever, L. (2006). Blogs in Plain English. from http://www.commoncraft.com Lefever, L. (2009). Google Reader in Plain English. from http://www.commoncraft.com Lefever, L. (2007). Online Photo Sharing in Plain English. from http://www.commoncraft.com Lefever, L. (2006). RSS in Plain English. from http://www.commoncraft.com Lefever, L. (2006). Social Bookmarks in Plain English. from http://www.commoncraft.com Lefever, L. (2007). Social Media in Plain English. from http://www.commoncraft.com Lefever, L. (2009). Twitter in Plain English. from http://www.commoncraft.com Lefever, L. (2009). Web Search Strategies in Plain English. from http://www.commoncraft.com Lefever, L. (2006). Wikis in Plain English. from http://www.commoncraft.com Latzko, W., Saunders, D. (1995). Four Days With Dr. Deming: A Strategy for Modern Methods of Management. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Margolis, J. Fisher, A. (2002). Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Medina, J. (2009). Brain Rules (T. Cutchlow, Ed.). Seattle: Pear Press. (Original work published 2008) John Medina knows the brain. He also knows education. He does a nice job of bringing the best of both worlds together in a practical, accessible and humorous writing style. Negroponte, N. (1995). Being Digital. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Perkins, D. (1998). Understanding Understanding. San Francisco, CA: Jossy-Bass. Pink, D. A. (2005). A Whole New Mind. New York, NY: Riverhead Books. Robinson, K. (2001). Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative. Mankato, MN: Capstone. Robinson, K. (2006, Feb.). Video Presentation: Out of Our Minds from http://ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=ken_robinson. Monterey, CA: TED.com Stiggins, R.J. et al. (2006). Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing it Right Using it Well. Published by Assessment Training Institute. (Includes CD-ROM and DVD) Tufte, E. (2006). Beautiful Evidence. Cheshire, CT: Graphics PreLLC. Tufte, E. (1990). Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics PreLLC. Tufte, E. (2001). The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics PreLLC. Tufte, E. (1997). Visual Explanations. Cheshire, CT: Graphics PreLLC. Wiggins, G., McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Zeldman, J. (2003). Designing with Web Standards. Indianapolis, IN: New Riders.
