Take a look at our weekly Diigo bookmarks

Every week our bookmarks from Diigo arrive on the SchoolNet blog as a draft, posted by Diigo; and I normally just leave them there. But today I thought I would start to publish them weekly.

Podcasting 

• podcasting-in-education – home: a lovely wiki full of ideas about podcasting
• Checking out Podcasting in Education | Emerging Education Technology: A blogpost about the uses of podcasting.

Social Sciences

• enigeo: Enigeo is a great way to learn countries, capitals and flags around the world in a fun way.

Twitter

• What’s a “TweetChat” and Why Should You Be Doing It?: Tweetchats are a very popular development in Twitter
• Is Twitter the Driving Force Behind Upcoming Educational Change? | Online Universities: The power of Twitter

Virtual tours

• White House Interactive Tour | The White House: Visit the whitehouse without paying a cent

Presentations and brochures

• Embed Web Videos in PowerPoint Presentations: This is a way to show your videos straight from Powerpoint
• simplebooklet.com: a delightful way to make brochures online
• Teacher’s recommendations for academic uses of 5 fun free presentation tools | Emerging Education Technology

Videos

• TED Education's Channel – YouTube: This is useful for educators – everything in one place

Web 2.0 technologies

• 21stcenturylearningwithedmodo - home
• 10 Internet Technologies Educators Should Be Informed About – 2011 Update | Emerging Education Technology 
• Atrixware E-Learning Solutions » Blog Archive » 4 Useful Free E-Learning Tools to Try This Year 
• PHSlib 2.0 / FrontPage : This is a lovely wiki called tools2create4schools. it takes 10 Web 2.0 tools and gives tutorials on how to teach them. 

Science

• History of Newton's Papers (1727-1872) | Newton Project

Project-based learning

• 5 Student-Driven Projects That Engage Higher-Level Thinking Skills | Catlin Tucker, Honors English Teacher

Writing

• 8 Web Tools That Make Writing Fun! | Catlin Tucker, Honors English Teacher

Cell phones

• English Virtual Community: Students using their cellphones to learn

Curating the web

• Top 10 Sites for Curating the Web
• Why not become a curator with Scoop.it: A tutorial on how to become a curator of the web using Scoop.it

Blogs as educational tools

• 15 Awesome Ways To Use Blogs in Your Classrooms – SimpleK12

Sites for Foundation Phase teacher

• Early Years Foundation Stage: Communication, Language and Literacy: Games teaching resources - TES
• Spelling Handbook - Resources - TES
• Leadership Communication Tools | Techconnects 
• Really FANTASTIC teaching websites. - Resources – TES: These are sites for Foundation Phase teachers

QR Codes

• What are QR-Codes? –

Free audio books

• http://missnoor.visibli.com/share/L2fFo6: This is a marvelous collection of free audio books

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Monday, March 19, 2012