Praxis Education Tools and Links

October 13, 2008

A.  Various Sites/Resources:

Some good biology / life sciences links here:
http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/index.html

National Science Foundations Discoveries site (good reference and you can join e-mail list): http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/

iTunes U – do a search – some good course references: http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html

MIT courseware for high school students and teachers (newsletter available): http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm

Diseases worsened by climate change:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081007073928.htm

The Space Elevator would take humans into orbit: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html

What happens when a biologist learns to knit (not a pretty site)? http://whywouldyouknitthat.blogspot.com/2008/09/this-is-what-happens-when-biologist.html

The networked teacher (a diagram): http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/sizes/l/

Redox reactions (see the animations on the bottom of the page): http://www.mwiseman.com/courses/chem_honors/units/unit16.jsp

Alligators had thumbs (evolution): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081003122715.htm

Maybe a book every biology teacher should read:
http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2008/10/why-evolution-i-1.html

Should teachers “befriend” students online (FaceBook and MySpace)? http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2008/10/why-evolution-i-1.html

Best Middle School Name Ever?  Humour: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081003122715.htm

Periodic Table of Videos (great for Science 10 and Chemistry): http://www.periodicvideos.com/

B.  EdTechWeekly – October 12, 2008

EdTechWeekly is part of the EdTechTalk network: http://edtechtalk.com/
The following are a sample of some of the links discussed on Sunday, October 12, 2008.

Another EdTechTalk podcaast of interest (21st Century Learning): http://edtechtalk.com/21cl_79

Students using WiFi get better grades? http://www.wi-fi.org/pressroom_overview.php?newsid=723

Relationship search site (example – you like a certain author or movies – what other authors or movies might be interesting to you?): http://www.gnod.net/

Multitasking Teens May Be Muddling Their Brains (myths about muli-tasking – the brain does not multi-task): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95524385

Starting a new education project (helps get from conception to doing): http://etoolkit.org/etoolkit/

Tool for students (keeping track of school assignments) – agenda may work as well but: http://soshiku.com/

OpenOffice 3.0 now available (free opensource alternative to Office – it may be slow – just came out Monday): http://www.openoffice.org/

25 ways to build your on-line community (connect): http://www.chrisbrogan.com/25-ways-to-build-your-community/

Five sources for free and legal images: 
http://www.blogherald.com/2008/10/06/5-sources-for-free-and-legal-images/

Create a “walk” and share it on-line  (example – use by students to create an history walk): http://www.communitywalk.com/

An “oldie” but worth sharing again:  “Download freeware, shareware, and demos. Maintains over 45000 software titles that are tested, rated, reviewed and ready to download” http://www.tucows.com/

K12 – Online Conference:  “This is a conference by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.” http://k12onlineconference.org/

Simple photo-editing site (useful for even younger students?): http://www.flauntr.com/

On-line drawing (somewhat like a white-board): http://www.imagination3.com/

A YouTube about Web 2.0 (not sure how useful this is): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue1FeMBfKec

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