Clipmarks

 Clipmarks is a social bookmarking site that is quick and easy to use. The website explains:

On Clipmarks.com, you can see clips of text, images or video about all sorts of topics that other people find while surfing the web.

The idea is that through each other, we can learn more, know more and enjoy more than we could possibly do alone. As you find people who post clips that interest you, make them a Guide. Think of your Guides as a team of web editors you choose to consistently deliver you clips of things they find on the web.

Clipmarks anywhere!

You can easily syndicate your clips to FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, and more. You can also read, pop, and comment on clips from your iPhone (m.clipmarks.com), iGoogle, or Netvibes homepage.

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Homepage

By installing Clipmarks to your browser, one click on your favourite sites and you can start sharing with colleagues, students and networks. For more information about how Clipmarks works, watch this brief video:

Love the idea of embedding clips into blogs, Netvibes pages and so on.

Thanks to Tom March, the Keynote speaker at the 21st Century eLearning Conference for alerting Bright Ideas to Clipmarks.

Mrs Pancake

The Mrs Pancake website is a site jam packed full of resources for teachers, (particularly Primary teachers).

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Homepage

There are things to make and do, signs, Literacy and Numeracy resources and much more. Handy for Book Week is the Jungle, that could be adapted for whatever you are doing with the Book Safari theme:
Jungle

Jungle

Mrs Pancake is updated weekly, so it’s worth visiting often to see what’s new.

Web tools 4 u 2 use

WebTools4u2use is an excellent wiki created by American ‘school library media specialists (teacher librarians) for school library media specialists’.

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Listing a host of web 2.0 tools by category, the wiki has a few innovative features such as:

  • Five to test drive (the best five tools in each category)
  • More to explore (further tools in each category)
  • Ideas for using the tools in the library
  • Tutorials – how to use the tools
  • More information on how some schools are using the tools.
Meet the tools
Meet the tools

 This wiki is both an attractive and user friendly resource that takes the hard work out of selecting the best web 2.o tools for school libraries.

A big thank you to Helen Boelens for forwarding this site.

The Big Diary

The ABC has developed an online diary of events. The Big Diary lists ‘what’s on where you are’.

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By creating a free account, you are able to set your location and add events to your list. You can also apply to become a contributor which enables you to upload events to the Big Diary.

The Big Diary could be a good way of finding free (or other) events to take classes to, or to publicise events that your school is holding.

Nice one Aunty!

EduHound

EduHound is a free US-based site that caters for K-12 teachers. Teaching resources are organised by topic and many topics are applicable to Australian curriculum. Topics include:

 

Aaron Burr

Acceptable Use Policies

Adaptation**

Adequate Yearly Progress

Agriculture

American Presidents**

Amphibians**

Analyzing Quotes**

Art Museums

Authors

Black History

Biographies

Biodiversity

Book Reports

Branches of Government**

Careers

Cause and Effect**

Character Education

Citation

Civics

Conflict Resolution**

Cyberbullying**

Cyber Safety

Data-Driven Instruction

December Holidays

Descriptive Language**

Differentiated Instruction

Dinosaurs**

Earth

Earth Day**

Earthquakes**

Economics

Editing

Education Statistics

Einstein, Albert

Elections**

Emergency Preparedness

Energy**

Engineering

Equality**

Essay Writing

Exploration Article**

Fact or Opinion?**

Feature Article**

Fiction**

Fire Safety

First Amendment**

Fitness**

Forensic Science

Freedom of Information

Gardening**

Genetics

Geography

Global Climate

Global Warming**

Good Sportsmanship**

Grammar

Health**

Henry VIII

Homeschooling

Hurricanes**

Iberian Lynx**

ICT Literacy

Immigration**

Inferences**

Issues**

Interview Article**

Invention**

Jamestown

July 4th

Kidspiration

King Tut

Language Arts

Lincoln

Literacy / Reading

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Maps and Globes**

Martin Luther King, Jr.**

Measurement

Mexico

Microscopy

Middle East**

Mission Statements

Monarch Butterflies**

Money

Museum Lessons

Music

NATO

News**

News Writing**

New York

Nonfiction Text Features**

Norman Conquest

Nutrition

Oceanography

Olympics

 

Paraphrasing

Persuasive Writing

Pi Day

Pluto**

Poetry

Polar Science

PowerPoint Templates

Presidents Day**

Professional Learning Communities

Project-based Learning

Public Speaking

Reading Comprehension**

Recycling**

Reefs**

Reference

Remembering September 11**

Renaissance

Reporting on School Lunch**

Research Paper Strategies

Science News**

Scientific Method**

Sequencing**

Slavery

SMART Goals

Species

Spelling

Standards

STEM Equity

Technology Planning

Technology Research & Reports

Thanksgiving**

Theater

U.S. Constitution

U.S. States

U.S. Supreme Court

Violence Prevention

Visual Arts

Volcanoes**

Voting

Water Conservation**

WebQuests

Women’s History**

World History

World Languages

Zoos

 As well, there are lesson plans, daily newsletters and more.

LiveMocha

LiveMocha is a free language learning website.

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Homepage

With interactive lessons and games, and a huge list of languages to learn, LiveMocha could be useful for LOTE teachers or anyone wanting to learn another language. You can learn at your own pace and even communicate with native language speakers through the site.

From the LiveMocha blog:

About Livemocha

Livemocha is a Seattle-based company that is redefining language learning by combining dynamic online courses in 22 languages with the world’s largest community of native language speakers. Since launching in September 2007, Livemocha has grown to over 3 million members in less than 20 months, a clear indication of the demand for an engaging, collaborative approach to language learning. There are currently over 375 million people wanting to learn a language worldwide, and the market is currently estimated to be $50 billion, fueled by rapid globalization, immigration and travel.

Thanks to Dr Ross Todd for the link to LiveMocha.