My Bookmarks for 03/03/2010

• The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials - Noupe
  tags: TGJ, TGJxx, web, webdesign, tutorials, list

• YouTube - Timeline : The History of Electricity [English]
  This timeline presents the History of Electricity from Ben Franklin tying a key to a kite string during a storm to the first nuclear power plant in Russia.
  tags: history, youtube, electricity, tweeted, video

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

My Bookmarks for 02/28/2010

• Women in Programming
  
  tags: ICS, women, gender, issues, ICSxx
• Ask a Tech Teacher
  
  Looks like a great site to pick up tips to use in the classroom or share with students.
  tags: TechEd, ICT, blog, tips, education
• 16 Interesting Ways to use Wallwisher in the Classroom
  
  tags: wallwisher, web2.0, education, feedback, TGJ, TDJ, ICS, issues, tools

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

My Bookmarks for 02/24/2010

• Education Week's Digital Directions: Students Sound Off on School Tech Use
  "Discussions of technology in education typically center on what policymakers, academic experts, and educators would like to see happen in the classroom. Rarely heard are the voices of those who are actively test-driving new forms of technology: the students."
  tags: ICT, students, #otfretreat2010, education, issues
• The Comprehensive Guide to Saving Images for the Web
  
  "On the surface, saving images for the web can be a pretty straightforward process. However, if you dig deeper there’s a wealth of information and techniques you might be missing out on."
  tags: photoshop, TGJ, TGJxx, web, fileFormat
• Note-taking
  
  Rules for effective note-taking
  Select. Omit trivial and redundant details. Omit anything you'll recall anyway!
  Condense. Replace lists with a category term.
  Organize. Choose headings and topic sentences.
  Rephrase. Use your own words.
  Elaborate. Make connections to existing knowledge.
  tags: education, note-taking, tips

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Want to Edit MP3 Files?

Here's a quick video from cnet showing you how:

Google Presentation Photo Slideshow Exemplar

In my grade 11 Communications Technology class I've asked each of my students to look at the "Explore" pages in Flickr and then mark at least 10 photos as their favourites. I've then asked them to create a Presentation using Google Docs and share those favourites with their classmates.

Here is a quick presentation I created that my students can use as an exemplar. As I explain in the presentation, these are not actually my favourites; they are just my own top flickr photos, rated in terms of their "interestingness".

This presentation is also available for download or sharing here.