Cooked On Education

Tags: #actem09, ACTEM, Marco Torres

Tags: #actem09, ACTEM, Wicked Decent Learning

Tags: #actem09, ACTEM, Marco Torres

• More Employers Use Social Networks to Check Out Applicants – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com

  Thanks to Jenny Luca for the link.

  tags: Facebook, SocialNetworking, online, twitter, TwitterLink

• 30-second Commercial: African American History | Science Leadership Academy

  “As part of 9th-grade students’ investigation in to “integrationism” and “separatism” within African American history, students were asked to create a 30-second commerical about topics from 1865-present.”
  This is a project that I may adapt to use in my new Video Production class. From the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia.

  tags: education, projects, multimedia, design

• Blogging Rubric

  A detailed rubric for assessing student blogging. Thanks to Richard Byrne for the link.

  tags: education, blog, rubric

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• How to backup your MLTI laptop

  A handy guide from Barbara Greenstone in web notebook form. Thanks to Jim Burke for the link.

  tags: MLTI, laptop, backup

• Write rhymes.

  Type a word or words and this site will find words that rhyme with it. Thanks to Richard Byrne for the link.

  tags: english, tools, cool, fun, poetry

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• Create a Custom Toolbar | Conduit

  Make your own browser toolbar. Thanks to Richard Byrne for the link.

  tags: tools, toolbars, cool, RichardByrne, TwitterLink, firefox

• Schools filtered like totalitarian police states | ISTE’s NECC09 Blog

  Interesting commentary from Wes Fryer about filtering on school networks that points out how many schools block sites such as Flickr, delicious, Gmail and even the Storycorps oral history project.

  tags: network, firewall, filtering, censorship, WesFryer, TwitterLink

• VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

  VocabGrabber analyzes any text you’re interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the “Grab Vocabulary!” button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.

  tags: vocabulary, tools, words, TwitterLink

• Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons

  This mapplet shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion. Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press “Nuke It!” Thanks to Russell Tarr for the link.

  tags: maps, google, mashup, socialstudies, TwitterLink

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