TL2014 – Resources you may find useful… 11/21/2011
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10 Inspiring Youtube Videos for Teachers | Teaching News
Pretty self-explanatory. 10 videos that teachers may find inspiration, incredible, beautiful and/or entertaining.
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The Changing Writing Process | Writing and the Web
This is an excellent blog post describing the benefits to writing online and how technology can amplify the development of new skills. It is imperative of us in education to teach students how to take advantage of new tools to express themselves. But are we?
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A complete guide to the presentation software Prezi, from what it is and why to use it right up to advanced techniques for making your presentation absolutely killer.
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Stanford’s Free Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad
“The course includes lectures and lessons focused on iOS 5 app development. It’s broken out over 11 episodes that consist of videos and slides.”
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Beautiful web-based timeline software
Beautiful web-based timeline software
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Index of OER Resources – CC Wiki
Open Educational Resources come in many shapes and sizes. This partial list of sources introduces the scope of OER and the organizations cultivating its increasingly vital role in opening higher education up to the greatest number of people worldwide.
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60+ educational resources for teaching yourself anything.
This collection of links and applications highlights just the tip of the iceberg of educational resources that are available on the web. If you are interested in teaching yourself a new skill or learning a new topic in-depth in your spare time, these will be of use.
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TimeSearch History ::Home – TimeSearch
Enter a year, press “go” and you’re shown a list of significant events that happened in that year. Scroll up or down the list to see events that happened early or late in that year. Time Search offers options for refining event lists by theme or region in addition to the obvious date refinement option.
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WikiPaintings.org – the encyclopedia of painting
Wikipaintings contains over 60,000 painting images. Browse paintings by art movement, technique, genre, or artist nationality, or keyword. The timeline scrollbar places each painting created by the artist in chronological order.