Good blog post on QR codes in education.

Spent the evening figuring out how to perform calculations in the Moodle gradebook, and stumbled upon this video tutorial.

Handout for Presentation

Vimeo (Veteran Foley Artist — http://vimeo.com/11436985)

TED Talk Video in Education — Salman Kahn — http://tinyurl.com/4gmfejq)

TED Talk Debate: Nuclear Power — (http://tinyurl.com/32lc237)

Khan Academy: CAHSEE Sample (http://tinyurl.com/http-www-khanacademy-org-vid)

Common Craft: Twitter (http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter)

Snagfilms – Documentaries (http://www.snagfilms.com)

Free Documentaries (http://www.freedocumentaries.com)

Smart YouTube Channels (http://www.openculture.com/smartyoutube)

Five Best YouTube Channels (http://tinyurl.com/26lm9lx)

100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers (http://tinyurl.com/5l68zc)

Lincoln HS Videos of the Week (http://tinyurl.com/3o5dswl)

Lynda.com (Paid Technology Videos) (http://www.lynda.com)

Google views our school district as a threat these days.  Every time you try to search Google, you get this box:

It’s verifying that an actual person is searching and not a computer bot.

I saw a student watching a video and I asked why she wasn’t working on her assignment.  She said I’m trying to research information, but Google doesn’t work.  I said, “So What?  You gave up ?”  She smiled and said yes.  It’s funny, but some students really have no clue that there are alternatives to Google to finding information on the web.  I guess Google works so well and never has problems that students never even have to try anything else.  I recommended she go to Bing.com and told her to realize there is more in the world than Google.

• Art: The Noun Project offers a free collection of clipart.
• Careers: What is a Foley Artist? Good video on the art of movie sounds
• Economics: National Financial Capability Challenge
• Education: Elev8ed: Student Videos about Education Reform.
• Geography: Maplandia and Google Earth Cool Places helps you find cool places in Google Earth.
• Literature: A cool animated video about Mark Twain’s views on publishing a book.
• Math: Math Games teachers can monitor at Manga High.
• Music: Interactive Music Theory Lessons at MusicTheory.net.
• Music: The New York Philharmonic Archives are now available online.
• Performing Arts: Touching Lives through Theatre Grants.
• Photography: Smithsonian Wild is a new Smithsonian website that houses more than 200,000 images of animals in the wild.
• Photography: Great public domain photographs of nature can be found here
• Reading/Literacy: Open Library offers is a collection of more than one million free ebook titles.
• Science: Sheppard Software offers a number of periodic table games.
• Science: Video: 132 Shuttle Launches in 132 seconds.
• Science: Videos Fukushima Reactor Explained and Tsunami 101.
• Social Studies: If It Were My Home offers a good comparison of different countries.
• Technology: Salman Khan Academy: Video: Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education.
• Technology: A site of good teacher training videos on a variety of topics, including Web 2.0 tools.
• Writing: New discussion features have been added to Google Documents.

Other Sites Worth Exploring:

• Cool Big City Wallpapers
• Uploading.it gives you a place to store documents on the Internet.
• Zendo: A note-taking site that turns notes into flash cards.
• PuzzleMaker: A good site for creating a variety of puzzles in all academic subjects.