ThingLink - Image Linking Tool

This is a fantatsic Web 2 tool that allows you to create links within your website or blog using your images. It turns you images into an interactive wall or a single image into an interactive image full of tagged information. Roll your cursor over the button and up pops the info, video or sound. I can see so many uses for this in a classroom - and it could be so much fun.

This is well worth a look from an educational point of view. Not only could teachers make some amazing resources but the students could present their own information in a pretty cool way. Check out the ThingLink site and watch the video to see how it works.

http://www.thinglink.com/

Small Group Types

The Centre for Teaching Excellence is about fostering teaching and learning of the highest quality. This is an excellent discussion on the different types of group work with students. There is a very good explanation of the different types of group work and then a series of instructions for setting up and getting the most out of it.

http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/teaching_resources/tips/group_work_types_of_small_groups.html

The Differentiator

I love this tool! This is a great tool for teachers to be continually asking themselves how they are differentiating the tasks that they set their students. Developed by Ian Byrdseed at Byrdseed Gifted it is an exceptionally simple idea executed beautifully. It is just so easy to use. Even if you do not use this all the time it is a reminder that we should be using all of Bloom's Taxonomies and not just the few that we are comfortable with. Make sure that you visit Byrdseed Gifted where you will also find lots of resources, tools and ideas for teaching in a gifted classroom or with gifted students. Enjoy!

http://www.byrdseed.com/differentiator/

ASLA Conference Resources Roundup

I was lucky enough to be invited to present a session at the ASLA Conference last week at Riverview. I was amazed at the energy and enthusiasm around both professional development and the notion of integrating technology in education. 

Because of other commitments I was unable to attend the full conference however I was an eager follower on twitter for those sessions I missed and I wanted to make sure I missed nothing of the online resources being discussed. 

Tweeter of the Conference - Gold Star goes to @stacyt for 154 tweets, and who I was lucky enough to have sit in on my session and a close second goes to @craftylibrarian for a plucky 108 tweets. Congratulations to all who attended and to those on the committee - this is a conference all educators would benefit from. So after 1171 tweets from 146 different twitters who tweeted a total of 70 separate hashtags and 286 urls here is the breakdown.

Presentations:

http://delicious.com/tag/asla2011

http://www.slideshare.net/ASLAonline/profession-at-tipping-point 

http://www.slideshare.net/ASLAonline/mobile-technologies-in-libraries 

http://prezi.com/r6i_85jtjnfq/productivity-through-e-books-and-e-readers/ 

http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/pmhs/asla-2011-9548311 

http://deangroom.wordpress.com/ - gaming in education

Blogs:

Marita Thomson Reader's Advisory for Secondary Schools

Jean Anning QR codes in K-12 education, Weird and Wonderful, Steampunk in K-12 education

Tania Sheko  Apps for learning, What is a teacher librarian?

Sue Krust Teacher librarians and transliteracy

Di Laycock Graphic novels in the classroom

Judith Way Are you game?

Carmel Galvin Librarycurrants

Jenny Luca Lucacept - intercepting the web

Tania Sheko Brave new world Her other blogs are listed from this site

Stacey Taylor Librarians are go Making Metacognition Mainstream

Marita Thomson Developing readers one of various blogs

Karen Powers Big Bookcase

Leanne Windsor Learning to learn

Judith Way The Way forward previously the power behind SLAV's Bright ideas

Audrey Nay Teacher Talk  and other blogs

Tech Blogs:

Greg Swanson - Appsineducation

Silvia Tolisano - Langwitches

Andrew Churches Edorigami

Mobiletechlearning

https://slavwee.wikispaces.com/

Greg Swanson - Edtechtoolbox

Greg Swanson - Artygames

Australian k-12 LibGuides:

These TLs are curating content and providing lessons for their students via LibGuides. You can see their sites here.

Leanne Windsor, Petra Pollum and Alison Rout at the Illawarra Grammar School

Cathy Oxley and colleagues at Brisbane Grammar School

Tania Sheko and colleagues at Melbourne High School

Stacey Taylor and Jenny Uther at Monte Sant' Angelo

as well as my valued colleague at Trinity Grammar School, Alison Klein at our site The Arthur Holt Library.

iPad:

Article - www.edutopia.org/blog/transitioning-digital-textbook-organizing-andrew-marcinek

Flipboard - http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/flipboard/id358801284?mt=8

Zite - http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/zite-personalized-magazine/id419752338?mt=8

Love Lace App http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/love-lace/id447292338?mt=8

Kings College App - http://www.kingscollege.qld.edu.au/iphone/index.shtml

China Heart - http://www.chinaheart.org.au/

Osfoora - rss reader for iPad

QRSet - http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/qrset/id440442360?mt=8

QR Reader - http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/qr-reader-for-iphone/id368494609?mt=8

Feedler - http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/feeddler-rss-reader-for-ipad/id364873582?mt=8

Aurasma - Augmented Reality for iPad - http://www.aurasma.com/

Resources:

Livebinders http://livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=77617

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXCuGvsThEw - People stuck on an elevator

Web2 Tools:

libguides.com/

www.scholar.google.com/

academic.research.microsoft.com/

www.google.translate.comm

tagdef.com/asla2011

www.page2rss.com

www.zotero.com

www.issuu.com

www.prezi.com

www.vuvox.com

www.timetoast.com

www.twitter.com

www.Pho.to `

www.tumblr.com

www.youblish.com

www.studyvibe.com.au

www.instagr.am

www.readcloud.com

www.fakebook.com

www.sciencebuddies.org/

www.tineye.com/

www.pandia.com/powersearch/

www.edmodo.com

www.slidshare.com

www.scoopit.com

Electronicswatchbook

www.blurb

www.lulu.com/

bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/

www.tweetdeck.com/

twapperkeeper.com

summarizr.labs.

http://www.scribd.com/

http://hootsuite.com/

http://www.smashwords.com/

www.zooburst.com

Articles:

http://twittertoolsbook.com/10-awesome-twitter-analytics-visualization-tools/

http://traffikd.com/social-media-websites/

http://edte.ch/blog/2011/07/26/10-steps-to-kick-start-your-twitter-network/

http://www.classroomchronicles.net/2011/10/02/asla11-using-blogging-and-edmodo-in-the-classroom-and-library/

http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2011/10/five-funky-flickr-tools-for-teachers/

http://dailyiphoneblog.com/2011/01/20/video-what-is-being-creative-phone-design-concept/

http://www2.curriculum.edu.au/scis/connections/seven_strategies_to_develop_your_advocacy_toolkit.html

http://edtechtoolbox.blogspot.com/2010/09/voki-talking-to-your-students.html

http://www.ecuad.ca/about/news/163186 - Using Zotero

http://mashable.com/2011/04/18/qr-code-design-tips/

http://edtechtoolbox.blogspot.com/2011/07/40-interesting-ways-to-use-qr-codes-in.html

Website Builders:

www.sites.google.com/site/

www.webs.com

www.weebly.com

www.wix.com

Interesting Websites:

http://otherworlds.yolasite.com/

http://aso.gov.au/education/  - screen australia with teachers notes

http://www.naa.gov.au

http://www.insideadog.com.au/

http://countdowntocrunchtime.webs.com/

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/lovelace/

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/electronicswatchbook/

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ 

http://www.australiandressregister.org/

http://www.chinaheart.org.au/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/powerhouse-museum-collection-image-grid/

Student Built Resources:

http://www.kingscollege.qld.edu.au/iphone/index.shtml

http://prezi.com/d1ulogzsxul0/va-jason-hackenwerth/

http://prezi.com/vhnonqrurvs1/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-architect/

http://issuu.com/gregswanson/docs/jason_heckenwerth_case_study

http://issuu.com/gregswanson/docs/van_gogh_digital_resources

http://issuu.com/gregswanson/docs/artistic_practice_digital_text

http://issuu.com/gregswanson/docs/ezine_issue__1.0

Gaming for Learning:

http://gamesalad.com/

http://www.stencyl.com/

http://www.thinkingworlds.com

http://scratch.mit.edu

http://www.sploder.com

http://www.challengeyou.com

http://gamesined.wikispaces.com

Books for Gaming in Education

Reality is Broken

Grand Theft Childhood

Don’t bother me Mum, I’m learning.

Please add to these by emailing to me names of resources for all those sessions I did not see. Alternatively, direct people to a more comprehensive list of resources for the ASLA Conference in the comments section. Enjoy

100+ Google Tricks for Teachers

Thanks to Amber Johnson a contributor over at TeachHUB for putting this list together. Be sure to check out their site as it is a great place for news, recommendations and resources by Teachers, for Teachers. We do have a page on the main blog with 100+ google tools but they push out about 20 updates a month so a more up to date version might be needed. Anyway enjoy the fruit of Amber's hard work.

http://www.teachhub.com/100-google-tricks-teachers