Using the iPod for Learning

Thanks to Elaine Talbert, I came across this very useful slideshow on using an iPod in education. The author, Grace, includes lots of useful ideas and links to further resources.

An iPod in Your Classroom Toolbox

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The following articles also provide great ideas on how to use the iPod in education:
* Creating Education Content for iPods
* 10 Ways to Make Your iPod a Better Learning Gadget
* iPods for closing the achievemnet gap
* iPod in Education
* Testing iPods in Special Education

Of course, Apple's iTunes U is also a must as it includes free lectures, language lessons and audiobooks. You can "explore over 100,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world".

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Free Resources for Teachers by Teachers (3)

MERLOT provides over 20,000 learning materials categorised into seven main areas: Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology, Social Sciences.

MERLOT enables you to put "Educational Innovations Into Practice" and to find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. By joining MERLOT you can share advice and expertise about education with colleagues.

The learning materials are divided into groups such as animations, case studies, collections, drill and practice, learning object repositories, lectures/presentations, online courses, open journal-articles, open textbooks, reference materials, quizzes/tests, simulations, tutorials and workshops.

A word of warning! Not all of the links are current. I discoverd several interesting looking resources only to find that the 'go to material' link didn't go anywhere.

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Christmas Greetings 2008

Happy Christmas to one and all!

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Handy ICT Advice Sheets

NCTE provides some very useful advice sheets for those involved in ICT.

The list is continually expanding so it is well worth checking back periodically. Unfortunately, no RSS provided for the page but you could always use Page2RSS as described in an earlier post!

Apart from the advice sheets, there is lots of other useful information to be found at NCTE.

NCTE is the National Centre for Technology in Education, the Irish Government agency established to provide advice, support and information on the use of ICT in education.

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Mobile Version of Your Blog or Website

Do you need a mobile version of your blog or website? If so, check out MoFuse.

With MoFuse you can "expand your readership by offering your blog on the go".

Once setup, you can visit your blog or website by using your mobile phone. Your MoFuse site is specifically designed for mobile screens of 3" or less.

Registration and setup is really easy and you can be 'mobile' literally within minutes. It works like a treat as you can see from the accompanying picture!

Your MoFuse site address takes the form of -http://yourname.mofuse.mobi/-. You can also add a nice graphic link on your blog.



Spotted this on Inge's blog, which has lots of interesting information about mobile elearning. Thanks Inge!

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Moniter Sites that do not have RSS

Page2RSS is a very useful service that lets you monitor web sites that do not publish RSS feeds. Page2RSS will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favourite RSS aggregator.

You can even add a button to your browser's bookmarks toolbar that will create a Page2RSS feed for the page you are currently viewing. A very easy and convenient way to create feeds for pages you want to monitor.

Just have a look at the example below!

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Store Files Online with Hotmail

Windows Live SkyDrive, which comes with a hotmail/windows live account gives you 25GB of free online storage. Very handy for storing smaller files as uploading is restricted to 50MB per file.

In addition, with SkyDrive you can download entire folders as Zip files and it also provides an online slide show for your photos. The uploaded files may be kept private or shared with other users.

Looks and works just like an extra hard drive except your files are stored in the 'cloud' :-)

In terms of file storage, SkyDrive seems a better deal than Google. Only 7MB capacity with gmail and a restriction on the file formats that can be uploaded.

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Create Interactive Flash Maps

UMapper is a web-based map authoring application. UMapper allows you to create interactive flash maps, which you can display on your website or social network page.

Select your base map from the following map providers: microsoft virtual earth, google, openstreetmap or yahoo. Zoom in to your preferred level and add markers, lines and polygons.

UMapper also lets you import feeds and external data. Great for geography, tourism, maths, history classes etc!

Have a look at this one on the 30 Greatest Battles of WW II

Update: Embedded UMapper example working perfectly now!!

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Wealth of Information at EDUCAUSE

EDUCAUSE is an association whose mission is to "advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology".

Membership of EDUCAUSE is open to all institutions of higher education in the USA as well as any interested International higher education institutions.

The EDUCAUSE site provides a wealth of resouces and information for those interested in incorporating ICT in education at this level inlcuding EDUCAUSE CONNECT.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT provides links to many useful pdf articles, blogs, podcasts, wikis and further links.

A great resource for personal professional development.

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The World as Never Seen Before

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, "where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest".

There are around 600 maps to choose from with the first 366 also available as PDF posters. These maps and data files "cover 200 territories, mainly United Nation Member States plus a few others to include at least 99.95% of the world's population" and provide some facinating information.

There are around 30 different categories available such as population, education, health, resources, religion, poverty etc.

Worldmapper provides many interesting facts, figures and visuals to work with, which could be used in various different subject areas.

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View Ancient Rome in 3D

Using Google Earth you can see Rome as it looked in 320 AD and fly down to see the famous buildings and monuments all in glorious 3D.

Simply select the "Ancient Rome 3D" layer under Gallery in Google Earth and enjoy. Thanks for this one Stylianos.

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Create Image Maps of Web Pages

With Kwout you can easily create fully functioning images maps of existing web pages.

Simply add their bookmarklet to your browser's toolbar and you are ready to go.  You can also adjust the image's size and surrounding border before embedding in your own web page or blog.

Unfortunately, Edublogs strips out the code so I can only show you the image here :-(

GetBodySmart: Interactive Tutorials and Quizzes On Human Anatomy and Physiology via kwout

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Twitter Alerts via Email

TweetBeep is like Google Alerts but for Twitter. You don't even have to have a Twitter account in order to keep up with conversations that inlcude your chosen search term! 

Simply enter "a keyword or website, and get emails when others tweet it!"



Just came across Twilert, which is another site that does exaxtly the same thing letting you "tap into the conversation and get a snapshot for what is being said in an easy and convenient way".

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Huge Repository of Resources

PBS includes 356 TV stations and offers you the opportunity "to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and online content" particularly experiencing the worlds of science, history, nature and public affairs.

The digital content on PBS can undoubtedly be used to help bring classroom lessons to life. There is a huge amount of material available and it is well worth the visit. Definitely, something for everyone at PBS.

17/12/08 Update
Teachers’ Domain is a companion resource that also includes a huge selection of resources including 5 minute snippets of many PBS programs that are great for classroom use. Thanks to Sue Hellman for this recommendation.

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