Here is another take on Bloom’s Taxonomy – as an Orange! Download the posters filled with helpful verbs from the Educational Software Blog. Blooming Orange – Bloom’s Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster (Color) Blooming Orange – Bloom’s Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster (Grayscale) Blooming Verbs List

I was watching CNBC last week when I caught a show titled, Inside the Mind of Google. I happened to tune in during a segment about a new Google technology named “Google Goggles” which allows users to take a picture and search the web for more information / content based on the visual image. Check it out… I thought this was amazing and could be very useful for me! I love to travel and such [...]

Google Docs has added some new features that will make my life easier. First, they have made an adjustment to allow sorting of documents by relevance. Yeah! Previously, search results were organized by the “last modified date.” Additionally, searches will be improved with automatic stemming and synonyms. So when I search for a document with the term “web site” it will also look for “web sites, website, websites”, etc. Second, exporting your documents is now [...]

One of the primary concerns expressed by educators in this electronic, Google age, is the ease with which students can simply search, find, copy, paste and submit information as if it was their own. Not a surprise then that a number of web sites exist now with the purpose of tracking down those that refuse to cite or give credit when it is due. Listed below are a few free resources that might come in [...]

One advantage of having a Diigo account is that through group membership, I am exposed to a lot of great resources that I would never find on my own. Here are some more ways to use Wordle that were shared with me… http://Wordle for short texts (lesson plan)www.jamiekeddie.com/317 Another Wordle tiphttp://www.jamiekeddie.com/609 Using Wordle in the classroomhttp://skillsworkshop.blogspot.com/2008/07/using-wordle-in-classroom.html

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I spoke to a colleague this morning about setting up a blog, and during the conversation he mentioned that he was currently using Twitter to keep parents/guardians updated about what is happening in his classroom. That comment prompted me to look for a WordPress plugin that would send a tweet each time there was a new blog post, thus saving the teacher from having to create two entries – one for his blog and one [...]

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One powerful tool for student engagement and learning is a simulation. Simulations can be effectively used in the classroom with such research proven instructional strategies as providing feedback, nonlinguistic representation, cooperative learning, homework and practice, and generating and testing hypotheses. Learningscience.org is a web site that finds the best science simulations, interactives and resources and uses the National Science Education Standards to frame the content. When you arrive at the site, there are several science [...]

Doug Johnson, author of The Blue Skunk Blog, posted his list of educational technology resources that are not going to go away. He calls it his “short list” but there are more than a dozen items in his list such as cellphones / smartphones, gaming in education, online classes / schools, and open source software. After reviewing his list, what other resources would you add?