Great+Links

Here are some great links which are website and not wiki based:

[] Welcome to the **Educators' Guide to Innovation**! This professional network is for those interested in innovative practices happening in education. We hope that you find this a comfortable and supportive community.

[] A cool website where you create a podcast and can choose any photo to 'talk' for you. Careful of appropriate content - have a play and have specific instructions for students.

[] There are many handheld devices and digital "gadgets" available to support all types of new teaching and learning initiatives. This pages will provide links to some of the resource pages specifically designed to enhance the use of these devices in the K-12 classroom.

[|http://www.voki.com] A cool website where students can create an avatar to 'talk' for them through podcasts or type. You do need an email account to save your vokis.

[] A website where students can create portfolios using blogs, photos, MP3's, text and videos.

[|http://www.edutecher.net/links.php] A website where you can find some fun resources - tick to the left to focus your search

[] //Our City Podcast// is a [|podcast] **for kids and by kids.** Students from around the globe are invited to submit a recording all about the city they live in (with the help of their teachers or parents).

[|http://theedublogger.com/] Best blog for schools, students and teachers.

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Ebook, e-magazine, interactive catalogue... It's so simple now, just say "Wobook"!
This service is **free** for a personal use. Easily **create** your ebooks (newspaper, albums, drawings, flyers...) in a few clicks and **share them** by publishing them on your blog, emails, myspace, facebook...Upload all your **PDF**, **Word**, **Excel**, **PowerPoint**, **Open Office** files... Wobook will take care of everything, **including hosting and storage!**

[] [] Great Twitter ideas to bring into the classroom.

[] Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

[] Same as above but you can embed these word clouds onto your website or wiki rather than print it.

[] Same as above also, can be embed once saved.

[] Brings together Google Maps and Twitter - GeoTweets where students receive hints to guess where the person they are tweeting with is located.

[] A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

http://teaching-with-technology.wikispaces.com/Wikis+in+Education This page provides an extensive list of sites that examine the use of Wikis in education.

[] Web 2.0 - Internet hotlist Links for Web 2.0 tools for K-12 classroom teacher

[] Top 10 Ways to Use Wordle's Word Clouds for Classroom Lessons