Edublog Awards

If you're looking for great educational blogs that are worth subscribing to, just check out the finalists for the 2007 Edublog Awards.

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Characterization with Meez

Imagine the fun that students could have 'visualizing' their character before planning a plot, or just practicing empathizing with a character's situation and motivation.
Meez allows students to create an animation of their character, enabling selection of backgrounds, clothing, physical appearance and actions.

Time to Celebrate a Little

Emotional quotient and personality tests

You can have a bit of fun, plus lead into some good discussions about learning styles and group skills.
Your results:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 60% Superman 50% Batman 40% Supergirl 20% The Flash 15% Robin 7% Wonder Woman 0% Hulk 0% Green Lantern 0% Catwoman 0% Iron Man 0%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

Tracking visitors to your web-site

Google Analytics provides some incredibly comprehensive data about visits to your web-site. If you're inserting the tracking code in a blog, just open up the main template and insert it into the text box on the bottom. You'll be receiving data after 24 hrs!

Downloading flash movie files

Ever wanted to download a Youtube video? Maybe to have it saved on your hard-drive for display in a school or business that won't allow access to youtube. Well Zamzar is your answer, and it's free.

Zamzar also enables you to convert file types, which makes it easier to edit movies in either imovie or windows movie maker.

Bubbl.us for mind-mapping

If you want a very simple web 2.0 tool for mind-mapping, then bubbl.us is definitely worth a look. It allows you to save the finished product as a jpeg.

The Why and When of using Web 2.0

We often cover the 'how' of using the web 2.0 tools, but not so much the why and when. Teachers who aren't as comfortable with technology will ask, "When should I use this during my lesson?" or "Which tool would be best for this unit of study?"
The guides below are intended to help answer some of these questions:
The Why and When of Using
SMARTboard
Blogs
Wikispaces
Google Docs
Google Groups

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