I just made a Readlist

What’s a Readlist? A group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone. No login necessary.
Quick and easy to do. The tools keep getting easier and the possibilities are endless.

Here are the options for exporting and sharing:

EXPORT

• Send to Kindle
• Send to iPhone/iPad
• Send to Readmill
• Email e-book
• Download e-book

SHARE

• Public edit link
• Share on Twitter
• Share on Facebook
• Embed

Qwiki - making exciting multimedia presentations quickly!

We'll be exploring the ideas of Herbert Kohl this year when we get back to school in August. I decided to experiment with Qwiki: "the best way to share anything"!

The Qwiki website offers a quick and free sign up, brief tutorials, and samples from other users.
It is so simple to use that students can easily figure it out on their own.

The best part is that videos you make are interactive and easily shared.
embed web links, flickr photos, instagram, tweets, video from Vimeo or YouTube, almost any file from your computer, any web page including maps.
Share out on Twitter, Facebook, email or embed the presentation in a blog with html code.

I can imagine that we can do short "how to" library tutorials using screenshots and voiceovers ( or webcam) to teach some basics on Noodletools or logins or even iPad help.  Then we can embed these into a LibGuide.  I am very excited about the possibilities.

Play the Qwiki: Growing Minds: On Becoming a Teacher

"Your E-Book Is Reading You"

Digital-book publishers and retailers now know more about their readers than ever before. How that's changing the experience of reading. Click here for the full text. 

This is an article from the Wall St. Journal 6-29-2012  which is a 'must read' because it's important that we know how much digital book publishers and retailers now know about our reading habits.  This is fascinating because it could change the way authors write their books.

edWeb.net Announces Webinars

I recently joined edWeb.net and am finding that there are great learning opportunities out there.  edWeb.net is a professional social and learning network for the education community.

• Share information and resources with an extended community of educators
• Connect and stay in touch with peers and colleagues
• Create professional learning communities
• Create communities to collaborate on initiatives and projects
• Provide professional development
• Gain experience with Web 2.0 technology

Take a video tour

Postings from the latest edWeb.net newsletter:

Register for a very special webinar with Kevin Honeycutt, and get ready to be inspired - and to laugh! 

   

Kevin Honeycutt is technology integration specialist at ESSDACK in Hutchinson, Kansas. Kevin brings his personal life experience and a sense of humor to the mission of helping prepare 21st century learners. Learn more about Kevin Honeycutt

This webinar is part of new series on edWeb.net, "Inspiring Teachers - Changing Lives."  This series is dedicated to the power of one teacher - how just ONE teacher can change a life.

Join us on Wednesday, May 16th, 6PM Eastern Time

REGISTER HERE 

edWeb.net goes mobile!

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From your mobile device (iOS or Android), use your browser and go to:
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MORE NEW WEBINARS coming up on edWeb.net

• Wednesday, May 9th, 4pm Eastern Time
  "How Immersion in Augmented Realities Helps Students in the Real World"
  Presented by Chris Dede, Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education
  Join the community Mobile Learning Explorations 

• Wednesday, May 9th, 5pm Eastern Time
  "Mobile Learning: There's an App for That!"
  Presented by Michelle Luhtala, Head Librarian, New Canaan High School, CT
  Join the community Emerging Tech  

• Tuesday, May 15th, 4pm Eastern Time
  "Seeing Structure & Generalizing in the Practices"
  Presented by Sara Delano Moore, Ph. D., Director of Mathematics and Science at ETA hand2mind
  Join the community Implementing Common Core Standards in Math   

• Tuesday, May 15th, 5pm Eastern Time
  "What You Can Do During the Summer to Prepare for a Great School Year"
  Presented by Shannon Holden, Assistant Principal, Republic Middle School, MO
  Join the community New Teacher Help 

• Thursday, May 17th, 4pm Eastern Time
  "iPad: Tips, Tricks, and Apps"
  Presented by Gail Palumbo, former Director of Curriculum and Technology, Montgomery Township Schools, NJ
  Join the community Technology in Schools 

• Thursday, May 18th, 5pm Eastern Time
  "SIS Around the Country: What are Some States Doing?"
  Presented by Gail Palumbo, former Director of Curriculum and Technology, Montgomery Township Schools, NJ
  Join the community Using Your Student Data for Student Achievement  

"Apple hasn't quite delivered on the promise of the 'post-PC world' yet with the iPad."

A thoughtful examination of the iPad from ReadWrite Web: "Two Years With the iPad:  Was it Worth it?"

Did the early adopters get their money's worth? 

"Consume-Only":  This is the most worrisome thing in terms of adopting this in a 1:1 model for schools.  Why not just get inexpensive laptops?

From:  Joe Brockmeier / March 15, 2012 

"Most of my iPad usage is read-only. That is, I use Reeder extensively to skim RSS/Atom feeds. I browse the Web anywhere in the house. I play games, read eBooks and watch movies. But for creating content? Not so much."

As RWW founder Richard MacManus wrote last year in his conclusion, the iPad "really is about consumption."

Another thing, if I were to buy one, I wouldn't consider getting it without the 3G connectivity.  My Kindle Fire is pretty worthless away from home.  I would expect that the same is true of the iPad without 3G/LTE functionality (which they are apparently overcharging for!).

Cybrary Man's Update Education Twitter hashtags

Popular Education Hashtags

This education hashtag listing is a refined list based on the one available through Cybrary Man. Please visit his site for more hashtag options. Also, follow leading educators using many of these hashtags by visiting this page of the same site. You can easily reach this listing by visiting http://www.novemberlearning.com/twitterhashtags.

General Education #Education – General Education #edchat – General Education #educhat – General Education #ntchat – New Teachers #curriculum – Curriculum #k12 – K12 Education #passiondriven – Passion Driven Educators Subject Areas #artsed – Art Education #arted – Art Education #engchat – English Education #mathchat – Math Education #musedchat – Music Education #sschat – Social Studies Education #socialstudies – Social Studies Education #scichat – Science Education #langchat – Foreign Language Education #historyteacher – History Education #physed – Physical Education Specialty Areas #edtech – Technology in Education #edapp – iOS Apps in Education #ipadchat - iPads in Education #ellchat – ELL Education #esl – ESL Education #gtchat – Gifted and Talented Education #spedchat – Special Education #sped – Special Education #isedchat – Independent Schools  – Counselors #elearning – E-Learning #librarians – Librarians #tlchat – Librarians #library – Librarians #stem – STEM Education #flipclass – Flipped Classrooms

Administrators #cpchat – Connected Principals #edadmin – School Administrators Education Levels #earlyed – Early Age Education #preschool – Preschool #kedu – Kindergarten Education #kinderchat – Kindergarten Education #elemchat – Elementary Grade Educators #midleved – Middle Grades Education #highered – Higher Education Issues #edreform – Education Reform #ptchat – Parent Teacher Issues #parenting – Parenting #bullying – Bullying #cybersafety – Cyber Safety #dyslexia – Dyslexia #adhd – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder #infolit – Information Literacy #literacy – Literacy #profdev - Professional Development November Learning #nlearning #blc11

I am lurking at the SXSWedu Tweets

South by Southwest in Austin is a conference I have always been wanting to attend.  It is now one of the world's largest tech conferences.
So I decided to follow #sxswedu and check out what's happening.  My twitter people are there and I can only participate virtually, so I decided to embed some tweets I'm reading to show you how this conference connects to the world of education.

Arne Duncan: our teachers are nation builders but we don't view them as such in this country. #sxswedu
— Tina Barseghian (@MindShiftKQED) March 8, 2012

#Sxswedu blog post- What studies of FB/Twitter use in college teach us:futura.edublogs.org/2012/03/10/sxs…
— WHS Library (@Whslibraryrocks) March 10, 2012

Science website enlists gamers help solving enormously complex problems thru multiplayer games: Jane McGonigal #sxswedu twitter.com/summerintx/sta…
— Susan Raybuck (@summerintx) March 10, 2012

A successful hands on conf session. Here's what worked k12opened.com/blog/archives/… #p2pu #sxswedu
— Karen Fasimpaur (@kfasimpaur) March 10, 2012

RT @cinjo: "We have 21st century kids walking into 20th century classrooms. It's a cultural disconnect." @scraigwatkins #sxswedu
— edutopia (@edutopia) March 7, 2012

"If there is no sharing happening, there is no education happening" - @opencontent #sxswedu
— Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) March 6, 2012

Methods for Collecting Ideas

Notetaking sounds like the winner here. Kleon even has a notepad in his shower! Cause we all know the best ideas take shape in the shower. It's called Aquanotes, for those of you interested:

Awesome Poetry Project: Newspaper Blackout

Grab a marker; make some poetry

The $5 Textbook

View more PowerPoint from David Wiley

Much to learn; I will tune in again tomorrow!