Students: Push Technology (ways that teachers can push technology to students; RSS feeds, gadgets, classroom webpages, etc. that students can subscribe to and add resources for personal space). Add a line, your contributions, and your name! Put yours at the TOP!
Google offers a way to send content to students in a variety of communication formats. Students already know about Google as a powerful search engine. Once a student has Gmail she can set up an iGoogle homepage where information can be arranged in a way that is personal to her with her choice of artistic themed headers. Gadgets for calendars, calculators, dictionaries and more can have colorful headers. RSS feeds and hyperliniks to teachers blogs in blogger are are set up on the iGoogle home page.
There are more tools available with connect us to our Internet information sources. Each of these tools merly requires a click to add. Google Reader provides a way to send students the latest presentation on Google Doc that has been uploaded to the web. Word processed pages can be created by a specified group of students and shared like a wiki in this digital commons. There is no need for software. Opensource Internet tools makes this kind of collaboration possible.
Google search can now be customized per research project with a gadget on the homepage.
Google book search is like Librarything in that a librarian's favorite books can be displayed, yet Google book search will search for a book and if it is in public domain deliever to you for download. If the copywrite prohibits more than a look inside Google provides links to libraries and bookstore where books can be found.
This is a fun way to add interactive elements to a blog. It is an educational game creator.
http://lifehacker.com/395368/best-online-language-tools-for-word-nerds
Lots of great online tools like dictionaries, thesauri, synonym/antonym manuals, etc. - Not just for NERDS!
Imbee is a new social networking site designed for tweens with features for teachers to create classroom groups, blogs, photo sharing, etc. It might be a controlled way for students to experience social networking in the educational environment.
Provides a simple way to collect many RSS feeds in one place by cutting and pasting
Margie Llinas
Wiki for internet-use policy construction among tech people, librarians, teachers, students
How about an "Author-of-the-Month" wiki where students can asynchronously read and discuss different books from the same author.
Google Reader
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