Resources

Below are listed various blogs, wikis, and other educational sites that are great resources for educators.
[|Ed Tags] Edtags.org is a website for educators (e.g., teachers, education graduate students, professors, librarians, etc.) to connect with people sharing similar interests, discover relevant materials that may have "eluded" the traditional card catalogue search, and store and categorize your favorite bookmarks.

Ed Origami Educational Origami is a [|blog], and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Its about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. It is also a great resource for rubrics to assess use of wikis, blogs, podcasting and other uses of multimedia to support student learning.

[|Edward Tufte] A visual designer that pushes presentation of data and information to an art form. BTW, he hates PowerPoint.

[|Wordle] Wordle is an online 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.

[|Shedding Light on Web 2.0] Website hosted by ed techie extroidinaire, Kathy Schrock(Nauset, MA), contains a number of key articles on using Web 2.0 to support teaching, learning, and I might add, UDL.

[|CAST] CAST has earned international recognition for its development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies based on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). An excellent site for numerous UDL resources.

Finding [|E-Text] on the Internet Montgomery County (MD) had a great site where there is a list of mostly free sites that have a range of digital texts available from poetry to Shakespeare.

[|Information on Diigo v. Delicious] One teacher offers her initial comments on the differences between Diigo and Delicious.

[|Using Diigo for peer editing] Another teacher shares the experience of using Diigo to peer edit.