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Web sites on Social Networks
- Saywire | Home
Saywire Safely Extends School Life OnlineSaywire powers social learning networks for schools with a combination of safe social technology and secure permissions-based controls. * It's private: Schools decide who among their students and faculty participates. * It's personalized: Getting homework help from peers and teachers is easy. * It's purposeful: Critical thinking skills are honed when writing blogs, editing wikis, and creating profiles and pages for projects and interests. Participation in SayMap! threaded discussions shows how ideas are generated and connected.
- The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is creating a Web of machine-readable pages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.
- Intended Consequences
Tim Holt talks to Professor Mark Bauerlein from Emory University and author of "The Dumbest Generation."
- mypictr - we make your profile picture
mypictr provides a free picture resizing service, which allows you to create a custom profile avatar for your favorite social network. You don't need to install any programs, plug-ins or any other software, just upload your picture, resize it online and d
- Welcome to Webkinz® - a Ganz website
Webkinz pets are lovable plush pets that each come with a unique Secret Code. With it, you enter Webkinz World where you care for your virtual pet, answer trivia, earn KinzCash, and play the best kids games on the net!
- Pew Internet: Teens and Social Media
Content creation by teenagers continues to grow, with 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004.
- Flux
If your website has fresh content, and if you want to increase important site metrics such as page views, time spent, and repeat visitors, then you should get in Flux. Flux will help you distribute your content across the social web, while leading new use
- 2˘ Worth " To ELGG or not to ELGG
I will be doing two sessions in the next two of days about social networking for educators. There are some basic questions about social networking that I plan to explore, hopefully modeling social networking in the process.
- "social networking" education nsba - Google Search
I will be doing two sessions in the next two of days about social networking for educators. There are some basic questions about social networking that I plan to explore, hopefully modeling social networking in the process.
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Web sites related to Video Games
- COTS Games - Game Play - Games in Learning
There are literally thousands of computer games on the market - so it can be a bit daunting if you're a non-gamer who is wanting to explore the use of games in learning. To assist teachers to get started, we've compiled a list of ten popular games that teachers may wish to explore and evaluate for classroom use.
- How do I make games
When I talk to people looking to get into game development some of the first things I often hear fall along the lines of, "How do I make games?" or "I want to make a game like Quake/Everquest/Starcraft and…". The first is just way out of the realm of answerability, as there are too many aspects to possibly go into, and each of those components can be infinitely complex.
- K12 Online Conference 2008 | Kicking it up a Notch Games in Education
Presentation Description: It sounds like a simple idea– kids don’t like school… kids like games, so if we sneak some educational content into games, won’t everyone benefit? This session will explore what’s right and wrong about this idea, and how educators can discern the difference between the hype and the promise. I believe that although some of the promise has been oversold, there is much to learn from exploring the educational promise of games in the classroom.
- Emotiv Home
Based on the latest developments in neurotechnology, Emotiv Systems has developed a revolutionary new headset for human computer interaction.
- Grading with Games: An Interview with James Paul Gee | The Story of My "Second Life"
Edutopia is running this excellent interview of James Paul Gee, Professor of Reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (2003). Jim was omnipresent at GLS 4.0 this past July (I attended and presented), and can say it is without question THE conference for educators interested in gaming and its uses in the classroom.
- Alice.org
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.
- Storytelling Alice
Storytelling Alice was created by Caitlin Kelleher as part of her doctoral work in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. For details on the design, development and evaluation of Storytelling Alice, please see Caitlin’s homepage.
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