My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (January 18, 2015)

• Pin by Starr Sackstein on technology | Pinterest

  How Twitter in the Classroom Connects Your Students http://t.co/K9pxr7REkX

• Coalition to Support Grieving Students

  Great site to support students dealing with loss

  tags: support students grief

• Meet the Techie Ladies of BHS! | Burlington High School Help Desk

  Love this video created by @jlscheffer and her female students who are leading the charge in tech! http://t.co/qzylkt4avm #edtech

  tags: edtech

• Reagan students excited to receive laptops for school and home use | News Blog

  thoughtful 1:1 rollout in @HoustonISD http://t.co/FLJ8e5bgOz Looking frwd to visiting HISD schools today!

• Some More OER Textbook Resources

  tags: textbook oer digital textbooks

• Easily Create eBooks with These 3 Powerful Apps

  tags: ebooks apps

• Why You Should Play on Your Strengths--Not Focus on Your Weaknesses - Lolly Daskal | Leadership and Personal Development | Lolly Daskal

  Why You Should Play on Your Strengths–Not Focus on Your Weaknesses via @LollyDaskal http://t.co/4Uzm7nPTIU http://t.co/ysXqtwssCi

• Book-Writing Productivity Hacks - Business Insider

  The Productivity Hacks I Used To Write A 93,000-Word Book In 6 Weeks - thought you would like this @thenerdyteacher http://t.co/6hGrpyijyO

• Setting Cut Scores

  tags: Standardizedtesting benchmark

• Redefining Curriculum with Open Educational Resources and Teacher-Created Content - EdTech Researcher - Education Week

  tags: oer teachercreated digitalresources

• Internet Citation Organizer

  From Read Write Think

  tags: research citation organizer

• The 8 Minutes That Matter Most

  tags: studentengagement engagement

• Separate People From Their Phones, And They Perform Less Well | Smart News | Smithsonian

  "a new study suggests that being separated from your phone can have serious psychological and physiological effects.  As smartphones become even more ubiquitous—as of 2014, 58 percent of all adult American cell phone owners had one—there’s been plenty of backlash against constant connectivity. But don’t put down that phone just yet—a new study suggests that being separated from your phone can have serious psychological and physiological effects.  Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/putting-down-phone-can-make-you-dumber-180953873/#dmrj3AkHD8dFxT0Y.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter  

  tags: smartphones devices

• Performance Goes Down When People are Separated from Their iPhones | Big Think

  Our findings suggest that iPhone separation can negatively impact performance on mental tasks. Additionally, the results from our study suggest that iPhones are capable of becoming an extension of our selves such that when separated, we experience a lessening of 'self' and a negative physiological state."

  tags: iphones research

• Explore the World with the Google Cultural Institute

  From Jen Carey - "I am a big fan of the Google Cultural Institute; it’s an amazing repository of Artistic Masterpieces, Wonders of the Natural World, Historical Artifacts, and more. By using it as a repository of digital materials, it’s an easy way to access cultural content from around the world in my classroom. I can pull up a high definition image of Van Gogh’s Starry Night and use its powerful zoom features so that students can see the impasto brush strokes. We can explore the Street Art of Sao Paulo with a Google Street View for a unit on modern art or the Ruins at Angkor Wat when covering a unit on Ancient History."

  tags: googleinstitute worldhistory arthistory

• The Drivers of a Successful BYOD Initiative

  tags: byod

• The Invention of Failure

  Good thoughts on failure from Cathy Davidson

  tags: failure cathydavidson

• History in Motion - Create Multimedia History Stories

  From Richard Byrne - "History in Motion is a promising service that allows teachers and students to build multimedia history stories. On History in Motion you can build animated timelines that can move in conjunction with movements on a map. At each stop along your timeline and map you can include descriptions of events, display images, and display videos."

  tags: multimedia stories history socialstudies

• Textbook Revolution

  Another site for free online textbooks

  tags: textbooks ebooks opensource

• Online Textbooks for Free

  A site for free online textbooks

  tags: textbooks books ebooks

• Google for Education: Bringing Learning Online

  Google's Guide to Online education

  tags: google education learning online

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