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MLK Digital Archive
Monday, January 16, 2012
King Center launches Digital Archive
How appropriate that The King Center used Martin Luther King Day to launch its remarkable MLK Archive, which currently contains more than one million original documents.
The MLK Archive houses original letters, speeches, pictures, presentations and more. All documents and graphics can be shared, via Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social media buttons.
The King Center MLK Archive is a powerful tool for teachers and students. The MLK Archive provides amazing mosaics of documents and graphics, which the user can enlarge and share. The site features genres, tags and search.
Learn more by browsing the MLK Archive today.
Check out more amazing discussion-starting videos and articles in our Videos for Your Class library.
EmbedPlus Dictionary
Monday, December 26, 2011
Teach pronunciation with EmbedPlus Dictionary
The video editing and embedding application, EmbedPlus, has updated this powerful tool by adding EmbedPlus Dictionary.This will prove remarkably helpful for teachers of English as a second language, but EmbedPlus Dictionary is far more than a support app for ESL teachers.
EmbedPlus Dictionary includes a video feature that shows the searched vocabulary word being used in a real-world context.
Take a look at this video on EmbedPlus Dictionary, and give it a try.
YouTube Education
Monday, December 12, 2011
YouTube Education may eliminate standard YouTube problems
Thanks to Steven Anderson for enlightening me about YouTube Education, YouTube's light, more school-friendly version.
With comments and related videos turned off and an option to request particular playlists, YouTube Education may be just what the teacher ordered.
Tagging EditMe wiki pages
Saturday, November 26, 2011
How to tag your web pages on a classroom web site
A classroom web site built over many years will soon have hundreds or even thousands of web pages. Most wiki-hosted sites, like this one hosted by EditMe, have some sort of tagging system. When your classroom website becomes cluttered, it's important to organize pages into categories, so students can easily locate what they're looking for.
The video above demonstrates how to easily organize your web pages, using tags on an EditMe site. If you're using another web host, be sure to ask your support team about tags. They may already exist on the site in a module that you don't know about.
Meanwhile, if you have an EditMe classroom web site, be sure to start tagging all pages you create. You and your students will be thankful later that you did.
Do you use Today's Meet?
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Today's Meet is a Twitter-like discussion tool
Have you used Today's Meet in the classroom? How has it worked?
If not, can you envision using it? What problems do you anticipate? What successes?
UPDATE: since this video was created, TodaysMeet has disabled the #hashtag feature.
January 2012
MLK Digital Archive
Monday, January 16, 2012
December 2011
EmbedPlus Dictionary
Monday, December 26, 2011
YouTube Education
Monday, December 12, 2011
November 2011
Tagging EditMe wiki pages
Saturday, November 26, 2011
October 2011
Do you use Today's Meet?
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Mourning Steve Jobs
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Google Wallet
Saturday, October 1, 2011
September 2011
Celly makes texting a learning tool
Sunday, September 11, 2011
August 2011
EdChat explained
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Twitter Basics
Sunday, August 14, 2011
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