Potentially useful ICT sites 12/31/2008 (p.m.)

• National Standards for School Leadership consultation - Publications - NCSL

  Consultation on school leadership -- not strictly ICT, but has some relevance I feel. Also includes link to national standards of school leadership, which I have bookmarked separately

  tags: consultation on national standards of school leadership

• national-standards-for-school-leadership-2008.pdf (application/pdf Object)

  With a headteacher recruitment crisis in the UK, I'm not sure that publishing this daunting list of standards was advisable. Still, it's linked to a consultation (see separate link).
  How many of these attributes should a school ICT/ed tech leader have?

  tags: national standards for school leadership, school leadership, leadership

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Potentially useful ICT sites 12/31/2008 (a.m.)

• Edublogs search engine

  Custom-made ed tech search engine, courtesy of Stephen Downes (http://www.downes.ca). Searching on nearly 500 ed tech-related blogs, this is pretty good according to a few test searches I carried out.

  tags: edublogs custom search, search engine, educational technology search engine, Stephen Downes

• Social Media is No Place for Robot Behavior | chrisbrogan.com

  A good exposition of what's wrong with using automatic follow or response tools in Twitter. Chris Brogan, the author, says:
  
  **Warning: this is mostly a bitchy, moany, inside baseball post about Twitter. Skip it. The next one will be useful.** I'm sick of robots. Truly.

  tags: Chris Brogan, Twitter, automated responding in Twitter

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Potentially useful ICT sites 12/30/2008 (p.m.)

• ICT in education: Results of integration of some of the ICT tools in my classroom

  I like this post, because it itemises the results of some classroom-based research by teachers, using applications like animation and comic strip.

  tags: ICT in classrooms, Suryaveer Singh

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Potentially useful ICT sites 12/30/2008 (a.m.)

• Top Twitter Tools to Check Out in 2009 | Social Networking Blog - SociableBlog.com

  This was announced in the Ed Tech group on Diigo by @DaiBarnes. Interesting list of Twitter-related apps, some of which I've tried and others I haven't even heard of. Worth considering. I've just posted this without any evaluation. I've evaluated some tools here: http://terry-freedman.org.uk/artman/publish/article_1439.php and here: http://terry-freedman.org.uk/artman/publish/article_1440.php

  tags: Twitter, Twitter applications, sociableblog.com, sociableblog

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Potentially useful ICT sites 12/29/2008 (p.m.)

• embedit.in

  This looks like it could be the answer to a problem that crops up time and again: how to embed files in your blog or website. Worth looking into. Thanks to @speters who tweeted it, having heard about it from @jomcleay.

  tags: Jo Mcleay, Sharon Peters, embedit, embed-it, Terry Freedman, ICT

• Ubiquity: user generated MashUps | Learning ICT

  This looks worthy of further investigation. Karl Goddard says: "Occasionally a tool comes along that could change the way we do stuff online. Most fail by either being too elegant and therefore offering not enough change..."

  tags: mash-ups, Karl Goddard, Ubiquity, Learning-ICT, Terry Freedman, ICT

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