Treasure Chest–Alfie Kohn, Dropbox, iPad, Twitter, Search Engines, Apps & So Much More

by Jeffrey Thomas on September 12, 2010

Here is this week’s edition of Treasure Chest–the best resources I’ve found during the past week for educators. I hope some of these will be of use to you!

Enjoy!

The Best TED Talks To Make Use Of Social Media–This list of TED speeches features quite a few of the leading thinkers in social media, some of whom have also written free ebooks on social networking.
100 Apps for Tech-Savvy Teachers–From Early Childhood Education apps to Business Management apps, here is a collection of 100 web and iPhone tools that make the grade for tech–savvy teachers:
Teacher LED-All Interactive Whiteboard Resources–Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers. A variety of free, easy to use IWB resources, for teaching a variety of subjects.
7 Fun Facebook Video Conferencing and Chat Apps–Some of the nicest video chat and conferencing apps on the Facebook platform
Search Engines for Students–Public page from ansercharter – Netvibes
12 Coolest Search Engines You’ve Never Heard Of–Here are some cool niche specific search engines too which do an excellent job in getting the information from a specific niche.
10 cool Twitter visualisation tools–10 cool Twitter visualisation tools Turn tweets into animations, graphs and glyphs
My Most Used iPad Apps and Links List–Here are some of the icons/apps/links that I most frequently use.
75 really useful iPad tips and tricks–75 really useful iPad tips and tricks Save time using your new iPad with these handy tips
101 Great Sites for Social Studies Class–A list of the best free online sites for teachers of government, history, economics, psychology and other social studies disciplines.
Dropbox Tips for Teachers: Why You Must Get Dropbox!–Find new ways to share, sync and backup your files with these Dropbox tips for teachers
Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create a Facebook Group for Your Classes…–Here is a simple tutorial on how to create a Facebook community group for your classes.
Alfie Kohn: What Passes for School Reform: “Value-Added” Teacher Evaluation and Other Absurdities–Does the value-added model provide valid and reliable information about teachers (and schools)? Most experts in the field of educational assessment say, Good heavens, no.
Blog from Anywhere Instantly With Posterous – How-To Geek–Do you find it too difficult to keep your blog updated? Let’s take a quick look a Posterous, an increasingly popular hosted blog system that lets you post anything to your blog by simply sending an email.
Publish your PowerPoint Presentations to YouTube–Learn about a free online service that will convert your PowerPoint slides to video and uploads them to YouTube directly.
5 Search Engines To Find & Download Free Mobile Apps–A search engine is just the right tool that can help us connect to mobile content, mobile downloads, and mobile apps from one search box.
Dropbox Tools ~ Chris Pirillo–Dropbox is a free service which allows you to easily share files online with any number of people. There are tools available to make the most out of your experience.
Sites for Teachers –Sites For Teachers — Hundreds of Educational Websites Ranked by Popularity.
Check the Current Online Status of all Social Networks and APIs–Social DownorNot is a public dashboard that displays the current system status of all the popular social networking websites in near real-time.
VocabGrabber : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus–VocabGrabber lets you automatically create lists of vocabulary from any text.
Students, Ownership, & Creativity: 35 Resources | Teacher Reboot Camp –Part of the Cool Sites series My students love creating!