57 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed–Treasure Chest Jan. 2, 2011

Another  busy week!  The holidays are just about over but the resources keep flowing.  I wasn’t able to “disconnect” on New Year’s but I toned it done a bit! I did find time during the week to find a lot of useful resources for EdTech!  This week I’ve included a list of year-end review resources!  So, although this post says “57 EdTech Resources…” there are actually 100′s if not 1000′s!!!  I hope you enjoy this week’s edition of Treasure Chest!

Year-End Reviews

• 19 of the Best Infographics from 2010–Research can sometimes be a chore, but when good information is wrapped up in a visual medium, things can become that much clearer
• The 20 Best How-To Geek Explainer Topics for 2010 – How-To Geek–It’s near the end of 2010, and we’ve put together a list of the 20 best “Explainer” articles of the year—where we answer a question and teach you a little more about the topic. Enjoy!
• 290+ Social Media Resources From 2010–If you’re looking to get caught up on – or re-read – Mashable’s social media resources from the past year, here’s your chance
• The 50 Best How-To Geek Windows Articles of 2010 – How-To Geek–Here’s the fifty best Windows articles that we wrote in 2010.
• Most Popular Chrome Extensions and Posts of 2010–Google’s browser is a little over two years old, but it’s making major waves on the web. This year, Chrome added extensions, a webapp “Store,” stable Mac and Linux releases, and more
• The Best of Open Culture 2010 | Open Culture–That’s it. We’re putting a wrap on 2010. We’ll hit the ground running again on Monday. But, until then, we leave you with a handy list of our favorite posts
• Most Popular Firefox Extensions and Posts of 2010–Firefox isn’t the only browser for power users anymore, but that didn’t stop it from having a great year of updates, extensions, and tweaks in 2010. Here’s a look back at the most popular Firefox extensions and posts.
• This Is the Best of Lifehacker 2010–2010 was a huge year at Lifehacker, and we spent the month looking back at the biggest and best posts of the year. Here’s one last look back at the best of 2010 in case you missed anything along the way.
• The 69 Coolest Apps Of 2010 –Today, we are going to take a look on few of the web apps we have featured that we think you would like bookmark for 2011
• Year in Review 2010: 12 Stories That Rocked The Education Reform World – Education – GOOD–2010 might just go down in history as the year “education reform” became more than a phrase tossed around by school district policy wonks. Americans are more aware than ever of the need for change in our nation’s schools-and they’re taking action.
• 150 Best Windows Applications Of Year 2010 [Editor's Pick]–Now that 2010 has come to an end, we take a look back at the best 150 applications.
• The 10 Most Popular MakeUseOf Posts Of 2010 [New Year Roundup]–As we prepare to say goodbye to 2010 and usher in 2011, we here at MakeUseOf are in a reflective mood

Featured

• 14 Apps That Should Accompany You to the Next Conference | Teacher Reboot Camp–Part of the Cool Sites series You may have a conference you are preparing to attend in 2011, such as IATEFL, ISTEK, ISTE, or the upcoming EduConn conference
• Cybrary Man QR Codes–QR Code Resources
• Cybraryman Great Educator Diigo Public Libraries–If you’ve moved to Diigo, get a great start by viewing tons of educational bookmarks already there!
• Cybraryman Evernote Catalogue–See all the great resources for Evernote in one place!
• Managing a technical support team – Articles – Educational Technology – ICT in Education—A must-read article if you do or hope to manage a technical staff.
• Audioboo / The digital native and the digital immigrant–An Audioboo by russell1955
• Don’t Let Students Off The Hook – Make them Sweat! | The Creative Education Blog–Stress can sometimes be good. We learn from our mistakes. Stretching students will teach them more than giving them an easy ride
• A Ken Royal Interview:Kids Learn with Hands-on Tech – The Educator’s PLN–At Johns Creek Elementary in Georgia, lessons use ActivBoards, laptops, and handhelds. District leaders encourage a Bring-Your-Own-Tech approach.
• YouTube – historyteachers’s Channel–Music videos we made to make teaching history more fun.
• The school that gives every student an iPad | News | TechRadar UK–The school that gives every student an iPad How iPads have transformed the classroom : TechRadar UK

Tools

• Google SMS on your mobile phone–Use Google SMS to perform Google searches and more from your mobile phone. Available free, carrier charges may apply.
• Best Chrome Apps for Organizing and Editing Photos–There are many online services for Photo editing like Picnik, Mugtug and also desktop freeware tools like Photo Pos Pro
• 6 Virtual Tours Of The Human Body For Free Interactive Anatomy Lessons–You can put your money on virtual reality and virtual worlds becoming part of our daily lives
• 12 Useful Image Search Tools | The Whiteboard Blog–The internet is awash with fantastic images. The problem is finding images that are not breaching someone’s copyright, which is often the case. For student projects is also good practice to have them attribute the source of their images.
• Top 10 Gmail Labs You Should Enable–As if Gmail wasn’t powerful enough, you can find all sorts of goodies and extra features in Gmail Labs. The list is pretty massive, so we’ve narrowed down our 10 favorite labs to help increase your email productivity.
• Pinta – A Simple, Cross Platform Image Editing Program–GIMP lovers may disagree, but the world’s needed a GTK photo editor with an easy-to-understand interface for a while

How-To’s

• How to Search Just the Site You’re Viewing Using Google Search – How-To Geek–Have you ever wanted to search the site you’re viewing, but the built-in search box is either hard to find, or doesn’t work very well?
• Send Web Links and Text to Your Phone the Easy Way–The communication link between our computers and our phones is complicated. Sure, we can use a sync cable to transfer songs, pictures and data, but instantly transferring Web links and other quick information is just not sync-cable worthy.
• HOW TO: Customize the New Facebook Profile–Here are some ways to put your best features forward with the new Facebook profile layout.
• Google For Educators – Web Search–Web search can be a remarkable research tool for students – and we’ve heard from educators that they could use some help to teach better search skills in their classroom.
• 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology – NYTimes.com–Two hours of work on improving your technological life will pay off handsomely in both increased free time and diminished anxiety and frustration.
• LiveBinders Tips and Tricks–Helpful hints for creating great LiveBinders
• Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Glogster Video Tutorials–Terry Roberts shared the following Glogster project via the Google-Certified Teachers list. More importantly, perhaps, he shared a variety of tutorials introducing Glogster (digital poster maker that allows embedding of a variety of media) and Dipity (a free digital timeline tool).

iPad, iPod, etc

• The Ultimate iPhone Guide: 60+ Essential Resources–The iPhone had a great year in 2010 and we’ve been there to cover it all with news, features, galleries, tutorials and more. Here’s a roundup of all our iPhone coverage this year.
• iPad Guide: 25+ Essential Resources for Your Apple Tablet–From ace accessories to amazing apps, read through for a ginormous list of all the iPad features we’ve published on Mashable during 2010

Tutorial | iPad Tips and Tricks—Touching the iPad

• How to take a Screenshot on the iPad and iPhone without a screenshot application–How to take a Screenshot on the iPad and iPhone without a screenshot application
• Most popular iPad apps of 2010 | Mobilize – InfoWorld–Productivity apps make up the bulk of the 10 iPad apps most popular during the tablet’s inaugural year

5 iPad Tips!! Top Best APPS! (April 2010)

• The Ultimate iPhone Guide: 60+ Essential Resources–The iPhone had a great year in 2010 and we’ve been there to cover it all with news, features, galleries, tutorials and more. Here’s a roundup of all our iPhone coverage this year.
• 12 Totally Awesome (Yet Free) Photography Apps For Your iPhone | Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Dev–No matter how many applications you have installed on your iOS device, you are always on the lookout for the next free and fun iOS app and specially for photography apps that may help you capture and edit your photos taken from your iPhone
• United States iPad Top 200 Education Apps | App Annie–For iPhone developers who love their apps, App Annie keeps tabs on your apps, making it easy to track sales, rankings, and reviews from around the world.
• Web Highlighter for iPad Safari installation instruction–Installing the Web Highlighter bookmarklet enables you to easily highlight and bookmark webpages in iPad Safari, just like in iBooks.
• The 50 Best iPad Apps | PCMag.com–We sift through Apple’s App Store to find you the best free and paid apps for Apple’s iPad that will entertain, inform, and make you more productive.
• 85 Best Free iPhone 4 Apps Of Year 2010: Reviewed By Category–Reviewed here are the best free iphone4 apps of year 2010. All apps listed here are reviewed in category from communication to business, travel to lifestyle etc.
• iPad Office app showdown: Four apps to help you get work done | ZDNet–The Apple iPad is an extremely powerful device and there are now some excellent Office-compatible applications available

Miscellaneous

• 18 Fun Interesting Facts You Never Knew About The Internet–Well, it’s official. Pretty much everyone now has broadband and the majority us of use the Internet more than we watch TV
• Digital StoryTelling Instructions–PDF Handbook for Digital Storytelling
• Library Stuff | 130 Tools in 160 Minutes
• The Electric Educator: 10 Google Voice Tricks That Will Rock Your Phone!
• Free Online Documentaries :: JohnLocker.com–The largest collection of free streaming documentaries on the internet. Click. Watch. Learn.
• 6 More Interesting Websites A Space & Astronomy Buff Should Visit–It’s said that every second child harbors dreams of becoming an astronaut and flying into space. Maybe one day we can take that dream for granted
• Map Jigsaw Puzzles – National Geographic–Time yourself and challenge your friends to complete these jigsaw puzzles using National Geographic Atlas plates.

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