CodeCruncher Links 12/26/2009

• 10 Rules for Increasing Community Engagement

  “Getting people to interact with others and upload content to a community-driven site enough may sound easy, but engagement doesn’t happen automatically. It takes time and work, and much of the right formula is deduced through trial and error. Here are 10 tips for increasing user engagement that work for news community web sites, but can apply to all types of online user-engagement communities.”

  tags: engagement, community, education

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CodeCruncher Links 12/23/2009

• googlizealesson – home

  “Take your old worksheets, slide shows, and web quests and add a twist of Google to make creative, collaborative, and engaging lessons!”

  tags: google, googledocs, education, resources, lessonplans, web2.0, googlizealesson

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CodeCruncher Links 12/18/2009

• TeachPaperless: Top Eleven Things All Teachers Must Know About Technology (or: I promised Dean Groom I wouldn’t write a top ten list; so this one goes up to eleven.)

  “The Top Eleven Things All Teachers Must Know About Technology”

  tags: web2.0, technology, teachers, teachpaperless, Blog, teaching, education

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CodeCruncher Links 12/14/2009

• Illuminations: Dynamic Paper

  “Need a pentagonal pyramid that’s six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5’s? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web.”

  tags: math, worksheets, illuminations, geometry, paper, dynamic, mathematics, resources

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CodeCruncher Links 12/11/2009

• Topics on History of Maths and x

  “Cryptography is the process by which messages are communicated through secret means. Cipher cryptography converts messages by applying some cipher algorithm with a secret key to a plaintext message, converting it into a ciphertext message that cannot be read by interceptors. Cryptanalysis is the science that attempts to decipher these messages without access to the secret key.”

  tags: Internet, communication styles, education, linguistics, cryptology, cryptography

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CodeCruncher Links 12/10/2009

• BBC News – Mind your slanguage

  “Slang is sabotaging language, with some teenagers unable to speak in any other way, say critics. So should it be banned in schools?”

  tags: slanguage, slang, Internet, communication styles, education, school, linguistics

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CodeCruncher Links 12/08/2009

• Interesting Ways | edte.ch

  “My Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with professional development.”

  tags: web2.0, resources, technology, tools, presentations, blog, education

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CodeCruncher Links 12/05/2009

• Google Docs Help: Styles In Google Docs – a knol by Google Docs Guide 2

  “Templates, Styles and Better Formatting have been among the most requested Google Docs features. Well, you asked and we listened!”

  tags: google docs, CSS, tips

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CodeCruncher Links 11/18/2009

• Learning with ‘e’s: Teaching with Twitter

  “Below are my 10 top uses of Twitter for education:”

  tags: twitter, education, teaching, microblogging, tools, blog, web2.0, technology

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CodeCruncher Links 11/16/2009

• 25 Tools 2009

  “This is the 2009 version of this popular resource. The 2009 Toolbox contains 25 categories of learning tool. Within each tool category are the names of the most popular tools from the emerging 2009 Top Tools for Learning, as selected by learning professionals worldwide. If you wnat to discuss the tools, join the 25Tools Ning Community.”

  tags: tools, web2.0, top25, 2009, resources, edtech

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