Things That Are Banned in School

Great Google Docs presentation from Lisa Nielsen.

 

The Innovative Educator: Banned in School:

An essential element for 21st century learning is thinking outside the ban, however, many schools fail to do this banning the very items that are crucial to success in the world. When viewing this compilation of items banned in school it is clear we are not preparing students for success in the world.

Qwiki - Intelligent, Interactive Search

I've been exploring QWiki - sort of a talking search engine.

Here's how they describe themselves:

We've all seen science fiction films (or read novels) where computers are able to collect data on behalf of humans, and present the most important details. This is our goal at Qwiki- to advance information technology to the point it acts human

Here's a Qwiki on George Orwell and another on the Beatles. The voice over is a little buggy, but I see a lot of potential.

Storytelling

Clever story told using a Möbius strip.

Secrets of Popular Presentations

From SlideShare Zeitgeist 2010

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Generate Tag Clouds

Tag clouds are a great way to introduce a new topic or new terminology in your classes. I've used Wordle and Tagxedo, but Tagul is interesting because it builds interactive tag clouds.
3 Web-Based Tools that Generate Awesome Tag Clouds:

This post is meant not only to show you the tools that will build an awesome tag cloud for you but also to inspire you and share various creative ways to use those tools.