PABeaufaitBookmarks (weekly)

• Visual Understanding Environment

  tags: digital digital resources learning mindmapping teaching tools research resources visualization

• Always Learning: Business Writing Tips - Writing Effective E-Mail: Transmittal Organization

  "A transmittal e-mail introduces a forwarded e-mail or an attachment that is too long or complex to send as an e-mail (¶1).

  tags: business email learning writing wink_students

• Science Links Japan | Journal of Multimedia Aided Education Research

  Journal of Multimedia Aided Education Research (2006)

  tags: education Japan multimedia SoTL research resources

• Teacher Learning in a Context of Educational Change: Informal Learning Versus Systematically Supported Learning — Journal of Teacher Education

  Hoekstra and Korthagen's "longitudinal mixed-method study ... findings suggest that professional learning will take place only if a teacher is supported in learning how to deal effectively with personal factors involved in the learning process" (abstract, ¶).

  tags: education learning informal learning professional professional learning support teacher education teaching

• Wissahickon School District's eToolBox - home

  "an alphabetical index of Web 2.0 tools, from Blogs to Wikispaces, with evaluations and recommendations for each one." (Carole, Wikispaces Blog, Best Educational Wikis of 2010, 2011.01.17 [retreived 2011.01.28])

  tags: education schools resources tools wikis Wikispaces technology learning teaching collaboration

• OneLook Dictionary Search

  Thanks to Yuly for pointing out this powerful toolkit allowing wildcard searches and including a reverse dictionary. OneLook contains "19,044,271 words in 1062 dictionaries indexed" (home page, bottom line, 2011.01.28). It sub-divides long lists of hits into categories: "General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, [and] Phrases."

  tags: dictionaries English references tools wink_students

• BBC News - The top 100 sites on the internet

  One of four tabs in the SuperPower: Visualizing the internet collection, including: The top 100, ..., Net growth, & How it works

  tags: BBC graphics interactive Nielsen visualization websites wink_students

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.