Ideas & Perspectives

• Why Tech, Why Now? Videos to start a dialog.
• Information R/evolution -
• The Machine is Us/ing Us -
• Did You Know 4.0 - 
• A Teacher's Guide to Web 2.0 Tools -
• New Media Literacies- Participatory Culture 
• Perspectives on Digital Literacy -
• The Evolving Web -
• What is Social Media?  

Kids Today

• Digital Youth -
• The Networked Student -
• No Future Left Behind -
• A Vision of Students Today -
• My PLE (Personal Learning Environment) -
• The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create with Digital Media -
• Are Kids Different Because of Digital Media?
• That's Not Cool dot com -

Schools and Schooling: What's Now, What's Next?

• The Ecology of New Media - You Tube and the Politics of Authenticity.
• Looking Ahead - Two videos
• Learning to Change, Changing to Learn: Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN) Video
• 21st Century Pedagogy: Transforming our pedagogical DNA
• Are Schools Killing Creativity?- by Sir Ken Robinson
• 21st Century Literacy - A wiki of the International School Bangkok's vision of implementing 21st century learning
• Playing to Learn?   - Explore why "play" has gotten such a bad rap and figure out how to get it back in education.

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Tools for Collaboration 

• 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Editing
• Blogs, Wikis, Docs: Which is Right for Your Classroom?  A comparison chart
• Google Docs and other Google Tools
• Primarypad Real-time collaboration
• Wikis
• 7 Things You Should Know about Wikis
• 7 Things You Should Know about Wikipedia
• Wikis in Plain English
• Educational Wikis
• Tips for Teaching Wikis: How I Explain it to Students
• Social Bookmarking 
• General Information 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking
• Social Bookmarking and Annotating - from the Digitally Speaking wiki 
• A Bookmarking Tool: Delicious
• Diigo  Three videos
• Diigo: Improving how we find, share, and save information;
• Diigo: Highlight & share the web
• Teacher feedback with Diigo
• Diigo for Educators Special features for educators, including tools to manage classes.

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Tools for Building Community

• Youth Voices 
• Edmodo: Social networking for education in a secure learning environment.
• Edmodo Home page
• The Edmodo Blog
• Edmodo: Ning for Kids!
• Using Edmodo in the Classroom: 5 Days Later
• From Classroom 2.0 LIVE: Edmodo An hour-long webinar/discussion with teachers & the founder of Edmodo.
• GROU.PS - http://GROU.PS  GROU.PS is a do-it-yourself social networking platform that allows people to form interactive communities around a shared interest or affiliation. Used online; fee for private group.
• Grouply - Create your own social media site; Used online; free
• Webs.com - Create your own website; Used online; free
• A wide-ranging discussion of the pros and cons of websites for class use - EC Ning
• Netiquette - The form and content of internet communications, or, how to be a good digital citizen.

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Tools for Teaching Literature & Writing

(Also, see Specific Tools, below.)

Writing

• Writing Resources
• Research Tools
• Digital Publishing Resources: A collection of six free publishing resources; used online; free
• The Digital Narrative: Discover new ways to teach storytelling; explore dozens of free tools  to build your stories; find other websites
  

• Blogs
• Blogging  From the wonderful wiki, Digitally Speaking
• Learning to Blog Using Paper A step-by-step guide to teaching kids the ins and outs of blogging before they ever get online! From the blog Notes from McTeach.
• Teaching Argument through Role-play
• One Word: prompts a writing teacher will love - used online; free
  

Reading & Literature

• 60second Recap™ 

• Promise into Practice: What It Now Means to Teach Adolescent Readers -

• Exploring Literary Terms - Metaphor
• VoiceThread and Literature
• Illuminated Texts- One Source is www.awaytoteach.net
• More

  Using Web 2.0 tools to teach 'The Outsiders'

   

Additional Curriculum Resources

• Teaching with Ted Talks - Initiated by Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D., this wiki contains recordings of original TED talks, with references, resources, and activities about the topic and/or speaker to spark further discourse, exploration, reflection, and action.

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Tools for Teaching Media Literacy

Media Literacy

• Media Literacy Resources- Center for Media Literacy 
• More Media Literacy-
• Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-linked Guide to Resources and Activities

• Media Literacy Curriculum and Resources From the Teaching Media Literacy wiki site by Richard Beach

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Specific Tools for Thinking & Creating

General Resources 

• 50 Web Tools Your Students Want You to Use 
  
• Bloom's Taxonomy in Digital  
• Digital Tools - HOW TOs for Teachers - Two short references by Mike Zimmerman, Technology Integration Specialist: Tools for the 21st Century Teacher and A New Way to Lecture: Using Web 2.0 to Create Interactive Lectures with Your Students
• Digitally Speaking - by Nationally Board Certified teacher Bill Ferriter  
  
•  Educational Origami - Matching ICT tools to traditional classroom practice & Bloom's Taxonomy.
• Joyce Valenza's -  Amazing Compilation
• More Resources - Lists of Web resources for educators.
• Poducate Me - Practical solutions for podcasting in education. PoducateMe features a comprehensive podcasting guide that reveals exactly how it's done. The entire PoducateMe Podcasting Guide can be read online and free of charge.

Google

• Google for Educators - "At Google, we support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. That’s why we’ve assembled the information and tools you’ll find on this site. Learn more about Google for Educators." 
• Google Tools for Schools - Jennifer Dorman, a Google Certified Teacher, has assembled a comprehensive collection of Google tools with extensive resources on how to use them. She uses the collection for workshops she offers and, in the spirirt of open access, has shared the site with the Web.  
• ePortfolios with Google Apps - a comprehensive web site by Dr. Helen Barrett, renowned for her work in ePortfolio research and development. This site also offers lots of great how-to information about Google Apps.
• Google Guide - Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial and reference, with sections for expererts, novices, and teens. "I developed Google Guide because I wanted more information about Google's capabilities, features, and services than I found on Google's website." --Nancy Blachman, creator. Used online; free.
• Integrating Google Tools for Educators - Run, do not walk, to take advantage of this superb resource  - Used online; Free

Specific Tools

• Animoto - make a simple slideshow from still images; Used online, Free
• Animoto for education - Apply to Animoto for a free, all-access pass for use in the classroom
• Animoto advice - A collection of tips and pieces of advice for teachers from respected ed tech blogger, Steven Anderson
• Hello Animoto - Andrew Marcinek's discussion, with examples, on the Classroom 2.0 Ning
• Teaching with Animoto - English Companion Ning (EC Ning) discussion
• Use Animoto with Read 180 - ECNing; applicable to any program or activity
• Examples
• Teacher-made Animotos used to introduce new literature units- ECNing
• The Tragedy of Haiti - turning to literature in the face of tragedy - ECNing
• Audacity - open source software for recording and editing sounds. Downloadable app; Free
• Audacity Tip Sheet for Students by J. Mikulski
• Introduction to Audacity
• Audacity User Manual
• Bubbl.us - tool for brainstorming; Used online; Free 
• A quick YouTube tutorial
• Comic Life - make your own comic; Downloadable app
• Comic Life in Education - From the folks at Comic Life 
• How to Use Comic Life in the Classroom
• Tech Module: Using Comic Life in the Classroom
• Comic Life PD through the Ontario Teachers Federation - many more resources about Comic Life than can be listed here, this wiki includes
• PowerPoint presentations, by Barbara McLaughlin
• Comic Life  
• Comic Life & the Writing Process
• A link to a recorded video session about how to use Comic Life
• Video clips on using Comic Life 
• Dropbox - store your files online & access anywhere; Downloadable app & Used online; Free (2GB)
• Flickr - photosharing site; Used online; Free
• Flickr Advanced Search Use this page to limit a search to images licensed for sharing.
• Flickr search http://compfight.com Great tool for searching, can be limited to images licensed for reuse.
• Glogster Edu - interactive poster maker; Used online; Free (N.B. Be sure you're on the .edu version!)
• Examples of Glogs
• Glogging Not Blogging by Tara Seale for the NCTE Secondary Section blog
• Detailed Tutorial on Glogster
• Goodreads - create book groups & share books you're reading; Used online; Free
• Using Goodreads with Students: from Lisa Huff's Workshop Wiki
• From the blog, The Literabuss: Goodreads.com in the Classroom: a Slam Dunk Resource 
• Jing - Capture your screen & add voice; store your videos online; Used online; Free. Pro option offers ability to save in more formats, etc. 
  
• Ning - build your own social community; Used online
• Ning Pricing Plans
• OneWord - see description above, in Writing Tools
  
• Podcasting - In 2009, the Ontario Teachers Foundation sponsored a digital "summer camp" for teachers. This comprehensive wiki page can get you and your class started with this exciting activity.
• Screenjelly - record your screen activity with your voice; Used online; Free
• Skitch - a Mac OS X application that allows you to take a picture of the entire screen or selected areas of the screen. It also allows you to post those images on the web through the Skitch site; Free.
• Skype - Talk with people anywhere in the world; Used online; FREE!
• Skype Explained Visually
• 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom
• TED Talks - repository of inspirational & life-affirming videos; Used online; Free 
• Teaching with TED wiki, by Jackie Gerstein Ed.D. - lesson plans, ideas, more!
• VoiceThread - collaborative, multimedia slide show; Used online; Free/Minimal fee
• How to Make a VoiceThread - a great wiki by the folks from VT
• VoiceThread for Educators - a Ning community
• Voicethread - from the wiki, Digitally Speaking 
• Wallwisher - 
• 19 Interesting Ways to Use Wallwisher in the Classroom (and tips!)
• Wordle - create word pictures from text files; Used online; Free
• Using Wordle in an English Classroom by Tara Seale for the NCTE Secondary Section blog
• Zoho - tools for productivity & collaboration. Includes word processing, spread sheets, much more; Used online; Free
• Zotero - collect, manage & cite your research sources; Downloadable app; Free

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Tools for Personal PD

• Podcasts and Video for Ongoing Learning
• Classroom 2.0 Live
• K-12 Online Conference - Annual free online conference.
• Teachers Teaching Teachers - Free weekly podcast offering a multiplicity of tools & tips.
• Developing a PLN (Personal Learning Network)
• English Companion Ning
• English 2.0: A Webstitute for Teaching & Learning
• Free Tech for Teachers A blog by Richard Byrne about, well, free tech for teachers. Reviews, advice, descriptions of how teachers use the tech.
• Great Tech Tips for Teachers  
• What should I read? - A few suggestions.
• Social Media Reading List - The idea for this page is to build a 'best of the web' reading / watching list for school leadership regarding using social media for school advancement. Rather than talk about how great social media is we're using social media to build this reading list.
• A 21st Century Professional Development Proposal: a Personal Learning Network + specific web tools = a true 21st century teacher.

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Tools for Downloading & Converting Videos

• Two options for downloading YouTube videos to use in school:

• File Converters
• Format Factory - Format Factory is multifunctional media converter (Windows); Download; Free
• WinFF - File converter (Windows & Ubuntu); Download; Free

   

• Miscellaneous
• How to Create a Safe Password - A short video by Animated Explanations
• Password Safe  - Store passwords, user names, and other security information. Developed by the computer scientist who (literally) wrote the book on Web security. Download; Free.

 NCTE Statements & Standards for Teaching with Digital Tools

• 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment Framework - NCTE 2008 Position Statement
• Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
• 21st Century Skills Map - Developed in conjunction with The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, this curriculum map illustrates "the intersections between 21st Century Skills and English."