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Ideas & Perspectives
Kids Today
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
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Tools for Building Community
- Youth Voices
- Edmodo: Social networking for education in a secure learning environment.
- 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
Reading & Literature
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
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Specific Tools for Thinking & Creating
General Resources
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
- Audacity - open source software for recording and editing sounds. Downloadable app; Free
- Bubbl.us - tool for brainstorming; Used online; Free
- Comic Life - make your own comic; Downloadable app
- Dropbox - store your files online & access anywhere; Downloadable app & Used online; Free (2GB)
- Flickr - photosharing site; Used online; Free
- Glogster Edu - interactive poster maker; Used online; Free (N.B. Be sure you're on the .edu version!)
- Goodreads - create book groups & share books you're reading; Used online; Free
- 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
- 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!
- TED Talks - repository of inspirational & life-affirming videos; Used online; Free
- VoiceThread - collaborative, multimedia slide show; Used online; Free/Minimal fee
- Wallwisher -
- Wordle - create word pictures from text files; Used online; Free
- 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
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Tools for Downloading & Converting Videos
- Two options for downloading YouTube videos to use in school:
- Click on the little icon for DownloadHelper at the upper left corner of every video.
- Download the Firefox extension, called DownloadHelper. This enables you to download video from many other sites.
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- 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
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