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New Stuff

  • National Novel Writing Month -   is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Used online; Free 
  • One Page Per Day - a very simple web typewriter that presents you with a single blank page each day. You are free from the tyranny of the infinite page. You get a gentle reminder to do your page each day, then you just sit back and watch your book come together. Used online; Free
  • Make Beliefs Comix - "Art by Tom Bloom, comix by you." Existing galleries of art make it easy for students to focus on creating the story; Used online; Free.  
  • Posterous - a very simple publishing platform that works well for class blogging; Used online; Free 
  • Tumblr -  a very simple publishing platform that works well for class blogging; Used online; Free 
  • 18 Free Screencasting Tools 
  • 50 Awesome Ways to Use Skype in the Classroom 
  • NCTE Secondary Section: Common Core Standards

 

 Ideas & Perspectives

 

Kids Today

 

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

 

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Tools for Collaboration 

 

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Tools for Building Community

 

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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

 

Specific Tools

 

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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.

 

 

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

       

  • Other Tools
    • 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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