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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
- 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
Specific Tools
- 50 Web Tools Your Students Want You to Use -
- 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; Free?
- 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
- TokBox - Free video chat and video messaging; Used online; Free
- VoiceThread - collaborative, multimedia slide show; Used online; Free/Minimal fee
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- 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
- 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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