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"Sites Audio * AudioPal * Myna * Recordr Charts/Graphs * Cacoo * Lovely Charts * Rich Chart Live * Scribble Maps Digital Art * Art Pad * Doink * Flockdraw * Odosketch * Paint Brush * PsykoPaint * Sketchcast * Sumo Paint Digital Storytelling * Art of Storytelling * BookRix * Mixbook * My StoryMaker * Myths & Legends * Primary Access * ToonDoo Spaces File Conversion * Comet Docs * DocsPal File Sharing * Author Stream * Box * WeTransfer Misc. * Capzles * Culture Crossing * Embedit.in * Kidblog * Screen Jelly * Shmoop * Strutta * Tagul * TypeWith.me * Visuwords * Wordnik Presentations/Multimedia * Digital Vaults * Glogster * Magic Studio * PhotoPeach * Shwup Search Engines * Europeana * Eyeplorer * Google Swirl * Oamos * Quintura * Twine"

"With the coming of the 21st century, technology has added a new twist to our traditional storytelling. Beyond the scope of pen and pencil, we can now easily tell and share our stories digitally with mobile phones, flip cameras, recording our voice or using free web tools. There is no doubt that today's students are more motivated and interested in using digital storytelling just like any other multimedia. It offers us, educators, a new and a very 21st century way to captivate students' attention, facilitate learning, reach shy students and increase collaboration and community in a classroom. It's a great way to give voice to ourselves and our students in an out of the classroom walls."

"Digital Storytelling: A Tutorial in 10 Easy Steps Expert tips on creating a polished, professional digital video"

""Own Your Space--Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online" Digital Book for Teens by Linda McCarthy "

"With support from the MacArthur Foundation, the GoodPlay project explores the ethical character of young people's activities in the new digital media. We seek to understand how young people conceptualize their participation in virtual worlds and the ethical considerations that guide their conduct. We are exploring five themes which we believe are salient in the digital age, with implications for ethics-identity, privacy, ownership and authorship, credibility, and participation."

"YUDU is an ePublishing library and marketplace that lets you read, publish, buy, sell and share digital content."

We are building a Digital Citizenship curriculum for PK-12 students and teachers at International School Bangkok. You can find all of our lesson plans and resources on the links below, or at left. We have broken our curriculum down into the following units:

Overview of Evaluating Projects

"Common Sense Media is pleased to announce that the free CyberSmart! curriculum is now part of Common Sense Media's education programs. Over the next year, Common Sense will be updating the CyberSmart! lesson plans and adding video, interactive components, and a rich complement of parent resources to create an integrated K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum."

"Teaching kids online citizenship"

Admongo.gov teaches kids to apply critical thinking skills through a series of fun and challenging interactive games. The site is the foundation of the entire program. As a result, have your students explore it before you use the lesson plans in your classroom or for a quick overview of the site, visit the text version here. Want to get a sense of the gaming experience but don't have time to master each level? Teachers can vist an "unlocked" version of the game here

"We developed this critical thinking and web research curriculum with the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Lesson plans include prerequisites, rationale, essential concepts, and descriptions of related National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) and are designed for beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels, aimed at middle school and secondary students. Mechanics of searching Lesson plans Title Description Searching - Lesson plan - Beginner, Microsoft Office Word document, 73 KB Students who are starting to learn the research process develop beginning skills for conducting an effective and efficient search of web-based information. Searching - Lesson plan - Intermediate, Microsoft Office Word document, 84 KB Students who are proficient in conducting accurate web searches learn to refine them and explore the ways to develop questions and to translate those questions into search queries. Searching - Lesson plan - Advanced, Microsoft Office Word document, 81 KB Students refine search-conducting skills to develop the ability to search for specific sites from a variety of organizations, such as education or government agencies, and sites from specific countries and in specific languages. Student worksheets and handouts Title Description Searching - Student handout, Microsoft Office Word document, 42 KB This handout provides a search reference list that includes web addresses and their endings, along with tips for effective searching. Searching - Student worksheet 1, Microsoft Office Word document, 44 KB Students record and evaluate search results with this worksheet. Searching - Student worksheet 2, Microsoft Office Word document, 143 KB Students create a graphic organizer to track search progress with this worksheet. Class demonstration guide Title Description Searching - Teacher demo - Beginner, Microsoft Office Word document, 1.2 MB Teachers can show students this beginner-level search protocol to use as they b

"90+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use."