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R. Byrne shows how the U.S. National Archives can be used to teach history, allowing students to use digital artifacts in their projects. For high school and adult learners.

R. Byrne: "NASA's Eyes on the Solar System offers 3-D tours of the solar system in your browser. You can put the tours on auto-play or go through them manually. You also have the option to explore the Solar System without the guidance of a tour. I tried it both ways and found it much easier to use the tours as a guide for exploring the Solar System. The tours have some multimedia elements included in some of the stops as you move along." Download the app to get the videos. Also works on mobile devices. Mind-blowing.

R. Byrne: "Scribble Maps provides a variety of base layer maps on which you can draw freehand, add placemarks, add image overlays, and type across the map. Compared to creating a custom map on Google Maps, Scribble Maps is much easier for students to learn how to use. Scribble Maps also provides far more default placemark icons than Google's My Maps tool. Scribble Maps will work in the web browser on your laptop, Chromebook, iPad, or Android tablet."

Amazing list of video tutorials on various tools and programming languages, including Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweater, etc.

"The purpose of this site is to take an extensive list of websites that are considered high quality, reliable, and valuable and organize them in a way that even "non-techy" teachers can utilize them. It took around 10 years to collect these resources, but new ones are found every day. All of these websites have been recommended by other teachers and educational organizations and qualify as "the best". You'll find support for all core curriculum areas. In addition, you will find lesson plans, multimedia, and primary sources to enhance your students' learning environment." by Nadine Norris, a tech specialist for elementary schools near Chicago, IL. Has a wide variety of explanatory pages: tools to use with core content areas, project-based units, rethinking Powerpoint and classroom presentations, a blog highlighting social media, and advice about using digital literacy skills and research skills on the Internet.

"By Alvina Lopez It doesn't matter if you're a veteran teacher or a newbie just now taking college courses - finding new ways to get students engaged in the classroom is always a great thing. One way many teachers are reaching out is with the multitude of material found on the web, allowing them to turn everyday lessons into a multimedia experience. You can find a great amount of helpful material on these sites, including videos to augment your lessons, lectures to inspire students, documentaries to show them how things work, and loads of additional videos to help you become a better, smarter teacher."

Get learning materials, commune with colleagues, find online exercises to use with students, and connect with the MERLOT Second Life community. Great resources and connections for teachers.

Start a discussion by phone or computer, and automatically have it updated to Flickr, Twitter, Blogger, etc.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) has started its own YouTube site to collect resources for teachers. Recent films include Second Life and ePortfolios. This spot should develop into a very useful place on the Web.

"This group began in 2002 as an event convened under the auspices of TESOL EVOnline (Electronic Village) but has carried on as a community of practice or a distributed learning network ever since. Participants meet informally throughout the year and regularly each Sunday noon GMT at http://www.tappedin.org to help each other learn about forming and maintaining robust online communities through hands-on practice with synchronous and non-synchronous text and multimedia CMC (computer mediated communication) tools."

"Use Moovly to take your lessons, tutorials or presentations to the next level and increase student creativity and involvement. Combine visuals, sounds, voice and video in clear explanations or engaging stories. Have your students prove their multimedia skills and apply these to any educational topic." I think this includes making those clever drawings that are speeded up in animation. The tool would be good for student-student instructional videos or for your own flipped classes.

"A project based learning method is a comprehensive approach to instruction. Your students participate in projects and practice an interdisciplinary array of skills from math, language arts, fine arts, geography, science, and technology. .... "To help you start using PBL, we've created age-appropriate, customizable project checklists for written reports, multimedia projects, oral presentations, and science projects. The use of these checklists keeps students on track and allows them to take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation. " This site contains numerous rubric starter templates for each of the grades and for a wide-variety of topics. A way to get started.

Quizlet is one of the most flexible self-teaching tools available online. It offers far more than quizes: Good for self-practice, flashcards, vocabulary study, etc. All the multimedia you want and students can create their own practices. This pdf booklet/Google presentation helps you get started with distance learning.

"Listening Lessons Activities include multimedia, free MP3 files, vocab tasks, language notes, print page and more." English Listening Lesson Library Online with over 1,000 lessons, designated by level, and ordered by difficulty. Topics include news and scenarios, interviews, etc. K-12 Online Curriculum link.

"In addition to YouTube videos, pictures, and voice recordings Metta also provides options for including content from Pinterest and Twitter to use in your final presentation. Metta also allows you to insert a quiz into your projects. This means that people viewing your Metta projects can watch a short video clip then answer questions about it before moving onto the next part of the presentation. Applications for Education You could have students create Metta projects in which they create book trailers using video clips, images, and their voices. Students could use Metta to create a digital collage of media around a current events topic that they're studying. Metta might also be used by students to create a showcase of their best digital works of the semester. "

This is a great way to learn about art and is now connected to Khan Academy for additional practice and assessment or self-assessment. Created by two art history professors. Also pages to help you teach with Smarthistory.

This mass media project created by Aiden Yeh in Taiwan is laid out in detail with links to the actual student projects produced, in this case Newspaper frontpages.

This is a collection of texts and images that you can use for ESL/EFL activities. Have students create and add their own digital stories. Thanks to C. Arena.

"Nik Peachey explores social-bookmarking and how we can use it to save bookmarks online to access them from any computer. Nik provides a comprehensive overview article on the use of social-bookmarking, including a list of tools to collate web pages like scrible and Delicious, a downloadable lesson plan, a video screencast tutorial and a printable how-to guide."

Some more examples and ideas to think about

Use for step 3 of our list of tasks