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Authors: Group 1 (Bulfer, Sennett, Gourley, Carl) Category: Digital storytelling Grade level use: 1-5 Topic/discipline: Language arts Tutorial information: Tour or FAQ Possible uses: creative stories, theme stories Basic explanation: By using the websites artwork, you can create your own story or work collaboratively to create one with a friend. Positives: quicker way to create original stories using technology, can connect with students in other places Negatives: must take turns if collaborating, must use sites artwork

Group Members' Names (Group Number 4: Belcher, Kaufman, Knowles, Duffy) Category- Presentation Grade level- All Topic/discipline -All Tutorial information - Users may click on "Learn" to read about the basics of Empressr. For additional support, users may click on "Support" to find answers to frequently asked questions. Possible uses- Empressr may be used as a way for students to share their PowerPoint presentations with others. Teachers and students may view other Empressr presentations. Basics - Empressr is an online storytelling database. Users can easily create presentations on Empressr or upload a PowerPoint. These can easily be shared through email or social networking sites. Positives - Empressr does all the animations for your presentation so you do not have to spend a lot of time doing that on your own. It also allows others to view your presentation easily online so file sharing is a cinch. Negatives - Teachers should be careful using this in the classroom, since it is open to the public. It might not be a good idea to let students use the sight independently.

Group Name: Group 2-Tera Hafermann, Ruth Getchius, April Wenzel, Trish McKane Tool Name: Capzles Category: online timeline creator Grade Level Use: 2nd grade+ (with guidance for the younger children) Topic/Discipline: social studies, reading, science, math, language arts, just about anything where timelines or how tos can benefit someone. Tutorial Information: The site allows you to view public capzles, or photo/video timelines. In order to create a capzle, you must join the site-this is free. Once in the site, choose to create a capzle and the site walks you through the process step by step. Possible Uses: create timelines of historical events in social studies, create personal timelines of events in language arts, create a timeline of a story or novel, create a how-to timeline in science or math. Basic Explanation: This tool allows the user to upload photos, music, and videos to the site to include in a timeline. It also allows you to upload voice recordings about the photos and to blog on the photo. The user can embed a capzle on their Facebook wall. It also has an app for your iPhone. Positives: Easy to use and explain to children. Engaging. This allows students who are fearful of writing long essays to show what they know in a format that encourages creativity. Negatives: Does require you to sign up for an account, but it is free. Younger students will need a lot of help with this at first.

Group Name: (Group 4) Belcher, Kaufman, Knowles, Duffy Category: personalized Ajax home page service Grade Level:All Topic/Discipline: All Tutorial Information: This wiki provides a great overview and tutorial on how to get started. http://techwithme.pbworks.com/PageFlakes+For+Education Possible Uses: digital storytelling, main page for website, personal learning environment, widgets to search information, information feeds etc.. Basics:It's a page similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle etc.. that allows the user to view feeds from multiple sources in one location. Positives: great platform for student products, blogging, guided research

Group Name: Group 4 (Belcher, Kaufman, Knowles, Duffy) Category: Web application that produces videos from user-selected photos, video clips and music Grade level use: All Topic/discipline: Video production across the curriculum Tutorial Information: blog with FAQ's on homepage Possible uses: digital storytelling, reports, book promotion, trailers Basics: This application uses pictures, music and text to create a video. Positives:free full-length videos for educator accounts, ease of use, no two videos are ever the same, ease of exporting, posting of videos is under teacher account Negatives: must apply for educator account which can take a few days