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The MIT Media Lab and Plymouth Rock Studios will collaborate to revolutionize how we tell our stories, from major motion pictures to peer-to-peer multimedia sharing. By applying leading-edge technologies to make stories more interactive, improvisational and social, researchers will seek to transform audiences into active participants in the storytelling process, bridging the real and virtual worlds, and allowing everyone to make their own unique stories with user-generated content on the Web.

Great for Smartboard use.

Assemble or create virtual jigsaws with your own photos and images. A great resource to hide clues, a twist on a multiple choice quiz or answers to homework. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Photos+&+Images

Games, Simulations, Movies and Virtual Tours

The virtual world opens up new opportunities for learning and creativity, but it also means thinking ahead of new risks. This section sets out the basic elements of good practice to keep our learners safe.

The Elluminate Teacher Certification Program is designed to help teachers acquire the skills and knowledge needed to teach and learn online. Participants will learn how to use Elluminate Live! to deliver interactive, engaging online learning experiences for K-12 students. The program requires participants to demonstrate a superior command of the use of the Elluminate Live! moderator tools and feature set. Additionally, participants will learn to apply those tools and techniques to create learner centric online classrooms that will increase student achievement and satisfaction. The Elluminate Teacher Certification Program is for anyone, not just Elluminate customers, who wants to excel in the virtual classroom. No prior Elluminate product purchase is necessary. UCSD Extension Education is offering 2 units of credit for completion of the certification.

"Simply press the ScreenSnapr Hotkey (Ctrl + 1), and almost instantly have access to a URL to share on IM, Twitter, Email, or any other virtual medium. So go ahead, take a Screenshot. It's a Snap!" (thanx @c4lpt)

New ISTE SIG for Education in Virtual Environments

Spaaze, an infinite virtual cork board, is a new visual way to organize pieces of information

Chat with Abraham Lincoln

Virtual Telescope.. Can create own tours

Let your students chat with historical figures!

A browser-based virtual planetarium of stars and planets customizable by location (latitude and longitude) and time of day.

A superb real time flash planetarium. View the stars from any position on Earth. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

"Incorporating video or online games into instructional activities continues to gain acceptance, as game makers produce increasingly sophisticated products--such as virtual world environments (see "Next Stop, OpenSim! ")--that pose many benefits for teaching and learning."

Gratis educatieve video's

This is the fourth article in the series on Virtual Learning entitled VISUAL LEARNING FOR SPECIAL NEEDS. If you have a special needs child that has encountered finding educational solutions that provide successfully for your child, then you should read this article about what Visual Learning and the use of subtitled educational videos offers for special needs children of all ages. Read more...

During childhood, children learn and practice the skills they will need in their adult lives. Bullying is an unpleasant but inevitable part of life that happens in virtually every social group. If children don't learn how to deal with hostility in their formative years, how will they manage when they grow up and have to face hostility from their co-workers, bosses, spouses and children?