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As electronic books and other digital media become more popular, libraries are going through an identity crisis. Their role as repositories of bound books is uncertain in the long-term future, and nobody knows what the next iteration looks like. YOUmedia, a two-year-old teen learning experiment that incorporates digital media into a wider educational experience, could be a model for what neighborhood libraries across the country might become.

Science textbooks are born as clunky, out-of-date tomes the moment they roll off the printing press. Research simply moves too fast for the publishing industry to keep up. Digital texts could end this cycle.

These digital resources and tools for creating, collaborating, researching, and sharing can be found in the Common Core Curriculum Maps. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list, as the technologies are constantly evolving. Consider it a beginning!

These digital resources and tools for creating, collaborating, researching, and sharing can be found in the Common Core Curriculum Maps. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list, as the technologies are constantly evolving. Consider it a beginning!

"Gone are the days of noisy projectors and professors writing with colored markers on white boards at Briar Cliff University. Touch screens, apps and digital receivers are replacing these outdated teaching tools, as the college seeks to create dynamic classroom interaction between students and faculty by pairing the Apple iPad3 with Apple TV. Briar Cliff began providing incoming freshmen with Apple iPad tablets in 2011. This school year, the Apple TV, a little black digital media receiver, will make its first appearance on campus in classrooms and dorm lounges. "

Last week, we hosted several webinars where we discussed subjects like teaching copyright laws, using Edmodo, and empowering kids with digital citizenship. Did you miss one? Don't worry, we've got everything archived for you!

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Issuu is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, catalogs, and newspapers. Millions of people have uploaded their best publications to create beautiful digital editions. When will we see yours?

Clicked to check this out and was confronted by a fairly naked lady picture. Be forewarned.

Please take note of the first sentence in this article:  "Student blogging is not a project, but a process. We are continuously striving to refine, improve and re-evaluate."

Ideas on how to use a blog in your classroom

The BBC has excellent educational games, activities, and resources.  The BBC Science Clips are a collection of science related activities and games for students who are 5 to 11 years old.  Students can grow virtual plants, experiment with pushes and pulls, hearing and sound, forces and movement, electricity, rocks and soils, simple machines, light, solids and liquids, friction, habitats, life cycles, changing states of matter, reversible and irreversible changes, forces, and much more. 

Not sure about the above comment, but this is a GREAT site with lots of USEFUL ideas for incorporating digital storytelling into a classroom.

Make Cinematic Narratives instead of Digital StoriesGood skills for iMovie 9 or iMovie 11 (there are small variations)

 These sites contain material that is generally free to use, uncopyrighted, whose copyright has expired, or is uncopyrightable. The last includes resources from US government agencies, educational organizations and companies that provide materials for students and teachers.

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling and other projects that require students to find images

Draw a Stickman PART 2! 

Experience Titanic's epic journey with day-by-day and minute-by-minute tweets as if from on board the ship itself. Commemorating the 100th Anniversary

Student Help Desk- its a course offered to students