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If you are not using Kaizena (formerly Voice Comments) to provide feedback to your students via GAFE. My students truly appreciate the audio along with the highlights pointing out the improvements. As a side note, be careful highlighting different locations as you record. When you go to highlight additional areas the audio recording will start over again.

Got a college student who is heading back to a dorm this fall? Check out DesignYourDorm!

Got a college student who is heading back to a dorm this fall? Check out DesignYourDorm! DesignYourDorm.com is a web-based 3-D interior design tool that allows college students to customize their dorm room interiors and purchase their favorite room selections online.

"Enter technology. Technology can help bring some excitement and creativity to the traditional book report while still displaying students understanding of reading."

"special education, technology, reading, website, social media, reading activity, writing, sharing, collaboration, publishing, web-based activities, stories, storytelling"

eXpressions is combining art and STEM to help students achieve in health fields.

From Edutopia, The role of visual literacy in education.  ...from the article: "When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not being so much about who has access to what technology as who knows how to create and express themselves in this new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read or write?"

Teachers' Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards. Teachers' Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using "My Folders" and "My Groups" to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students. Teachers' Domain strives to strengthen teacher knowledge by providing innovative teaching methods that incorporate technology in the classroom and inspire students to learn.

Mulitmedia resources for educators at all levels. There are ways to conduct International projects too.

"special education, students, SPED, functional skills, high school, teachers"

"special needs, students, technology, class, teachers, photography"

Although I teach SEN students they like to use new online technologies . Please click vote if you like our projects . We use social media and many edtools and also we use GlogsterEDU to present our work because we develop and coordinate many educational projects . Thank you in addvance . 

"News that all the graduate students in my Future of Media seminar would receive iPads for the semester generated a flurry of excitement. Then something odd happened: The students, all in their mid- to late 20s, became self-conscious about carrying iPads. They refused to use them in public"

What: Technology & Learning invites K-12 students to participate in the sixth annual digital photography contest. The competition, open to all K-12 students, challenges you to capture-and share-your unique vision of the world. If you have an artistic side, you also have the option to digitally enhance your photos with your favorite imaging software. The best digitally enhanced photo wins a special prize from Adobe. Other prizes include a digital camera, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and more!

A growing body of academic research supports the use of project-based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores. Those benefits are enhanced when technology is used in a meaningful way in the projects.

Nice skill chart via Edutopia on technology skills and when they should either be Introduced, Developed, Applied.  The chart is for K-6 grade students. 

Almost ten years into the 21st century, schools try to promote new ways of teaching and learning and then evaluate how well their efforts have led to results. New insights emerge from research and observation all the time. This eBook is designed to detail some of the aspects needed for students to learn new things in new ways so they can live and work in a changing world. We hope you will find it valuable as you work towards improving education in the 21st century.

Very nice article talking about the use of social media as a backchannel in an education setting.  

Free online tool for collaborative discussions; includes voting tool, graphing of results, and participation reports

Web 2.0 is about revolutionary new ways of creating, collaborating, editing and sharing user-generated content online. It's also about ease of use. There's no need to download, and teachers and students can master many of these tools in minutes. Technology has never been easier or more accessible to all.