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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!

Let's address standards, challenge students, and instill a love of learning in young people through engaging, visually-rich resources and activities. Learn to integrate the growing body of quality print and web-based graphic reading resources for young people across the K12 curriculum. Beyond the superheroes of traditional comics, today's graphic communication projects help students synthesize and apply digital scraps, primary source documents, photographs, charts and graphics, and other visuals to create meaningful communications.

Led by Melinda Tilley of the KS LC with support from Chelsea Whisnett and Dean Mantz. Day of Discovery using green screen and DE images.

Great infographic on teacher responses regarding effectiveness of education materials.

Learn about the American Civil War through the integration of some technology tools.

Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one.

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.

Twiddla is a free collaboration tool where you set up meetings using an online whiteboard interface. Twiddla meetings allow users to interact in real time

Twiddla meetings allow users to interact in real time with drawing tools, chat, voice, images, videos, plain text, documents, emails, and GoogleMaps.

Image of 6 famous folks that many overlook their failures as a result of the achievements earned by not giving up.

Applying the amplification-through-simplification concept from Scott McCloud's book, Understanding Comics: The invisible Art

Site provides insight to establishing studio quality green screen productions.

NASA's "When We Left Earth" in partnership with Discovery Education.

Create and support your customized Google maps of address lists. You can download/export them as KML files and import into Google Earth.

Interactive games and lessons about your body structure.