EDIT 7500 @ UGA

Teaching geography and language arts based on the story of Cinderella using Internet resources and computer software.

Richard Wanderman, a dyslexic adult, shares his story about how technology helped him become a successful teacher, software developer, writer, and renowned consultant. Richard has experienced first-hand how access to technology truly can showcase a learning disabled child's real intelligence and transform his or her life.

Anna Adam interviewed Amy with Inspiration Software. She shared a little about what Inspiration and Kidspiration are - both mind-mapping software applications - and specifically about some of the new features of Kidspiration 3 which includes new symbols, new prepared teacher activities, and a whole math view with new math applications.

Make talking pictures using Blabberize.

This podcast explores various ways to engage students in their reading and writing using the power of the Internet. Gain insight to ways you can capitalize on Internet resources to help students read, write, collaborate, and most importantly, be creative. This podcast examines practices such as blogging, wikis, digital storytelling and more.

Let's Go Global, a cross-curricular global study, compares various aspects of different countries on different continents. Children are exploring the world while learning their grade level appropriate curriculum. Click on the picture above to learn more.

Andrea Keith gives an overview of the safe email services provided by Gaggle.net. Gaggle is dedicated to providing safe email accounts for students. The tools they provide allow schools to feel secure when giving their students email access. Gaggle offers both free and paid services.

Dr. Arnie Abrams describes how to teach digital storytelling to students as young as Kindergarten.

This free webtool lets you format any webpage for printing; you can also combine webpages and format them all for easier printing. This would be beneficial when you want to print information for a class but don't want the ads or other nonessential elements on the page. Provides a good way to save ink and paper when you need to print from the web. It was easy to use too.

Dipity is a free, online timeliner. For each event created, students can added a description, a picture, an online video, and a map where the event took place. The timeline can be shared and worked on by a group collaboratively. The timeline can also be added to a blog.

Interesting way of summarizing user engagement with social media.

Online resources for project-based learning lesson plans.

Bubbl.us is an online, idea-web creater. It is simple to use, and can be shared and edited with others.

Bubbl.us is an online, idea-web creater. It is simple to use, and can be shared and edited with others. My students love using Inspiration but they cannot work on assignments at home since they do not have the software. This site does not have the robustness of Inspiration but it can be used at home and shared between a group.

web based application to create personal or group flowcharts, can also be used as a colloraboration tool. Not free but cheap ($5/month)

web2.0 based application to create personal or group flowcharts, can also be used as a colloraboration tool. Not free but cheap ($5/month)

gcast is managed by the same folks that manage garageband.com. They host podcasts, can record podcast by phone and mix with music, has free music to use on podcast via garageband.com

A website to host podcasts and download free MP3 music from independent artists.

This web site is brought to you by teachers Mike Trinklein and Steve Boettcher, creators of The Oregon Trail, the award-winning documentary film which aired nationally on PBS. During the three years we spent researching the film, we found lots of great material we thought would be great for teachers and home schoolers--so we built this this web site to make it all available. Enjoy the adventure! (If you are a teacher, don't miss our free online teacher's guide)

A Texas high school teacher uses literature to teach tolerance.

A site based on The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease, 6th edition, copyright 2006, focused on children's reading, children's literature, and the benefits of reading aloud to children of all ages; its goal is to create lifetime readers instead of just schooltime readers."

Cynthia Rylant: a collection of web and database resources from the The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication. Let us guide you to the resources you need to help your children and students become effective learners. Sample lesson plans for teaching literature.