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Comic Master allows you to create your own short graphic novel. Brought to you by 'Reading for Life'

There are so many fun games for upper elementary students that are engaging and enhance learning.

Inlcudes 7 actual tools available online 1. Prezi 2. Animoto 3. Zoho 4. Empressr 5. ImageLoop 6.Google Docs 7.Slideshare

Here are 8 alternatives to giving a presentation with PowerPoint. As well as standard presentations, some of these tools create slideshows from sets of images. They are all free, or at least have a free option.

TES is a huge network of teachers from all over the world with a ton of shared teaching resources, forums, and they even post job listings.

This links to a review by Andrew Cox of four seminal works on Communities of Practice. Three of the works are authored/co-authored by Etienne Wenger. Although it is geared toward management/business, the underlying theory of the necessity of belonging to a larger network is the same, as individuals seek communities that meet their needs and interests.

science resources for grade levels 6 and up

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Notes on a variety of content areas

22 tutorial videos teaching vocabulary and grammar

This article discusses that learning should not be a passive learning dependent on artifacts but should be active learning utilizing evolving data and learning networks. This will provide for an environment to overcome socioeconomic differences.

Hi Daniel! I appreciate that this resource addresses how eLearning and networking can break down the barrier of socioeconomic differences that can really hinder some students' achievement. Thanks for sharing!

I'm in love with world of graphic design. How many people can say that they teach their craft, I can. That said, I needed to find a CoP that does just that. Although this is from the University of Brighton it provides support with young aspiring graphic designers. 

That is great! I would love to teach more of what I love to do. This is a great article that explores CoP within a specific group of learners interested in the same topic (graphic designing).

this site provides users with fun interactive examples of idioms and other ELA concepts.

This blog tells the importance of teaching coding to all children. In my Prezi, I listed Scratch as excellent problem solving software for kids, codeacademy.com is another great resource.

Provides excellent examples from teachers, worldwide, on how they use social media tools in their classroom to enhance learning.

Lists over 100 ways that different social technologies (and tools) are being used by learning professionals worldwide - compiled from various educators.

Professional re-enactors will replay the various aspects and roles from Viking culture. During the event, those at the show will be allowed to ask the Viking actors questions via twitter. This live question and answer time makes the storytelling that much more engaging for attendees.

This site dicates how facebook, twitter, and youtube were all used as social media for a school platform. While it does not make any strong conclusions it does indicate that it was positive, and how they made it so.