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Abstract: Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository (TOPR) by Kelvin Thompson

Cloud based wizard for creating digital stories. Features script creation, voice recording, image loading etc. Free from the University of Virginia.

Digital Storyteller is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students frictionless access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Digital Storyteller was developed as an initiative of Primary Access. You can enter this site use guest login without registration. 

Discovery Ed has professional development for digital media integration and tools

PBS TeacherLine is the premier online professional development resource delivering free courses online for PreK-12 teachers. Found as a link from the FDOE website.

*UCF NID Account Required* *Open in New Window may be Required* The article provides an overview of the process involved in envisioning, developing and incorporating mobile technology into the curriculum at 2 institutions of higher education and a public charter school. Topics discussed include the 3 projects for experiences envisioning, developing and integrating digital media and technology at the Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a prekindergarten class at Big Pine Academy, Florida and University of Central Florida (UCF)

A great summary of and links to Digital Tools your students might like to help develop better study habits.

University of Houston: A storyboard is a written or graphical representation of the all of the elements that will be included in a digital story. The storyboard is usually created before actual work on creating the digital story begins and a written description and graphical depiction of the elements of the story, such as images, text, narration, music, transitions, etc. are added to the storyboard. The elements of the story are arranged in the storyboard in the chronological order in which they will appear in the story and this allows the developer to organize and re-arrange the content for maximum effect.

The Connected Educator Month (CEM) initiative networks educators and education stakeholders through connected professional learning experiences worldwide. Over the past three years, millions of educators and others around the world have participated in hundreds of professional development and other educational opportunities, offering highly distributed, diverse, and engaging activities to all stakeholders at all levels.

Pan, C., & Thompson, K. (2009). Exploring dynamics between instructional designers and higher education faculty: An ethnographic case study. Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange, 2(1), 33-52.

Athletic Performance and Technology

Free professional development courses

Planning for using NFC in the classroom; support, point of view, and resources

The introduction of the uses of digital storytelling in Education.

The Goals of this Website The primary goal of the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling website is to serve as a useful resource for educators and students who are interested in how digital storytelling can be integrated into a variety of educational activities.

The Goals of this Website The primary goal of the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling website is to serve as a useful resource for educators and students who are interested in how digital storytelling can be integrated into a variety of educational activities.

An innovative and unique practice involving two classes of information technology (IT) major student teachers, who created digital learning resources and assessment rubrics by utilizing a Web 2.0 tool.

Pre-recorded but still valuable.

Good resource for educators to learn more about how to use Google Apps. Scroll down to learn via webinar how to use Gmail, Google Docs, Google Forms and more.

Join us for one (or more) of our monthly webinars highlighting a wide range of topics and also find links to all of the webinars we have recorded in our Webinar Archive.

BrainPOP is a great site. Students love it. However, I didn't know it had webinars for professional development. Learned something new...

Professional development is important - we should try to continually learn and grow as teachers - so good thing the FL Dept of Education website has a page listing some upcoming conferences and workshops (http://www.fldoe.org/JustForTeachers/conferences.asp). This, however, is a FREE webinar called "Preparing Teachers to Implement the Common Core State Standards." It is next Tuesday, Jan 29 2013, from 1:00-2:00 PM. I'm not sure if it will be archived for later viewing. 

My interests in instructional design as well as online/distance learning led me to read this article by Dr. Thompson.