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Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. Audacity is available for Windows®, Mac®, GNU/Linux®, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information. The current release of Audacity is 2.0. It replaces all previous versions.

Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

Audacity® is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

Variety of animals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, etc. sounds to add to lesson plans.

Studying whales this week. Thanks!

Educational software and online games with these goals: 1) To add sound and visual effects to make learning fun and more memorable. 2) To design games with many difficulty levels so that players will continue to be challenged no matter how far they progress. 3) To provide games that will exercise players' brains.

Open Source Drawing Software for Children; more digital storytelling tools including sound effects and nice storyline for tutorial.

can be used as a whiteboard that records the writing and sound

A great quick read about technology in the classroom. This one will make you laugh at how ridiculous it actually sounds to not integrate technology!

This is a free progress monitoring system for reading and math. The site contains reading comprehension, fluency, word fluency, letter names, letter sounds, phoneme segmenting and mathematics.

This site provides student with plenty of resources to find answers for their homework. It has dictionaries, translation sites, pictures, encyclopedias, geography, museums, sounds, thesaurus, math, measurments, grammar and other useful sites.

This article was written by UCF professors Dr. Tony Grajeda and Jay Beck discussing the importance of "sound studies" on the discipline of humanity, specifically, but also across academic disciplines.

Digital technology such as tablets can help teachers and students rediscover traditional ways of learning by using touch, movement, sound, and visuality.

A creative studio space to explore storytelling and the moving image. Download free video, images and sound and upload your own media. Create your own storyboards and share them online.

""i Tell a Story" allows children to narrate and record their stories. But as a complete audio recording and editing tool, there are countless other uses, such as having adults record stories and messages for the little ones in their lives to listen to. Add funny sounds and music if you want, plus a picture, title, and your name, and send your audio book"

Photographs, documents, sound recordings, and film footage from the State Library and Archives of Florida for students and teachers.

Good Digital Storytelling Resources

You can record what you do on your computer screen, add sound, choose the area you want to record from your screen and share it with the world. There is nothing to download and it works for PCs and MACs. Great for sharing tutorials.

We need this type of program for young men all over the world. We tend to forget about helping the troubled kids.

That sounds like a great program! Two good ones in Florida include Faith Farm and Dunklin Memorial. One of these days I would like to run something similar...farm and faith based, alternative ed, counseling on site. Thanks for sharing!

Amazon offers 16,623 songs, loops. background music-whatever you might need for future ed tech projects. Other sites just aren't as trustworthy.

These sound like really good plans and ideas. I'm excited to try them!

This brief article is an early work by Dr. Ian Bogost related to what he would later refer to as "procedural rhetoric." In this piece Dr. Bogost draws parallels between various processes essential to being "literate" at different points in history. With what "processes" do we need to become literate as educators in the 21st century? How can we help others become literate?

This sounds a lot like learning by doing. If students can't experience battle re-enactments, or visit musuems and historical sites, or travel to parks, or act out a story, technology might afford those luxuries. Computers, iPads, even smart phones can provide virtual field trips and experiences. Students can further share these experiences through social networking. As an older generation, I feel it necessary to keep learning how today's youth are communicating so I will be able to connect with them and bridge that gap in their education.

Not a fan of Diamond, but I did like Guns, Germs, and Steel. As it relates to learning, I do agree that there is great benefit in constructing your learning. I imagine a day when we will be able to choose from a vast assortment of resources that will allow us to illustrate specific terms or concepts and from those resources we can build knowledge, sort of like a Lego model.

This is a great website for students to do research on animals. The website features photos and information on a wide variety of species. The wesbite also has webcams and animal sounds from some of their most popular animals. Students can explore the website to gather information on the animal of their choice.