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.
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.
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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)
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.
Digital storytelling allows computer users to become creative storytellers by first beginning with the traditional processes of selecting a topic, conducting research, writing a script, and developing an interesting story.
Digital storytelling allows computer users to become creative storytellers by first beginning with the traditional processes of selecting a topic, conducting research, writing a script, and developing an interesting story.
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.
This website shows the top 10 reasons to create and maintain a blog as a means of professional development
* personal experience statements from other educators with links to their bogs * great ideas on how to layout your own blog as an educator
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.
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.
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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.
In response to the portion I highlighted -- I took a very effective graduate mixed-mode course that successfully utilized case studies and problem based learning in both the face-to-face and online components.
faculty and course designers may wish to develop sections of courses that are case study based, or utilize problem based learning. Both practices have been shown to foster high levels of motivation and engagement with face-to-face instruction