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A study on the use of Social Media for teaching and learning by Baiyun Chen and Thomas Bryer of UCF

Digital Media that is helpful for Special Needs Students

Thank you for this I think it will be really helpful

This website has a lot of information and ideas on digital story telling.

Story Center surface authentic voices around the world through group process and participatory media creation. Our programs support people in sharing and bearing witness to stories that lead to learning, action, and positive change.

The elements of digital storytelling. This site is introducing the elements of digital storytelling, include: media, action, relationship, context, and communication. 

Pinterst is a great social media site for teachers to use to find diy (do it yourself) teacher materials, classroom management techniques and various other great ideas to use in your classroom for your students. I would highly reccommend this social media site because it is very easy to save the ideas that you find interesting and to go back and revisit those ideas later on at any time.

Selecting Delivery Systems and Media to Facilitate Blended Learning:

The team members in the district's Community Relations Department are dedicated to keeping Osceola County residents informed about the School Board, the Osceola School District, and the individual public schools within the district. The goal of our communication efforts is to build trust within the district and create new lines of communication throughout the district with our many education stakeholders. Areas of focus for community engagement projects and programs include: *Community Relations and Partnerships *Media Relations *Employee Relations

The mission of this department is to promote the effective integration of technology in the classroom to improve student achievement.

Digital literacy in a well-organized presentation of information for educators and parents.

This webpage contains links to information literacy resources. Especially good for media specialists.

This webpage contains links to web site evaluation, online citation creators, rubrics, and other digital literacy resources. Especially good for media specialists.

Article about the use of digital media (e.g. digital booktalks) to reach reluctant readers and teach literacy skills to 21st century learners.

Article written by Dr. Glenda Gunter and Robert Kenny of UCF.

Nice article that reminded me that I can't always force students to use the social media I want them to use, I have to learn about what they are using.

American Association of School Librarians website. Links to other useful websites for media sharing, digital storytelling, classroom management & organization, social networking & communication, content resources, and curriculum collaboration! Excellent FREE resources for the clasroom!

This site offers a wealth of information and many great resources for teachers interested in using digital media for storytelling and other activities.  There are a number of very good, clear, screencast tutorials for teachers to use. Preview a few to see if you might be able to use them with your classes. I thought they were great for high school students, and they inspired me to think about creating my own screencasts for other tutorials! :-)

Good article on the need to develop/ sustain an interest in "how technology works," through technology education targeted at early high school students. The Australian Computer Society, mentioned in the article, "strives for ICT to be recognised as a driver of innovation in our society . . . ." Link shared by Tony Richards from Diigo group, Ed Tech Crew.

Over 5,000 lessons, sorted by grade, media, and integrated subject.

Edutopia blogger Andrew Marcinek provides a thoughtful course correction for teachers facing full-on technology integration, offering three suggestions for focusing on media and balancing it with what students should be learning.

From Faculty Focus, this brief article advocates using social media rather than traditional Learning Management Systems like Blackboard.

Posted to Mashable Social Media just 3 hours ago, this article reports on data from the bookmark sharing site AddThis (http://www.addthis.com/) to help explain the benefits, habits, and phenomenon of bookmark sharing.