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S. Downes. EDUCAUSE Review, Vol. 39, No. 5. (September 2004), pp. 14-26. "I think it's the most beautiful tool of the world and it allows us the most magic thing."-Florence Dassylva-Simard, fifth-grade studentThe bell rings, and the halls of Institut St-Joseph in Quebec City echo the clatter of the fifth- and sixth-graders. Some take their chairs in the more traditional classroom on the lower floor. Others attend to their projects in the large, open activity room upstairs, pausing perhaps to study one of the chess games hanging on the wall before meeting in groups to plan the current project. A third group steps up a half flight of stairs into the small narrow room at the front of the building, one wall lined with pictures and plastercine models of imagined aliens, the other with a bank of Apple computers. blogging education internet lit-review weblog

S. Downes. EDUCAUSE Review, Vol. 39, No. 5. (September 2004), pp. 14-26. "I think it's the most beautiful tool of the world and it allows us the most magic thing."-Florence Dassylva-Simard, fifth-grade studentThe bell rings, and the halls of Institut St-Joseph in Quebec City echo the clatter of the fifth- and sixth-graders. Some take their chairs in the more traditional classroom on the lower floor. Others attend to their projects in the large, open activity room upstairs, pausing perhaps to study one of the chess games hanging on the wall before meeting in groups to plan the current project. A third group steps up a half flight of stairs into the small narrow room at the front of the building, one wall lined with pictures and plastercine models of imagined aliens, the other with a bank of Apple computers. blogging education internet lit-review weblog

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Individuals can download the Scratch software and create their own projects, or explore projects that other individuals created on the web.

Thank you, this is a really awesome site!

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

This is a website designed to provide students with projects centered on Technology and Science subjects. The projects are intended to be completed during the summer, off school, months so that students continue learning.

science made simple is a great site that offers science projects that are all students will enjoy

This article highlights several free online resources that can be used to enhance project-based learning for students. Resources such as Google Docs and Dropbox may be widely known already in this class, but others include LiveMinutes, ShowMe, and GimmeBar. I found this on Education World via the publisher companion site to our textbook.

"Included on these pages is information pertaining to research that supports digital stories in the educational setting, how to find grants for your story project, what kind of technology is required for a digital story program, how to evaluate your digital story program, and how to publicize your final projects to bring attention to your students, teachers, and school. This website will also assist school library media specialists in selecting the best digital storytelling websites and articles to develop the best digital storytelling program their library media center can offer."

A great post that reminds readers about the transcendence of narrative writing across genres (and across subjects!) The teacher uses historical and science fiction as inspiration for her ELA students' writing projects, but ideas, such as the "What if . . ." digital presentation project she mentions from Larry Ferlazzo could be used in almost any subject. The author's ideas for having students prove their informational research are also very helpful. I loved reading the post, too. Her, "Nobody puts baby in a corner," quote made me laugh out loud.

Interesting article about digital story project to improve reading.

Apps for chrome - Project management

science buddies offers science project ideas, blogs, teacher help, lesson plans and careers, and much more. Every science teacher can usable content at this site.

Digital Story Projects

"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education." Images can be searched for by topic or most popular.

This is a free, copyright-friendly site for images to use in the educational process. My students use this site all the time for projects and desktop images. It's great!

Great website if you like to use photographs in your classroom. It is "copyright friendly" as long as images are used for education.

PBL Primer, Assessment Tools, Sample Projects and Useful Links.

Example of art & technology projects

Example of art & technology projects

Mobile learning: Provide an update on the development of mobile phone technologies with the potential for supporting and/or delivering some elements of teaching and learning. Report briefly on the work and key findings of the m-learning research and development project.

Free books of all kinds.. free to join... great for classrooms with a projection system!

This website offers a wealth of resources for your classrooms' digital storytelling projects.

The Tennessee Board of Regents sponsors a project in "Mobilization & Emerging Technology" including the "Mobile Apps Resource Bank." Tens of thousands of mobile apps are categorized by educational function. Know a great app that isn't in the resource bank? You can add it for consideration/peer review!

Wide variety of games, experiments, videos, quizzes, facts, and projects for students. Plus lesson plans for teachers

Focuses on the use of iMovie, computer software for classroom storytelling activities in the United States. Difficulty of children in visualizing the setting of a story; Development of the Place Project for students; Interest of children in digital story telling.