This is a site dedicated to the practice of using writing as a means for self improvement. There s a page of photographs that can be used as visual writing prompts.
Using Google Calendar, Docs, forms, Spreadsheets and Sites, students learn and apply scientific testing techniques. Students are erequired to report their results to the class using Presentations.
Using Google Earth, Apps, and Sites, students will create a Google earth tour of images and their locations. Can be modified to create Lit Trips and book mapping too.
Here is a great site that allows you do great things with pictures and words. Using templates, you can create word mosaics, YOu can also make photo frames, use the poetry blender, and create images with the sketch pad. They also have an iPhone app called Framed! that only costs $.99. They seem to have a Android app too.
This site allows you to make any page interactive for your students. "You can take your students to any destination on the Web, interact with them, guide them, collect and assess their work seamlessly." - Free option is limited to 50 single use student accounts. Upgrade for unlimited is $5.99 a month.
Make your lessons more dynamic by creating your own flash and smartboard games or other cool activites. All tools are FREE. Tools included: QR code generator, Fake Facebook and Twitter pages,
Connected Learning emerged from the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative, of which the National Writing Project is a key member. Initially released in March 2012, the principles have now been more fully described in a newly released report, Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design