Lots of links on different aspects of storytelling. A great way to explore the topic and help define for yourself the role of storytelling in your own life and that of our students.
Various keyboarding sites for students of all ages. Typing Web: Typing Tutor is better for older students. Dance Mat typing is one of the most fun sites for younger students.
A blog post talking about a research study of self-regulated learning in the Change11 cMOOC, and linking to earlier post with initial findings from the study (no final results yet).
"The next time you see a tweet ridiculing a person or linking to someone who does, please respond with a challenge: "Is this the world you want to encourage? What does this accomplish? What does this create?""
Links to thousands of free audio clips that are copyright free. In digital storytelling, easy to drop these clips into Audacity or Garageband, etc. and create vodcasts of all kinds.
Giphy (a search engine for GIFs), created a code that makes GIFs actually loop on Facebook & Twitter. It works simply like posting a link to a video. Either copy paste the URL of the page for the GIF you've selected, or embed straight to Facebook & Twitter from that page from the portion where it says "share GIF.
Anyone receiving a text or photo can use their 10 seconds to capture a "screenshot,
"It's not anything that every parent and grandparent hasn't already seen," Harkness said. The problem, he adds, is the actions "get documented, replayed and sent around," and kids "forget how fast it moves and how far it goes."
some of the new social networking sites have become ripe targets for spreading malware and propagating scams.
Also worth noting is that almost every mobile app available collects some kind of personal data, such as a person's birthdate or the location of their phone, and shares that information with third parties for marketing purposes
Several consumer advocates actually recommend exposing their kids to social media sites earlier than age 12, when they're more receptive to hearing lessons about online etiquette and safety.
Levey links her kids' devices to her iTunes account so she's aware of any program they download.
Federal Trade Commission's guide to talking to kids about being online: http://1.usa.gov/PWkwfp
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