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At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects.

Welcome! digital cinema foundry was created for you, by you and about you to serve as a learning resource in the field of digital cinematography. Along with keeping up to date on the latest news and trends in the industry you will find tips and techniques from others like yourself as we feature their creative projects. Our only hope is that as you feel inspired and edified by information found here, that you too will share with others your creative projects and gain exposure in the community. To submit a video please click here. All entries require an approval process and once approved we'll be contacting you to facilitate getting a production write-up. We'd invite you to please be generous of the information you share in your write up.

"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. "

Digital Nation is a multiplatform project that includes this interactive Web site and a one-hour FRONTLINE documentary to air Winter 2010. The project aims to capture life on the digital frontier and explore how the Web and digital media are changing the way we think, work, learn and interact.

Another list of Image resources for digital projects.

A National Writing Project Collection headed with the following tags: critical visual literacy, image manipulation, images, media, photos, [and] provocations

Thanks to Yuly for pointing this out!

"Picture to People (P2P) is a huge Computer Graphics project. One of its parts is a big collection of free online professional Computer Graphics effects"

link to public domain images available for use for projects for school

What is "best" depends so much on how you use mind maps. Some people use them for study, some for planning projects, some for organizing information, some for sparking ideas and facilitating brainstorming sessions, some for planning the writing of a report or blog. Some mindmap alone, others mindmap in groups. Most of us probably do all of these from time to time, so we need a quiver full of arrows to choose from, some free, some not so free.

Thanks to Sasha to point this to the group.

Over the last two years, the Cigar Box Project as been the focus of classroom teaching.

Fuel your creative side with hundreds of FREE print projects offered by HP.

Guys, this is just so so creative! I want to see where it heads to.

This is a wonderful project for kids. And the wiki is really structured with all you need to get started.

"We do not want to be belligerent about it. It is just that we do not want to project the impression that we want everybody to stop using the technology, or that this technology is too expensive."

via michelleolah

The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age. When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal. With digital storytelling, students can: * Improve their writing. * Show creativity. * Have a voice. Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment.

In an age of mathematical, logical, and scientific thinking, storytelling is often considered appropriate only for language arts projects for young learners. However, in today's information-loaded world, storytelling is being rediscovered as an effective tool for helping us make sense of this data barrage. According to the brain research explored by Roger Shanks, storytelling provides a memory structure and depth of context that engages learners in a sense-making of facts.