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Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Our goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training.

An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. And Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!

iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and collaboration tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of usage in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students.

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Examples of student created movies about history

Searches for images appropriate for use with students

What you can do here... · create your own animation · save it to your webspace · share and reuse artwork · collaborate with others · show your animation

FluxTime Studio is free - you can create, edit and play your own animation clips, and send them as e-cards to friends and family. Paid account adds Save and organise your work. FluxTime clipart and animation can be reused as components, you can build collections of clipart in your own style to quickly animate and tell a story. Share clipart and animation with other animators, use the graphical mail system to collaborate. E-mail animation clips as e-cards to people who have no FluxTime Studio account. Show animation clips in the FluxTime Animation Gallery where they can be seen by a global audience, and embed them in your own website or blog. School membership includes a teacher account and administration panel to manage student accounts.

website for collecting text, image, etc.from web pages. Might be usful for students doing research on the web. Very visual, drag and drop interface.

A simple template that can be photocopied for student use

The following skills are assumed to help educators follow-through on their professional duties related to communicating electronically; making course documents available to students and parents; and accessing current resources.

from NCS-Tech Picture Book Maker is a super-simple, super-flexible, super-easy tool for creating … picture books! The interface is intuitive, it loads fast, and there are many, many different story elements that can be brought into each book. It would probably help for a teacher (and students!) to go through the tool in advance to see what elements they want to include, to make sure they have what they need. From there, simple storyboarding in advance should be all that's needed to develop a high quality, PRINTABLE, finished book!

student-created report on Rosa Parks

Mr Picassohead is a fun website. It allows users to create their own 'Picasso' by selecting different types of faces and facial features, colours and so on and dragging them onto a canvas. It is a great way to begin a unit of work on Picasso, Cubism or abstract art with students.

"Information on this page 1 Intro to copyright, fair use and images in posts 2 Intro to creative commons 3 Flickr Creative Commons Images 4 Finding Creative commons images 5 Adding images from Compfight to posts 6 Adding images using the Compfight plugin 7 Free and public domain images 8 Attributing free and public domain images 9 Sources of free and public domain images 10 Using own images 11 Using student photos online 12 Your Task "

Polyvore is a great site for exploring clothes and fashion vocabulary at different levels and with varying degrees of complexity. Basically what your students can do is go to the site at: http://www.polyvore.com and then click on 'Create a look'. They then create a 'look' by dragging in various articles of clothing from the tabs at the sides.

Some great interactive side shows with audio. Great examples of digital narrative and multimedia journalism.

Some great interactive sideshows with audio. Great examples of digital narrative and multimedia journalism. Ehgaging materials for students. Some heavy content though so choose carefully.

Really striking images with good short texts. The images can really motivate students to want to dig deeper and read the text. From the Boston Globe "The Big Picture" web pages, collections of some of the most amazing photographs that range from natural wonders to political events. The page includes an RSS feed, a comments section, and archives are also available.

a student sent me a link to this site today -- looks fun!

I tried the demo and it was fun!! If you have a website with and want to show a number of photos/images, it certainly helps to make the experience more interesting (your can, well, tilt the frame where they are put and also change the photos as if they were flying....The simple viewer is also nice -it organizes the images and there's no fuss to use it apparently (both have free embeddable versions)