ISABC Summer Institute 2009

Slew of graphs & stats on Twitter

How Twitter Can Improve Teaching and Learning

Kate Messner, an author herself, shares a list of book authors--middle school, teen, adult books--who are wiling to Skype into your school for a presentation.

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. And the topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between

An amazing list of global collaborative projects.

Blog for sharing what a group of Ottawa teachers have learned about blogs & podcasting.

NASA now offers easy access to a rich array of its educational resources--including websites and video--through its Find Teaching Materials search tool. The database is searchable by keyword, and may be filtered by: * Grade Level * Type of Material * Subject NASA allows offers a browsable A-Z List of Print Publications in pdf form.

These might be good places to look for images students can legally use in projects.

This might be a good place for a group interested in podcasting to start.

A great description of using RSS and iGoogle to create real time, individualised social studies textbooks.

Uses questions/prompts to get users to explore different sorts of search engines to answer diffrent sorts of questions.

7.) Drop the filters on your internet service. Period. The most simple thing you can do in your school that can have the greatest impact on student learning. Give kids resources. Teach them to use them properly. Hold them accountable when they don't.

Education blogs, by discipline

More google search tips

Video lectures from world's top scholars

Video lectures from world's top scholars. University level.

List of good "21st C Tools"

Great planning tool that gets you thinking about content and skills before technology--the right order

Great tool that gets you thinking about content and skills before technology--the right order

Some background and links to examples and tools