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Podcasting has inherent benefits for student motivation (given the existence of a global, authentic audience) and communication skill development. If you want your students to become better writers, authors, and communicators, then they need to be podcasting.

In a nutshell, it's this: invite your students to turn your content, whatever your subject matter, into five-minute "top of the hour" newscasts, applying the craft of writing for radio (great resource here), and then speaking for radio. Then have them follow up, at certain points, with "talk radio" in which they discuss and debate their "content news."

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This is an update to Bloom's revised taxonomy to account for the new behaviours emerging as technology advances and becomes more ubiquitous. Bloom's revised taxonomy accounts for many of the traditional classroom practices, behaviours and actions but does not account for the new processes and actions associated with web 2.0 technologies and increasing ubiquitous computing.

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Integrating Video Production in the Elementary Classroom and Beyond

The Ripple Effect Sheet is designed to encourage students to become aware of the class blogosphere, of other writers, of entries that define the environment in which they write, and of their own contributions to that environment.

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example of a quality Voicethread created by secondary student

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

Information Literacy is a transformational process in which the learner needs to find, understand, evaluate, and use information in various forms to create for personal, social or global purposes.

It's quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.

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