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Blabberize is an easy web-based application that allows you to speak through a picture. Students can manipulate the picture to say what they want it to say. Teachers have used this resource for quick projects such as having students retell a story, book reviews, explain a math or science process, create biographies.

Links to resources from Will Richardson's keynote presentation at ISTE.

Slideshow presentation by Chris O'Neal (ISTE) and Rob Bayuk (Microsoft). Microsoft and ISTE have joined forces to put together a series of web literacy lessons, activities, and support resources to help students develop their critical thinking skills when searching the web. You can find the teacher resources here: http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/critical_thinking.aspx

Jeff Utech's presentation links, done in Google Notebook.

Reflections on the ISTE conference plus some great links.

Discover Web 2.0 and how it can be used with today's youngest learners to enhance creativity, communication, and collaboration. Explore student work and watch tiny techies in action!

Sets of selected primary sources on specific topics, available as easy-to-print PDFs

Spotlight on Kids and Families

Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically. DIF involves knowing how digital information is different from print information; having the skills to use specialized tools for finding digital information; and developing the dispositions needed in the digital information environment. As teachers and librarians develop these skills and teach them to students, students will become better equipped to achieve their information needs.

Session with Rob Bayuk, Microsoft K-20 Marketing Manager. Microsoft and ISTE have joined forces to put together a series of web literacy lessons, activities, and support resources to help students develop their critical thinking skills when searching the web. The new student-centered curriculum will provide guidance and activities for your students on how to search effectively, how to analyze "the anatomy of a search result," and moreover, understand how to judge the validity and source of the content they find on the web. This curriculum was developed collaboratively by ISTE and Microsoft and will be available soon, free to educators.

"VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, docs and video"

Presentation resources from our BYOL on Voicethread

"Join Howard Rheingold and other noted educators in creating a world-class resource for teaching critical thinking and Internet literacies."

Google custom search engine for students to find appropriate images. Here is another one: http://bit.ly/searchimages. Use these or create your own.

Great resources!

Another jam-packed session of curriculum ideas with Annette Lamb!

Take a look at these awesome open education tools to find ways you can incorporate open education in your curriculum-whether your students are in a traditional K-12 classroom, in higher education, or completing an online degree.

Another site with links collected at the ISTE Conference.