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Crayola's online drawing canvas provides students with a blank canvas on which they can draw using virtual markers, crayons, pencils, and paints. Drawings cannot be saved online, but they can be printed. Pre-K Teachers looking for coloring pages can create their own or have students create their own using Crayola's Create & Color tool. Create & Color provides templates for creating custom coloring pages. You can pick a background template and modify it by adding speech bubbles and pictures. Coloring pages cannot be saved online, but they can be printed.

Free curriculum from Common Sense Media for GR 9-12. Designed to empower students to think critically and make informed choices about how they create, communicate, and treat others in our ever-evolving, 24/7 digital world. Browse the units to find the topics and lessons that are just right for your students.

With digital data burgeoning, helping students make sense of information is more challenging now than ever. Infographics -visual representations of data- can play a critical role in developing students' information literacy so they can make sense of their world.

Machinima: filmmaking created through the real-time recording of computer games, virtual worlds or any already-existing 3D digital environment or virtual world. Check out the student entries from ISTE's Machinima Fest 2011.

Tired of assigning the same old boring Power Point presentations again and again? Want to challenge your students a bit more than the traditional tri-fold or poster project? Come learn a whole host of new tools to spice up your students' projects and your lessons. Explore and experiment with a variety of Web 2.0 tools including animated avatars, comic creators, digital scrapbooks, image creators, interactive timelines, logo generators, slideshows, streaming video, and the web resources that will serve as "containers" for the different elements.

Workshop at ISTE based on this wiki!

Create an international book club for your students. Connect with the world as students come together around one read aloud. You can find the wiki for the project here: http://globalreadaloudproject.wikispaces.com/Chapter+Links

Tuesday Live stream: World renowned leadership expert, Stephen R. Covey, unites with Muriel Summers, principal of a top-rated magnet school, demonstrate ways to engage students in learning while preparing them for a world that none of us can fully predict. They will discuss findings from Dr. Covey's recent book, The Leader in Me, which portrays how more than 400 schools across the globe are transforming their cultures with very promising results. ISTE's particular focus with this session connects the Leader In Me principles with ISTE's specific NETS-S standard for Digital Citizenship.

Students watch vodcasts at home and class time is spent in engaging hands-on activities and directed problem solving. We believe that all teachers can benefit from Vodcasting their lessons live, and that the Pre-Vodcasting and Flipped Classroom can revolutionize instruction in Math, Science, and Foreign Language.

Kevin Honeycutt is an advocate for using technology in innovative ways to enhance student learning. He is a featured speaker at this year's ISTE conference in Philadelphia. Watch as he introduces students to making music in new an untraditional ways using iPads.

Create on-demand learning resources with and for your students with this IPAD app.

Create customized Google Maps with placemarks, images, hyperlinks, and video. Publish student work and join a global history project with schools from around the world. You can download Carol LaRow's handouts here: http://bit.ly/mtsX6i

Learn how to geocache with your students. Includes handouts and sample projects.

The Achieving Technological Literacy in Arizona Students and Teachers (ATLAST) is a three-year project supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Founded by teachers for teachers. Collaborate with this tool to share content and ideas, and to access announcements and grades. Edmodo can be accessed online or through a portable device. Increase communication by using this tool with your students or with other fellow teachers. Includes a video from the co-founders of Edmodo.

Will Richardson's presentation. At a time when we have access to two billion potential teachers and a world of knowledge, we and our students need to begin to shift our learning practice in some significant ways. We need to be adept at reaching out to others, at parsing information, and at solving real problems, and more. This presentation covers eight of these shifts that we need to integrate into every class regardless of age or discipline. Additional resources may be found here: http://weblogged.wikispaces.com/

Flat Classroom Projects and live events allow students to embrace global awareness and cultural understanding and foster digital citizenship. [Julie Lindsay and Vickie Davis]

Student and teacher-created videos. Launch in ITunes and subscribe for free.

Discover how libraries can benefit by moving to the cloud and what role librarians can play when staff and student applications become hosted. Handouts available at: http://dougjohnson.wikispaces.com/librarycloudcomp