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"As schools embrace these personalized learning tools, however, parents across the country have started challenging the industry's information privacy and security practices."..... login - user: sbauld@yorkschool.com Pass: library

"APPY 25TH BIRTHDAY GIF! BOOTLEGS COLLABORATED WITH THE 'MOVING THE STILL' EXHIBITION PARTNERS TO CREATE CONTENT AROUND THEIR DIGITAL PROGRAM & INSTALLATION CELEBRATING THE GIF. WE DOCUMENTED THE GALLERY SHOW AT ART BASEL MIAMI, CONDUCTED ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEWS WITH CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS TO EXPLORE THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE RISE OF THE DIGITAL MEDIUM AND THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE WAS A CHARMING SHORT FILM WE DEVELOPED AND PRODUCED WITH DIRECTOR SEAN PECKNOLD TO CELEBRATE THE HISTORY OF THE BELOVED GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT."

"The failure of online education programs is not logistical, nor political, nor economic: it's cultural, rooted in our perspectives and biases about how learning happens and how the internet works (these things too often seen in opposition). For learning to change drastically - a trajectory suggested but not yet realized by the rise of MOOCs - teaching must change drastically. "

Meograph is a free, easy multimedia storytelling tool. Students can quickly combine videos, audio, pictures, text, maps, timelines, and links to create what the developers call "four-dimensional storytelling." No registration is required and an education version is available.  You have to play around with it to get the concept before introducing it to students.