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"Digital Storytelling Resource Kit Digital storytelling helps students build important 21st century communication skills and make personal connections to the content they are learning. This kit is designed to help you start using this exciting process in your classroom."

The Digital Portfolio lesson utilizes various technology tools and programs for students to create portfolios. The central question for this lesson is "What are digital portfolios and how can we use them?" During the school year, students collect and orga

"Download 15,000+ Free Golden Age Comics from the Digital Comic Museum"

Learn how to quickly place your digital photos into PowerPoint using the Photo Album feature. PowerPoint Photo Album Templates templates are available from Microsoft Office.com, or you can create your own. Add narration and text for digital storytelling.

The titles in the Piano and Laylee Learning Adventures Series are valuable resources for educators and parents wanting to introduce digital citizenship concepts to children aged 5-9. Designed to be read to and shared with early readers, the books follow the adventures of two adorable puppies who learn how to be safe and responsible while using technology. These petite books (4x6 inches) are perfect for classroom lessons on digital citizenship or for starting conversations at home. Charming, full-color illustrations help children grasp even difficult concepts.

A great set of books to help students learn about appropriate technology use.

Digital portfolios provide a distillation of an individual's best work, typically generated over a year or a longer period of time. Most digital portfolios contain a broad range of information to properly capture the person's versatility. Information in d

one page tutorial on adjusting digital text for increased readability

Ian Jukes address the changing brains of today's learners and the impact that Digital technology has because students minds are constantly adapting when surrounded by their technologies

"Digital Storytelling Resource Kit free Digital storytelling helps students build important 21st century communication skills and make personal connections to the content they are learning. This kit is designed to help you start using this exciting process in your classroom."

Blog about using digital tools for educators

Students can actually create their own digital books that can be viewed online using a great FREE program called Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows. Students can create stories in any genre and make them come alive using this software program

"Free Digital Tools for Reading and Writing - QIAT" google Doc compilation

Use this site to create engaging digital books that build reading skills for students. Your universally designed books will engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Use this site to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Welcome to Book Builder! Use this site to create, share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Paths to Technology is designed to assist educators and families in learning and staying current on ever-changing technology for students with visual impairments and blindness. The goal of this project is to enable students with visual impairments and blindness (VIB) to succeed in paperless mainstream classrooms and post-school opportunities for employment by achieving digital literacy and by staying current with rapidly evolving technology. Created as an interactive site, Paths to Technology will be a resource for defining and disseminating best practices, training, and support for teachers of the visually impaired, braille transcribers, other education professionals, parents and students themselves.

PowerMyLearning is a national non-profit that leverages technology to strengthen the learning relationships among students, teachers, and families so that all students can succeed. Our work fosters growth in teachers as instructional leaders, in parents as support partners, and in students as learners who can meet the challenge of high academic standards.

Free downloadable Installation and Quick Start Guide for the QX5 digital microscope, available in the computer labs at LCPS elementary schools. Great accessible science tool! See tiny things on your computer. Great for students with visual challenges! Take the microscope off its base for magnified viewing. Build a picture collection of your discoveries and creations. Produce your own movies and slide shows.

From Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: "Historically, most ideas about individual learning differences have been based on the assumption that the brain is roughly the same all over . . . In contrast, more recent theories, such as Multiple Intell

Students labeled as "Digital Learners"