The Under-Told Stories Project works to expand, sustain and improve coverage of the world outside America in broadcast, print and emerging new media outlets. Our challenge is to direct American eyes to the daily concerns of far away people who increasingly affect our lives. We hope to reawaken the generous curiosity of Americans --our students in particular-- about a world we can no longer ignore.

Veezzle is a "free stock photo search engine". We are like Google in many ways except we scan ONLY free stock photos sites.

Online mindmapping.

Perhaps my favourite classroom tool of the past year is My StoryMaker from the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh. It's great fun and has never failed to entertain me or my students - always the sign of a good activity. Most importantly, it really gets students thinking about language and focuses them on producing creative, quality work.

Adding twitter to blogs

Join multiple Pdf's together.

Free Photos

Jeff again! The 2009-2010 school year ended for me early today and I'm just wrapping up a few loose ends before I head into vacation mode for the summer. I did want to release the Free PDF of the Web-Based Portfolio series I've been working on for the past couple of months. I've taken the four blog posts and put them into this PDF that you can download and use if you would like.

This page has been set up to help you make connections with classes in other countries who are interesting in having Skype conversations with other classes. You can contact each person by clicking on their name or using the information they've shared.

"http://www.storycenter.org/memvoice/pages/tutorial_1.html "

Digital Storytelling: My Top 10 Lessons Learned

The Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) is an international non-profit training, project development, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives. Our focus is on building partnerships with community, educational, and business institutions to develop large-scale initiatives in health, social services, education, historic and cultural preservation, community development, human rights, and environmental justice arenas, using methods and principles adapted from our original Digital Storytelling Workshop.

A Ning to help you get the most out of storybird. The Storybird Ning is a place for teachers to get together and share ideas and information on using Storybird.com effectively in the class.

How to use tech with the young. Using technology may seem difficult to implement when we consider very young learners but who can deny the fruitful results in integrating technology and using some Web 2.0 tools in our English lessons. Here comes my top 10 Web 2.0 tools for tech savvy teachers of very young learners.

Get away from stealing soundtracks to those videos etc! Make your own music. Whether you are an amateur or a pro you will be able to satisfy all your needs with Soundation Studio - a powerful online sequencer with 11 real time effects, 3 synthesizers, a drum machine and a fully integrated Sound Shop. More info »

How cool is this! For those unfamiliar with the term, a learning style is a way in which an individual approaches learning. Many people understand material much better when it is presented in one format, for example a lab experiment, than when it is presented in another, like an audio presentation. Determining how you best learn and using materials that cater to this style can be a great way to make school and the entire process of acquiring new information easier and much more intuitive.

We're building Storybird in the open, collaborating with artists and enthusiasts to produce fun, simple tools to make short, visual stories. Here are a couple of ways to create a Storybird. We'll be adding more soon.

e-books for kids

Animoto but different.

On GoAnimate you can make your own animated characters, direct your own cartoons and watch others' creations. It's easy, fun and free!

Wall wisher, possibly a great tool to use in class with inquiry questions that could also be accessed from home!