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Digital Storytelling can transform your students' writing into a visual masterpiece that is filled with voice and emotion, while enhancing critical thinking skills.  The iPad takes digital storytelling to a new level by making the process easier, and even more engaging for students of all grade levels as well as for their teachers.   This site will help guide you in what you need for success in the iPad Digital Storytelling classroom.

A great way to get students tweeting without actually tweeting. Exposing students to the concept of a tweet, writing in that medium, and digital citizenship/responsibility, without the specter of actually using the Twitter platform.

Some great free apps to help you begin creating digital stories with your learners.

"Come and learn about the Google Apps Scripts - FormEmailer, Doctopus and Autocrat. FormEmailer - Create a Google Form and provide feedback to students based on their submissions. Doctopus and Goobric - Your digital copy machine to distribute Google Docs to your students and grade them with a digital rubric. Autocrat - Create a Google Doc based on individual submissions on a Google Form. "

These digital resources and tools for creating, collaborating, researching, and sharing can be found in the Common Core Curriculum Maps. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list, as the technologies are constantly evolving. Consider it a beginning!

Downloading a document only to find that you do not have the application to open it can be frustrating. Thankfully however there are numerous web apps that help you out of this predicament. We have gathered 50 such online tools that help you convert not only digital documents but also images and various other media files. Read on to find the tools and see which ones suit your needs best.

The Internet is an integral part of student life. It is how most students study, communicate and research everyday. Though the web often makes student life more efficient, those digital footprints may put personal information at risk if the right precautions are not taken. The following is a useful (and relatively quick!) guide to keeping students safe online

Looks like a good way to create digital portfolios.

This website is full of resources for clipart, backgrounds for Keynote/PowerPoint presentations, maps, technology in the classroom, and more. It is sponsored by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology and the Educational Technology Clearinghouse, which "provide(s) digital content, professional development, and technical services supporting the appropriate integration of technology into K-12 and preservice education."

"Google Drive is one of the fundamental tools in our digital toolkits as teachers and educators. Whether you want to compose a document, create a presentation,  design a sheet, or share a beautiful drawing you made, Google Drive provides you with the tools to do that on any device and anywhere you are with an internet connection . Given this huge importance of Google Drive for teachers, I have created an entire section here packed full of tips, tricks, ideas, and third party tools to enable you to better tap into the full educational potential of this platform."

"Using Evernote, you can take just about any digital medium, store it in the cloud, make it searchable and access it on all of your devices. Evernote, put simply, is a game changer. Here are five ways that Evernote can make your life better and easier:"

This document, the Student Social Media Guidelines along with the Social Media InfoGraphics (which will be released in 2014), provides information about how to use social media responsibly, both within and outside the school community by: - Outlining recommendations for healthy social media communications; - Providing ideas about how to create a smart digital footprint; and - Informing you about what to do if you become aware of dangerous postings or other hurtful information.

"Google Docs provides many ways to go paperless through sharing and collaboration options. There is not just one single right way to use Google Docs for a paperless classroom. Rather there are many tools and features that can be used on their own or in combination to meet your varying needs. This guide will cover many of the most common ways that Google Docs can help teachers and students move away from paper and into a digital-only environment."

"Google Drive is absolutely one of the essential tools in your teaching digital tool kit. Using Google Drive you can have both a cloud storage service available for you anytime anywhere together with a powerful productivity suite that includes tools to write a document, create a drawing, build a presentation, or make a spreadsheet. Now with the syncing functionalities Google introduced lately, you can start a document or presentation on your desktop and finish it in school on your iPad. For me personally there is nothing that beats it even Dropbox and Evernote are not as practical as Google Drive ( personal view )."