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Digital Storytelling Resources. Saved as  Google Doc, with quick descriptions and immediate links. As Google Doc, can add and edit. Created by Alec Couros, from U. of Regina, Alberta, Canada. These are resources that Alec suggests to his own students, and they can select from the list the ones they want to use.

Quotes with images regarding Learning and Change. This is a Group Pool of Flickr images with quotations. 

Introduction to digital storytelling examples of digital stories. Examples from students in educational technology courses, taught by Alec Couros, U. of Alberta

Useful site for students to start brainstorming for creating a digital story. Also, just fun to use.

Allows users to create a storyboard. Backgrounds and photographs are available to select. Generated storyboards can be shared. 

Provides brief descriptions of each of the tools and links to them. Most of these tools are well-known and often used. This is a good source of basic information about online storytelling tools.

Amazing online resource, founded by Supreme Court Justice Sandra O'Connor. The concept is to teach students about civics, democracy, and how the US government works. The site has educational video games and teaching materials.

Used by a teacher to show other teachers in her school the why's and how's of Twitter.

Lots of practical, student-centered, engaging suggestions. Although stated for college, many ideas adaptable to other grade levels.

'Quality over Quantity"--clear statement and explanation about why it's the "quality," the deep learning, that is critical, not having every little gadget. Well-put, and well-stated.

Librarian uses Glogster to bookmark sites for sutdent K-3

excellent example of how a librarian uses Glogster to help students find resources; check it out!

A complete list of popular hashtags for educational groups on Twitter

Cube Creators is a tool for creating stories in a step-by-step way, as reviewed by Richard Byrne. The site uses templates, and Byrne suggests this might help students get over writers' block.

A video showing you how to back up your Blogger posts by downloading them. This step is worth it if you have accumulated a good number of posts and want a backup copy.

A 7th grader explains how Symbaloo is used in her science class.

37 Ways Teachers Should Use Pinterest - Best Colleges Online http://t.co/Lij9x1bs

Blog post about the virtues of Edmodo for use with students as an excellent learning and sharing tool.

Lots of information here on copyright and creative commons

There are plenty of resources on this class blog and links to projects that students created with digital tools