Spring Branch ISD

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LiveBinder of resources for understanding Creative Commons and fair use.

It is imperative that all teachers understand and follow the guidelines for fair use and copyright so they can model proper behavior and avoid plagiarism.

Ideas for creating blog postings.

Highlights for High School features MIT OpenCourseWare materials that are most useful for high school students and teachers.

Search this wiki for digital stories created by SBISD teachers.

The Spring Branch ISD 21st Century Learning Initiative is the professional development plan that drives and supports the Classroom-Based Technology Project. The Classroom-Based Technology Project places devices for student use into all Spring Branch classsrooms in Pre-K through 12th grade.

All videos found at this site were created by SBISD students participating in the Target Tech in Texas grant. Browse the SBISD Student Stories Wiki for examples of student voice through video.

This wiki provides resources,links to tutorials, and tools for digital storytelling. It also provides instructions for uploading student and teacher digital stories to the SBISD Wiki

The SBISD Wiki Server provides teachers and students yet another options for blogging and creating wikis. All have access to the server to set up accounts using your SBISD network credentials.

"The course has been developed to help SBISD educators learn about technologies that will help transform classrooms into learning centers for the 21st century students that walk through your doors."

"The assignment is simply to post a brief summary of what happened in class each day. A different student is responsible for the daily scribe post and they end their post by choosing the next scribe. The first scribe is a volunteer. The teacher's daily involvement is limited to updating a post called The Scribe List which is at the top of the links list in the sidebar of the class's blog."

Learn about Scribe Posts

"Know your visitors Target your content Show off your community Automatic: clicks optional Speedy, scalable See who visits your blog site with this widget. Giant map, optional zooms No spyware, no 3rd-party cookies Real-time dots!"

Student-created digital media projects teaching key Calculus review concepts.

"At the Flat Classroom(tm) Conference in Doha, Qatar in January 2009, a visionary group of students proposed that a series of debates be held to promote awareness of racism on a global basis and how we need to work together to solve the world's problems. This multi-national group of four students proposed their project and were promoted through an extensive voting process including a global vote on the next project to be run by the Flat Classroom(tm) project founders, Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay. "

Fan writing site Alan refers to in his TEDTalk. Check to be sure content is appropriate before sharing with students. Relatively easy to create "fan-fiction" environment within your class, school, district - as well as fan fiction-type activities.

"Digital media is increasingly present in kids' formal and informal educational settings, becoming as common as pencils and notebooks were to their parents. Yet in many American classrooms and homes, these high-tech tools are severely limited or forbidden. Teachers and parents wonder: What are students doing with these technologies?"

This is what web 2.0 means. One child changing the world.