Group items tagged

iPad app for digital storytelling "A Novel Idea is the premier tool for plotting your story and recording bursts of inspiration. Use its simple interface to create your characters, locations, scenes, and novels and then link them together to create your story's plot. Use the Idea feature to quickly jot down your creative sparks, snap pictures and link them to your story elements. "

"create and share visual ideas online vhemes are visual themes. drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea! Use easelly to create your own infographics!

a blog written by a K-5 computer lab teacher. Jacqui Murray shares lesson plan ideas, great websites, techie tips, and ideas for technology integration on a very regular and reliable basis.

Great tool for annotation on any webpage. Great idea for taking notes for research projects, explanations, and more.

Great article on sparking creativity and ideas in the classroom

Great ideas for tech integration from the Tech Chicks

Great info and integration ideas for using Google Apps in the classroom

"Adobe® Story software lets you outline your ideas, write scripts quickly with automatic formatting, and collaborate online. Plan and schedule fast-paced video projects, organize production with reports, and leverage script metadata in post-production."

great ideas for instructional strategies

Lessons and project ideas from Google using google maps

Great ideas for when you only have one computer in your classroom.

This blog for designers and Web designers serves up daily visual treats like Batman movie posters for collectors, Pinterest favorites and awesome t-shirts. Mirko Humbert, a Swiss graphic designer, shares ideas, links to beautiful stuff and more. Articles explore topics like designing better infographics, using stickers for marketing, time management for Web designers and how to convince clients of the importance of white space.

Connect your classroom to the world. A free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom. Meet new people, talk to experts, share ideas and create amazing learning experiences with teachers from around the world.

A collection of resources / lesson ideas etc from Tufts University.

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world

(beta)  Great videos and lesson ideas for flipped classroom from TED

Students become engaged learners through this unit that prepares students for studying ancient Greece and combines learning basic research skills with digital storytelling skills.  While researching about Greek gods, heroes and creatures, students learn how to find main ideas in sentences and paragraphs in books and Internet articles, which they then learn to record in short phrases on index cards divided by topic.  Working with a partner, students turn these short phrases into the script for their digital story that includes music and pictures.

Use this tool to create fake text message conversations--great integration ideas!  Retell an historical event in text messages, or retell a novel.  

Welcome to the Google SketchUp for Educators Community, a site to share, connect & learn This site is brought to you by Google and made especially for Google SketchUp educators and students.  Come join and help us build it! Google SketchUp is an easy-to-use program that lets you and your students create, modify and share 3D models. From history to calculus, you'll be surprised at how easy it is to see your ideas in 3D. And when you're done, you can export an image, make a movie or print out a view of what you made.

Great ideas for modeling with a Flipped Faculty Meeting