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Christopher Shamburg is an Associate Professor in the graduate program in educational technology at NJCU. He's also a former high school teacher, a Folger Shakespeare Library Educator. Chris has a new book out this month, but before I get to his book, let me give you a good example of what he is getting students and their teachers to do in English language arts classrooms. As a Folger Educator, he worked with students and faculty at Washington DC's McKinley High School in a project called "Remixing Shakespeare." You can watch the video of the students doing their Macbeth remixes. It shows how they create original short audio dramas using scenes from Shakespeare. I've seen Chris do this in a workshop for teachers and he's using open source software (like the Audacity audio recorder/editor) and simple no-tech sound effects (coconut shell hoofbeats & the potato chip crunch of footsteps) as well as the students' recordings of the dialogs and license-free audio sound effects. There are so many lessons going on with this, including the ethical and legal remixing of other creator's work.

Educator accounts for teachers to facilitate classroom-based sharing of bookmarks.

New animoto site for educators!

Free animoto in the classroom...

This overview would be a good size and in clear language to communicate with faculty about blogging and generalizing to other collaborative tools.

Bain advises professors on engaging students cognitively, through specific forms of group work and introducing students to debates in the field immediately. How can we use technology to facilitate this sort of engagement?

With these six tools you'll never have to cite another book by hand or tally up survey forms. You can save time sharing slide shows and converting media files to new formats. And my favorite - you can use the web to showcase your reading list and connect with others in a social environment.

The NYSED data dictionary for their Student Information Repository System.

If you teach third grade, your students are getting ready for the next level of learning. These new challenges for students mean more work developing challenging lessons. Stay on top of your lesson plans with these resources designed for third grade students.  But first, check out our large list of resources including themes, motivating students to read, free printables, resources for slow learners and much more.

If I were forced to choose an aspect of the internet that made it simply indispensable, it would definitely be its availability as a huge learning resource. 20 years ago, who would have thought that one would have easy access to already completed business documents, research papers of world class universities, free encyclopedias and some great books, no matter where he or she is located in the world.

Great links of things for kids.

Site to enhance learning and skills through practice.

Best practices and ideas about technology integration.