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Great links and teaching ideas for creating digital stories.

The importance of teaching our students Information Literacy Skills

Have you ever been been involved in a Book Rap? I have just been at a 2 day conference in Syd and attended a session run by a TL on the book titled 'Fearless'. This site shares this journey but has all the teaching notes and tips for integrating technology. Its all there ready for use. I love the idea of travelling 'Fearless'. Well worth a look

A blog post exploring the use of social media in a library setting. In the post, Judy advocates the only way to teach social media, is to do it yourself first...

Fantastic resource particularly for Primary students. Australian content. Also has some great links to Asian content

This is an interesting website which allows children to hear other children their age reading stories, some would be familiar, whilst others might be new. The stories are written by several authors who contribute to the site, and all the videos are screened before they are uploaded. Many of the videos include captions in other languages, so it may be a good tool for language learning, too. 

These links/ideas are most useful for use with IWB's - interactive graphics help students explore the impacts and implications of the crisis in Japan