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Extensive collection of digital storytelling resources, including tutorials for iMovie and MovieMaker, resources for pictures/music, and even suggestions for where to host the final product.

Extensive collection of digital storytelling resources, including tutorials for iMovie and MovieMaker, resources for pictures/music, and even suggestions for where to host the final product.

Ideas and resources to implement digital cameras and flip cams in the classroom

Two spring contests: Digital Photo Contest and the Writing-about-Digital-Photos Contest. Deadline March 31 for the writing one and April 30 for the Photo contest.

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.Thanks to Kevin Willson for sharing this one! Check it out!!!

Create a digital shoe box of items to share. Images, video, sound, and text can be placed onto the sides of "cubes" placed into compartments. A great way to do a digital show and tell without having to resort to PowerPoint.

Digitized collection of materials created through a teaming with Google Books project. You can search full-text or limited version only.

Digitized collection of materials created through a teaming with Google Books project. You can search full-text or limited version only.

The Knight Digital Media Center offers workshops to mid-career journalists to enhance their expertise and multimedia skills. Our goal is to provide the foundation of technical skills and story-telling techniques required by New Media platforms. We are housed at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism also provide tutorials and video presentations from industry experts. At this site you will find a plethora of tutorials for video production - telling the story.

I have several small Olympus recorders and the tutorials here focusing on it are GREAT!

"This is a table looking at traditional classroom practice and potential digital alternatives."

"Teach and test the basics of online life" Great site where teachers can set up their class to earn their own digital passport. Free-teachers can track individual student progress through the lessons, games, and assessments found online. Works great on computer/Chromebook but it is Flash based and only works on iPad with a paid app.

"a digital badging program that connects and rewards classes as they learn through discovery and collaboration. From the art world to the zoo, from underwater to outer space, from current problems to future solutions, students can explore their interests and make connections across subjects. "

from Edmodo - Safe Social Networking for Schools

Check out Miss Hill's Digital Hallway link at the bottom of her page. This is great way that she shares student work displays with parents who can't get into the building. Miss Hill adds a QR code for the display video to her newsletter so parents can access it from their smartphones as well! Great idea!

Awesome idea for the beginning of the year!

This Website is designed as an inquiry-oriented format which will provide you the viewer with information on Web 2.0 digital tools that will enable you to create 21st century learning environments. The creator of this portal hopes that the results of this project will inspire many educators to create social networks of learning for classrooms across the globe. Whether you're a teacher or student new to the topic of Web 2.0 or an experienced educator looking for Web 2.0 materials, I hope that you will find something here to meet your needs.

"Here you will find exemplary digital resources, tools, and online services-your 24:7 aid for teaching and learning chemistry. A collaborative, community-driven effort, ChemEd DL is the place for sharing your work and benefitting from what others have done."

All High Tech High students and teachers store and exhibit their work in digital portfolios. These are perfectly aligned with the three High Tech High design principles of common intellectual mission, personalization, and adult world connection: required of all, they display personal learning and interests to an audience that extends beyond the school.

Teachers...Make a Wish Just like a gift registry, you build a wish list of technology products for your classroom. Then you can tell prospective donors how their support will make a difference to your students. After a purchase, Digital Wish automatically donates an additional 2%-10% in funding for your next technology project!

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.

"KooBits is a software company specializing in e-publishing. Our aim is to make interactive ebooks the norm, and to create an immersive, engaging new way for people to enjoy ebooks. Products KooBits 4.0 is an ebook software that lets users read, organize and manage all of one's ebooks. Available for both Windows and Mac, the interactive software is the first of its kind to provide shelving solutions for your virtual books. KooBits Editor is a rich media editor that enables users to easily digitize ideas into interactive creations. Whether for scrapbooking or slideshows, designing can also include animations and multimedia. "