This is a tutorial for using an Activboard. The narrator is creating videos of his screen while he is talking about how he uses the Activboard to do things such as hiding and revealing text.
According to the authors, "this guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling." I haven't read it yet, but it looks like it is interesting and I look forward to reading it. The book costs $8.50, but can be downloaded for free.
Videos clips made and narrated by students about their home cities on the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and South America. The videos I watched were about 4 minutes long. Free.
Educational, interactive movies covering many subjects for students in K-8. They include games and quizzes. Each movie has a list of the key concepts it covers. The movies I previewed were animated and narrated by a choppy sounding voice like it was computer generated. Free.
This is a platform for ideas. It is for combining online sticky note services, such as Wallwisher with collaborative mind mapping functions. You can create a wall of multimedia sticky notes that can include videos and images that you pull from other online services. You can also upload media from your desktop to your sticky notes. Free.
The creators of this video are featured on the TV program Sunday Morning regularly. They draw, write and speak very quickly all at the same time, explaining various concepts that relate to news. It is little bit tricky to follow without paying full attention because it moves so fast, but that is what makes it so interesting. It should keep students fully engaged. Free.
This site has videos about conservation and ecological awareness. It addresses questions such as, "What kind of world will be here when you grow up? YOUR future is affected by what happens to wildlife and nature today. Learn how to protect your future." They also are having contest for kids' videos about animals, nature, or ideas for protecting our environment.
This blog can be used for educational blogging. It can be used to facilitate discussions, replace paper newsletter, help students start blogging, create publication in school and to post podcasts and documents.
This is an eight-part documentary about the history of The West going back to 28,000 BC. This series was created for public television. It is filled with photographs of the landscape, interviews with its people. It includes lesson plans and quizzes. I especially liked the interactive time-line.
This is a free interactive whiteboard that can be shared with others. It provides a platform to share creative thinking processes as they develop. Someone can share something like mathematical procedures or diagram concept explanations with other peers or instructors.
Using this digital platform students can visually balance out pros and cons they have created and listed on any subject. This could be used before or after researching a topic or issue even taking into account emotional and rational influences. The lists can then be shared and commented upon by their classmates as to whether they agree or disagree and why.
This is a site of user generated, unofficial world records. It provides a fantastic context, complete with images, for teaching grammar points such as comparatives and superlatives. Because it wasn't designed for educational purposes, content to be used in class should be evaluated for appropriateness before hand.
This is a combination search engine and encyclopedia to get related digital content from multiple sources at once. Any topic can be entered to immediately find wikipedia entries, videos, news, images, etc., including suggested related topics. This would be a good research tool for students as well as learning instrument in evaluating online information relevance.
Using this technology, students can experience literature by building the geographical journey that takes place in a story. They can work with this platform that integrates Google Earth in a way that can enhance literature learning engagement.
Using this free tool students can make their own flashcards to print, including images and even phonemic script. There is a phonemic typewriter so students can hear the phonemes as they type them. An iPod app is available at this site (not free) that includes the ability for students to record their own pronunciation and compare it with the formal pronunciation.
Here is a variety of Google Gadgets that offer a great amount of potential in motivating students to interact with one another using text. For example, using the ConceptDraw MindWave gadget, students can collaborate creating visual representations of new and expanding understandings. The can share video comments with one another using the WaveTube gadget. There is even a Magnetic Fridge Poetry gadget, in which students can create poetry by moving the individual words around themselves.
At this site a person can take part in filling-in song lyrics to chosen music videos as they play. It can be done at different levels, depending on the level of challenge the player wants. This could be an engaging language learning tool, especially for English language learning students.
This site provides a great amount of technology-based resources for mathematical learning with a social justice consciousness. There are links to data sets related to social justice issues, links to various math standards sites, and sites to mathematical learning reform websites.
This site is all data sets that are easily searched as well as easy to export data sets from. These data offer a rich learning opportunity for interesting mathematical thinking within the real world context.
