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Digital Storytelling - Part I Storytelling has been a great part of our school year, which is already winding down. From… * telling about our and Jose, the travel bear 's adventurous stories live while in Egypt * outfitting EVERY classroom in our school with their own digital cameras, so teachers and students could create a visual of their daily activities or create a visual of a learning concept * creating a collective knowledge story across grade level and subject areas demonstrating what students have learned * Life 'Round Here project, where students assumed the point of view of an object and narrated * Creating printed books that narrate the daily life in the classroom, special visits and fieldtrips and the physical and academic growth of the students throughout the year.

Fabulous examples of the use of color. Contrasting pictures of black and white then color versions of the same image. Wonderful design too!

Bring children's books to life with interactive technology.

RealPlaces is a web site where anyone can create and share ground-level navigable walk-thrus of any real place in the world. Urban, rural, indoors, outdoors, at your home or off the beaten path -- anywhere of interest! Share your neighborhood or campus, your business, property for sale, favorite hangouts, places you like to shop, a fantastic vacation spot or something as "boring" as your dorm room. Then bring your places to life with zoomed views, descriptions, comments or questions - which can be general or about specific views or objects of interest. Think about it like this: "RealPlaces begins where Google's StreetView ends!"

NGAkids Art Zone offers an array of interactive online art activities that are fun for children of all ages. Interactives such as Sea-Saws, Faces and Places, Photo Op, Dutch Dollhouse, Jungle, Still Life, and Collage Machine encourage compositional experimentation and a vivid understanding of collage and photomontage techniques; Brushster, PaintBox, and SwatchBox are painting tools that encourage free expression and visual experimentation.

These resources help teachers and librarians teach their students media literacy skills. According the American Library Association, the National Information Literacy Standards include the ability to access information efficiently and effectively, and evaluate that information critically. This list of sites will help in the effort to develop lessons and activities that will give students practice with 21st century information literacy.

Shidonni is an innovative startup, developing the next generation of creative 'virtual' worlds for kids. Shidonni is providing a safe environment where kids and their parents can create imaginary worlds and animals, play games and interact with friends. Shidonni is based on unique proprietary patented algorithms and using Microsoft Silverlight.