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"In a digitally focused world, education is getting more and more digitized pushing us, teachers and educators, to re-conceptualize what it really means to be a teacher in the 21st century. Whether you are a technological determinist or instrumentalist, technology has become an essential force shaping much of our teaching and pedagogical practices. It has also placed a number of demands and exigencies on us and to meet these exigencies we need to develop a set of key digital skills. In the chart below, we cited 9 digital skills that we believe are fundamentally important for any teacher. This chart is based on a previous work we published here in the past."

"The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age. When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal. With digital storytelling, students can: Improve their writing. Show creativity. Have a voice. Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment"

Resource for teachers about digital storytelling.

"Today's kids connect, create, and collaborate through media. But who helps them reflect on the implications of their actions? Who empowers them to make responsible, respectful, and safe choices about how they use the powerful digital tools at their command? Our Common Sense Parent Media Education Program and our Digital Citizenship Curriculum give educators, administrators, and parents the tools and curricula they need to guide a generation in becoming responsible digital citizens."

Free materials on Internet safety, cyberbulling, digital citizenship, parent materials also included.

Youtube video that talks about Digital Dossier describing all the digital records that accumulate about a typical person from conception to death. Use this to make students aware that all mobile messages, media uses, and calls are part of their permanent record.

A collection of digital tools

I thought this might be helpful for your next class.

Check out these 10 tools to create digital books.

Tech and Learning article about top 10 tools to create digital books. I think you all have this on your RSS, if not, you may want to add this blog to your reader.

"- Flipsnack Fipsnack is an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip  digital publications ideal for publishing students work. 2- Issuu This is another popular website where you can upload and share your students work very easily and for free. 3- Tikatok Tikatok lets you easily create an unlimited books online . You can add author biography, upload images and save them in your persona; image gallery. 4- Mixbook Mixbook  lets you make completely customizable photo books, yearbooks, cards, and calendars and many more. 5- ePub Bud ePub Bud is another great platform that you can use to  create a digital publication and share it with the world. It is easy to use and free of charge. 6- Lulu Lulu is a website that lets you publish print books and ebooks for free. You can also control your work and reach more readers. 7- Other tools Check out these other tools that you can use to share and publish your students work . Courtesy of Larry Ferlazzo Newer Post Older Post Home Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest RSS Email Educators Technology Follow On "

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Shmoop, a publisher of digital educational resources, has added pre-algebra to its list of free learning guides. The online Pre-Algebra Learning guides contain hundreds of topics with succinct explanations, diagrams, interactive examples, practice problems, and real-world applications. Pre algebra is Shmoop's first foray beyond its core humanities offerings. At the home page click on the pre algebra tab

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Article about bringing the works of Shakespeare alive with performances on YouTube and rap. Inner city students can now understand the literary works of the most well known and read English author of all time. I remember when I was in high school most of us hated reading Shakespeare's plays, but if we were allowed to "remake" them with the plot untouched that would have been much better. Just shows and alternative assessment that gives students ownership over their learning.

Marc, I shared this with a teacher at the high school who teaches shakespear.

Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization supporting the study and love of American history through a wide range of programs and resources for students, teachers, scholars, and history enthusiasts throughout the nation. The Institute creates and works closely with history-focused schools; organizes summer seminars and development programs for teachers; produces print and digital publications and traveling exhibitions; hosts lectures by eminent historians; administers a History Teacher of the Year Award in every state and U.S. territory; and offers national book prizes and fellowships for scholars to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection as well as other renowned archives.

Youth Voices is a meeting place where students share, distribue and discuss their digital work online.

If you are looking fora way to have your students interact with others, this might be helpful. It looks like you can have your own private group or you can select to allow others to join. I am thinking that you could connect with a class in another school in or out of state and you could set up a group for the two groups of studetns to interact. Maybe they could talk about a novel they are reading or about a current event.

"ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books."

This is cool. Users can create 3D books via what is called augmented reality.

This blog shares a variety of resources that can be used to do academic research. Tools include resources to researc, curate data, save and organize data, read and review data, synthesize and take notes, and cite data

Digitales is a great site to assist in the development of evaluation rubrics for a variety of project types.

Digitales is a great site to use to create rubrics for a variety of proeject types.

Good Article on Whiteboards' Impact. A good tech integrator will always be on the lookout for articles that show both sides of the story.