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"The Playbook is designed to help K-12 school educators plan for the transition to a rich, interactive, and personalized digital learning environment. The Playbook offers advice and considerations to help schools ensure robust and persistent connectivity to the digital content, understand the perspectives of the variety of device users in a school environment, and plan for the transition to digital learning.

Digital tools categorized by use. Digital media may be used in the classroom in a variety of ways. Digital images can be used in a PowerPoint presentation, inserted in to Word, Excel, and even SMART Notebook. Digital video can also be used in a PowerPoint or Movie Maker presentation. Student produced video can empower students with the tools, skills and confidence to take creative control of their research and presentation projects.

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music.

Yodio offers an integrated, one-stop digital publishing service where anyone can go to self-record, produce, and share audio recordings (podcasts) and personal broadcasts (audio synchronized with digital photos). Using Yodio's free production system, most anyone can combine digital photos with their recorded audio to create rich media presentations. What is a rich-media presentation? Think voice narrated power point presentations or photo albums. Now think of them being shared in a player similar to YouTube, so they can be streamed throughout the internet or the player can be embedded in other websites, blogs, etc. This is personal broadcast with the sharing part operating on steroids! You can link, e-mail, embed, and in many cases download as an MP3 file. It's made to share memories and photos that are made more interesting and informative by adding your own voice.

The Wisconsin Online Resource Center is a digital library of Web-based learning resources called "learning objects." The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects for the online environment. At present, 409 WTCS faculty members have authored learning objects. The Wisc-Online digital library contains 2542 objects that are accessible to all WTCS faculty at no cost and with copyright clearance for use in any WTCS classroom or online application. Other colleges, universities, and consortia from throughout the United States and around the world use the library with permission. Current use of the learning object repository exceeds 20,000 hits per day. Learning objects are designed and developed by a team of instructional designers, editors, technicians, and student interns.

The National Archives Digital Vault poster and video creation tools allow students to drag and drop digital artifacts into a poster or video. The National Archives provides images, documents, and audio in an easy to use editor. When making a poster students can combine multiple images, change background colors, and create captions to make collages of digital artifacts. See the screen capture below for a demonstration of poster editing.

digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, books, catalogs, reports, and more. In just a few seconds users can create beautiful digital editions simply by uploading their publications. It's our mission to empower individuals, companies, and institutions to publish their documents across all digital platforms.

"The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. Read, discuss, and share ideas about teaching writing today."

"A guide to help K-12 educators and administrators leverage broadband technology and develop rich digital learning experiences."

The process of digital storytelling enables students to tell their stories with a compelling and competitive voice. On this page, find links to articles and resources about the process of digital storytelling, and how to get the most out of this terrific learning experience for students.

Welcome to a website devoted to the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. Click on the links on this page to learn more about watching and creating stories made with digital technology tools.

"Read this whitepaper to learn how to prepare for the movement to mobile and digital learning in the classroom by exploring the necessary requirements for network and budget along with understanding the benefits of going digital. "

"In today's school environment, it's important for school administrators to access and use the same digital tools as we want our our teachers and ultimately, our students to use as well. Not only is this effectively role modeling of what we want and expect from them but with this mobile technology it can also allows today's administrator to maximize their time as well as communicate with a variety of stakeholders at the "touch" of a button! This exhibit aims to do aims to meet this goal by presenting innovative ideas on how admins can embrace and use Apple's media devices effectively in their work. On the pages that follow, you will see how the iPod touch or iPhone can be used by administrators in a variety of ways well beyond a simple PIM device or media player, become a fantastic tool to practice digital leadership!"

"the Bloomin' Peacock to show teachers the Blooms Taxonomy break down and the Bloomin' digital Peacock that shows how the digital tools in the supplement break down."

This is my site - but anyone can use it if it fits your purpose.

Professional development site for teaching about digital responsibility

Create your own customized motivational posters. Armed with a digital camera and that non-stop wit of yours, you now have the power to turn a simple photograph into a humorous or inspirational message. Print it, frame it! Make two-we know you've got hundreds of digital images and photos to spare! Make your own inspirational, funny, parody, sports or other posters. Perfect for the office, schools, teachers, coaches, as announcements, for parties, invitations, and a lot more.

The FREE Digital Classroom is for teachers, instructors and professors to use a single Digital Classroom for their students. Sign up today to start collaborating, building quizzes, posting assignments and engaging students.

If you are curious about digital stories, or want a taste of what our participants have been able to create, just take a look at some of the examples below.

Copyright is very important to understand as you begin to produce digital media at Penn State. Copyright law is complex and sometimes intimidating. But if you ever plan to share your work publicly, on a website, blog, or ePortfolio, it is essential to make sure that any use of third-party media is legal. Fortunately, we have assembled some resources to make this process easier for you.

21st Century Digital Skills for Teachers