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Michelle Krill

TakingITGlobal - TIGed - 0 views

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    An offshoot of the global-awareness social networking site TakingITGlobal, where teachers can get their students involved in issues that affect the environment, and other contemporary topics. The site features an activities database, discussion boards, thematic classrooms, and other tools, and teachers control the environment. It's currently being used in more than 700 classrooms in 39 countries. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Canada are corporate sponsors, and more than 10 educational foundations also support the site.
Michelle Krill

Showbeyond - Tell Stories, Your Stories (slidecast creator, multimedia slidecast, podca... - 0 views

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    Showbeyond is a multimedia slidecast creator, online publishing platform, and story sharing community. With Showbeyond, you can easily grab your images, then add your sound and text to create multimedia stories. Now you can share your stories with friends or post to blogs and social networking sites!
Michelle Krill

Gapminder.org - For a fact based world view. - 0 views

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    Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. We are a modern "museum" that helps making the world understandable, using Internet.
Michelle Krill

Welcome to Youth Voices | Youth Voices - 1 views

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    Connect - We invite you to join or log in to our social network for youth voices, where students and teachers work together (see Curriculum and Guides) to create student-to-student conversations and collaborations. We hope that you will make Youth Voices your destination for many different activities in school and out. Comment - Be heard. This is a place for you to engage in discussions. To find something that you may want to comment on: * search with keywords in the search box * choose one of the New/Current Discussions * consider the Popular Discussions, the ones with the most comments * browse by Topics * find posts by members of your school or community groups We encourage you to spend a lot of time writing thoughtful comments back and forth on other students' Discussions. Create - Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What's up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio. You can also create, revise, and polish three types of Discussions: * audio podcasts * text with embedded media * discussions that begin with videos and VoiceThreads
Michelle Krill

Active Worlds and Education - 0 views

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    Activeworlds Inc. launched The Active Worlds Educational Universe (AWEDU). The AWEDU is a unique educational community that makes the Active Worlds technology available to educational institutions, teachers, students, and individual programs in a focused setting. Via this community, educators are able to explore new concepts, learning theories, creative curriculum design, and discover new paradigms in social learning.
Michelle Krill

Creative Commons Video Sharing Sites and Social Media Tools - Podcasting Law - Zimbio - 0 views

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    A roundup of online video hosting services and related tools that support publishing under Creative Commons. These are services for sharing documentaries, movies and short video clips that can be legally downloaded and freely distributed under the terms of license.
Michelle Krill

Pixton™ - Create web comic strips online - 0 views

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    ixton™ is a social media website where you create comics − without having to draw. People of all ages can share, remix, and publish their ideas, opinions, and stories to a worldwide audience. Sign up, it's free!
Michelle Krill

Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre | EDUCAUSE CONNECT - 0 views

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    Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.
Marge Runkle

CoverDude - Fake Magazine Covers,Make a Fake Magazine Cover with photo - 0 views

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    Create your own fake magazine Covers. Add your photo and text, choose your free fake magazine, Make Magazine Cover & use it on MySpace, Facebook and other social networks
Marge Runkle

Slide - slideshows, slide shows, photo sharing, image hosting, widgets, MySpace codes, ... - 0 views

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    Slide lets you use photos and other digital content to publish and discover the people and things that matter to you. With a super easy set-up, clean interface and multiple transition and theme options, Slide is among the most popular tools for self expression on the web today. Slide can be embedded onto any website, viewed on your desktop or shared with your friends or fans. Slide supports dozens of social networking and blog platforms, including MySpace, MySpace Blogs, Bebo, Blogger, eBay, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, livedoor, LiveJournal, Piczo, Sina.com, Sohu.com, Tagged, Typepad, Windows Live Spaces, Wretch, Yahoo! 360 and Xanga.
Michelle Krill

Fair Use & Copyright: Online Video - 0 views

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    Center for Social Media at American University...Welcome to a code of best practices in fair use for online video, and to studies and other information that help you understand the importance of fair use in maintaining an open door for tomorrow's creativity.
Michelle Krill

CREATING &CONNECTING - 0 views

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    Research and Guidelines on Online Social - and Educational - Networking The study was carried out with support from Microsoft, News Corporation, and Verizon. The views of the study do not necessarily represent the views of the underwriters.
Michelle Krill

Free Websites For Teachers! - 0 views

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    Bloust is a social networking tool that connects your school community with teachers, friends and others who study and live around you. People use Bloust to keep up with friends & classmates, upload photos, find study partners, share links and videos, and learn more about their friends & classmates.
Michelle Krill

Revizr - Document Revision and Review - 0 views

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    Revizr is a new way for content creators to interact with their audience, in public or in private. You decide if you want to communicate privately, socially, or wiki-style to improve and update your work. Your revisers don't change your documents directly. They provide you with contextual comments and editing suggestions you can use at your discretion. You have the control you need when you're responsible for the results.
Ben Louey

Mobile Learning Institute - 0 views

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    The Mobile Learning Institute's film series "A 21st Century Education" profiles individuals who embrace and defend fresh approaches to learning and who confront the urgent social challenges that are part of a 21st century experience. "A 21st Century Education" compiles, in short film format, the best ideas around school reform. The series is meant to start, extend, or nudge the conversation about how to make change in education happen.
Marge Runkle

Widgenie - 0 views

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    Widgenie lets users upload data from a variety of sources such as Excel spreadsheets, CSV files or Google Spreadsheets and using a drag and drop interface to create custom charts and graphs. Once the data has been arranged and styled, it is presented as a widget that can be embedded in web sites and social networks. Widgenie also has a premium service that offers unlimited widgets and branding opportunities.
Marge Runkle

Socrata | Making Data Social - 0 views

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    Socrata is an online space for data lovers to browse datasets as well as create new visualizations to share with others. The data itself can be visualized in a number of ways including, charts, maps, graphs and tables. The site has hundreds of datasets to choose from which can be mashed and downloaded into a variety of file formats including CSV, PDF and XML. \n
Ann Baum (Johnston)

Digital Citizenship - 0 views

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    Google Site created by students of Andrew Marcinek,
Heather Marsh

Educator's Technology Clinics this summer at LIU 12 - 1 views

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    This summer Harrisburg University will be conducting technology clinics for educators in New Oxford at the Lincoln IU. Feel free to forward to anyone you think may have interest in these topics. Here are the course descriptions and details: "Engaging with Learning Activities, Games & Simulations" (LTMS 603) Meets for 7 days from 8:00 - 3:00 on June 28, 29, 30, July 27, 28, 29 and October 30 Description: The course focuses on promoting active learning, impacting learning engagement and improving learning outcomes with technology-based activities, games, and simulations. Concepts are applied throughout the course as students design engaging learning experiences using current techniques and technologies. The goal of the course is to promote active learning solutions based on proven design and development trends and research-based practices in engagement, game and simulation concepts. "Instructional Design and Development" (LTMS 500) Meets 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. in a blended (in person at the IU on Tuesdays and online on Thursdays) format starting June 29 - August 17 Description: The course focuses on the use of an instructional design process to improve learning outcomes, with an emphasis on instructional design and instructional strategy considerations for technology-based learning solutions. The course explores tools and techniques for analysis, design, development, delivery and evaluation and addresses strategies that can be enhanced by technology integration. The goal of the course is to establish a systematic process for designing instruction and to explore trends and technology integration opportunities throughout the process. "Implementing Web 2.0 in the Classroom" (LTMS 600) Meets for 7 days from 8:00 - 3:00 on July 7, 8, 9, August 3, 4, 5, and October 23 Description: This intensive course is designed for classroom educators to explore, and practice with, Web 2.0 learning technologies and how the integration of these technologies int
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