Resources

 

 

 

Wikis

 

Examples in Classrooms:

 

• 1000 names project
• Fractions
• Code Blue
• Holes
• Welcome to Room 15
• Animals (4th grade)

 

 

Professional Development

 

• The SANDbox

 

 

How to:

 

• Wiki Walk Through

 

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Blogging

 

Examples in Classrooms:

 

• Primary Grades
  • Jasmine's Blog
  •  Room 12

 

• Intermediate/Middle School
  • Mr. Brune's Class

 

 

 

• Communication with Families
  • Kathy Cassidy

 

 

•  Professional Development
  • The Tempered Radical
  • Learning is Messy
  • Mark's Edtech Blog

 

 

How To:

 

• Start Blogging in the Classroom

 

 

Platforms:

 

• Wordpress
• Edublogs
• Blogger

 

 

 

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Digital Video

 

Examples in Classrooms:

 

• Primary Grades
  • Our Community 
  • Mr. Needleman's Class
  • Reflecting on Kindergarten
  • A Kindergarten Counting Book 
• Intermediate Grades
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Idioms in Everyday Language

• Middle School
  • Math Trails
  • Grass Born to Be Stepped On: Women's Rights in China
  • Flight of the Painted Ladies

 

 

Professional Development

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How to:

 

• I-movie tutorials
• Photostory 3
• Digital Stories 101

 

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 Web MultiMedia Projects

 

• First Grade Beach Trip
• Video Classroom Tour

 

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Podcasting

 

• Primary Grades

• Small Voices
• Intermediate Grades
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• Middle School

 

 

How to

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Photo and Video Banks on the Web

 

 

• Photos
  • Morgue Files
  • Pics for Learning
  • Istock Photo
  • Flickr Creative Commons
  • Ten Sites for Free Images on the Web  includes images from NASA  and U.S. National Archives
• Video
  • Teacher Tube
  • You Tube
  • Stories for Change
  • I Can Film Festival
• On Line Photo Editing
  • Picnik  (crop, correct, change image and file sizes)

     

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General Tools

 

• Google for Educators

Google has a really interesting package of tools that are free for classroom use.  These tools support collaborative writing, amazing mapping (link photos and videos to maps on google earth), build 3-D models, and on and on.

 Google for Educators