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Videos for PD » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
links to educational videos for professional development workshops and presentations with teachers
(tags: video professionaldevelopment resources videos)

Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » What a teacher blog should be
point out that the power of blogging lies in the reading, thinking, writing process, I haven’t [...]

WiZiQ Online Teaching | Distance Education | E-Learning and Tutoring
Use WiZiQ’s virtual classroom equipped with live audio-video communication, chat, content sharing, and session recording capabilities. No download is required since it works with any web browser and on any operating system.
(tags: web2.0 education collaboration)

If you are working with elementary school students you are familiar with the issue of needing an e-mail address for each one of your students to sign up for certain web based services and tools.
Kim Cofino in Bangkok is also running into these problem as she is trying to set her students up with [...]

If you have been following my blog for a year, you know that in 2006 I traveled to China and connected with my students through a blog , photos , videos, a travel bear and an Amazing Race Competition. Only four days left until a fellow teacher and I are getting on a plane to [...]

VoiceThread is a web based free service that seems ideal for digital storytelling with your students in the classroom.
VoiceThread is an online media album that allows people to make comments, either audio or text, and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows an entire group’s story to be told and collected in one [...]

I have had the following post in my draft folder for a few weeks now. The memory of the frustration is still there, but we are on the right path…step by step…in the right direction… It will be ok…The only reason I have made it through this crazy time at work is my friend and [...]

Create A Graph
(tags: SJEDS-math graphing tools)

Letterpop
You can make Wonderfully Creative Newsletters in minutes.
(tags: newsletter tools SJEDS-writing)

Mixbook | Create Amazing Books With Your Friends!
Mixbook allows you to easily create beautiful photobooks that can be professionally printed and shipped to your door or shared online with your family and friends. You can upload your photos, build pages, [...]

Another great video clip from Common Craft
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always learning » 20 Project Ideas Inspired by Learning 2.0
(tags: project-ideas web2.0 elementary_school)

Apple Learning Interchange 2007 – Google Earth: Small World, Your World, Our World
Google Earth has become a quick and easy way for teachers to involve students in active, engaged 21st Century learning. In this lesson, teachers will learn how to use the tools and resources within Google Earth to help teach everything from geography to [...]