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So-Called "Digital Natives" Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows "I Googled It" During the study, one of the researchers asked a study participant, "What is this website?" The student answered, "Oh, I don't know. The first thing that came up." (tags: media_literacy google research study) Google Docs in the Classroom – Student & Teacher Tools [...]

The job title “21st Century Learning Specialist” does not give the same clear picture to many people as  the title of 2nd grade , Librarian or Spanish teacher might. I get many blank looks when I answer the innocent question of “So, what do you do? I blogged about my last Job Title “What Does [...]

HD UY – Historias Digitales del Uruguay Historias Digitales del Uruguay Una historia digital es más que combinar fotografías con texto; es transformar una narrativa personal en una experiencia multimediática; aprender en el proceso técnicas de expresión oral y escrita, como también establecer un primer y fuerte contacto con herramientas informáticas. (tags: digital_storytelling)

Digital Digits: Creative Ideas for Finger Plays (by Shelly Sanchez Terrell) – Teaching Village Introducing the Finger Play Digitize Your Finger Plays Other Creative Ideas (tags: world_languages storytelling)

Powerful Learning Practice, LLC » Blog Archive » Six Words Go A Long Way One thing I did early on as community leader was to share an exercise I’ve used and adopted from others that helps accomplish a number of things. The six word story exercise helps people to play with visuals and their creativity [...]

Global Virtual Classroom: A Free Online Educational Program The Global Virtual Classroom (GVC) is a collection of free, online educational activities and resources. It aims to complement the efforts of governments and educators around the world to integrate technology into their classrooms and curricula and to link their schools to the Internet in educationally productive [...]

How to Access 30,000 FREE eBooks for the iPad | GilsMethod.com The how-to below will show you where to get the ePub formatted eBooks and how to add them to your iTunes library so that you can enjoy them on your iPad. (tags: iPad ebooks) Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: Reflecting on the power [...]

Web Chat Connects 3rd Graders Around the Country With slashed budgets and staff cuts in the headlines, it may seem like a daunting time to be an educator. But many teachers are rejuvenating themselves and their profession through collaborative learning communities. (tags: skype_in_classroom articles) MeBeam: Multi party video for Skype added the contact MeBeam to [...]

Welcome to PrimaryAccess PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools. (tags: digitalstorytelling history)

Digital Storytelling with Prezi « Trails Optional I’ve been working with my grade 6 class on using Prezi. They love it! The first class we played with features, inserting pictures, and just getting used to the controls. Then I had them plan out stories making webs of characters, settings, and plot details (tags: prezi digital_storytelling) [...]