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Middle School students are working hard on their Math Wiki. They are using a variety of tools to create tutorials (Garageband, SmartBoard Notebook, PowerPoint, Animoto).

Their latest creation to be embedded into the Wiki were Animoto Music Videos.
They created PowerPoint slides, then exported them as jpg files to be imported into Wiki were Animoto
Students [...]

The Year: 2010
The Challenge: Take one photograph every day for 365 days.
Display them on my 365/2010 Challenge blog and on my Flickr 365/2010 set.
Joined the EdTech 365/2010 Flickr Group
Purpose: Digital storytelling through photo blogging and to grow as a photographer
Equipment: iPhone and Canon Rebel XS

If you are participating yourself in a 365 Photo Challenge, leave [...]

Using visuals to create and support stories is a skill we should encourage and nurture in our students . It should be obvious by now that I consider storytelling an integral part of a teacher’s toolbox. You can read about the Need for Storytelling and Why Storytelling Can/Should Be Anywhere/Everywhere and will understand why storytelling [...]

Cross posted on Tech & Learning Blog
I just returned from a road trip with my husband and daughters. It was a trip into the past, as we visited my husband’s eighty year old aunt (the baby sister of his father who passed away when my husband was only seventeen) and other relatives.
This trip was about [...]

We want our students to start creating…
We want them to use different media to express themselves, demonstrate their understanding, learning and connections to the world.
So, the teacher has agreed to the substitution of the traditional written book report (from years past) with allowing students (5th Grade) to create and record a PhotoStory based on a [...]

Mike Artell, illustrator, cartoonist and author of several children’s books, has contacted me because he read (on Langwitches) about the fantastic connections my school is making via Skype.
He offered to “visit” us as well, via Skype:
I’m very interested in seeing how we might be able to work-in some drawing instructions when I visit with the [...]

I have been asked by Mary Hillis, if I would be willing to be the Guest Speaker of Week 4 at Images4Education.
In this six-week online workshop offered through the Electronic Village Online, participants will be introduced to various online image manipulation tools and will learn how to effectively incorporate these resources into their teaching practices. [...]

I have been stumbling across several blog posts, links and collaborative projects in the last week that are a great way to help our students visualize and express vocabulary.
They are catching my attention, because I see each one of them being a fantastic concept that would be easily adaptable for our students in the classroom. [...]

I blogged about my quest for creating a media library for my elementary school students a few days ago. I want them to have the freedom of choosing images, audio and video to express their thoughts, writing and experiences in a different, non-traditional media in school.
Through the Whip Blog, I clicked my way though JDWilliams’ [...]

All of us who teach at an elementary school level know how hard (impossible) it is to allow our students to just roam free online to look for images, video or audio.
In the past, a simple search for the innocent word “cow” on Flickr returned very questionable images for me, not intended for young eyes.
If [...]