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This post is part of a series of posts in a guide to introducing Elementary School students to blogging.
Although there are different blogging platforms, the basic logistics of formatting a post are common among most of them.
I use WordPress, as the blogging platform for my personal as well as all our classroom blogs. The screenshots [...]

All of our teachers at my elementary school maintain their own classroom blog.  As I wrote about in Blogs vs. Static Website and Changes in Classroom Blogs, we still have a long way to go as we need to move forward from merely a one sided communication tool to an online learning space that encourages, [...]

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’ [...]

Third Grade studied endangered and threatened animals of Florida in their science curriculum. TechConnect, together with the classroom teachers planned to take this unit to the 21st century and have students, not only research facts, but become experts in their assigned animals and make a difference by share their knowledge with others. They were to [...]

National Geographic Society conducted a Geography Literacy Survey in 2006. This Geographic Literacy Study assessed the geographic knowledge of young American adults between the ages of 18-24.
I was pleased to see many questions asked that go hand in hand with the 21st century skills, all of us are working so hard in acknowledging, learning about, [...]

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 [...]

There is a Wordle Meme floating around the bloggersphere, started by GeekyMomma. Here are the instructions:
1. Create a Wordle from your blog’s RSS feed.
2. Blog it and describe your reaction. Any surprises?
3. Tag others to do the same.
4. Be sure to link back here and to where you were first tagged.
I would like to take [...]

There are so many website out there… So many tools… so many NEW tools to discover and try out… Sometimes one can forget the “good old” ones.
I have not used Animoto in a while. I should, since it is one of the GREAT companies that gives us educators a break, meaning a free [...]

I will be presenting at FCIS, Florida Council of Independent Schools in Orlando on Friday. In case you are attending, please come and introduce yourself.
Digital Storytelling
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

Resource Links

VoiceThread
Wordle
Google Maps
Microsoft PhotoStory
Microsoft MovieMaker
Mixbook
Audacity

My grandfather, Siegfried Rosenthal, never spoke to me about his experiences the night of November 9th, 1938, Kristallnacht. The night that the SS came to his door and arrested him in front of his seven year old son and pregnant wife for simply being a Jew and taken to a Concentration camp. He did write [...]