A picture is worth a thousand words… A thousand words can tell a story…
Using words as a visual give a different impression than text alone. Visuals can allow us to “see” a concept or, a relationship that text alone might not make apparent. It can tell a visual story of words, keywords, thoughts, text, and [...]

Fourth Graders in our school study the state of Florida and “Explorers”. Traditionally they would research and create a written book report.

THIS YEAR…
The social studies teachers assigned one explorer to a group of 3 students. They did their research in the Media Center from a wide variety of sources.

The teacher created an account with [...]

In the middle of the school day, I received the e-mail with the news that one of my favorite tools, VoiceThread , has added a new service:
The ability to download a VoiceThread
as a widescreen movie, this version of a VoiceThread will play offline, stored on your computer, iPod or other portable device and can be [...]

I was simply blown away yesterday when I saw Wicked on Broadway. It was not only the amazing set and costumes and incredible voices of the actors, but it was the connection I heard and saw in the story line. The underlying theme that the theatre piece was able to deliver so clearly by the [...]

I just tried out a new site called Comiqs. Its tagline is: Create and Share Comic Style Stories.
Comiqs is a service that lets our users create and share their comic-style stories with the community. We aim to provide our users with easy to use tools [...]

Andy Katz left a comment on my review of Smilebox . He prompted me to check out the company he works for Panraven , which I incidentally already had bookmarked in July 2007 and had not gotten back to it. Panraven offers
a solution for storing your media (photos, video, & music), and then provide [...]

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 [...]