Curriculum 21 - Mapping the Global Classroom of the Future

Want to publish a school newspaper, reported and edited by students, published online for the benefit of the entire community? The BulletLink service offers one of the most comprehensive online newspaper publishing services, with custom templates that will give your newspaper a professional look.

Write It - Film It - Make It Happen Student run and developed news stories from all over the world. A great model and a terrific source.

Helps you write behavioral objectives

Digital Storytelling Wiki

Upgrading vocabulary instruction with Marzano's frame and Web 2.0 tools

My wiki around teaching specific test taking and study skills, especially in relation to that which we expect students to be able to do, but have not actually taught them how to do it. Companion BLOG POST here.

Denise Scott says - I often have a wall full of sticky notes right above my computer at work to help me remember, organize, etc. Well, now the sticky notes are on the computer. Great site for collaborating or getting students to comment on a topic. Did I mention that you can use your cell phone to add text? You can even add pics or data...

Active website to expand student's love of words and vocabulary building.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs is interviewed by Visual Thesaurus. In the first part of this interview, Heidi exposes the pitfalls of American literacy instruction and explains what we can do to improve it.

Interactive site on FAIRY TALES for K-2 ELA classrooms

Neat way too tag a word and see different words to go along with it.

Think of it in terms of a new way to assess versus just an activity you could do.

Often, we ask students to come up with a visual AFTER they create text. This reverses that and gives them the visual FIRST, allowing for more ideas, more creativity, and better writing!

Collaborative writing (2.0) site

Storybird allows the user to take shared artwork and write about it in story book.

Applications using cellphone to engage kids in reading at all levels.

Active website to expand student's love of words and vocabulary building.

Every community has a memory of itself. Neither an archive nor an authoritative record ... but a living history, an awareness of a collective identity woven of a thousand stories. The Center for Digital Storytelling is an international not-for-profit community arts organization rooted in the craft of personal storytelling. We assist youth and adults around the world in using media tools to share, record, and value stories from their lives, in ways that promote artistic expression, health and well being, and justice.

Babel Fish is one of the most popular and frequently used language translator applications.

Create stunning e-books and e-zines! Issuu is a professional grade system for creating and organizing content - text, images, and dozens of layout styles - and publishing your work to the world. This is a great resource for developing skills in journalism and print media management. Your magazine can be distributed on line to an audience of millions. The good news? No paper and very low cost - there's even a free version!

Our cities are changing fast. Climate change and sustainable transportation are front-page news.

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