Timeline Creator

Here's a great timeline creator from Steve Dembo's Digital Passports: "Dipity.com can serve as a traditional timeliner, and it will work well, but it can also become your FriendFeed with benefits."

I checked it out and it looks great. What a great wat to tell a digital story. I plan to use it with a World War II study I'm doing with students this week.

Google Earth

Mixing Google Earth & Media
Today, May 22, 2008, 4 hours ago Power to Learn
Here's a resource that shows you how to mix the goodies of Google Earth with media. It's a pdf of a PowerPoint presentation written by Hall Davidson of Discovery Education. In Finally, Staggeringly Good Things Mixing Google Earth and Media,...

Wondering About Web 2.0

Here is an excellent voice thread.

Google's Literacy Project Page

From Matthew Needleman's blog, here is an excellent reference to the Google Literacy Project Page http://www.google.com/literacy/. "A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning."

How NOT to use Power Point

Here is a great video from Teacher tube on how not to use Power Point:


This should be seen by all administrators.

Using stories to cope with bullying

Clay Burrell of Beyond School uses the digital story method in an effective way to deal with bullying in school. His post "Meaningful Meme: Your “Bullied Then, Successful Now Stories" provides his own story of being bullied in high school.

Yet another new tool: Blabber

Blabber.com is yet another new tool for adding multimedia effects to a wiki or a blog:

Internet Smarts

Power to Learn has an excellent set of resources for educating students on Internet safety:
Interactive Case Studies provides information on important topics in Internet use at school or at home. These guided, multimedia activities allow you to examine issues affecting schoolwork, class papers, entertainment activities and online safety.

Add Snapshots

Add SnapShots to the multimedia sites that can be incorporated into wikis and blogs. this is another pop up java site.

Another tool: Apture

Thanks to Will Richardson (Weblogg-ed) for another tool post: Amazing Add-on for Blogs: Apture. I checked out Apture which is a multimedia tool that allows you to easily add video, audio, text and almost anything else from Web sources or even local files as a pop-up to whatever word or phrase you designate in your post. I plan to try it on our school wikis this week.

21st Century Classroom

Note the "project based thinking" of this post from Power to Learn's Teachnology blog. this is the direction our thinking should take when we design a classroom.

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