Stupeflix Studio – Video creation made easy

tags: lhs-digex, media, web2.0, storytelling, digitalstorytelling, stupeflix, video

Weebly – Create a free website and a free blog

Create a free website & blog, Easy drag and drop interface, No technical skills required, Dozens of professional designs, Free domain hosting

tags: lhs-digex, web2.0, application, website, webdesign, web

Glogster – Poster Yourself | Text, Images, Music and Video

“Simply put, Glog is a kind of poster – fully designed by yourself! Glog is a fancy creation from text, images, music and video. No matter if it is colorful, sexy or emo. Your Glog will stand out. It gives you a perfect tool to express yourself. “

tags: lhs-digex, glogster, web2.0, poster, design, application

Presentation Zen: Is education killing creativity?

“he certainly is not saying that math and science should be taught or studied less, rather that music and the arts and creativity in general should be pursued more.”

tags: lhs-digex, media, web2.0, storytelling, digitalstorytelling, creativity, KenRobinson

web2storytelling

“”the telling of stories using Web 2.0 tools, technologies, and strategies… For our present discussion, we will identify two essential features that are useful in distinguishing Web 2.0 projects and platforms from the rest of the web: microcontent and social media.”"

tags: lhs-digex, media, web2.0, storytelling, digitalstorytelling, wiki

Kids pack in nearly 11 hours of media use daily | Safe and Secure – CNET News

“A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows a “dramatic” rise in the amount of time children and teens spend using entertainment media, “especially among minority youth.” The study, “Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-year-olds,” only focused on recreational use of media, not homework, school-related online research, or reading books for school. “

tags: lhs-digex, media, web2.0

Generation M2: Understanding the Multimedia Teen

tags: lhs-digex, media, web2.0

Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie

“CREATE MOVIES IN REAL TIME ON YOUR COMPUTER”

tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, lhs-digex, media, web2.0, animation, moviemaking, xtranormal

New Media Literacies

tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, lhs-digex, glogster, media, literacies, medialiteracy, mit, web2.0, literacy, technology

TeachingInnovations – home

Example of a wiki page using multimedia content from a 3rd party

tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, lhs-digex, glogster, media, web2.0, wiki

Digital Storytelling

Slideshare on the process

tags: digitalstorytelling, storytelling, lhs-digex

Welcome to PrimaryAccess

“PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.”

tags: lhs-digex, digitalstorytelling, web2.0, storytelling, video

Grazing for Digital Natives – digitalstorytelling

tags: lhs-digex, DigitalStorytelling, presentations, web2.0, storytelling

Empressr – The Best Online Rich Media Presentation Application

tags: lhs-digex, digitalstorytelling, presentations, web2.0

OCEANA MAGAZINE – Premier issue 2009

Multimedia magazine

tags: lhs-digex, digitalstorytelling, magazine, oceana

digitalstorytelling – Defining DigitalStorytelling

tags: lhs-digex, digitalstorytelling

Issuu – You Publish

tags: lhs-digex, publishing, web2.0, magazine, books, design

Youth Voices

Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What’s up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio.

tags: lhs-digex, YouthVoices, web2.0, collaboration, education, social_networking, youth, technology

The Daily Shoot

tags: lhs-digex, photo, picture, image, camera

The 3 Gs in Education: GPS, Geocaching and Google Earth

An education based site by Diane Main from Milpitas Christian School, San Jose

tags: Geocaching, googleearth, geography, gis, google-map, g-earth, google earth, gps

GPSBabel: convert, upload, download data from GPS and Map programs

GPSBabel is a software tool which converts waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular GPS receivers and mapping programs. It also has powerful manipulation tools for such data.

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, georss, gps, coordinates, tool

• GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular
  GPS receivers and mapping programs. It also has powerful
  manipulation tools for such data.

Google Earth: Learn – Google Earth

An interactive game that teaches you the fundamentals of Google Earth

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, learn

Google Earth Links

Advanced resources for extending your use of Google Earth

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth

Juicy Geography

Noel Jenkins’ personal collection of ideas, lessons and resources for school geography at KS3 and KS4. The emphasis is on creativity, ICT and original Google Earth lessons.

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, teaching, tutorial

• Noel Jenkins’ personal collection of ideas, lessons and resources for school geography at KS3 and KS4. The emphasis is on creativity, ICT and original Google Earth lessons.

JakesOnline!-Google Earth Resources

Tips & Tricks from David Jakes

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, teaching, tutorial

Google Earth (Google Tools for Schools)

Another great compilation of resources from Jennifer Dorman

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, teaching

Google Earth Lessons

More great classroom resources and ways to use Google Earth with your own students.

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, teaching, lessons

Creating Projects in Google Earth | AssortedStuff

This is a resource page for an in-service training. The value is in the links at the bottom of the page which point to other applications and layers for various disciplines including literature!

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, teaching, tutorial

How to use this list

tags: no_tag

• This list is categorized by use.

Google Earth 101 for Educators – Teaching Hacks

A great collaborative course where you not only learn but give back to those who take this course in the future.

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, teaching, lessonplans, tutorial

Twenty-Three Interesting Ways and Tips to use GE in the classroom

Neat Slidecast of ways to use Google Earth in your own classroom

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, teaching, lessonplans

Joe Wood Online PBWiki / Google Earth in the Classroom

More great classroom resources

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, tutorial, video, teaching, lessonplans, geography

Middle School Google Earth Resources

Thanks to @derallg for this resource geared toward middle school teachers and learners.

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, tutorial, video, teaching

Teaching with Google Earth

From Created by Glenn A. Richard, Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University, this resource is entitled “A Complete Guide to Using Google Earth in the Geoscience Classroom.” It has links to complete classroom activities.

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, tutorial, video, teaching

• A Complete Guide to Using Google Earth in the Geoscience Classroom

Google Earth Outreach Video Tutorials

Great video assets in learning how to explore and expand your use of Google Earth and Maps

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, tutorial, video

Google Earth Tutorials

Google documentation on the use of Google Earth.

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, tutorial

Google Earth Design Tutorial, Part 3: How to Add Audio

Part 3 of the 3 part series on creating tours in Google Earth

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, tutorial, tours

Google Earth Design Tutorial, Part 2: How to turn elements on and off

Part 2 of a 3-part series on creating tours in Google Earth

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, tutorial, tours

Google Earth Design Tutorial, Part 1: How to Create Tours

Part 1 of a 3 part tutorial on creating Tours in Google Earth.

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, tutorial, tours

YouTube – Quick & Dirty KML Creation

“Quick & Dirty KML Creation” – A great, albeit long at 1 hour 12 minutes, intro to KML for both Google Earth and Google Maps. Has some interesting tidbits, particularly the copy/paste of KML XML from (and into) Google Earth.

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, tutorial, kml, geocoding, spreadsheet

Google Earth Spreadsheets 2.0

This is an updated version of the old spreadsheet tool originally rolled out for Google Maps. This one is great in that it provides pre-fab templates. Now if I could just figure out how to create a form that would allow me to auto-populate the fields…

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth, tutorial, kml, geocoding, spreadsheet

• We’ve improved our Spreadsheet Mapper tool! Some of the new features include:

  • Six ready-made balloon designs to quickly create up to 400 attractive
    placemarks
  • A simple HTML templating system to create
    your own balloon designs.
  • Works in Google Earth and Maps.

The Ultimate Guide to Google Earth for Educators

A list of resources for educators provided by “Edgalaxy: Where Education and Technology Meet”.

tags: google, google-earth, google earth, education, technology, resources, g-earth

compfight + a flickr™ search tool

Creative Commons search tool for Flickr

tags: course, design, curriculum, cc, creative commons, flickr, search, photos, creativecommons, tools, photography, copyright

Free Technology for Teachers: Creative Commons Animal Photos

Animal Photos is a great source of Creative Commons licensed photos of animals. All of the photos are categorized by animal. Each image indicates the type of Creative Commons license associated with the picture. Animal Photos also offers advice on giving attribution for each photo.

tags: course, design, curriculum, lesson, creative commons, cc, photos, images

• Animal Photos is a great source of Creative Commons licensed photos of animals. All of the photos are categorized by animal. Each image indicates the type of Creative Commons license associated with the picture. Animal Photos also offers advice on giving attribution for each photo.

13 More Tips to Help You Record Narration Like the Pros – The Rapid eLearning Blog

tags: course, design, lesson, audio, podcasting, curriculum, recording, narration

CyberSmart Curriculum

21st Century skills for education

tags: course, design, curriculum, lesson, technology, education

Computer Science Teachers Association – ACM K-12 CS Model Curriculum

tags: course, design, curriculum, csta

• The second edition of the ACM Model Curriculum sets the context for computer science within K-12 education today and provides a framework for state departments of education and school districts to address the educational needs of young people and prepare them for personal and professional opportunities in the 21st century.

Intro to Web Design Using MS Expression Studio

Microsoft Faculty Resource Center – Content

tags: course, design, curriculum, web, microsoft

• This curriculum is a complete, standards-based, single semester course on Web Design. The curriculum provides an extensive collection of creative teaching and learning materials that thoroughly span Web Design knowledge and skills and promote meaningful, real-world learning experiences. The modular design makes is adaptable to a wide variety of teaching scenarios.

Digital Media Curriculum Materials – Listed by Modules and Chapters

tags: new media, course, design, curriculum, digital, media

A Curriculum for Digital Media Creation (pdf)

Marco Torres and Ross Kallen

tags: new media, course, design, digital, media, creation, lessons, curriculum

Welcome to the New Media Curriculum Web Page

tags: new media, course, design, curriculum

Curricular Change Website: Creating a New Program

tags: new media, course, design, curriculum

New Media on the Web: Course Syllabi

tags: new media, course, design, curriculum, syllabus

Investigating Systems: Investigating Systems – A Course of Study

The program’s overarching aim is expanding learner ability to “make sense” of reality, an aim we consider essential to the achievement of all other legitimate aims of a general education.

tags: system, study, course, curriculum, investigation, learning, experience

PortableApps.com – Portable software for USB drives

tags: portable, software, usb, applications, opensource, tools, apps, wamp, lamp

xampp

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

tags: apache, php, mysql, xampp, server, software, web, wamp, lamp

WampServer

Install PHP 5 Apache MySQL on Windows :

tags: wamp, lamp, server, development, apache, php, mysql, windows, software, opensource

Building Digital Discourse: Telling Academic Stories | EDUCAUSE

An EDUCAUSE Live presentation on Digital Storytelling

tags: digital storytelling, storytelling, digital, academic, story, stories, discourse

A critical examination of Blackboard’s e-learning environment: Stephanie J. Coopman

Blackboard’s e–learning system dominates the online learning software market. In this essay I critically examine the structure of Blackboard’s two online learning delivery systems, Blackboard 8.0 and Blackboard CE6. I identify ways in which the platforms both constrain and facilitate instructor–student and student–student interaction. I addition, I delineate features that sustain and challenge traditional power relationships in the classroom. I conclude with implications for online pedagogy and practical applications for instructors and students.

tags: lms, vle, ple, learning, management, system, virtual, blackboard

Designing Learning Spaces for Instruction, not Control : June 2009 : THE Journal

For instruction to move front and center of the process, teachers should walk into (physically and virtually) any learning space as a collaborator in that environment, aware that learning must take place, and thinking about connection and networking rather than lecture and silence. Additionally, if instruction were really to become front and center of learning space design, students would be as responsible as the instructor or the school janitor for how the room is set up based on the work that is to take place

tags: learning, spaces, learning spaces, classrooms, instruction