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How I Published to the iTunes Bookstore | Exploring Digital Media in Education
How I Published to the iTunes Bookstore
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New site from the Family Online Safety Institute with info for teachers and parents about digital citizenship and internet safety
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Education Week: Virtual Learning for Little Ones Raises Developmental Questions
How much is too much technology for young students. When meaningful and appropriate, does it matter?
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Search engine of apps.
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The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Invent It
The Thinking Edge and The Edge of Curriculum and Assessment. Great article from Milton Chen!
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Good blog post about going paperless with Drive & iPads
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Free digital storytelling app that is a cross between Animoto and iMovie but designed for elementary aged students.
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Graphical Bios. Stunning. Simple. | Vizify
Curate your social media into a video. Interesting digital storytelling tool for current events.
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Mark Anderson’s Blog | education, learning & technology
Blog from an elementary teacher in the UK using iPads and other things.
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Be The Change | we need you to start making a ruckus
Reflective blog from a high school teacher.
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From the folks at Fluidity Software, FluidEquation solves much of the challenges of writing equations on iPads.
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Augmented Reality
– ScholasTECH Integrated InstructionGreat page on using Aurasma in the classroom.
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Classroom Uses – Chromebook Classroom
Google site of Chromebook classroom ideas and lesson plans – including Flipped.
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Free digital citizenship curriculum from Microsoft – registration required. Geared towards students in grades 8-12.
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Are Teachers the New Illiterate? | #WhyIteach
Wonderful post from Annie Beck about how/why teachers are still not jumping on the bandwagon.
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Good video tutorial and overview Doctopus
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Free Technology for Teachers: 8 Overlooked Useful YouTube Tools
Great set of tips for editing and annotating YouTube videos.
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Tour museums and works of art through Google.
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StoryToolz : Resources for Authors
A great set of resources to support writers all in one place. From word count meters to a cliche buster.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Collaboratively Create an iPad or Android Magazine
Flipboard now includes the ability to collaborate on the curation of magazines from within the app. This video tutorial walks through the process.
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Create photo stories with Narrable – a web based platform. The free version holds up to 5 stories at a time. There is an option to email about education pricing. An interesting feature is the ability to record audio by phone as well as computer.
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In addition to being able to use the Fotopedia Reporter from the web, there’s now an app. Choose from thousands of public domain images to create and share digital stories.
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Take virtual field trips throughout the National Park with the fotopedia app. Lots of information, resources, and photos to incorporate into other projects.
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Culture Street – Activities – Picture Book Maker
This is a super simple picture book creator (FLASH BASED). Drag and drop pre-designed scenes and characters plus add your own text. Completed books can be shared by email or printed.
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Use the WatchDoc Chrome extension to get updates about changes made to Google Docs. Notifications pop up in the corner of your Chrome browser window.