Creately
free, web-based visual learning and diagramming app that has collaborative capabilities
(tags: visualization sharing tool collaboration)
Shape Collage – Free Automatic Photo Collage Maker
an automatic photo collage maker. It can take dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of your photos, and in just seconds, create a photo collage that you can post on your blog or website, email [...]
Education Podcast Network
an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.
(tags: podcasting multimedia instructionalTechnology instruction)
Media Meltdown (free downloadable graphic novel from Orca Books)
Canadian publisher Orca Books, in collaboration with author Liam O'Donnell, has released a full-text, download of a new graphic novel about media literacy — Media Meltdown. Author O'Donnell explains on his blog: "At the heart of Media Meltdown is a battle for control of the messages [...]
“Let Them Make Web Comics: Bitstrips Comes to Schools” (from ReadWriteWeb.com)
Here is what the ReadWriteWeb.com folks have to say about this online comics generator and its latest school version: “We can see kids having a ton of fun with this tool and learning a lot about design, content creation, and media while they’re at it. [...]
The following is a reflection on an article I recently read for a course on emergent literacy I am taking this semester.
“Looking inside classrooms: Reflecting on the ‘how’ as well as the ‘what’ in effective reading instruction,” by Taylor, et al., first appeared in the November 2002 edition of The Reading Teacher.
From a purely practice [...]
It doesn’t matter if anyone reads it. What matters is the humility that comes from writing it. — Seth Godin
As I struggle to redesign, relocate, refresh, and refine my blog (yet again), with the little voices inside my head saying, “It’s not like anyone even looks at this thing,” I find this fantastic video excerpt [...]
My only assignment last week in Theoretical Analysis/Theoretical Construction (other than to read some very dense text) was to think about the role of theory in my professional life.
Our professor gave us three prompts to think about. For the sake of accountability, I will post my initial thoughts here and then see what refinements [...]
A synopsis and reaction to Chapter 1 of the book, Kindergarten Literacy: Matching Assessment & Instruction in Kindergarten by Anne McGill-Franzen
In the technology course for preservice teachers that I am facilitating this summer, we spent the past week creating digital stories with iMovie. Here is the story I created. I like it. What do you think?
A recent eSchoolNews article about dueling copyright curricula couldn’t have surfaced at a more opportune time, seeing as how I literally just days before had utilized some materials from one of the curriculums in question.
On the one hand, the Copyright Alliance Education Foundation (CAEF) recently published Think First, Copy Later, seen by some as slanted [...]