Digital storytelling is an ed tech buzz word that’s thrown around a lot. When I first heard it, digital storytelling pretty much referred to podcasts and short films. And, to a certain extent, it still does. But podcasting and film-making no longer require massive amounts of hardware and software, like iMovie or Garageband. Today, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can easily create digital stories. (from Stretch Your Digital Dollar)
There are a number of resources referenced at this post as well as considerations for implement them in the classroom.
Here is the mission for the site. Stretch Your Digital Dollar provides affordable strategies that can help educators bridge the digital divide. The site is replete with resources for teachers.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Several 2.0 initiatives and their impact
Increasingly, Public Media 2.0 projects are moving not only beyond broadcast to social and mobile platforms, but into the realms of digital and media literacy training. Producers of such projects recognize that in order to participate fully in the new media world, children and adults need to be able to access, analyze, evaluate and communicate messages in a wide variety of forms. Over the past two months, on the Center for Social Media's Public Media 2.0 Showcase, we profiled a series of such initiatives, examining in particular how project leaders evaluate their impact. (from the Center for International Media Assistance)
Click the hyperlinked text above to look at the media initiatives as well as a means to assess their impact on learning.
Click the hyperlinked text above to look at the media initiatives as well as a means to assess their impact on learning.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Alliance for Excellent Education
About the Alliance: The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington, DC-based national policy and advocacy organization that works to improve national and federal policy so that all students can achieve at high academic levels and graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship in the twenty-first century. The Alliance focuses on America’s six million most at-risk secondary school students—those in the lowest achievement quartile—who are most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future.
The Alliance also has a blog, which includes updates on education and educational policy. To check it out, click here.
The Alliance also has a blog, which includes updates on education and educational policy. To check it out, click here.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
LiveBinder it
"LiveBinders is dedicated to helping you empower others with the information you work hard to collect.
If you're like us, you've used 'creative' tactics to keep track of all your links either through email, word documents or endless lists in your browser bookmarks folder. It's hard to put a group of links together in any meaningful format. And sharing a group of URLs is cumbersome for everyone - the sender and the receiver. Have you ever looked through your bookmarks list and forgotten what they are all for?
We created LiveBinders so that you could do with digital information what you do with the papers on your desk - organize them into nice containers - like 3-ring binders on your shelf. With our online-binders you can also upload your documents and easily combine them with your links in a neat and organized way.
We welcome you to create as many LiveBinders as you need to help organize the stuff you collect and share on the Web." (directly from LiveBinders)
LiveBinders let you organize online content in a "binder" on the Internet, in effect, an icon that looks like a binder that can be opened, so you can access the websites you've put there. Take a look at some sample binders by clicking here.
If you're like us, you've used 'creative' tactics to keep track of all your links either through email, word documents or endless lists in your browser bookmarks folder. It's hard to put a group of links together in any meaningful format. And sharing a group of URLs is cumbersome for everyone - the sender and the receiver. Have you ever looked through your bookmarks list and forgotten what they are all for?
We created LiveBinders so that you could do with digital information what you do with the papers on your desk - organize them into nice containers - like 3-ring binders on your shelf. With our online-binders you can also upload your documents and easily combine them with your links in a neat and organized way.
We welcome you to create as many LiveBinders as you need to help organize the stuff you collect and share on the Web." (directly from LiveBinders)
LiveBinders let you organize online content in a "binder" on the Internet, in effect, an icon that looks like a binder that can be opened, so you can access the websites you've put there. Take a look at some sample binders by clicking here.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
News of Osama bin Laden's death breaks on Twitter
Sohaib Athar, a resident of Abbottabad, Pakistan, spent Sunday's wee hours tweeting about helicopters circling overhead and a mysterious blast. Little did he imagine that he was recording America's attack on the world's most wanted terrorist. (Hilary Brenhouse at Time's Newsfeed)
There's more:
On his Twitter page, Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual) describes himself as “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops.” But this weekend, he found himself at the center of the action. At about 1am local time on Sunday, Athar tweeted about a “helicopter hovering above Abbottabad (a rare event),” later joking that he might have to make use of his “giant swatter.”
Here's part of a New York Times piece on the news of bin Laden's death leaking out.
The terse announcement came just after 9:45 p.m. Sunday from Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. “POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time,” he wrote on Twitter, sharing the same message that had just been transmitted to the White House press corps. (from Brian Stelter)
To read more, click the excerpted hyperlinked text above.
There's more:
On his Twitter page, Sohaib Athar (@ReallyVirtual) describes himself as “an IT consultant taking a break from the rat-race by hiding in the mountains with his laptops.” But this weekend, he found himself at the center of the action. At about 1am local time on Sunday, Athar tweeted about a “helicopter hovering above Abbottabad (a rare event),” later joking that he might have to make use of his “giant swatter.”
Here's part of a New York Times piece on the news of bin Laden's death leaking out.
The terse announcement came just after 9:45 p.m. Sunday from Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. “POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time,” he wrote on Twitter, sharing the same message that had just been transmitted to the White House press corps. (from Brian Stelter)
To read more, click the excerpted hyperlinked text above.
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