The Many Realities of Blended Learning – Personalized Learning Conference
- Link to Personalized Learning Conference Presentation slide deck
- This Will Revolutionize Education
- What is “The Heart” of Education? – Participant generated word cloud
- Norm Friesen’s Blended Learning Report
- Plate Tectonics Project
- Literature to Life: Henry & Mudge Blog
- Mattawan High School Writing Center
- Project North & South
- Every Common Core Standard Related to Technology & Digital Media
Reading Materials that Inspired This View of Blended Learning
- What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Reading and Writing – James Paul Gee
Blended Learning Professional Development
Mobile’s Killer App
- Every Common Core Standard Related to Technology and Digital Media
- 101qs.com
- What Video Games Have to Teach us about Learning & Literacy
- A New Culture of Learning
- Kids With a Microphone
- Spanish in the Real World Blog
- Mattawan Early Elementary Video Announcements & Story Problems
- Visual Math Walk
- Submit your Visual Activity!
- Visual Activities Examples Spreadsheet
- Feedback Survey
Are We Ready for a Post-Keynote World?
Hanging Out with Google+
WeVideo
Video Story Problems
Why Video Story Problems?
- Inspiration for Video Story Problems from Dan Meyer’s TEDxNYED Talk
- Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice
- Visually Exploring the Common Core
Dan Meyer’s 101 Questions
Resources for Creating Video Story Problems
- Video Story Problems 101
- Simple Video Story Problem Planning Template
- Video Story Problem Think Through
Video Story Problem Channel
Literary Works Referenced
- What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning & Literacy – James Paul Gee
- A New Culture of Learning – Douglas Thomas & John Seely Brown
6 Ways to Create a Story Without a Pencil
Digital Storytelling Platforms
- Storybird – Create digital storybooks with the aid of professional artists
- Horse – A Storybird example
- K-6 Storybirds – Friendship, Thankfulness, and following rules
- Storykit – Create digital stories on an iPod, iPhone, or iPad
- Storykit Examples – A brief look at Storykit and what it can do.
- The Wall Machine – Create a fake Facebook page to tell a story via conversations
- History of the Invasions of Afghanistan – example from Wall Machine
- Macbeth – As retold using Facebook
- The Atom – Getting reluctant writers to show comprehension of material
- Voicethread for Education – Collaborative storytelling
- Super Powered Students – VoiceThread example
- Language Learning Lab – Voicethread as a means to practice speaking, and listening, to another language (French)
- Storify – Remix and incorporate social media within your digital story
- White House Asks: Immigrant Entrepreneurship – Storify example
- Read Around the Planet Makes Me Happy! – Celebrating collaborations in the classroom
- #michED Chat Archive – An archived Twitter Chat
Digital Storytelling Resources
Video Sharing Alternatives to YouTube
Video Sharing Sites
- TeacherTube – Simple, free, just like YouTube, but LOTS of advertisements
- SchoolTube – Simple, free, pay options available, NO advertisements
- Sharing Video via Google Docs – An interesting way to share videos among users of Google Docs
- Come Sail With Me – Christopher Columbus Commercial
- Vimeo– Community of videographers, video makers, Free and Paid options, only text advertisements
- Fugle Flicks – Chicago area art teacher shares her student’s work
- Tyler Hart – Virginia 3rd grade teacher shares student made videos and class videos
- Wayzata Schools – Student News videos
- Video Story Problems – Collaborative video channel about math and science video problems
DIY Video Sharing
- PHP Motion– Free open source YouTube in a box! Must have geek skills to install on web host, but powerful!
- Anim8stopmotion – Example of PHP Motion install in action
- JWPlayer – Can embed video in lots of places, geek level high on this
Collaborative Online Video Editing
- Stroome– Kind of like Google Docs for video
- Joking Around Remix – An example of a small video collaborative
- WeVideo – Like iMovie in the cloud
Diigo: Social Bookmarking Evolved
Digging Deeper With Diigo – Education
View more presentations from Jennifer Dorman.
Google Earth Session
Google Earth Resource Blogs & Websites
via Google Earth Blog…
- Astronaut Mode!
- National Geographic Supports Geography Awareness Week
- Sundials Around the World
- Ten Easy Steps to Learn About a Place with Google Earth
- Track Santa in Google Earth
- New Seven Wonders of the World in Google Earth
- Gulf Oil Spill
- Decade Volcanoes
- Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Archive
via Google Sigtseeing
via Placespotting
Google Earth Scavenger Hunts and Resources to Get You Started
Read, Please Session
Online Listening Sites
Text to Voice Programs
Online Voice Recording Sites
Stellarium Session
Lessons & Ideas
- Starter Lesson Plans for Using Stellarium
- Focused K-12 Lesson Plans from Stellarium Creators
- NASA Image Gallery
Celestia
Student Response Systems: Clickers, Google Forms, & Voicethread
Clickers
Google Forms
- Library Tutorial Quiz Example via Ohio University Libraries
- Ben’s Tech Camp Feedback Examples
- Positive Comments Form
Survey Creators Similar to Google Forms
VoiceThread
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