This document provides an overview of tools and activities that can be used for education based on discoveries at the DENSI 2013 conference. It lists tools under the categories of what can be used tomorrow and sites for discovery. It also describes several quickfire activities that can be used to engage students through pictures, writing prompts, and videos, including having students write descriptions, perspectives, stories and scripts based on images shown.

1. DENSI 2013
“MY TAKE-AWAYS”
By: Gaby Atienza

3. WHAT CAN I USE TOMORROW?
 Board Builder
 Digital Dive
 Common & Proper Nouns
 Content Creators: Branches of Government
 SOS Challenge
 Myth Busters
 Puppet Pictures
 Editable Video Segments
 Record Audio
 Add Captions

5. DISCOVERY AND THEN SOME!
 Readwritethink.org
 Wolframalpha.com
 Mathtrain.TV
 Five Card Flickr Stories
 Flocabulary.com
 Visuwords.com or VisualThesaurus.com
 Storybird.com
 Projects by Jen
Paper Slides

6. QUICKFIRE WAYS TO USE DISCOVERY
Half the Story
Show half of a picture on one slide
What do you think will be on the other side?
Have students write about it
Then show the full picture
Quick Write Challenge
Show an image
Give students a minute to write down as
many adjectives as possible
Exchange lists with another student
Do this again (where you able to better your
list by 5, 10, 12?)
Perspectives
Show a picture
Write the article that would go along with it
Write a script for a conversation
6 Word Stories
show a picture of a person
in six words tell me something about this person
Script Writing
Take a video segment and play it without sound
Write a script
3 Truths and 1 Lie
Put three statements on the board
Watch a video and determine which is the lie
Rephrase the "lie" and make it true
Picture Zoom
Show a picture, zoom in as much as you can
Ask what do you think this is?