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This document provides tips and tools for creating digital books and ebooks. It suggests starting with an outline and conducting research. It then lists various free and online tools for creating digital stories, textbooks, cookbooks, scrapbooks, and books for different ages. These include apps, websites, and free image sources. Lastly, it provides contact information for the author in case the reader has additional questions.

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Pam Cranford

Pam Cranford and Rebecca Ganong presented on starting blogs for students. They discussed why teachers should have their students blog, including how it allows students to make an impact and share their work. They provided examples of student blogs and blog platforms like WordPress and Blogger that are free to use. The presenters encouraged attendees to visit the TCEA website for more information on blogging and to contact them if they have any other questions.

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Karen Kliegman

This document is a presentation by Karen Kliegman, a school librarian, about her experiences with reality TV and advocating for school librarians. It discusses budget cuts impacting staffing and resources for school libraries. It provides tips for school librarians to promote visibility, target audiences, and implement best practices. These include using websites, newsletters and social media to build credibility and engage students through creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. The presentation emphasizes the need for school librarians to adapt to changing times and envision new roles for libraries and librarians.

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Jim Forde

1) The document discusses a science teacher's use of blogging to connect students to class content, extend learning experiences, inform parents, and showcase student work. 2) The blog is used to connect students to engaging content related to topics covered in class, keep parents informed of class activities like dissections, and allow students to demonstrate their knowledge through activities and podcasts. 3) The teacher seeks ways to improve blog use, such as encouraging more student posting and journaling, and initiating other class blogs to further engage students in science.

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Joyce Kasman Valenza

This document provides an overview of digital tools that can be used for digital learning. It discusses tools for formative assessment like surveys, quizzes and collaborative writing. It also discusses classroom learning portals that can be created using wikis for class resources, discussions, student portfolios, and project based learning. Other tools covered include blogs, digital storytelling using tools like Animoto and Photo Story, podcasting, and additional project tools like Glogster and Wix. The goal is to inspire educators to try different digital tools to engage students without feeling overwhelmed. Educators are encouraged to start small by focusing on one tool and sharing successes.

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Laurie Hansen

The document provides suggestions for conducting virtual field trips to enhance instruction for general education courses. It includes recommendations for synchronous and asynchronous follow-up activities like Q&A sessions, polls, quizzes, and essays. Potential field trip destinations are listed covering topics like critical thinking, ethics, mathematics, research/information, science, and social sciences. A sample field trip script and follow-up questions are also provided as examples. References are given at the end in APA format.

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bbelardi

This document provides an overview of Library 2.0 tools and resources for a school librarian. It lists several digital storytelling, polling, photo, virtual tour, timeline, and professional development tools that could be used in lessons and projects. The document also asks teachers about what types of collaboration and lessons they currently do, barriers to implementation, and what support they need to incorporate more technology-based activities.

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Andrew Shuping

Unconferences are informal conferences where the agenda is set by participants on the day of the event. They are low-cost or free events focused on active participation. They originated from open space technology used in tech industry meetings, with an emphasis on participant-driven discussions. Planning an unconference requires a venue, date, communication tools, and flexibility. The day involves generating session topics, note-taking, and encouraging sharing of ideas in a casual atmosphere. Successful unconferences create engagement through open-ended questions and continuing conversations after the event.

Eportfolios for Meaningful Student Learning

Motivating Students to Keep Learning During Breaks

This document provides suggestions for keeping students engaged in learning during school breaks. It recommends considering students' interests and making tasks meaningful and time well spent. Suggested activities include setting up social networks, photo and video challenges, playing educational games, creating a digital advent calendar with daily surprises, setting up a class blog, and organizing scavenger hunts with friends using a free app. The goal is to design opportunities for students to continue learning outside of school in ways they find fun and engaging.

Digital Poetry! Activities, Web Tools and Apps

Multimedia mix presentation

hohara1

This document provides a summary of various multimedia tools and websites that can be used to create videos, presentations, stories, brainstorming activities and more for classroom instruction. It lists tools for screencasting, animating with images and video, interactive discussion forums, embedding copyright friendly images, audio/video commenting, creating timelines, rubrics, educational games and virtual worlds. Links are provided to specific websites like Animoto, VoiceThread, Britannica Image Quest, TimeToast and more. It also directs teachers to the grade level library webpages for additional interactive activities.

Teaching Poetry: 10+ Resources & Ideas

This document provides 10+ ideas and resources for teaching poetry, including analyzing poems, creating acrostic, diamante, limerick, and collaborative poetry. It suggests using apps and websites like Readwritethink, Channel 4 Learning, Voicethread, Pinterest, Padlet, and Linoit to create poetry individually or in groups. Bookmarking resources on Pear.ly and sharing links on Bit.ly are also recommended.

Keeping up with every(E)thing

Judy O'Connell

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Joquetta Johnson

The document discusses digital tools for curating and sharing information, including social bookmarking sites like Diigo, Delicious, and Evernote. It describes how curation allows individuals to discover, organize, and share relevant online content within their networks. The document also provides an overview of additional tools for creating dashboards, pathfinders, and wikis to organize web resources.

Libraries, e-learning, and zombies

This document discusses e-learning tools and how they have evolved over time. It presents a variety of images showing early e-learning examples consisting of basic web pages and content compared to more modern interactive tools and games. The document emphasizes that e-learning should focus on active learning and application of knowledge rather than just content consumption or busy work. Humor is also suggested as a way to help with e-learning.

Anytime anywhere admin

Anytime Anywhere: A Discovery Educator’s Guide to Lifelong Learning Personal learning network? Who has time? Rather, who doesn’t have time to join like minded professionals who also don’t want to waste time? As a leader of a district, school, or classroom, you need to know what new ideas are floating about, what old ideas are being reinvented, and what old ideas are being discredited. Blogs, social networks, and other Web 2.0 sites are fantastic places to develop and grow a personal learning network (PLN) on a variety of topics. This session will help participants make connections with other educators to increase opportunities to grow professionally.

Collaboration tools

Holly Shaw-Hollis

The document discusses 4 online tools that can be used in the classroom: Google Docs for creating, sharing, and editing documents collaboratively; Corkboard or Wallwisher for online bulletin boards and brainstorming; PrimaryPad or Etherpad for real-time collaborative writing; and Springnote for online note-taking. It emphasizes that student collaboration through group work can improve learning and engagement.

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That's A Keeper

This document provides information about Porter W. Palmer, the Director of the DEN Global Community. It includes Palmer's contact information and links to the DEN's website, blogs, and social media profiles. The document also advertises upcoming DEN events and programs, including live broadcasts from the tundra and a contest for educators to create bulletin boards about the DEN for a chance to win a tablet.

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Coding & Games with Kids: Hopscotch, Scratch & Minecraft (Dec 2013)

Wesley Fryer

These are presentation slides for Dr. Wesley Fryer's webinar on December 14, 2013, for Classroom 2.0 Live. The session description is: As this week wraps up the "Hour of Code," 4th and 5th grade STEM teacher Wesley Fryer will discuss the use of the Hopscotch app for iPads, Scratch software, and Minecraft to help students learn the basics of coding as well as problem-solving and computational thinking skills. Connect to the webinar and learn more about Classroom 2.0 Live on: http://live.classroom20.com/

Innovation, Services & Practices at the Darien Library

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This document discusses the concept of resilient communities through the lens of early Tennessee settlers who defended themselves from attacks without assistance from North Carolina. It notes stories can provide richness that data cannot and shares a story of frontier families in Tennessee who negotiated with Cherokee for land and later defended themselves from raids without state help. The document discusses authors' views on resilience and calls for research on resilient communities to develop characteristics that would help communities survive and recover from disasters.

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