This post is part of the mobile learning category. Click to check out other posts! Lately, I have discovered many cool free apps that are incredible for creating digital stories, reading stories, and interacting with stories. These apps are incredibly engaging and meet the needs of our diverse learners. They allow learners to interact with […]
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Engaging Learners through Digital Storytelling: 40+ Resources & Tips
Enjoyed these resources? Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go. I develop many free online courses for teachers, such as Digital Storytelling for Young Learners. In 5 weeks, 250+ participants and a dream team of moderators (Esra Girgin, Barbara Sakamoto, Özge Karaoglu, Jennifer Verschoor, David Dodgson, and Michelle Worgan) shared imaginative […]
8 Free Apps for Creating Special Holiday Gifts
Part of the Cool Sites series As a little girl, I made Christmas gifts for my father. He preferred them over bought gifts. Well, at least until I can afford box seats for the Dallas Cowboys games. Making gifts can be difficult for children who have to beg a parent to buy them the materials […]
Are You Free This Friday? Free Online Workshops
Professional development is important for educators. I love the sharing spirit of our Passionate/ Personal Learning Network (PLN) who continuously provides free presentations and resources online through webinars, blogs, wikis, and podcasts. The fantastic part is that many of these resources are free and can be enjoyed by educators worldwide in the comfort of their […]
What Did They Tweet?
June 2010 edition of the What Did They Tweet weekly series! Let’s see what our Personal Learning Network (PLN) tweeted about in education and social media for the last two weeks. Multimedia Tweets A site worth bookmarking. 100 Great Tech Talks for Educators. http://bit.ly/bZF3qxTom Whitbytomwhitby Below is one of the videos, Richard Baraniuk on open-source […]
Character Development Using Voki Speaking Avatars
Recently, I participated in the I Heart EdTech Blog Swap from SimpleK12.com. This post about using Voki speaking avatars was originally posted in Kelli Erwin’s blog, which is full of great educational technology reviews! Voki is an application that lets you create personalized avatars to use on your wikis, blogs or websites. You can also […]
17 Stop Motion Video Examples & Resources
Part of the Cool Sites series Many educators wonder how to inspire their students and motivate them to strive to learn. Standardized testing has burdened our students and a majority walk into our classrooms probably dreading the school year. My SEETA course, How Do You Youtube?, inspired me to think about the incredible benefits of […]