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American Studies Resources
National Resources:
- ISTE: National Educational Standards
- 7 Things
You Need to Know About Teaching and Technology The EDUCAUSE Learning
Initiative's 7 Things You Should Know About...pieces provide quick,
no-jargon overviews of emerging technologies and related practices that
have demonstrated or may demonstrate positive learning impacts. Any
time you need to explain a new learning technology or practice quickly
and clearly.
(What, How, Where, Why?) - Digital Media and Learning: lastest news on technology and education
- Electronic Portfolios
PowerPoint:
- PowerPoint Homepage
- Add narration to a presentation: Narration can enhance Web-based or self-running presentations. You can also use narration to archive a meeting, so that presenters or absentees can review the presentation later and hear any comments made during the presentation.
- Add and play sounds in a PowerPoint presentation
- Embedded and linked sound files in a presentation
- My sound doesn’t play
- Copy a presentation to a CD, network, or local disk drive
- "How to make PowerPoint files small"
- SlideShare SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web. And it's free. For example, you create a PowerPoint for your presentation at a conference, then you use Slide Share to share this with conference participants to view later.
- Audacity The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
- How
to Podcast from PowerPoint: Using Slideshare
Digital Storytelling
- Digital Storytelling: lesson plans and handouts for educators
- Center for Digital Storytelling:
- Digital Storytelling Workshop
- Digital Storytelling Links and workshops
- Center for Digital Storytelling
- Personal Storytelling
- Digital Tools
- VoiceThread: Online tool that facilitates multimedia storytelling.
Web 1.0
- Landmarks Citation Machine
- Copyright and the Web: This portal provides real world, practical and relevant copyright information for anyone navigating the net.
- Evaluating Websites: Good hints to assess webpages
- How Search Engines Work
- Webpage Creation: Blogs & Wikis, Video Blogging
- Adding video to your website
- Using Windows Movie Maker to make videos for the Web
- ThinkQuest: Students create website for students
- Magnetic Poetry Online: Good place for students and teachers to play with poetry online with others.
Web 2.0 Tools
- Changing Face(Book) of Education: A nice site that explores how social networking is changing education.
- SlideShare SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web. And it's free. For example, you create a PowerPoint for your presentation at a conference, then you use Slide Share to share this with conference participants to view later.
- Google.docs
Create and share your work online (Free)
Create, edit and upload quickly
Import your existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, or create new ones from scratch. Access and edit from anywhere. All you need is a Web browser. Your documents are stored securely online. - Google Sketch Up MICDS
- Audacity The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor
- Ning: Blog (Social Networking)
- Guide to Blogging: Educause Learning Tools
- Guide to Podcasting: Educause Learning Tools
- Wiki introductory video
- Wetpaint: Create Your Own Free Wiki
- Wiki Spaces Create Your Own Free Wiki
- PBWiki Create your own free wikis for the classroom. Easy!
- Twitter: Twitter: Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
- Flickr: Share photos
- Flickr Map
- Creating a Podcast on Audacity
- Gogofrog: takes you into the ultimate 3D world. No downloads just the internet in 3D. Create your own ulimited online space, it’s fast, easy and free. Do things you simply can’t in 2D … See and chat with your site visitors, furnish your environment and change your whole space or yourself to suit your mood, store photos, read a book or share one, write a journal, interact, listen to music…The potential for education is enormous. Students can create galleries instead of PowerPoint presentations.
- Blip TV
- Podcasting for Education—includes tutorials, ideas, articles, tools, and a gallery of podcasts create for teachers and students)
- How to Podcast from PowerPoint: Using Slideshare
- Slidecasting: Slidecasting is a new multimedia format for viewing slide decks synchronized with an audio file. It is for conference talks, musical slideshows, audio picture books or whatever else you can imagine. It's really easy to create one, so get started now!
- Creating a Podcast on Audacity
- VoiceThread Share images, documents and video.
- Myplick: Upload slides and link
to audio
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