Archive for August, 2008

Teachers’ Domain: multimedia resources for the K-12 classroom

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

This website (http://www.teachersdomain.org/) is a growing collection of downloadable multimedia resources and lesson plans. Currently the majority of resources are in the Science field (listed below) but they are planning to add Language Arts, Social Sciences and Mathematics resources. It has a free registration although you need to align yourself to your educational institution.
I am not a [...]

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VoiceThread: publishing to an international audience

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

http://voicethread.com is a free Web 2.0 tool which provides easy-to-use features for students to create multimedia projects. This is exciting in itself, but even more motivating for students is that viewers of the project can leave comments via the internet. Look at this example to see how it works: http://voicethread.com/share/107896/

The online media album can hold [...]

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