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This site has lots of free downloadable and printable templates including some educational worksheets.
animoto - Using video clips in Animoto videos
Animoto now takes video clips! This is awesome for quick, slick video publishing.
My StoryMaker is a flash-based free online application that students can use to create online digital stories.
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KmlFactBook is a unique site which lets you load data sets from CIA Factbook and WRI Earthtrends into Google Maps and create cool presentations from them. You can view facts such as population of various countries, their GDP, immigration rate and a lot more on Google Maps and on Google Earth. If you would like to view the data offline then you can download it in kml format and open it with the desktop version of Google Earth.
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The applications for kmlfactbook are nearly limitless. It's colorful and interactive interface make it perfect content for your interactive whiteboards, tablets, and LCD projectors. Importing the KML files into Google Earth adds additional functionality and allows students to use the data to build their own Google Earth tours and data sets and allows users to layer additional data to create hypotheses and generalizations. The ability to readily access data from all geographic areas instantly allows students to compare and contrast with ease. Downloading the KML files and opening them in Google Earth allows students to create their own thematic maps. (Not sure what a thematic map entails? Check out this great Google Earth resource on Thematic Maps.)
Here is a listing of some of the additional Google Earth layers that are terrific classroom content.
Don't forget that if you are a Discovery Education subscriber you can enhance your Google Earth placemarks with DE media.
To learn more about Google Earth, access training and tutorial, and explore educational applications, visit my Google Earth training site. You can also download my presentation, Roundtrip Tickets to Anywhere: Discovery Education and Google Earth.
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I came across a pretty cool website that might be of interest to teachers and students at the start of the school year. ThoughtAudio.com is a website that offers free MP3 streams and downloads of audio books.This online conference for students will explore why it is important for students to connect with other students from around the world, and how schools can support you to do this. Students are invited to submit resources around the conference theme which could include films, poems or essays.
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punypng - PNG Image Optimization and Compression
punypng is a free optimization service that can dramatically reduce the file size of an image by converting it into a highly-compressed, lossless PNG image. That translates to outrageously efficient web page loading, and just makes the web more puny.
Discovery adds new content to its Discovery Education streaming media library all the time. Here is my new favorite media asset - Interview wih Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager featured in Hotel Rwanda. This video is part of the new content added to the DE streaming service this summer by the Underground Railroad Freedom Center, one of the new organizations joining the 180+ content providers who license their media for teacher and student use through Discovery Education.
Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved more than 1,200 Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, shares his thoughts on freedom, personal responsibility, heroism, and social justice.
Click here to access the full 28-minute video. (Note: you will need to log into Discovery Education to access the video.)
As with most DE streaming videos, the interview is segmented into chapters to make it easier to use in targeted classroom instruction. This interview is organized into 70 chapters, one segment for each interview question and response.
I wish that I would have been able to use this when I was still in the classroom and teaching my students about genocide. I would likely have used it in juxtaposition with First Person Singular: Elie Wiesel, which I used to prepare my students to read Night.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel reflects upon his life, his work and his concerns for the future of mankind. The celebrated author of the Holocaust memoir Night reveals how he reconstructed his life after surviving the horrors of Auschwitz to enter a world of writing, teaching and campaigning tirelessly against threats to human rights throughout the world. He presents a warm and lively account of his experiences as a journalist in Paris and Jerusalem, of his authorship of more than 40 novels, plays and essays, and of his human rights activism. He also focuses grimly on the ability of human beings to dehumanize each other in order to kill with impunity. In discussing the events of September 11, he reflects on how the re-emergence of terrorism in a new and unimaginably more dangerous form casts doubts on whether the 21st century can avoid re-creating the nightmares of the 20th.
The Genocide Education Project has some excellent classroom resources to teach about genocide, focusing in on the acknowledged instances of genocide in the 20th century -- Armenian Genocide 1915-1918, Holocaust 1939-1945, Cambodia Killing Fields 1975-1979, Rwandan Genocide 1994, and the Genocide in Sudan 2004-today. I have used some of the materials from the "Confronting Genocide: Never Again" unit from the Choices Program developed by Brown University. Click here for more resources to teach genocide.
I think it would be a terrific social studies - language arts collaboration to have students explore the different first-person experiences with genocide and how survivors managed their memories and used them to inform their future commitment to humankind. I did something like this one year as an integration with my partner language arts teacher. Students read both Night and Maus: A Survivor's Tale and produced multimedia representations of survivors' experiences during and after the Holocaust. One of my favorite projects was this podcast. It was an imaginary conversation between Elie Wiesel (Night) and Vladek Spiegelman (Maus I: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History) in a coffee shop in New York City.
I could see expanding this project and including exploration of the survivors from other genocides. Perhaps, Elie Wiesel might have a conversation with Loung Ung, survivor of the Cambodian Genocide and author of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, or with some of those survivors from the Rwandan featured in Philip Gourevitch's book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda.
The video segments from DE streaming could be used to provide the scaffolding so that students gain a foundational understanding of genocide before starting to read the first-person accounts and memoirs. In addition to the segments I already highlighted, here are a few others that would be useful.
The Legacy of the Pol Pot Regime and Khmer Rouge
Keepers of Memory: Survivors' Accounts of the Rwandan Genocide
The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions
Civil War and Genocide in Rwanda: Video Yearbook Collection 1994
DE streaming has many more videos, images, and articles to support learning about genocide. The media is helpful in providing background when teaching a very difficult and emotionally charged topic.
Welcome back to the new school year! To help you get started, register for a Discovery Education streaming Back-to-School Enhancements webinar to learn about all the new benefits of Discovery Education streaming .
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If you have forgotten your password, retrieve it and login today .Design Your Dorm: 3-D interior design tool for students, parents, and universities
Got a college student who is heading back to a dorm this fall? Check out DesignYourDorm! DesignYourDorm.com is a web-based 3-D interior design tool that allows college students to customize their dorm room interiors and purchase their favorite room selections online.
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Browser bookmarklet that lets you watch and share YouTube videos on a clutter-free interface. The application can remove all surrounding distractions and present the video on a clean clutter-free page.
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How To Get On YouTube At School Using Mobile Internet
This is some interesting information for using cell phones for digital storytelling.
