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Guidelines for effective podcasting
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Evaluation of Podcasts - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Checklist of qualities for good podcasts
Langwitches » Digital Storytelling Part VIII- Audacity
Tips for using Audacity for digital storytelling, personalizing a story with the author's voice and sparking the audience's imagination
Tutorials - Audacity Wiki
Collection of tutorials for Audacity
Writing For Multimedia: Script Guidelines
Tips for writing for multimedia, including specifics for writing audio scripts and software tutorials
Presentation Zen How to Design & Deliver Presentations Like a Pro (pdf)
Basic concepts for using PowerPoint effectively for delivering presentations, using multimedia learning principles from Richard Mayer. Includes a list of selected readings and example slides.
Flickr: Will Lion's Photostream
Inspiration for effective use of text with visuals to create powerful messages
Visual literacy K-8
Free resources for teachers with information on visual literacy, focusing on visual sources of information like maps, diagrams, timelines, and storyboards
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
Lots of different ways to visualize content and create graphics. Good place to go if stuck on how to represent something visually and create relevant graphics.
CogDogRoo - FindingPhotos
Tips for finding Creative Commons licensed images
Flickr: The Commons
Copyright-free images from the Library of Congress and a number of museums and other organizations. Primarily historical photos, with lots of great primary source material.
Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser
Online application for editing photos and other images. Basic tools available with a free account.
Composition and Design Principles
Principles of visual design with tips for teaching them to children
Seven Elements of Visual Art
Seven elements of visuals: line, shape, form, space, value, texture, color
Are your visuals saying what you want? Part 1 Visual Elements » VisualsSpeak blog
Part 1 of a 3-part series on visual communication, focusing on dominant lines and shapes. Even though this is specifically about images on blogs, the principles can be applied to any visual communication.
plugincinema - Interactive Storyboard exercise
An interactive exercise where you create a story to go with the pictures in the storyboard, which change every time you load the page. It's a good way to show how the images alone aren't enough to explain the action in a storyboard; you have to have text and directions.
Using Storyboards: Thinking Through Visual Storytelling
Step-by-step guide for creating linear storyboards for multimedia projects
Creating a Storyboard
Brief introduction to storyboarding for multimedia projects with examples of a paper storyboard and a flowchart/mindmap in PowerPoint.
Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally, Andrew Churches
Connects levels on Bloom's taxonomy different types of actions with technology. For example, this categorizes tagging as an analysis skill, reflective blogging as an evaluation skill, and podcasting or animating as a creation skill.
Essential Questions
Sample chapter from a book by Jamie McKenzie on essential questions, explaining how they differ from traditional "school" questions. Examples for different age levels are provided.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Comparison of the old and new versions of Bloom's taxonomy
How Can We Eliminate Roadblocks to the Information Highway?
Education World article from 2000 with numerous quotes from teachers on barriers to technology integration in the classroom
Technology Integration in the Classroom -- Unit 5: Multimedia Project Activities
List of some of the types of multimedia projects possible
Education World® : State Standards: Table of Contents
State-by-state standards for K-12 education in most subjects
NETS-S Standards for Students (pdf)
Technology standards for students from ISTE
NETS-T Standards (pdf)
NETS standards for teachers
Professional Learning Communities in Schools
Podcast on professional learning communities and how they support student achievement
Effects of Technology on Classrooms and Students
Information from the Department of Education on how classroom technology encourages collaboration, supports complex tasks, and improves student motivation
Effects of Introducing Technology on Teacher Professionalization
How technology-based reform improved collaboration and engaged teachers in activities for professional growth
The Future of Instruction: Teacher as 'Co-Learner' : June 2008 : THE Journal
How technology and 21st century changes affect the role of teachers, casting them as co-learners with students