Three multimedia resources

Three rich, online multimedia resources to use, share and enjoy:
Glogster EDU: A creative, dynamic, and innovative digital outlet that captures learner's excitement for online creations, keeps learners engaged in course content, and makes teaching and learning more fun. Teachers control all the activities of their learners. Glogster integrates diverse core subjects including math, science, history, art, photography, music and more for individual learner portfolios. It provides unique alternative assessments, and differentiated instructional activities.

Teacher Tube: Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons at our website

School tube: SchoolTube is the recognized leader for moderated, internet media sharing for teachers and students. All student created materials on SchoolTube must be approved by registered teachers, follow local school guidelines, and adhere to our high standards.
Jude

Itunes university

The amount of audio and video podcasts available in general, and for educators in particular, on Itune University, is just amazing. IU allows you to search all what the very best colleges and universities have to offer for free (if you want credits, get your credit card). You can search by school, topic, curriculum area...conferences, debates, interviews, entire courses, from 10 minutes quick demos to presentation of more than an hour... Of course, most if it is college level,and should be considered a form of PD (soon, we should consider a way for teachers to get credits for podcasts). However, a quick search shows that some material can be integrated into a high school classroom. You do not need an Ipod. Using Itunes, you can download and play audio and videos on any computer. You can also burn them on a DVD or CD and, last but not least,you can play them anywhere on ipods.
For downloading Itunes for free, go there.
Jude

Reading in the Digital World

A very good article for English teachers and librarians:
Turning the Page, by Tim Walker

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The School Librarian in the Digital Age

A good article on the topic: http://www.nea.org/home/35951.htm
the full version is in the October/November issue of Nea Today.
Jude

Saving Streaming videos - use KeepVid

It is easy to save streaming videos from Youtube and other sites. Just use this free application: http://keepvid.com/

YouTube, SchoolTube and TeacherTube

If YouTube certainly has a lot of relevant material for the classrrom and the teacher, these two sites have a growing number of quality video materials:

SchoolTube
TeacherTube

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Profile Teachers Blogs

Our teachers are blogging:

Growing up in the White Mountains

Language and Composition

Innes Book Talk

Fat Diet

How easy it is to use PhotoStory

A great presentation tool. This was done in less than an hour, uncluding taking pictures, finding some on Google Images, tweating the slid transitions, and adding two sound tracks. And I never used PhotoStory before! Photostory installer is in the sharestaff folder.