The Web-Based Digital Journal supports the writing process allowing students and teachers to work on and review digital journals from any computer which has access to the internet.
The WYSWIG editor supports the same editing features as found in desktop word processing systems such as MS WORD.
Students can upload or link to images, audio (podcasts), and video files which enhance their journal entries.
The Digital Journal allows students to move from draft, revised draft, edited draft to a published piece.
7 Things You Should Know About...
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:
What it is; How it works; Where it is going;Why it matters to teaching and learning.
Having Our Say
This is one of my newest video favorites. The video gives a voice to middle grades teachers who address 21st century skills in 21st century schools.
Pay Attention
This is another very popular video. It was specifically created to start a conversation about 21st century learning.
Worldwide Telescope
Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe.Coming Spring 2008
Periodic Table of Elements
Scientists from Nottingham University have created videos for each element of the periodic table. Each video contains information about the element, as well as an experiment
Digital Ethnography
My videos explore mediated culture, seeking to merge the ideas of Media Ecology and Cultural Anthropology.
Don't Buy "Teachers have the ability to engage students in media literacy — the ability to access, evaluate, analyze and produce both electronic and print media — by dissecting pop culture and advertisements. Media literacy education can help students build critical thinking and analytic skills, become more discriminating in the use of mass media, distinguish between reality and fantasy, and consider whether media values are their values. (home page)"
