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The Next Step

MULTIMEDIA WEBPAGES-- Samples

Squidoo: http://www.squidoo.com

Helen Teague’s Midsummer Night Squidoo: http://www.squidoo.com/msnd/

Helen Teague’s Summer Squidoo:  http://www.squidoo.com/summer/

BLOGS--Samples of how classroom teachers are using blogs to enhance learning

Pre-calculus Blog by Darren Kuropatwa: http://pc40s.blogspot.com/

Elementary Writing Blog – Ann Davis: http://itc.blogs.com/thewriteweblog

Bud’s Blog Experiment: http://budtheteacher.blogspot.com

Blog Write: http://jhh.blogs.com/blogwrite/

Sample Blogging Permission letter: http://www.budtheteacher.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blogging_letter


WIKIS and RSS--Where to Wiki and Samples of Classroom Wikis

PB WIKI: http://pbwiki.com/tour/1.html

Wikipedia: http://wikipedia.org

Nancy Brodsky’s ELA WIKI: http://nancybrodsky.pbwiki.com/

Bud the Teacher’s Wiki:  http://www.budtheteacher.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Introduction to RSS: http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/intro/

PODCASTING –
Places to podcast, great classroom examples of what to do with podcasts, and how to podcast

Great introductory site to Podcasting –http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~magps/boylit/Podcasting%20in%20Education

ACEKids: http://www.adrianbruce.com/acekids/index.htm

Education Podcast Network: http://www.epnweb.org/

Dennis Hershberger – Lincoln Southwest High School  (cartoons): http://lsw.lps.org/dhersh/podcast.html

Bob Sprankle’s Room 208 podcast –  elementary students’ reactions to events (The Flood)
http://bobsprankle.com/blog/C1697218367/index.html

Language Teaching: http://mylcpodcasts.blogspot.com

RESOURCES FOR “THE NEXT STEP”
Amazon – free music downloads
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/468646/104-6349897-6042365

Audacity – free audio editing software: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Learner Blogs – free site for student blogs: http://www.learnerblogs.org/

Cute Overload: http://www.cuteoverload.com/

RSS – a simple “How To”: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/3223484.stm

Creative Commons – publish and browse images, video, music: http://creativecommons.org/

Flickr – post, share, comment, blog photos: http://www.flickr.com/learn_more_2.gne

Wiki tools--Webnote: http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/

The OOPS Invisible Web Page: http://oops.bizland.com/invisible.html

Teacher ‘Stuff’the ‘why should I bother’ of “THE NEXT STEP”

Will Richardson’s Blog: http://www.weblogg-ed.com/why-weblogs

Alan November: http://nlcommunities.com/communities/alannovember/default.aspx

Aggregator Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader/things/tour

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Last Update: July 19, 2006
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