Resource+Sharing

This page is designated for EETT Round 8 target teachers to share resources with each other.

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iPads
Apple in Education - Free Webinars that include tips and best practices for iPads (as some sites are looking at purchasing iPads).

Images
Pics4Learning (http://www.pics4learning.com/) is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Pics4Learning is developed as part of the Partners in Education program by Tech4Learning and the Orange County Public Schools Technology Development Unit. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and video productions. The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images but have allowed the images to be used without permission for improving student educational opportunities.

Clipart ETC is an online resource from the Florida Education Technology Clearinghouse, housing more than 43,000 pieces of clip art organized into common educational categories. Most images are available in multiple resolutions and image formats for ease of use in a variety of products. No permissions are required to use up to 50 images in a single, non-commercial product.

Calisphere (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/) is the University of California’s free public gateway to a world of digitized primary sources. Images are selected from the libraries and museums of the 10 UC campuses and more than 30 cultural heritage organizations. Themed collections, lesson plans, and Browse A-Z are specifically designed to support K-12 classroom needs. Calisphere is made up of six themed collections: You may use images, documents, and other primary sources from Calisphere in your classroom without permission, subject to fair use guidelines.
 * The Changing State in the Gold Rush Era (1848-1865)
 * Closing of the Frontier (1870-1900)
 * Emerging Industrial Order (1900–early 1940s)
 * The Great Depression (1929-1939)
 * World War II (1939–1945)
 * Social Reform (1950s-1970s)

[] Wikipedia has a listing on public domain images. Image sources are organized into categories, including books, logos, postage stamps, history, and US Government sites. Because Wikipedia has user-generated content, images should be checked to verify that they are in the public domain.

The Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to legally build upon and share. Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. License rights range from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."


 * ===**FreeFoto:** www.freefoto.com===
 * ===**BigFoto:** www.bigfoto.com===
 * ===**FreeImages:** www.freeimages.co.uk===
 * ===**Pics 4 Learning:** @http://www.pics4learning.com/===
 * ===**Free Digital Photos:** @http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/===
 * ===**Images for Schools:** @http://www.images-for-schools.org.uk/===
 * ===**Getty Images:** @http://www.gettyimages.com/===
 * ===**Flickr:** @http://www.flickr.com/===
 * ===Google: http://www.Google.com===

Audio
Digital History at the University of Houston (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/audio/music.cfm) has a repository of historical music which is in the public domain. They also link to historical music for educational use that is freely available on the web under fair use guidelines. Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/en/) has more than 10,000 albums by more than 5000 artists, all free for teachers to download, use and in some cases even edit in their classroom. Each album is labeled according to its Creative Commons licensing, whether it's attribution only, non-commercial, and/or no derivatives. You can search for music according to artist, style, and/or licensing. The Freesound Project (http://www.freesound.org) contains Creative Commons licensed sounds that can be looped or inserted in a variety of multimedia projects. The site reguires users to register (free) prior to downloading, and Freesound creates a citation list as you download files. FindSounds is a collection of links to very short sound files from around the web. Of particular use are the musical instruments and animal sounds, which can help provide a different avenue to engage students' attention.

=Digital Storytelling= ===[|Better Digital Storytelling Tips] www.guide2digitallearning.com/technology_curriculum_integration/tips_better_digital_storytelling=== Excellent suggestions for students working on digital stories, these tips will help take a digital story project to the next level.

[|Center for Digital Storytelling] http://www.storycenter.org/index1.html
The Center for Digital Learning holds workshops and produces materials to help people create digital stories and use them as a teaching tool. Many example stories are included on their website.

[|Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling] http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
Produced by the University of Houston's College of Education, this site has excellent examples of digital stories, as well as guides for creating them and sample goals, objectives, and standards for using them in the classroom

[|Creative Narrations] www.creativenarrations.net/site/storybook/index.html
This site has a large collection of personal digital stories created in workshops all over the country.

[|Electronic Portfolios - Digital Stories] electronicportfolios.com/digistory/index.html
This website has links to a number of digital stories sites, including ones specifically for educators and students.

=Inspiration=

**[|Inspiration Library]** www.inspiration.com/resources/index.cfm
Ideas and lesson plans, with example Inspiration diagrams, arranged by grade level and subject.

**[|Jordan School District Kidspiration]** t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/Kidspiration/
A list of links to free templates and other resources from the Jordan School District in Utah.

**[|Jordan School District Inspiration]** t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspiration_templates/index.html
A list of links to more templates and other resources from the Jordan School District in Utah.

**[|Inspiration for Middle and High School]** www.spart5.k12.sc.us/TechTraining/InspirationMatrix.htm
A collection of templates from District Five Schools of Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

**[|Sample Assessment Rubric]** www.west.asu.edu/achristie/546/inspiration_rubric.htm
Suggests standards for evaluating Inspiration projects.

Tools
Create A Graph National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Kid's Zone graph creator.

=Collaboration (information provided by [|Generation YES])= __ **Free Sites:** __ **Collaborize Classroom**- Bring your classroom online! Collaborize Classroom complements the classroom by engaging students online. Students can participate in online activities, assignments, and discussions both inside and outside the classroom. Embed documents, videos, pictures, etc. to enrich your curriculum. With Collaborize Classroom you can “teach students how to have productive, respectful, and supportive discussions online”. [] **TypeWith.me**- Create collaborative documents without needing accounts for every student with TypeWith.me. This collaborative site is simple and easy to use. Go to the link, create the document, and share using your unique URL. That’s it! [|www.typewith.me] **Dropittome**- Have a Dropbox account but want an easier way to share with students? Create an account with DROPitTOme, connect it to your Dropbox account, and you have a simple solution to file sharing. Your account is password protected and you receive email notifications when new files are uploaded. When you don't want to receive any files - simply turn off the upload feature. [|www.dropitto.me] **Polleverywhere**- Don't have access to student response devices? Use cell phones! Although some districts may frown upon using cell phones in the classroom, Poll Everywhere allows you to use cell phones for an educational purpose. Students can text their responses to the code assigned to your survey and watch as the answers instantly come in. Poll Everywhere offers question and answer surveys as well as multiple choice. When the survey is created you also have the option to allow responders to tweet, text, use smartphones, or use the web widget to response. [|www.Polleverywhere.com] **Wallwisher**- Wallwisher is an online notice board that is great for making notes during class. Skip the chalkboard! Ask a question and away you go with creating collaborative notes online. You don’t even need an account, just create your wall and get started. [|www.Wallwisher.com] **Wordle**- Make class brainstorming fun! Create “word clouds” using Wordle. Make your word clouds unique by changing the fonts, layouts, and color schemes. [] **AnswerGarden**- AnswerGarden is feedback tool similar to wallwisher and wordle. Like Wordle, the more a word is used, the bigger it gets. AnswerGarden is simple and easy to use. There is no login necessary but you are given the option of creating a password. [] __**Sites with a Cost:**__ See how Voicethread has become a powerful tool for giving students a voice here: [] Collaborize Classroom //Collaborize Classroom™// allows teachers to extend their classroom discussions to a structured and private online community.
 * Zoho**- Zoho offers many applications that allow you to stay organized and work together such as planners, project calendars, discussions, mail, and spreadsheets. Zoho's applications come over your internet browser so you don't have to worry about finding a place for your data, it's all stored online. [|www.zoho.com]
 * Google Docs**- Many of us are familiar with Google Docs but if you are not, we encourage you to check it out. Google Docs allows you to import and export Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoints, Word Docs and more. Create online surveys that you can embed in a class website and gather data in an easy-to-use spreadsheet. As long as you have an account, you can also upload photos, create websites, and share documents so you can work together over the internet. [|www.docs.google.com]
 * Voicethread**- Bring your classroom into a virtual work space known as a "group audio blog" with Voicethread. With a year's subscription you can create 100 student accounts with individual usernames, co-edit student work, upload audio comments, create video comments, store student work and work in a secure environment. [|www.voicethread.com]
 * Glogster**- Encourage student creativity by creating multimedia projects with text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, etc. As the teacher, you can assign homework and allow students to create portfolios and presentations. Creating fun and interactive Glogs encourages students to express creativity while also fostering teamwork and collaboration. [|www.edu.glogster.com]

Other Web Resources
Thinkfinity, formerly known as Marco Polo, contains a searchable database of standards-aligned web resources to support the curriculum.

CLRN Web Information Links (WILs) are a searchable collection of resources sponsored by the California Department of Education. Resources can be browsed by standard or searched by keyword.

FREE: Free Resources for Educational Excellence contains teaching and learning resources from government agencies. The resources include animations, primary source documents, images and video, and cover all content areas and grade levels.

[|Calaxy] is a free K12 site that allows members to upload videos to share with other educators. Directions for uploading videos can be found here.

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Thousands of digital videos, images, and audio files are available to support a variety of content areas.

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eHow.com (tutorials) How-Tos and Tutorials

common craft Three-minute videos that help educators and influencers introduce complex subjects.