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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Best Tech Creation Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Check out this list of terrific tools for tech creation that offer a wide variety of engaging end products kids can create, from stories to animations to music to games.
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: Logging Up Reading Mileage

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading. They...
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New Zealand Ministry of Education

Nz Ministry of Education: The All Purpose Multimedia Poetry Beast

For Teachers 11th
For this activity students explore writing and performing poetry in various forms: writing poetry, choral readings, mime, and preparing a multi-media presentation by designing a web page.
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Article
Media College

Media College: Graphics Tutorial: Digital Images for the Internet

For Students 9th - 10th
Tutorial on creating images for the Internet, with text and screenshots.
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Lesson: Representing Ourselves Online

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan, young scholars talk about dressing up and taking on identities that are similar to or different from them. They are then introduced to the idea of avatars as a kind of "dressing up" inside video games and consider...
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Media Smarts

Media Smarts: Lesson: Internet Time Capsule [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson plan, students learn about the concept of "time capsules" and then apply the idea by selecting time capsule contents to represent both the time they live in and their own lives and tastes. They then extend this idea to...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling With Words and Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this interactive lesson plan, students learn the basics of how stories are structured, gain vocabulary about storytelling elements, and explore how the arts, specifically drawing, can be a valuable way for students to tell stories.By...
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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Ed Tech Top Picks List

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
See Common Sense Media's top ed-tech tools lists for many categories.
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International Literacy Association

International Literacy Association: How to Help Students Interpret Digital Texts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How can we help students to move beyond summary and toward interpretation? A combination of digital popular culture modeling, heuristics, and choice - along with digital composition - can initiate that process. Interpretation combines...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Altering Reality

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson teaches students how to create a mixed media alteration of a digital photo using a printed picture and tracing paper.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: 100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource presents 100 different ways to use a digital camera in the classroom.
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Google

Google Applied Digital Skills: Understand Your Digital Footprint

For Students 9th - 10th
Visualize your digital footprint by recording your online actions in a spreadsheet.
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Open Ed

Open Ed: Assessment: Digital Transmission and Storage of Information

For Students 9th - 10th
This four-question assessment over digital transmission and storage of information has a resources accompanying each question. The resources include 5 videos and a diagram. Students study the resources and then take the assessment.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Zora Neale Hurston Video: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

For Students K - 1st
Learn about Zora Neale Hurston with this video clip, printable biosketch reader, and support materials. About the Show: "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum" is a PBS KIDS show based on the popular book series, "Ordinary People Change...
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Other

Creating Multimodal Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This website is an evolving compilation of resources designed to support the development of student multimodal authoring at all year levels. It features examples of different types of student multimodal compositions (both print and...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tie It Up With Transition Words to Write a Story!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the lesson, groups of students will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will include details...
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Other

Pbs Newshour Extra: Student Reporting Labs

For Students 9th - 10th
Think. Create. Inform. You become the reporter. PBS connects high school students to local PBS Stations and news professionals to produce original, student-generated news video reports. Get involved and learn how to report, problem-solve...
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Google

Google: Experiments With Google: Creatability

For Students 9th - 10th
Exploring how creative tools can be made more accessible for everyone. This is an excellent set of digital resources for students to try analyzing how easy they are to use and how effective they would be for those with disabilities.
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Other

Delaware Art Museum: The Art of Storytelling

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience the image collections of the Delaware Art Museum through storytelling. Read and/or listen to stories that others have told about artwork in the museum. Use interactive media to tell or picture a story. Includes lesson plans...
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South Carolina Educational Television

South Carolina Etv Commission: Artopia

For Students 9th - 10th
Artopia is utopia for artists and artist wannabes alike. Each gallery allows students to complete interactive activities, watch videos, read about artists, and practice being an art critic. The gallery areas are music, theater painting,...
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Other

Common Sense Media: The Power of Words [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students consider that while they are enjoying their favorite websites they may encounter messages from other kids that can make them feel angry, hurt, sad, or fearful. They explore ways to handle cyberbullying and how to respond in the...
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Other

Online Journalism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this site for analyzing the effectiveness and techniques of several aspects of web news. Pop up windows guide viewers to important questions about what they will view.
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Other

Ecoarttech: We Make Art in the Biological, Cultural, Digital Wilderness

For Students 9th - 10th
Website containing images, descriptions, and news about art created by ecoarttech. The art created by this collaborative combines nature with technology.
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 2 11 13: Mathematician Unveils World's Biggest Prime Number

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the recent discovery of the longest known prime number, which is 17, 425,170 digits long.

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