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Joyce Valenza's article [|"A Few New Things"] from //Library Media Connection// April/May 2008


 * 1. Playing with images**


 * Avatar Makers**
 * [|Dream Avatar Creator (Joyce's favorite)]
 * [|Yahoo Avatars] (must have account)
 * [|Mr. PicassoHead (for cubist-types)]
 * [|Simpsons Avatar] and [|SimpsonizeMe]
 * [|Voki (talking avatars for blogs and wikis)]
 * [|Meez]
 * [|Otaku Avatar Maker]
 * [|Joyce's Avatars]


 * Image generators**
 * [|Flagrant Disregard's Flickr Toys (Joyce's pick)]
 * [|Image Chef (Joyce's pick)]
 * [|Add Letters Sign Generators]
 * [|MagMyPic] (mock magazine covers)
 * [|TypoGenerator] (Create a poster from images and letters)
 * [|Swivel] (Quickly create graphs with data)
 * [|Says It.com]
 * [|Glass Giant's Make pictures]
 * [|Blackboard Generator]
 * [|Text 2 Pic]
 * [|Spell with Flickr]
 * [|Amaztype] (create words from stacks of books)
 * [|Graffiti Creator]
 * [|Catalog Card Generator]
 * [|Generator Blog]
 * [|Picnik] (if you don't have PhotoShop)
 * [|Wordle] (tag cloud generator)

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 * Copyright-friendly images and sound
 *  [|Creative Commons]
 *  [|TagGallery] (creates a globe of Flickr images)
 *  [|Online Photosharing in Plain English]
 *  [|SpringfieldGallery]
 * [|Springfield Clipart]



 **2. Wikis** (the killer app!)

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 * Free Wikis for Educators: **
 * [|Wikispaces for Teachers] (Joyce's pick) (Note: If you forget to use the direct educator link to create a wiki, click on "Subscription" under "Manage Space" and request a complimentary upgrade to Plus for K-12 education.)
 * [|PB Wiki For Education]
 * [|Wet Paint]


 * Examples: **
 * [|Wikipedia]
 * [|Wikimedia]
 * [|Wikibooks]
 * [|Wikia]
 * [|Tiddlywiki]
 * Instructional Examples: **
 *  Prerequisite (summer) reading lists!
 * German Art Project
 * [|Pathfinders]
 * Salute to Seuss
 * [|Welker’s Wikinomics]
 * Flat Classroom Project
 * Examples of educational wikis
 * WWI Poetry Visualization
 * [|AP World History Review Wiki]
 * [|Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki]
 * [|Lemony Snicket Wiki]
 * [|Wikijunior]
 * [|Yewlands Science School]
 * [|Novel Study]
 * Holes wiki
 * LMS Book Club
 * Deep River Elementary School
 * Astronomy Alphabet
 * Discovery Elementary
 * Arbor Heights Elementary


 * Other Instructional Uses:**
 * any traditional group project


 * Rationale** **and Instruction:**
 * [|Ten Reasons Why Your Next Pathfinder Should be a Wiki]
 * [|Classroom Use of Wikis] Teaching Hacks Tutorial
 * [|Curricular Ideas for Using Wikis]
 * [|Wikipedia's entry on wikis]
 * [|A Glorified Whiteboard]
 * [|Using Blogs and Wikis in Education]


 * Wiki Tutorials:**



[|Wikispaces Video Tutorials]

> My recommendation for a class site would be to use members. For directions on adding students- http://www.wikispaces.com/help+Teachers#toc5
 * Wiki Tips:**
 * Remind students to not use last names.
 * Set up guidelines for editing each other's work.
 * Under Manage Space, use the Members and Permission feature to establish who can view and edit your wiki. Public means anyone can see and edit your wiki. You can also lock down your wiki so that anyone can view it but only members can edit. See the Wikispaces Help for Teachers to see how to create member accounts for your students.


 *  3. Digital Storytelling / Booktalking**
 * 50 Ways to Tell a Story (Alan Levine--CogDogRoo fabulous list of tools and examples!) A must see!


 * Tools**


 * [|VoiceThread]

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 * VoiceThread for Education Wiki
 * [|VoiceThreads for Education]
 * [|Mrs. Heisey's Morning Kindergarten]
 * [|Student Poems]
 * [|Many Voices on Darfur]
 * [|What Do You Value?]
 * German Art Project
 * Spanish 5 Myths and Legends
 * Spanish 4 Experiencias
 * AP Spanish Scary Stories
 * [|Global Studies VoiceThreads] (private)
 * [|Grandparents' Day]
 * [|Color Poems]
 * [|Lindero Loves Books]
 * [|Jack's Monster Cards]
 * [|Animoto] (create music videos)
 * [|It's about equity]
 * [|Springfield Montage]
 * [|Animoto for Education]
 * [|PhotoShow]
 * [|ToonDoo] (cartoon generator)
 * [|Makebeliefscomix.com]
 * [|xtimeline] (collaborative timelining tool)
 * [|ScrapBlog] (online scrapbook production)
 * [|OurStory]
 * [|Blabberize]
 * [|Slide.com]
 * [|Moonk] (converts your slides to Flash)
 * [|Center for Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Elements of Digital Storytelling]
 * [|Apple Video Journalism]
 * [|Digitales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories]
 * [|Reading Olympics]
 * [|GreatBookStories] (digital storytelling about books)
 * [|BBC Telling Lives]
 * [|StoryKeepers' Gallery]
 * [|Booktalks Online]
 * [|Nancy Keane's Podcasts]
 * [|iCan Film Festival]
 * [|Parents]

  4. Personal Information Portals (for libraries, for teachers, for learners) >  Examples 
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|iGoogle]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|PageFlakes]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|NetVibes]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|Yahoo Widgets]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|Dublin City Public Library]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|UnQuiet Library]


 * 5. Polling / Information Gathering**<span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)">
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|PollDaddy] (Joyce's pick)
 * [|Polleverywhere]
 * [|SurveyMonkey]
 * [|Viewlet Poll]
 * [|Stellar Survey]
 * [|Zoomerang]
 * [|Zoho Polls]
 * [|Response-o-matic] (for websites)
 * [|PollDaddy]

6. Free Blogspace

 * [|Edublogs.org]
 * [|Learnerblogs.org]
 * [|Uniblogs]
 * David Warlick's [|Blogmeister]
 * [|Blogger]
 * [|LiveJournal]
 * [|Thingamablog]
 * [|Lyceum]
 * [|Wordpress]

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 * Best Practice and Instruction**
 * [|Edublogs Awards]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|ResearchLogTemplate!]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> [|Tony's Blog]
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> Jeff's Class
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> Kevin's Class
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> Dallas' Class
 * Mr. Rodoff's Hamlet Blogs
 * Mr. Woehlcke's Hamlet Blogs
 * Mrs. McCaslin's Lit Circle Blogs
 * [|Gatsby Blog]
 * [|Hurston Blog]
 * [|The Secret Life of Bees] (Will Richardson's class)
 * [|Duck Diaries]
 * [|Trout Blog]
 * [|TipLine - Gates’ Computer Tips (resource blog)>>]
 * [|Mrs Cassidy's Classroom Blog]
 * [|Indexed]
 * [|Kate Says]
 * [|Mabry Middle School Library Blog]
 * [|Washington Middle School Library, Seattle]
 * [|The Reading Room (Northfield Mt. Hermon)]
 * [|Book Bag Blog]
 * [|World History Online]
 * [|Ten Ways to Use your Edublog to Teach]
 * [|Blogs in Plain English]
 * [|Alice Yucht's List of Librarian Blogs]

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 * 7. Nings (social networking)** / **Social Bookmarking**
 * [|Ning.com]
 * [|TeacherLibrarianNing]
 * [|GlobalStudiesNing]
 * [|Edubloggercon]
 * [|Classroom20Ning]
 * [|Youth Services Ning]
 * [|Twitter]
 * [|Twitter WhoShouldIFollow]
 * [|Twitter in Plain English]
 * [|Diigo]
 * [|Plurk.com]
 * [|Del.icio.us]
 * [|Google Books]
 * [|Shelfari]
 * [|LookyBook] (set up and share picture book shelves)

[|Social Bookmarking in Plain English] [|Taggalaxy.de]
 * [|LibraryThing]
 * [|Children's Literature @ Library Thing]

<span style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,128)"> **8. PowerPoint Reform Tools**

Other Slide Tools
 * [|Google Presentations]
 * [|Zoho Show]
 * [|Slide Rocket]
 * [|SlideShare]
 * [|Preezo]
 * [|Spresent]
 * [|MyPlick]
 * [|Thumbstacks]


 * Interactive Calendars**
 * [|Assignaday]
 * [|Google Calendar]
 * [|Lindero Middle School]
 * [|Scholastic Calendar]
 * [|Yahoo Calendar]
 * [|Doodle] (group polling and scheduling)

//Parking your slideshows:// //Parking your audio:// //Parking your other stuff://
 * Media Parking Lots (for getting embeddable code)**
 * [|Blog post about Nings make excellent parking lots for videos]
 * [|Blog post on harmony and embeddable code]
 * [|Ning]
 * [|Flickr] (for shorter videos)
 * [|TeacherTube]
 * [|YouTube]
 * [|Fliqz] (basic accounts are free)
 * [|SlideShare]
 * [|FlickrSlidr]
 * [|VoiceThread]
 * [|Odeo]
 * [|Google tools] (spreadsheets, presentations, etc.)
 * [|Google Maps]
 * [|Google calendars]
 * [|PollDaddy].


 * Professional Development** (not just for you!)
 * [|California School Library Learning 2.0]
 * WebTools4U2Use
 * [|Helene Blowers' Learning 2.0]
 * [|Paul & Karen UDL Series]
 * [|Apple Learning Interchange: NECC]
 * [|TED.com] Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers
 * [|Hitchhikr] Hitch a conference ride
 * [|K12 Online Conference]
 * [|EdTechTalk]
 * [|Common Craft Show]
 * [|Terry Freedman's ebooks]
 * Anita Beaman's and Amy Oberts' Reading 2.0

Springfield Parent Letter [| parentletter.doc]