resources

=Sandbox Resources=

Brain Blurts

21st Century Learners

Blogging Resources

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 Tools

- Instructions for teachers (these instructions explain how to embed the subscribe box in a school blog made in a Drupal site so the final step may be different if you are using other teacher blog software at your school.) How to check your Feedburner stats. Some info from [|Feedburner]
 * Feedburner:**

Several of these are YouTube clips. If you are in a school where you cannot access these videos, I find it very useful to download them before hand and have them on my hard drive rather than relying on an internet connection. Here are some sites that allow you to do this. (I had to try out a couple depending on the Browser I was using) [|Here is a site] that gives you many different tools to download YouTube and other online videos.
 * Media Awareness (Internet Safety)** - [|Some resources from classroom presentations].

Wordle ideas

[|Identifying Bias and Stereotyping in Literature] - (//will open in new Browser window//) The ACT group at McLurg worked with the Teacher Librarian to learn about bias and stereotyping in literature. [|Math Storytelling] - (//will open in new Browser window//) Based on work students are doing in the //Math Makes Sense// program and the connections they are making to Aboriginal content and perspectives. [|Frog Dissections] [|Readicide] - this is a great examples of how Voicethread is useful as a collaborative discussion tool. Here is a professional example.
 * VoiceThread** - [[file:voicethread.doc]] My handout for teachers.

[|Through Our Eyes] - (YouTube) As a result of a McLean’s article in 2007 on how Regina’s North Central neighbourhood is the worst community in Canada, students in Grade 7/8 at Albert School in Regina, with teacher Ben Slowski, produced a digital story to showcase the other side of the story. This kind of experience provides students with a voice to speak up against further marginalization and misrepresentation. (Produced for the Kid Witness News competition) [|Native Reserves: The Truth] - Reda shared this with me [|Don't Call Me Eskimo] - from Arctic Bay, Nunavut
 * Digital storytelling promoting cultural perspectives:**

Each blog is different - these are from the Help section of Blogger: [|Inserting images] [|Video from YouTube]
 * Embedding "Stuff" in a Blog**

Wikispaces media help More How to from wikispaces
 * Embedding Media in a Wiki**

[|Reading on the Web] - this wiki is still in development but I hope it will provide you something to get started. [|Information Literacy] - or this link [|Information Literacy] - both of these use the same resources I have created but lay them out differently [|Media Awareness Resources]
 * For Those Teaching Digital Literacy Skills**