Technology Resources (open or $)

Alphabetical List - click here

BOOKS & WRITING

International Children's Digital Library- a collection of children's books in many languages.

Good Reads

Google Books

Shelfari

Library Thing

Bartleby.com - great books online

Bookbrowse.com- reviews, excerpts, recommendations

Nanowrimo - National Novel Writing Month

Novelist - database of books, what to read next, reviews

The Online Book Page- 800,000 free books online

Project Gutenberg- 33,000 free ebooks

International Children's Digital Library(1,600 children's books in 42 languages)

COLLABORATION & COMMUNICATION

iEarn - Learning with the world, not just about it

Scribblar

Stiky- Shared Bulletin Boards

Skype

VoiceThread- group conversations around images, documents, and videos

World Cafe

Yammer - the "in-house" social network

Zoho notebook

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

FLASH CARDS

Quizlet

Study Blue

Muchobeets

DIGITAL POSTERS

Glogster - students can create interactive digital posters

EXPERTS/EDUCATORS

Academic Earth- online courses and videos from experts

Christa McAuliffe Outreach Programs

Encyclopedia of Life - find every species

The Futures Channel Educational Videos

iEarn - Learning with the world, not just about it

Kahn Academy

Ted Talks

GOOGLE APPS

classroom

Code - Developer tools, APIs and resources

Calendar - Organize your schedule and share events with friends

Docs - Create and share your online documents, presentations and spreadsheets

Google Mail - Fast, searchable email with less spam

Group - Create mailing lists and discussion groups

Reader - Get all your blogs and news feeds fast

Scholar - free academic and research papers

Sites - Create websites and secure group wikis

SketchUp - Build 3D models quickly and easily

Talk - IM and call your friends through your computer

Translate -View web pages in other languages

Voice One number for all your phones, online voicemail and cheap calling

YouTube - Watch, upload and share videos

GRAPHICS

Custom Image and Sign Generator- also "cartoon yourself"

wordle.net- make a word cloud for your site or blog

jing

Graphsy

MAPS

Celestia- 3D space simulation

Google Earth

Placeopedia

INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION

IMAGE MANIPULATION

Big Huge Labs- lots of ways to use flikr images

Blender - 3D graphics suite

Image Chef

Sumo Paint - online image editor

TiltShiftMaker- makes your images look like 3-D models

IMAGES

http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/- this is a great list!

http://pirc-photogallery.com

Public Domain Images

http://search.creativecommons.org

http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto

http://www.debisty.com/Album/photos.html

Flickr

http://www.stockvault.net

http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

http://openphoto.net

http://images.google.com (click on advanced search to the right, then choose "labeled for reuse"

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://pics4learning.com

http://photobucket.com

iPAD APPS

Presentation Software

Explain Everything

MULTIMEDIA EXAMPLES

NY Times Multimedia Presentation: Tunnel Creek

I, Too, Sing America: The National Museum of African-American Culture and History

Desperate Crossing: Migrants Crossing by Boat between Libya and Italy

Ten Years After Katrina

Illuminating North Korea

Photographs of Earthquake Devastation in Nepal

Your Contribution to the California Drought

Rosetta Follows a Comet through Perihelion

Braving Ebola

Images of Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution

The Women of West Point

A View of Ground Zero

Outcry and Confrontation in Ferguson

PRESENTATIONS/STORYTELLING/SLIDESHOWS

http://thelearnia.com - create video lessons easily

Animoto-make video from your images automatically

Bitstrips.com - comics in the classroom

Blabberize- upload a picture, type in text, and your picture will blabber!

The Center for Digital Storytelling

Creative Narrations- multimedia for community development

Digital Storytelling Websites - from electronicportfolios.org

Digitales- The Art of Telling Digital Stories

The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling- University of Houston

emaze

Explain Everything - iPad App

Image Chef

Key Digital Storytelling Resources (huge list from Tech-Head)

Listen Up - a site dedicated to young filmmakers, with how-tos, lesson plans, etc.

KQED Digital Storytelling Initiative

Seminole County/Central Florida Zoo collaboration-digital story examples

Storybird- very cool graphics available for making short digital stories

Slide Rocket

Stupeflix - create online video

Xtranormal- If you can type, you can make movies!

SCREEN CAPTURE