Digital Differentiation
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As the web becomes more and more inundated with blogs, videos, tweets, status updates, news, articles, and countless other forms of content, "information over... 
Mentor Mob: A user-friendly tool for creating visual playlists. This could be useful for guided student learning. 
A visual, interactive collection of resources from my presentation at ICE 2012. 
An online tool for creating multimedia timelines with a variety of viewing options. View my sample: Civil Rights Hotspots. 
VoiceThread is a collaborative tool for having conversations about media that can be used as a tool to engage students in the construction of knowledge with others across the school or across the world. Get directions and view examples on my CoolTools Wiki: http://cooltoolsfor21stcenturylearners.wikispaces.com/VoiceThread 
Prezi is a tool for creating a slideshow with a twist that can be used to engage an audience, or as a tool to engage students in the construction of knowledge. 
Create and edit presentation from anywhere, and store and share your docs online for free with an account. Publish presentations to the web, customize your theme, collaborate in real time, embed video, control who can see your presentation, edit and access from anywhere. 
A simple widget lets you embed an abundance of Web 2.0 tools into any page in order to provide students with multiple and flexible means of becoming engaged in learning. This means a wiki can be a tool used to support RtI and Universal Design for Learning. Get directions, view samples and more on my CoolTools Wiki: http://cooltoolsfor21stcenturylearners.wikispaces.com/Wikispaces+Intro 
Named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites, Weebly has an easy, drag & drop interface to create your own website, complete with multimedia. It's free, powerful, and professional. 
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SlideRocket is a cloud-based presentation tool that is slick, collaborative and available for free with a Gmail or Google Apps for Educators Account. 
Visual literacy is a 21st Century Skill that requires students to interpret, use and create media in ways to encourage critical thinking, decision-making, communication and learning. With easy access to copyright-friendly digital images and a growing number of web 2.0 resources for manipulating them, it's certainly worth offering students the option of conveying a message visually. Let's take a closer look at one way to design effective learning experiences to promote visual literacy. 
Use Glogster combined with screencasts as a alternate format for students presentations. Maximize instructional time and take advantage of an additioal learning opportunity. 
Use multi-media to design student-driven learning experiences that are fueled by standards-based Essential Questions and facilitated by digital tools to provide students with flexible learning paths. 
Thinglink is an interactive image tool that provides users with the ability to turn any image into an multimedia launcher. Users can create multiple "hot spot" on specific parts of an image and then link them to any location on the world wide web. Compatible with any blog or website that has a widget to support javascript, this is a great tool for those of us who use Blogger, WordPress or Wikispaces, just to name a few. Get directions and more on my CoolTools Wiki: http://cooltoolsfor21stcenturylearners.wikispaces.com/Thinglink 
A user-friendly online bulletin board that supports colorful post-it notes, images, video and weblinks. To create your own board you need a free account, but with the right settings anyone can post to your board. The board is embeddable and it 
Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students: text, images, music, video |See the Glog! Why Glog? Get directions, view examples and more on my Cool Tools Wiki: http://cooltoolsfor21stcenturylearners.wikispaces.com/Glogster.edu 
Wallwisher is an online bulletin board capable of supporting images, text, video and sound. Students can post a note to your bulletin board without logging in. 
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