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Work Smarter with Evernote in 2013

Work Smarter with Evernote in 2013 | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it
Twelve ways to go fully digital with notes in 2013. (One of my resolutions: working smarter with digital tools.
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Handy monthly "resolutions" to help keep new users on track with Evernote

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Trading Card Creator - ReadWriteThink

Trading Card Creator - ReadWriteThink | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it
This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.

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The FBI's "Cyber Surf Island" game aims to promote internet safety amongst students

The FBI's "Cyber Surf Island" game aims to promote internet safety amongst students | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

Cyber Surf Island is a playable, web-based game world for school children from grades 3 to 8. By playing simple games, the children learn about online threats ranging from malware to internet predators to cyber bullies. Schools can compete against each other for points and winning schools get a visit from a real FBI agent!


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6 Steps to Help Students Ask Better Questions | The Science of Learning Blog

How often do we teach students how to formulate good, in-depth questions? Use these 6 steps to help boost your students’ ability to ask better questions and drive their own learning.
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Digital Media Literacy

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Thinglink by digitalsandbox1 making this infographic interactive - Digital Media Literacy 

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AnswerGarden

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Collect Feedback:

AnswerGarten describes itself as a minimal tool for maximum feedback that can be used for creative brainstorming. Just create a question and publish it for students to respond to. The answers are immediately displayed as tags in a word cloud, which means responses that appear more frequently appear larger in size. Try it for yourself by answering the question below. No login is required.


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BiblioNasium

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Excite, encourage and engage kids to read! Check out BiblioNasium, where young readers connect & share book lists and good reads with friends, teachers & parents.

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Top 10 Tech Tools: An Interactive Graphic Packed with Resources

Top 10 Tech Tools: An Interactive Graphic Packed with Resources | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

Rather than posting another running list of tools, features and uses, I decided to present the information visually, through an interactive ThingLink graphic. I used the new colored icons available to make it easier for visitors to explore areas of interest more efficiently.


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Free Technology for Teachers: Six Multimedia Timeline Creation Tools for Students

Free Technology for Teachers: Six Multimedia Timeline Creation Tools for Students | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

Looking for timeline creation tools that your students could use?  Here are 6 tools, you need to check out!


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Using Evernote in an Elementary Classroom

Using Evernote in an Elementary Classroom | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it
“There can be an infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if the teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.” Nancy Kase...

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Story Creator 2 - E2BN Tools

Story Creator 2 - E2BN Tools | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

Story Creator 2 is a great educational website that allows students to create their own myth or legend.  These tutorials will show you how to get started.


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Free Technology for Teachers: PicLits - Drag, Drop, and Create a Story

Free Technology for Teachers: PicLits - Drag, Drop, and Create a Story | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

PicLits aims to provide inspiration for writing short stories. PicLits tries to reach this goal by providing users with images upon which they can build their writing.


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Book Trailers for Readers - How to make a book trailer

Book Trailers for Readers - How to make a book trailer | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

How to make a book trailer. Great way to incorporate NETS/Common Core

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The Difference Between Projects And Project-Based Learning

The Difference Between Projects And Project-Based Learning | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it
The Difference Between Projects And Project-Based Learning
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Gone Google Story Builder

Gone Google Story Builder | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it
Collaboration has gone Google. Create a story and then share your video.

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This is a lot of fun...

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Educreations -Create and share great video lessons with your iPad or browser.

Educreations -Create and share great video lessons with your iPad or browser. | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

Educreations is a global community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. We're on a mission to democratize learning by extending the reach of great teaching.


Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Pippa Davies @PippaDavies
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iPad Tutorial - Fotobabble

This tutorial shows you how to use Fotobabble on the iPad to add audio recordings to images and then convert them to short video clips.


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Use iPad as an External Monitor with Air Display Free

Use iPad as an External Monitor with Air Display Free | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

"Air Display is a great iOS app that turns an iPad into an external display for just about any Mac or Windows PC. It’s been around a while, but now there’s a new free version available that lets you try out a full featured ad-supported version before buying the regular version, offering an excellent way to see if AirDisplay fits into your workflow."


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Curate.Us - Share Screen Clips Everywhere

Curate.Us - Share Screen Clips Everywhere | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

Create visually compelling clips and quotes of web content that are easily embedded in blog posts, email, forums, and websites.


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My Web Wardrobe

My Web Wardrobe | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

A wiki of resources creatively assembled by @ jenniferbarnett.


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ThingLink & MentorMob - Nice Integration

ThingLink & MentorMob - Nice Integration | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

Last week I learned that the folks at ThingLink and MentorMob had done some work together to integrate their tools, making it possible to embed a MentorMob playlist directly into a ThingLink graphic. After experimenting a bit I decided to remix some of the content I've been using for years to teach digital citizenship and the result is the creation of Avatar Adventure.


Via Susan Oxnevad
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Free Technology for Teachers: Create Study Materials from Evernote Notes

Free Technology for Teachers: Create Study Materials from Evernote Notes | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

Using Evernote for flashcard creation


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A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 60 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information

A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 60 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it
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The De-tech-tive 4 Teachers: 19Pencils: The Ideal Classroom

The De-tech-tive 4 Teachers: 19Pencils: The Ideal Classroom | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

If you are a K-8 teacher, you will want to check out 19Pencils. This service has curated from the internet some of the best teacher-tested resources available today.


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Draw Mania

Draw Mania | Fill Your Digital Schoolbox | Scoop.it

This is a free app for iPad or iPhone that is great for revising vocabulary. It works a littl like pictionary, you have to draw images to represent words or guess words from images. You can play with friends or be teamed up against a random player. Great vocabulary tool.


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