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21 Oct 09

Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered

  • When asked what they learn from using social networking sites, the students listed technology skills as the top lesson, followed by creativity, being open to new or diverse views and communication skills.
    • These are valuable skills for teachers as well -all would help to inform, enrich, and expand teaching - on 2009-10-21
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  • students using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st century skills we want them to develop to be successful today,
07 Apr 09

Virtual Libraries Are Teaching Treasures | Edutopia

Description of how the Library of Congress and other libraries offer online services to enhance learning for teachers and students. Innovative ideas such as using voice thread to have kids make sense of primary sources.

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  • the library is working on digitizing additional images that can be posted on YouTube using VoiceThread software, which merges images, text, and audio. Students will be able plug pictures from the library's archive into VoiceThread slide shows. Then they can create avatars of themselves talking about the images, add relevant information, draw on the images, and accept comments from their classmates.

  • Woodruff used the site to catalyze a discussion contrasting American society with the one in The Giver, in which individuals readily surrender memories in the belief that past events are burdensome, painful, and best forgotten.



    "The site allows the students to see how much time and energy our society spends recording and preserving our history," observes Woodruff. "It's a great way to get the students to consider the purpose of documenting history and the powerful tie between a society's past and its future."



    Where better to explore that tie than at the virtual library? Libraries have always been archives of our collective past. Now, with the advent of multimedia virtual libraries, they appear also to be heralds of our future.

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09 May 08

Imagination Cubed

Draw on the screen then click to send a link to your drawing by email to your friend.

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