Authors: Jim Holland & Susan Anderson
Grades 3–12

Make your Science curriculum come alive with 36 content-specific projects using free Web applications!

Beyond social networks, blogs and wikis, Web 2.0: Hot Applications and Cool Projects motivates and inspires students by using free web-based applications to instantly create and publish media-rich content directly to the web while keeping the focus on relevant curriculum. Using tools to build dynamic slideshows, digital scrapbooks, interactive flash books, instant web notes, animated avatars, and real-time collaboration, students evaluate, assimilate, and analyze science concepts using 21st-century skills.

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By: Rene Fuller & Charlotte Haley
Grades 6-9

18 week course for developing technology literate students for the 21st Century. Each chapter begins with one page for students to read explaining the basics of the topic followed by four to five projects. In addition, each chapter has terminology with students researching the definition for each term. The book includes Web 2.0 applications that are appropriate for 21st century learners and related to ISTE Standards.

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Author: Mark Standley and Meg Ormiston
Grades 2 - Adult

Teaching Powerful Storytelling, one of the most important parts of learning. This book provides practical ideas and lessons to apply digital storytelling in schools. It includes broader strategies for teaching powerful storytelling, and a useful CD-ROM with resources and examples of digital storytelling in education.

Today's technology allows students and faculty to tell stories in powerful ways. The digital camera, editing software, and media outlets allow anyone to tell their story. Not only can they tell their story, but share a curricular concept, help in staff development, create publicity for the school, share achievement on standards, or build learning communities around the world. With this capacity to create powerful stories, we need to remember what makes great stories for audiences. We should think about how storytelling helps students learn.

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By: Tammy Worcester
Grades 3-12

Clever ideas for using Google Tools effectively for students grades 3-12 and for all teachers . Google offers a multitude of terrific tools that can be used to enhance both teaching and learning. These tools are powerful, user-friendly, and FREE!! This book highlights many of these tools and provides clever ideas for using them in the classroom.

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