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Awesome Virtual Online Field Trips

MSEDTechie

Google Earth - Explore the geography of both land and sea (free download). Helens changed in the three-year span between 2003 and 2006 with these 360-degree panoramas. Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Vital Signs: Understanding Cardiovascular Diseases - A virtual gallery teaching about heart disease.

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CyArk: digitally preserving and sharing our vulnerable heritage

NeverEndingSearch

Founded in 2003, CyArk (for cyber archive), is an international nonprofit dedicated to enhancing accessibility to and digitally preserving heritage sites for future generations. Don’t miss CyArk’s rich interdisciplinary downloadable lesson plan section. The site also suggests a range of emerging career options.

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Just Wanderful! Living Books Are Back!

The Daring Librarian

On Friday I was looking pensively at my boxed sets of the Living Books CD-ROM collection in my school library. Not any of our iBooks, MacBook Pros, eMacs (2003), or brand spanking new iMacs. I am so glad though that that kind of creativity and artistry has come back to the consumer.the student, and the school library!

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Personal Stories: How Teens Connect with StoryCorps and Podcasts

MindShift

Isay began StoryCorps in 2003 after years of producing radio documentaries that relied on dialogues for content. cities, hired facilitators to help guide the discussions, arranged to store tapes of the conversations at the Library of Congress, and invited ordinary people to come in and interview someone in their lives.

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The breaking point that led to my sabbatical (and what’s next)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Subscribe in your podcast app, or download the MP3 here and listen on the go! I remember as a teacher checking out stacks of professional development books from the library and reading them poolside in the summer over my break and creating new activities to do with my kids. . No time to finish reading?

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Media Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Then you'll find lessons, videos, downloadables, and games organized by a few key topic areas, like interpreting media, media creation, and media manipulation. You'll need to pay for each course, but once you do it'll be in your library forever. Jump down to a section Media Literacy Courses and Curricula.