Harnessing new technologies for effective learning Here are some examples and ideas to foster creativity, motivation, effective learning, divergent thinking, connectivity, and project- based learning.

Wallwisher Wallwisher - allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. Use Wallwisher for: Expressing opinions Personal note taking To-do lists Brainstorming Feedback Collection Wishing people on occasions, like birthdays, anniversaries

Collect ideas for exploration

Book Reviews

More Wallwisher ideas  Suggestion box  Environmental pledges  What languages do your parents know?  Thank you wall  Summarizing material  Expressing opinions

Examples of Online Projects Remaining Young We are trying to provide kids strategies, refusal skills, alternatives to engaging in physical relationships and skills for coping with peer pressure.

Collaborating around the world Collaborating Around the World Sarah's second graders do a culture exchange in the spring with classes in Australia. She and fellow GCT Laurie Wales send mascots to each other and post pictures so that the children could learn about the other country and other school based on where the mascot was in the picture.

Fictitious Worlds Chris' 8th graders put together Google sites on fictitious countries, museums or businesses.

This I Believe Students composed essays that explored their values and reflected on the events that shaped these beliefs. Students composed essays in Docs, then recorded a podcast using Aviary.

Blogs eg. edublogsedublogs  A blog is a website for which an individual or a group frequently generates text, photographs, video or audio files, and/or links, typically (but not always) on a daily basis.  The term is a shortened form of weblog.  Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging".  Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts," or "entries".  The person who posts these entries is called a "blogger".

Webquests  Go to  Click “TrainingMaterials”  Under “Overview and Underpinnings, ”click A Webquest about Webquests MIDDLE AND SCHOOL (75minutes)  Create groups of four and follow instructions

WebQuests  A WebQuest for K-12 Teachers utilizing the WebGuide Template - Internet4Classrooms version  WebQuest Template - template.htmhttp:// template.htm  San Diego State University Educational Technology Department WebQuests Page -  Best WebQuests -  WebQuest Templates SDSU  Teachnology WebQuest Generator - nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/ nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/  Differentiated Instruction WebQuests  Using the Understanding By Design Model to create WebQuests - t.pdf t.pdf

Examples of elementary school digital storytelling

Edmodo  Examples of Edmodo Examples of Edmodo  Ways to use Edmodo Ways to use Edmodo

Wikis  Using Wikis in the classroom

Zooburst  ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop- up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life.

Hot Potatoes  Hot Potatoes enables you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.

Many more Web tools  resouces-for-education/