Tool+Resources

For group, then individual exploration:
Voicethread

[|Wikis for Teachers] teachers help page More on Wikis

Photos and use of visual imagery in the classroom
For example, what if I, as the teacher, say the word “tree”? If you live in Olean, New York, you’d probably see a sugar maple tree. From West Palm Beach, Florida? A row of palm trees. Or, if you grew up in Tacoma, Washington, the way I did, you might see a cedar, fir or some other evergreen tree. Is one of those trees any more “correct” than the other? http://www.tcpd.org/Burmark/Handouts/WhyVisualLit.html Tools: [| using_flickrstorm.pdf] [|The Strength of Weak Ties: Flickr Storm Tutorials] ====[|CopyrightFriendlyImages] (Most of the **images** in these collections are in the public domain. **....** (Site states "For personal purposes, you may use the **images** found on GOgraph’s **...**==== [|Pics4Learning]
 * “There is a natural progression in the way we process information: first the image, then the words. We run into trouble in schools when we try to reverse that order, when teachers use words and assume every student sees the same image.**
 * Use images to bring forth words, to clarify the words, or to illustrate the words.**
 * **[|Picasa Web Albums]**
 * [|Flickr]
 * [| Flicker Storm] A great site for finding photos to use and share safely with students

Aggregators and RSS
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 * [|iGoogle]
 * RSS (see video below

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 * Audio using [|Gcast]
 * [|Slideshare], [|Piclens],
 * **[|del.icio.us]** and delicious resources
 * [|ZoomImage Creator]