05-Assignment+Five+(Selection+of+New+Materials)


 * **PART 1—SELECTION DOCUMENT** ||


 * **PART 2—DIGITAL RESOURCES OVERVIEW** ||
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 * These stories—designed specifically for iPads and similar devices—are created by local Sunshine Coast digital artists planted firmly in the midst of the paradoxically rich “slow app movement.” With features like the ability to record your own audio track over the top of the video story, these deliciously detailed and fantastically textured videos allow language arts classrooms to play with stories just like they always have—except now the stories are multi-sensory, engrossing, and dynamic.
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 * Animoto does what many language arts teachers have wanted to do the last two years but often got stuck on the fact that there is too little time to teach the details of video creation: it allows students to easily make seamless, attractive videos with text, images, and videos all automatically rendered and stored online with a dedicated web address. Great for working on the multi-faced art of storytelling.
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 * A fee-based online educational video streaming resource that our school district subscribes to, Learn360 features video searchable by subject, grade level, as well as a number of other descriptors. The site features an easy and quick log in, and each individual user is able to create Playlists that essentially serve as folders and files to organize however the user sees fit—a potentially great service that should only get better as more content is added.
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 * A source for rich stories, this weekly radio program from WBEZ radio in Chicago chooses a theme for each show and then tells a number of stories around that theme. Excellent material for studying story techniques, themes, and specific topics of relevance.
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 * “True stories told live”—the Moth features a collection of storytellers—some well-known names, some totally unknown, who tell 10-15 stories on stage without notes. The stories are recorded and archived, and arranged by topic, theme, etc. A great resource for looking at the art of oral narratives.
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 * Map out pieces of literature like you never have before—with literal maps! GoogleLitTrips allows you to select from a number of great works and view an actual Google Earth map that traces the action of the novel or play—with points of interest and pictures included!—to put your understanding of the work on the map and in a whole new light.
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 * Mindmeister calls itself “the leading online mind mapping software”—and it is probably correct. Give your students a new way to organize thoughts and display understanding with a new dynamism.
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 * Xtranmormal offers another avenue for students to create stories and/or show understanding via video creation. You might have seen these on the web already and didn’t even know what they were—lots of fun to create and even more fun to present the finished product to peers.
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 * Tired of PowerPoint presentations? Give Prezi a try. Use with caution, however: impossible micro-to-macro zoom capabilities of Prezi do not sit well with motion sickness sufferers.
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 * Glogster allows you to create Glogs—interactive posters loaded with text, graphics, music, videos, and more. A great tool for character studies, theme studies, motif studies—the applications are limitless, really.