Media-Making Roundup All month long, we've been featuring great tools for media making and DIY in our blog posts, Top Picks lists, and product reviews. Here, we've organized a collection of our favorite media-making apps, sites, and games as a quick reference for any last student projects you may have on the calendar. This is also a great list to use if you want to make summer learning recommendations to parents or students. Animation Kids can demonstrate learning across a range of subjects with these easy-to-use animation tools. Art and Design Get serious about creativity with these three drawing tools. Game Making From the seed of an idea to the culminating experience of exploring the finished project, designing games builds important 21st-century skills including critical thinking, problem solving, and innovation. Music Production Creating original music is more accessible than ever with these great tools that let kids sample, loop, and layer digital and live music. Related Posts:
Storyrobe Fotobabble FriendStrip Kids Pro Tips and Tools to Help you Better integrate Technology in Your Instruction March 30, 2014 Looking for some ideas on how to integrate technology in your instruction? Dr. Kimberly Tyson from Learning Unlimited has these excellent tips to share with you. In this visual she created she outlined 6 practical ideas to help you choose digital tools to support students learning. For each of these ideas she provided a bunch of web tools that you can use to attain them. While the web tools Dr Kimberly suggested serve the purpose pretty well, however, based on my long experience with reviewing education tools, I picked some more titles to add to her visual. Tools to create individualized learning experiences for students: Tools that support classroom instructionTools that facilitate collaborationTools to help students curate content In addition to Paperli, Pinterest, Flipboard and Scoopit I would add:Tools to helps students stay organized:
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