Resources


 * Resources**
 * Resources: Please include the digital media, handouts, web links, and digital resources. (You may use ones that you find online or you may create them yourself). All resources should be embedded or uploaded to your wiki.

= Tutorials =

Discover Education recommends Glogster edu:


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Blogger Tutorial:
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Blogs in Plain English:
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= Handouts =



= Web Links =

=__Educational Collaboration __=

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**epals is a website to make connections with other classrooms for collaboration projects. There are over 200 countried and territories that can be accessed for project-based collaboration. ** =====

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 * Tappedin is another website to create links between educational professtionals. These links can be used in the classroom for project-based collaboration or the professionals can seek personal collaboration with other professionals. **=====

=__Brainstorming __=

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 * This website has many brainstorming activities for young-aged learners. These activities are pretty simple to understand and are great tools for elementary school aged students to complete. **=====

2. Writeshop

 * This blog spot helps young learners with brainstorming ideas and activities. **

3. Bright Hub

 * This website looks at how young learners can create mindmaps of their thoughts and ideas. This process **
 * <span style="color: #124212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">is easily explained and then practiced on a variety of activities. **

=__<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Glogster Tutorials __=

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. What is Glogster

 * <span style="color: #124212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This website features simple information about Glogster. The topics covered are what is glogster, how to use the interface, how to share, and the benefits and features. **

=__<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Edublogs Tutorials __=

1. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Getting started

 * <span style="color: #124212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿This page has additional links to multiple tutorials for getting started with edublogs. The topics include how to sign up, logging into you blog, using your dashboard, writing your first post, editing posts, differences between posts and pages, and writing pages. **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;">2. Writing your first post

 * <span style="color: #124212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This page is a direct link to the tutorial of how to write your first post. There are snapshots of the screen embedded into this tutorial to make it very simple to understand and follow about how to write your first post. **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿3. How to insert images into your blog posting

 * <span style="color: #124212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿This page is a direct link to the tutorial of how to insert an image into your post. There are snapshots of the screen embedded into this tutorial to make it very simple to understand and follow about how to insert images. **

=__<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Search Engine __=

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. Google

 * <span style="color: #124212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿Google can be used to find topics, other tutorials, or additional information concerning any part of this activity that needs further explanation. Try the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button. **