Digital+Farm

__ ** Digital Learning Farm ** __ // This page contains tools for learning about creating student jobs in your classroom. //

= [|students-as-contributors.pdf] = Click here to read the article online: @http://novemberlearning.com/resources/archive-of-articles/digital-learning-farm/
 * Article by Alan November **

** Who owns the learning in your class? **
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Pick up at 8:55 to hear how one teacher has transfered the work to her students through valuable assignments in producing content.

Pick up at 17:00 to hear about two teachers, 50 miles apart, who have their kids so engaged that they are continuing their "school work" in June, July and years later!

__ **Class Scribes** __
 * Darren Kuropatwa - Darren's Blog Article
 * Google Docs
 * [|TypeWith.Me]

__ **Researchers** __
 * Rotating Students - teaching students how to search and evaluate web sites.
 * Information Literacy
 * [|NL Resources]
 * NL Videos
 * [|Information Literacy Quiz]
 * [|Root Zone Database]
 * Web County Codes


 * Reading a web address and validating websites
 * GleanWhois
 * [|The Tree Octopus]
 * [|Dog Island]
 * Martin Luther King
 * [|Golfcross]
 * [|DMHO]


 * Google News
 * Newseum
 * SweetSearch
 * [|Wolfram Alpha] [|Differentiate Search]
 * Google Custom Search Engine

__ **Tutorial Designers and Researchers** __ media type="youtube" key="g-28kb2hXB0" height="349" width="560"
 * Eric Marcos' Class - [|mathtrain.tv]Dividing with Fractions
 * "Has found that allowing students to create material for this site increases engagement and provides struggling students with more opportunities for reviewing troubling concepts".
 * Student-Made Videos: See the Creating Screencasts Page
 * Click here for a rubric for students to make their own Tutorial Videos: @http://bit.ly/tutorialrubric


 * Atomic Learning
 * Khan Academy
 * Teacher Tube
 * Vimeo
 * [|Dearborn Schools]


 * Tools to create them:
 * Screenr - immediately links to twitter, etc by giving you a URL of your screencast to give others
 * Free software - [|Jing] - free downloard, set up an account and they will store your videos, limited to five minutes
 * Smartboard Notebook Recorder - time is unlimited but not the greatest quality
 * [|Screencast-o-matic] - no need for downloading software/ saves as a movie file so it's editable


 * Curriculum Reviewers**
 * @http://maps.google.com/ - Use the My Places button to create your own map with place-holders