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Bates, N. (2012). Weaving a Virtual Story -- Creating Book Trailers 101. Knowledge Quest, 40(3), 72-76.

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Bates, N. (2012). Weaving a Virtual Story -- Creating Book Trailers 101. Knowledge Quest, 40(3), 72-76.

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In this article, the author has numerous tips for creating a book trailer that is engaging for viewers. The first tip is about picking the tool you are going to use for creating the actual book trailer.  Two suggestions are Animoto and Photo Story for Windows.  Another tip is where to find images that are royalty-free or have a Creative Commons license. Her first suggestion is Flickr because it has millions of images that can be used under the Creative Commons License.  Her second suggestion is Wikimedia Commons which also has licenses for the images to be used by the general public.  She also tells readers where to find high-quality music that maintain copyright laws.  Among her suggestions are Purple-Planet Music, Incompetech Music, and Jamendo.  The above suggestions are important because they help me and my students follow and maintain copyright laws while still allowing creativity and self-expression.

In addition to suggesting specific websites, the author also offers tips for creating a book trailer that will maintain audience attention.  Her first tip is to not go overboard: simple is better.  It is really easy to get carried away and make a trailer that is 10 minutes long, but you will lose your viewer after 3 minutes, so you need to keep the length down to 3 minutes or less.  In addition, she suggests keeping your special effects to a minimum: too many will cause confusion for the audience.  Plus, she suggests that you view numerous book trailers posted online so that you can see for yourself what makes a book trailer successful or not.
Now that we have all of the above tips, we are ready to begin planning our own book trailer.  Because it is a book trailer, the author suggests that students take notes before even starting the trailer and find quotes that they want to make sure and use in their trailer.  Once students have identified everything they want to incorporate in their book trailer, then they are probably going to have to cull some of the information in order to make the trailer succinct.  Students are also going to have to decide on whether to tell their story in first or third person.  If two characters are speaking in your book trailer, then use different fonts to convey their voices.  The author also suggests that you limit the amount of text in your trailer and let your images tell the story.  The author's final, and most important piece of advice is to "never reveal the ending of the book".
This article and the suggestions within it connect to my work as a teacher because I am always looking for new and creative ways for my students to showcase their learning, as well as their growth as a learner.  In addition, having my students work in groups allows them to work on various skills, including collaborating with others, improving their social skills, and learning how to compromise and problem solve.  Plus, all the school districts that I have worked for are using technology more and more, so this helps me to utilize technology in my classroom and expose my students to several important concepts, including the need to follow copyright laws and how to be able to comply with copyright laws while on the internet and when including images or music in your presentation.

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As an educator, I want to continually strive to learn and grow and not become stuck in a rut. It is because of this goal that I decided to pursue a Master's degree in technology.  It is by pursuing my Master's degree in technology that I can continue to develop as an educator.  It is my hope that whatever I learn about technology today I will be able to use it in my classroom as a way to help my students to leverage technology and improve student learning.  In the past, I have attended many professional development courses and workshops as a way to continually be a learner. I can’t tell you how many technology workshops I’ve gone to in the past, but because they rushed through everything I was never comfortable with using it.  Currently, my use of the internet is related to working on my courses for my Master's degree.  In the past, my use of the internet was related to using it to teach my students how to do research.  In addition, I also used Quizlet, different PowerPoint application, as well as letting my students use different online sited such as Prezi to create online presentations.

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In my opinion, educators’ spend their careers modeling the skills needed to be a leader.  As a leader in education, I want to seek out new opportunities for leadership in order to support student empowerment and success.  One way that I am meeting this goal is by getting my Master’s degree in technology.  Another way that I can continue to meet this goal is to seek out professional learning opportunities whenever possible.  As a leader, I also want to stay current with research that supports student learning outcomes and participate in learning networks whenever possible.  Currently, I am testing out a new presentation platform called Padlet for my class. I can see future lesson plans that require students’ to use a presentation platform of some kind in order to present their research to the class.  Because I am not currently in the classroom full time, my current use of the internet is related to doing my school work.

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As an educator, I want to encourage my students to be citizens of the world by positively contributing to and responsibly participating in the digital world.  As such, students and educators need to be able to make positive contributions to society and show empathy for others in the classroom and while online, especially when on social media.  As a teacher, I want to create experiences for my students that allow them to make positive contributions to the classroom that encourage them to take risks and mentor their peers. In addition, in order to help students be successful outside the classroom, I want to be able to create an online digital presence that fosters and promotes digital literacy with an emphasis on helping the students to keep their personal data secure as well as maintain a safe, legal and ethical presence while using the internet with a very strong emphasis on keeping the students from violating copyright laws.

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As an educator, the ability to collaborate with my colleagues has been invaluable in many aspects of my teaching career.  I enjoy being able to share the resources that I have found and being able to collaborate with my fellow teachers when creating lesson plans has helped me to be able to improve my teaching practices, share my ideas, identify deficiencies, and solve academic problems before trying to teach the lesson to students. In addition, collaboration with my colleagues helps me to create authentic learning experiences for my students that use technology as the teaching medium.  Being able to create lessons that allow me to collaborate and co-learn with my students is invaluable to the learning environment.  When my students see that I don’t know everything and I, too, can have a “light bulb moment” really helps my students to see learning as a lifelong endeavor.  At my previous school, I was able to develop my cultural competency because I had students from all over the world and being able to communicate with them depended on my being able to understand their cultural point of view.

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As an educator, I strive to design and implement lessons that encourage my students to be independent learners by using technology to create unique learning experiences that can be adapted to help students with different learning needs to be successful.  I look forward to being able to use online learning tools, such as Canvass or Google Classroom, to be able to accomplish the above goals.  When trying to help my students to master the content area standards, I see a great deal of potential benefit with the use of technology and my ability to personalize lessons to the needs of each individual student.  Given the increased use of high-stakes testing, it is more critical than ever to be able to personalize lessons to the needs of each student.  In the past, my ability to differentiate my lesson plans was limited for many reasons.  With technology, I hope to be able to change this and differentiate for any and all students that need it.

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At my previous school, we encouraged our students to take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes by posting the learning objectives in a prominent place and discussing what the goals meant so that the student would be able to determine for his or her self if they were actually learning the goals and outcomes of the lesson.  I look forward to being able use technology in order to manage student learning strategies and outcomes, as well as create learning opportunities that are challenging for each student and differentiated for each student’s current educational level.  I look forward to having students take ownership of their learning goals by working independently from me.  In addition, I would love for my students to be able to work more effectively with their peers in a group setting.  In the past, I liked to allow my students use their creativity in order to communicate their knowledge of the standards.

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In my previous teaching position, we used data to drive our instruction decisions in order to support students in achieving their learning goals.  Given the current emphasis on high stakes testing, being able to use data to identify where students are deficient in their learning and using that to drive our instruction decisions and practices is invaluable to our ongoing effort to help our students to pass the rigorous state tests and receive a high school diploma at the end of their high school career.  As a part of being data-driven, it is helpful to be able to communicate the data to students and parents with the long-term goal of students and parents taking responsibility for the students learning by engaging in their own learning achievement.  I think that providing alternative ways for students to demonstrate their competency and reflect on their learning is an invaluable tool for educators.  After all, there are many types of learners and each person has a preferred way of learning that best allows for him or her to showcase their learning achievements.

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My name is Jodi Hunter. i am a single mother of two boys, Zane 4 1/2 and Liam 2. I have lived most of my life in Texas where I have fifteen years of experience teaching high school English. I moved my family to Oregon in 2016 so that we would be closer to family here. Since coming to Oregon, I have worked as a substitute teacher for Beaverton School District.  Given all of the internet related technology being implemented by the schools in the classroom, I have decided to get my master's in informational  technology in an effort to enhance my ability to teach my students and help them to be life long learners themselves. My experience with technology is limited to Microsoft Word,, plus Quizlet, Survey Monkey, and the Classroom Performance System, but I don't want my experience to stay this limited. Below is a picture of me with my boys and my mom.

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I chose this website because it is a study guide for the novel, The Color of Water.  As a teacher, I like to provide my students with a study guide for everything I teach because if a student is absent, they can read the novel, answer the questions, and be reasonably assured that they have studied the same ideas and concepts as the rest of the class.  Plus, being a teacher my time is limited so this gives me a place to start my study guide and I can change it as I see fit.

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I chose this site because it offers different lesson plans based on historical events.  This particular link is for Dr. King’s speech “I Have a Dream”.  As one of the most prominent leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King and the issues he and his colleagues fought for always worth further study.  The author, James McBride, mentions numerous civil rights leaders that affected and influenced him, his siblings, and society at large to challenge the status quo and fight racial inequities.  Thus, I think it is important for students to gain personal knowledge about these leaders since we as a society are still trying to resolve racial prejudices.

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I chose the website because it has numerous ideas for teaching the Color of Water novel that go beyond just reading the text and answering essay questions.  Under the Fun Activities heading, there are numerous ways that students can show their learning in an alternative format.  Students can choose to create a comic strip, research their family tree, write a family member’s biography, create a board game, or make a tourist brochure.  In education, being able to differentiate assignments to accommodate students and their needs is extremely important.

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I chose this website because it offers 18 different lesson plans for the novel The Color of Water that goes beyond the text and just writing essay and into getting the students to doing research and finding out more background information about topics mentioned in the text.  Since this book takes place during the 1950-1960’s it would be hard for students to understand and relate to the author and his experiences without having some knowledge of the historical events taking place during his lifetime that affected and informed the author and made the author who he is today.

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I chose this site because it identifies the various themes in the Color of Water novel, gives a brief description of each one, and with this information students can write an essay in which they find textual evidence in order to support/prove that this theme is evident in the novel.  Given the high stakes testing that students must pass, it is essential that they can find textual evidence that actually supports the claim that they are making and they are able to back it up with their own words.

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I chose this website because it is an actual lesson plan that I didn’t have to create that summarizes the novel and identifies and explains three themes found within the novel.  With these things already done for me and my students, I can then focus on having my students choose a theme or two and, using text evidence, write an essay to prove how the theme applies to the story.

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I chose this website because it allows students to create storyboards which requires them to identify the main ideas of a story and allows them to demonstrate their knowledge in a concrete manner.  For students that have a hard time expressing themselves in writing, storyboarding allows them to identify the elements of a story and use pictures and text to flush out their ideas. This website also has a link to a blog that teachers and students can access to help them create their own storyboards.

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I chose the website because it is an article that announces the death of the author’s mother.   Because it is so long, it is really too long to be considered an obituary:  therefore, I would create a lesson plan that studies one or two obituaries and the different elements included in each.  Then, I would have students read the article about Ruth McBride and create an obituary for her using the article I found.  I would use this assignment as a way of getting students to identify the most important ideas as well as trying to be concise in their writing.

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I chose this website because it is a series of lesson plans designed for an English honors class.  I’ve never taught an honors class; however, I have had students that were identified as Gifted and Talented in my classroom and the expectation was that I modified and accommodated my classroom in such a way that all of my students were challenged and engaged in the curriculum.  More importantly, this lesson brings in the poem, Theme in English B, by Langston Hughes and asks students to write their own self-identity poem.

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I chose this website because it has lesson plans that require students to write using both narrative and expository formats.  In addition, this website has students create their own engaging research question then find and use primary and secondary sources to answer their own question.  This unit also asks students to brainstorm the elements of an autobiography using an autobiography the students have already read, such as The Diary of Anne Frank.  In addition, this lesson plan asks students to identify the differences between an autobiography and a memoir.

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www.teenink.org
https://litpick.com/
http://figment.com/

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https://www.wikipedia.org/
https://www.youtube.com/
https://archive.org/

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Kajder, Sara, and Janet A. Swenson.  Digital Images in the Language Arts Classroom.  Learning & Leading with Technology, v31 n8 p. 18, 19, 21,46 May 2004.

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Kajder, Sara, and Janet A. Swenson.  Digital Images in the Language Arts Classroom.  Learning & Leading with Technology, v31 n8 p. 18, 19, 21,46 May 2004.

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This article goes over the many benefits of using digital storytelling in the Language Arts classroom.  According to this article, digital storytelling can help students to visualize text.  While good readers do this automatically, struggling readers usually lack this skill; thus, digital storytelling is a way to bridge this gap and help struggling readers to comprehend text and keep up with their peers.  To help struggling readers, the authors created a visual think aloud that challenged students to reinvent a classroom reading strategy by turning their reading into a visual think aloud using online tools and resources.  One online resource is the digital video editing systems that enables students to select pictures that represent the images that were evoked in their brain when the read a story.  Once these images have been collected, the students then narrate the story on an audio track, such as iMovie, while the images displayed.  Then, the students record a second audio track in which they ask questions, make observations about the text, and discuss the ideas that were generated as they read the story and created their visual think aloud.

In addition, this article claims that digital images help to bridge the gaps in writing.  Digital storytelling provides an entry point for struggling writers to find their own voice within their own stories no matter what genre they choose to write in.  Digital storytelling allows anyone to create their own documentary to tell their own unique story.  This ability to be the center of the story could be a very powerful motivator for students to write and help them to overcome their fear of writing.

Another benefit of digital storytelling is the ability for students to visually communicate meaning.  Digital images can serve as a stepping stone to make reading and writing more relevant to students.  Digital editing tools allow students to read and write in the digital world.  Plus, teachers can use this medium to fuse images with words and bridge any barriers students have to learning, including helping English language learners, or Special needs students to process the written word and showcase their understanding with pictures and images.

There are many positive benefits of using digital storytelling in the English language classroom.  In telling their own stories, students were emboldened to use their experience and compare it to the stories of the authors that they read.  This allowed students to see that their stories were unique in their own way, but also had commonalities with others; thus, they were not alone in their experiences.  Pairing stories with digital images provided students with a way to get into writing that they hadn't had before which helped to motivate these struggling students.  Storyboarding for this project required students to use concise language, make sure transitions were effective, and add voice to their stories, as well as to rewrite and revise their work.

I can see this project working very well in my classroom.  Many of my students did not consider themselves readers, and most of my students were very reluctant to write: so anything that gets them to do both is a method worth trying.  Plus, students seem to come alive when they are allowed to use technology to create their own project.

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Dreon, Oliver, Richard M. Kerper, and Jon Landis. Digital Storytelling: A Tool for Teaching and Learning in the YouTube Generation.  Middle School Journal. v42 n5 p.4-9 May 2011

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Dreon, Oliver, Richard M. Kerper, and Jon Landis. Digital Storytelling: A Tool for Teaching and Learning in the YouTube Generation.  Middle School Journal. v42 n5 p.4-9 May 2011

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This article explores the many ways a teacher can use digital storytelling in their classroom in order to help make instruction more beneficial and more engaging to students. The first point made is that teachers need to connect theory and practice with instructional technology. In order to do this, educators must have an understanding of the effect technology has on teaching and learning within a lesson. In addition, educators must be able to communicate with students using the student's current levels of communication in order to promote student retention of the curriculum.   These technology courses focused on the pedagogical aspects of technology and how they promote student learning, with a specific focus on digital storytelling and ways to use it in the classroom. As part of this course, preservice teachers were required to develop their own story that could be used in a lesson. Another benefit for teachers is the ability to use online learning tools to track student progress and make sure that each student is learning the curriculum.

Digital storytelling has implications for teachers in all content areas.  Helping students to make connections between curriculum content and their lives helps students to find meaning and value from their classes. As a student's appreciation for the knowledge being presented to them goes up, their retention of the material as well as their motivation to attend to their studies goes up. Since the current generation has grown up in a digital world, it only makes sense for educators to capitalize on this and use any and all tools of technology to improve student learning.

Learning to teach with digital videos can be challenging and create other issues in the classroom. In order to use digital storytelling effectively, teachers must be able to have effective samples to view and be able to collaborate with others in order to get support and feedback. Then there are the challenges of actually getting the students to learn the tools necessary to create their own digital storyboard. While many students consider themselves computer literate, I had many students that couldn't perform the tasks necessary to create something online without massive amounts of help. So, while there are many benefits to using digital storytelling in the classroom, using it can be very time consuming, both for the teacher and for the student. Another concern that educators need to address is whether our students have the tools necessary to benefit equally from our digital presentation.

I think that using digital storytelling in the classroom is a brilliant idea that I want to incorporate into my classroom someday. I am very excited to try and use this new form of creative expression in my classroom; however, the drawbacks to using it in my classroom might be enough to get me to not use it. I would like to use it as a way for my students to showcase their knowledge of a novel we have studied by producing a product that shows deep and mindful interactions with a story.

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Alismail, Halah Ahmed. Integrate Digital Storytelling in Education.  Journal of Education and Practice, v6 n9 p126-129 2015

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Alismail, Halah Ahmed. Integrate Digital Storytelling in Education.  Journal of Education and Practice, v6 n9 p126-129 2015

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Since the internet was introduced to the world well over 20 years ago, the amount of technology and technological devices has proliferated extensively. Initially, users were given such programs as Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Excel Spreadsheets. Now, users have so many choices that it can be overwhelming for them to choose one. However, all of these choices have many benefits for society, in general, and teacher's in particular. Now, both students and educators have the ability to use online tools, such as Multimedia Builder, Hyperstudio, Movie Maker, iMovie, Flickr, Jamenda, and a host of others to create their own presentations and promote their own stories. In addition, digital cameras, editing software, authoring tools, and electronic media outlets have encouraged teachers to use these things in their classroom as a way to help students construct their own meaning and ideas and to share them with their peers. Digital storytelling is just one of the ways this new technology is being utilized in the classroom. Digital storytelling is popular because it combines researching, creating, analyzing, and combining visual images with written text into one product.

For teacher's, there are several benefits of using digital storytelling in the classroom. First, it can help teachers save effort because digital storytelling encourages students to participate in class discussions which makes content more understandable for the students. Second, digital storytelling helps teachers save time by allowing them to present information in a different way in the shortest amount of time. In addition, digital storytelling promotes student collaboration because they have to work together to create one story.

On the other hand, students benefit greatly from creating their own digital story. In order to create their own story, students must research the topic, look for pictures that represent the story, plan out their storyboard, record their voice, choose a point of view, etc. The process of creating their own digital story helps students to develop their communication and problem-solving skills, provide opportunities for students to collaborate, enhance their knowledge and improve their academic skills. Plus, working together encourages students to express their opinions and learn how to resolves differences effectively. Digital storytelling's greatest benefit to students is the improvement of their higher order thinking skills because students had to research the topic, evaluate the information, and create a digital story that explains their learning. A further benefit to students is all of the technological skills they have gained from creating their digital story using the different software available online along with the tools incorporated within these software programs.

I find the information in this article helpful because it gives me numerous ways to justify the use of digital storytelling in my classroom because it provides me with evidence that I can use to convince my principal, my fellow teachers, my students and their parents that digital storytelling is relevant to college and the world, not just my classroom. Furthermore, digital storytelling teaches my students all of the skills necessary for them to be successful in the 21st Century.

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https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/color-of-water/218103

All of my students like to have books read to them; however, this free audio book would be especially helpful for my students who don't like to read. I've found that these students struggle to envision the story as they read it, so having someone read it to them is a real boon to their understanding and enjoyment of the novel. In addition, audio books make my job easier as a teacher. The students are able to comprehend the story from the very beginning, so class discussions can be more in depth, lively, and relevant. No interactions are offered, but it does add to the learning experience of my students by allowing them to actively engage with the reading and participate in class discussions.

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The New York Times bestselling story from the author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWz-UvlQmtQ

This is a "movie trailer"� for the book, The Color of Water. Of course, the book was never made into a movie. Many teachers have made the creation of a movie trailer into a class assignment. This particular movie trailer incorporates sensory information by utilizing numerous historical pictures that scroll to the soundtrack of Whitney Houston's song "I Will Always Love You". Superimposed upon these pictures are text messages to help the viewer understand what is being represented. This adds to the viewers experience by helping them to visualize the people, the places, and the historical times in which this story takes place.  I would use this and other movie trailers as examples of what my students could do in their own movie trailer for this novel.

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a black mans tribute to his white mother

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https://prezi.com/vgsgjhzkjfcy/the-color-of-water/
I found this really cool Prezi for the Color of Water. Like the movie trailer above, this is the end product of a classroom project for these students.  This presentation allows the viewer to scroll through the various pages at their own pace and highlights key points from the novel. This Prezi incorporates sensory information by allowing the user to scroll through at their own pace. In addition, the user is treated to numerous pictures that relate directly to the novel, including a picture of the author himself and his mother. I can see me using this Prezi and others as samples of what my students could do in their own Prezi for this novel or another book.

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https://www.slideserve.com/una/the-color-of-water
This is a PowerPoint Presentation created by students for a class project. This presentation allows students to scroll through the various pages at their own pace and explore the novel from the student's perspective. There is a lot of text in this presentation with some pictures included, so the sensory information is limited. This presentation divides the novel into three distinct time periods that help students to understand the novel within the historical context of the day. I always stress to my students how you must evaluate a character's actions based upon the time period in which they were raised and have lived. I would use this resource as an example of what my students could create for the novel using the PowerPoint Presentation application.

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http://thechildrenoftheholocaust.com/
This website is aimed at helping kids to understand the effects of the Holocaust and what they can do in their own neighborhood to be kind and promote a tolerant attitude towards others. Students are able to "meet" Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank. Or they can see the Holocaust from the viewpoint of a concentration camp survivor. Either way, this website will help students to understand the horrors of the Holocaust and why we try so hard to keep history from repeating itself. We can never again allow such hatred to take over our lives. I would use this website in my classroom as a way to enlighten my students to the horrors of the Holocaust in a way that allows them some control over what they see and experience. Plus, this website will help students to understand why Mameh, Ruth's mother, was so happy to leave Europe and live in America.

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On Tolerance for Kids, you will find a lot of things to do, read, and learn. Learning important lessons can be fun, too! Please ask your parent or teacher to help you. This web site is all about the importance of TOLERANCE and CULTURAL DIVERSITY.

The children of the Holocaust that you will meet on this site will show you some things YOU can do right in your own neighborhood, and in your school, to make the world a better place. There are fun activities you can do that will help you learn about tolerance and the dangers of hate.

In this web site, you will get to know some very special people to help you learn along the way.

You will meet Miep Gies, a courageous woman who risked her life to hide Anne Frank and other Jews during the Holocaust. You will also meet Nesse Godin, a woman who survived the Nazi concentration camps as a child and lived to tell her story.
This web site will show you how kids can make a difference in the world!
Children are the most important people in the world. It is vital that they learn early about tolerance and the dangers of hate, racism, and prejudice. One way to teach these things is to provide kids with basic introductory information about cultural diversity, civil rights, and the Holocaust.

This interactive web site is designed for use in a classroom or with parental assistance. It is appropriate for ages 8 and up. This site focuses on the events of the Holocaust because it is one of the most extreme and well-documented examples of hatred and intolerance. The site will be updated periodically to teach children valuable insights about Holocaust awareness and diversity training.

Until now, the subjects of tolerance, diversity, civil rights, and the Holocaust have only been taught to middle or high school students and adults. However, the younger generations deserve to know more about these important topics, too.

Kids are using computers more and more every year, and they also have different kinds of pressures that previous generations never did. This web site is dedicated to showing kids how they can stop the hate and make a difference in our world.

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Children of the Holocaust | Tolerance 4 Kids Teaches Diversity!

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On Tolerance for Kids, you will find a lot of things to do, read, and learn. Learning important lessons can be fun, too! Please ask your parent or teacher to help you. This web site is all about the importance of TOLERANCE and CULTURAL DIVERSITY.

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https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/color-of-water/218103
All of my students like to have books read to them; however, this free audio book would be especially helpful for my students who don't like to read. I've found that these students struggle to envision the story as they read it, so having someone read it to them is a real boon to their understanding and enjoyment of the novel. In addition, audio books make my job easier as a teacher. The students are able to comprehend the story from the very beginning, so class discussions can be more in depth, lively, and relevant. No interactions are offered, but it does add to the learning experience of my students by allowing them to actively engage with the reading and participate in class discussions.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWz-UvlQmtQ
This is a "movie trailer"� for the book, The Color of Water. Of course, the book was never made into a movie. Many teachers have made the creation of a movie trailer into a class assignment. This particular movie trailer incorporates sensory information by utilizing numerous historical pictures that scroll to the soundtrack of Whitney Houston's song "I Will Always Love You". Superimposed upon these pictures are text messages to help the viewer understand what is being represented. This adds to the viewers experience by helping them to visualize the people, the places, and the historical times in which this story takes place. I would use this and other movie trailers as examples of what my students could do in their own movie trailer for this novel.

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https://prezi.com/vgsgjhzkjfcy/the-color-of-water/

I found this really cool Prezi for the Color of Water. Like the movie trailer above, this is the end product of a classroom project for these students.  This presentation allows the viewer to scroll through the various pages at their own pace and highlights key points from the novel. This Prezi incorporates sensory information by allowing the user to scroll through at their own pace. In addition, the user is treated to numerous pictures that relate directly to the novel, including a picture of the author himself and his mother. I can see me using this Prezi and others as samples of what my students could do in their own Prezi for this novel or another book.

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https://www.slideserve.com/una/the-color-of-water

This is a PowerPoint Presentation created by students for a class project. This presentation allows students to scroll through the various pages at their own pace and explore the novel from the students perspective. There is a lot of text in this presentation with some pictures included, so the sensory information is limited. This presentation divides the novel into three distinct time periods that help students to understand the novel within the historical context of the day. I always stress to my students how you must evaluate a character's actions based upon the time period in which they were raised and have lived. I would use this resource as an example of what my students could create for the novel using the PowerPoint Presentation application.

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http://thechildrenoftheholocaust.com/
00000This website is aimed at helping kids to understand the effects of the Holocaust and what they can do in their own neighborhood to be kind and promote a tolerant attitude towards others. Students are able to "meet" Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank. Or they can see the Holocaust from the viewpoint of a concentration camp survivor. Either way, this website will help students to understand the horrors of the Holocaust and why we try so hard to keep history from repeating itself. We can never again allow such hatred to take over our lives. I would use this website in my classroom as a way to enlighten my students to the horrors of the Holocaust in a way that allows them some control over what they see and experience. Plus, this website will help students to understand why Mameh, Ruth's mother, was so happy to leave Europe and live in America.

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On Tolerance for Kids, you will find a lot of things to do, read, and learn. Learning important lessons can be fun, too! Please ask your parent or teacher to help you. This web site is all about the importance of TOLERANCE and CULTURAL DIVERSITY.

The children of the Holocaust that you will meet on this site will show you some things YOU can do right in your own neighborhood, and in your school, to make the world a better place. There are fun activities you can do that will help you learn about tolerance and the dangers of hate.

In this web site, you will get to know some very special people to help you learn along the way.

You will meet Miep Gies, a courageous woman who risked her life to hide Anne Frank and other Jews during the Holocaust. You will also meet Nesse Godin, a woman who survived the Nazi concentration camps as a child and lived to tell her story.
This web site will show you how kids can make a difference in the world!
Children are the most important people in the world. It is vital that they learn early about tolerance and the dangers of hate, racism, and prejudice. One way to teach these things is to provide kids with basic introductory information about cultural diversity, civil rights, and the Holocaust.

This interactive web site is designed for use in a classroom or with parental assistance. It is appropriate for ages 8 and up. This site focuses on the events of the Holocaust because it is one of the most extreme and well-documented examples of hatred and intolerance. The site will be updated periodically to teach children valuable insights about Holocaust awareness and diversity training.

Until now, the subjects of tolerance, diversity, civil rights, and the Holocaust have only been taught to middle or high school students and adults. However, the younger generations deserve to know more about these important topics, too.

Kids are using computers more and more every year, and they also have different kinds of pressures that previous generations never did. This web site is dedicated to showing kids how they can stop the hate and make a difference in our world.

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Children of the Holocaust | Tolerance 4 Kids Teaches Diversity!

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On Tolerance for Kids, you will find a lot of things to do, read, and learn. Learning important lessons can be fun, too! Please ask your parent or teacher to help you. This web site is all about the importance of TOLERANCE and CULTURAL DIVERSITY.

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https://www.blogger.com

I like the concept of this site because you can create your own blog post; however, you have to have a topic that you want to blog about. It seems like it would be easy to start a blog, but I don't have anything I want to blog about right now. I don't like the fact that I can't see anything because I haven't started my own blog yet. I can see me using this for my classroom because the bog would allow me to post questions and have my students answer them as well as discuss their responses with their peers. Because the students would be able to answer whenever they had the chance, then I would hope that their discussions would be more honest, informative, and engaging for all of my students.

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https://www.pixton.com
I like the concept of this website because it supposedly allows the user to create their own stories using the comic book format. For students who struggle to write, this could be a boon to their creativity. Many of my students struggled with being able to put their ideas into words, but allowing them to use pictures gave them a way to overcome their fears and write. So, I signed up for my free membership; however, it won't tell me anything unless I fill out my profile for my class and since I don't want to use up my free 15 days when I don't even have a class, it's hard to know if this website will live up to all of my expectations.

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https://www.befunky.com

I like this website because it allows you to add your own personal pictures and edit them, if you want. Plus, with their Designer Toolset, you can add customized graphic designs. You can also add text on top of the pictures and invitations and other cards for birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, etc. I also like the fact that I can explore this website without having to create an account. One thing I didn't like is the fact that I couldn't get the program to change my font color. Since it's a collage maker, I can see many opportunities for my students to use this in my class. One idea that I've had is for students to use the card function to create a mini-resume for a character. On the front, the student would use pictures of the candidate. Then on the back, the student would list the candidate's qualifications.

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Online Storyboarding Tool—Storyboard Generator 

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http://generator.acmi.net.au/storyboard
I like this website because it allows the user to create their own storyboard using their own downloaded pictures or students can access the video gallery, or the free media library included on this page. What I don't like about this page is the fact that you must have an account in order to fully explore this entire site; thus, it's very hard to know if this website is going to meets your needs before you sign up. I can see me using this in my classroom as a way for students to create their own storyboards or to create a storyboard that represents a novel we have read in class.

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https://www.prezi.com
I like this website because it is easy to use and flexible with Prezi examples for every user, from a novice to an expert Prezi maker. The different templates allow the user to customize their presentation to the information they need to disseminate.  In addition, there is a help button at the bottom right of the screen that offers the user advice while they are trying to create their Prezi.  What I don’t like about this presentation platform is the fact that while there is a help button, the topics addressed don’t seem to answer the questions I have or help me to solve whatever problem I need help with.  I’ve used the Prezi presentation platform in my class before.  From what I remember, some students have some difficulties; however, the Prezi presentations I remember turned out really well and the students learned a lot.

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I would use this website for many things.  First, I would have my students click on the Beginning Research Activities tab and click on Activity 2 so they can learn how to use this site to find sources for a research paper.  Second, in the past when I’ve taught this book, I’ve had students write research paper’s for one of the many Civil Rights Activists mentioned in the novel I’m teaching—The Color of Water.  For example, students researching Rosa Parks on this website would find the arrest records of Rosa Parks as well as other primary source documents. In addition, you can find the original court documents for the Montgomery Bus Boycott which was inspired by Rosa Park’s refusal to give up her seat to a white person. Of course, the above activities wouldn’t be the only thing I would or could do using this website.

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I think I would try to pair up with a Social Studies teacher and use this website to study historical documents in more detail. For example, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is included on this website. I would probably pick out different pieces of the legislation for groups of students to study in further detail. In addition, I would pair this website with the digital newspapers website I found and I would ask my students to find an article or two that support the need for the Civil Rights Movement.  For example, the Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination in public places, so I would have my students search for newspaper articles that give credence to the need for this legislation to specifically address this issue. In other words, what has happened in the past that the federal government has taken notice of and decided that they needed legislation to resolve the issue?

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I think this website is a treasure trove for an English teacher. Given that I want to teach the novel, The Color of Water, I think it is very important for my students to be able to relate to Mameh’s fear of living in Europe and I think one way that students can get a sense of what it was like to be a Jew living in Europe during the days of Hitler is to read the diary of a Jew, like Anne Frank, who actually lived and suffered from the events of the Holocaust. In addition, there are numerous other books that address the atrocities of the Holocaust in a way that students should be able to identify with and empathize with the main character.  One such book is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas or My Childhood Under Fire-A Sarajevo Diary. I would pick passages from one of these books as a way to bring in the personal experiences that would help my students to be able to empathize with Mameh and hopefully to see things through her eyes.

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I would use this website to teach not only The Color of Water, but also Of Mice and Men.  For the Color of Water, I would choose pictures that show the conflict between African-Americans and Caucasians as well as the standoffs between the authorities and the protesters.  And for Of Mice and Men, I would choose pictures that show how people were living during the Great Depression. I would use these pictures to create Gallery Walks around my classroom. Once students had completed the Gallery Walk, I would lead the class in a discussion about the pictures and what the students observed about them.

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These digital copies of the various local newspapers are an invaluable resource for English and Social Studies teachers. In order to bring history alive for my students, I would find a few articles about the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement and have my students read and annotate their assigned article. After discussing the article with their group, I would then divide these groups into new groups so the students could compare and contrast thee article they read with the articles that their new group members had read with the goal of students being able to identify any similarities between the two articles as well as any differences they noticed.

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When I originally started to think about a topic for this class, I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of topics and ideas that I could choose for my English classroom. Many of my options seemed too broad, i.e. short stories, or too narrow, i.e. grammar. After much consideration, I finally decided to use a novel I already like to teach, The Color of Water, and see how I could expand or update my teaching of this novel for today’s students. Thus, throughout my time in this course, I have spent my time researching various resources, including technological, that I can use in my classroom to teach the novel, The Color of Water.

Even though reading is the basis for all learning, most of my students do not enjoy it—much to my dismay. Over my many years of teaching English, too many of my students have told me that they only read books that their teachers have made them read. When I present them with the novel, The Color of Water, most if not all of my students are overwhelmed just by how thick the book is and they haven’t even opened it yet. By teaching the novel, The Color of Water, I am able to teach a novel that is educational but also engaging for my students which allows me to dispel their belief that reading is boring or that reading doesn’t benefit them or that teacher’s only assign boring books that are beyond their comprehension.

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So my search for resources to teach the above novel began by finding basic things such as a study guide to help students focus on the major events and themes of the novel as well as finding lesson plans that relate to the novel in an historical manner since the novel takes place roughly between 1935 thru to the 1970’s civil rights movement. I also found a website that has books on audio that my students can listen too. Over the years, I have found that many students need to have books read to them because they don’t have the skills needed to read the book “correctly,” i.e. their pacing of the sentences and pronunciation of the words inhibits their comprehension and audio books bridge this gap for these students.

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Once I have provided these basic resources for students, I moved on to exploring the different digital options available for my students to show their work. The most powerful idea that I came across was the recent incorporation of Digital Storytelling. Digital Storytelling encompasses all of the web resources that students can use to create a product that allows them to showcase what they have learned and to synthesize their learning into one cohesive, comprehensive package.

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Examples of student book trailers made at Diplomat Elementary School, with student advice. The book trailers were made with PhotoStory 3.

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Under the Digital Storytelling umbrella are numerous technological programs or platforms that students can use. An exciting option that I found was Book Trailers. With this option, students create a 2-3 minute video book trailer, which is much like a movie trailer. Because the video is so short, students must plan out what they are going to include and what they are going to leave out all without giving away the conclusion to the novel. A variation of the book trailer would be the movie trailer. I would like to incorporate this idea into my classroom by dividing my students up into reading groups of 3-4 people, having them read a novel, and then create a book trailer to “advertise” to the class why they should read this book. Another tool I am eager to try in my classroom is www.blogger.com, in which students use the website to blog with their peers about various topics. I would post several discussion questions within my blog and require students to respond to 3 out of the 5 questions or so in order to encourage class participation and dissemination of student ideas across the classroom. I am also eager to use the storyboard generator in my classroom because I would love to see what my students can do with it, either by recreating the story line of a novel they have read, or using the generator to create their own story. Something else I would like to try in my classroom is the Podcast. I think the kiids could do some really interesting things with this, such as using the podcast to create their own news casts about a historical event. For The Color of Water novel, I would get the students to use an event from the Civil Rights Movement, research it, and create their own Podcast report for it.

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The 2018 List Of Top 20 Free Podcast Tools For eLearning Professionals

eLearning is much more than simple text online. To accommodate for the different learning preferences of your online learners, you must create supplementary online training content in a variety of formats. In the case of podcasts, you may fear that this will significantly increase your costs. But what if you could find free podcast tools online that are easy to use and will enable you to produce, broadcast and distribute quality podcasts? Below you can find a list with the Top 20 Free Podcast tools available online (2018 Update). A useful list for every eLearning pro.

Ardour is a free, fully-featured digital audio workstation, similar to other software like ProTools, Nuendo, Sonar and Logic, and capable of replacing analog or digital tape systems. Available for Mac OS X, and Linux.

Multi-Track, Multi-Format, Multi-Plugin.

It works with any number of tracks and busses for non-linear editing and non-destructive recording in dozens of file formats. Available plug-ins with full sample accurate automation.

Synced Transport, External Control Surfaces

Touted as best-in-industry sync to MIDI timecode and LTC. MIDI Machine Control in sending and receiving. JACK transport and MIDI clock to sync with. In addition, you get Dedicated Mackie Control protocol support, pre-defined mappings for many MIDI controllers plus dynamic MIDI learn, and you can use OSC, for almost every operation in Ardour.

Powerful Signal Routing

Ardour has simple and elegant complex signal flows. The inputs and outputs connect to your hardware and other applications. You can use sends, inserts and returns freely, and the connections can be one-to-many, many-to-one or many-to-many, as tap signal flows at any point.

Audacity is free, easy-to-use, cross-platform software for multi-track recording and editing sounds. Audacity is available for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Developed as open source by a group of volunteers.

High-Quality Sound To Record, Export/Import

Audacity supports 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit. Convert sample rates and formats using high-quality resampling and dithering. You can record with microphone or mixer, even digitize recordings from other media. Import, edit and combine sound files. Many file formats to export your recordings, including multiple files at once.

Effect Plug-Ins, And Editing

You can use a number of plugins or write one yourself. Audacity supports LADSPA, LV2, Nyquist, VST, and Audio Unit. You can even preview these effect plug-ins real-time. Especially for Nyquist effects, you can modify them through a text editor. The plugin manager is here to make the installation, addition and/or removal of effects and generators from the menus. As for editing, it is done simply and easily with basic commands, plus unlimited steps of undo and redo.

Accessibility And Analysis

Tracks and selections are fully accessible for manipulation, by using the keyboard. For this reason, there is a large range of keyboard shortcuts. A spectrogram view mode visualizes frequencies for selection, and the plot spectrum window offers detailed frequency analysis.

Easypodcast is a GUI tool for easy podcast publication. Easypodcast is cross-platform, with English and Spanish as working languages, providing the users with the means for easy interaction. It is tested on Windows and Linux (KDE). This is possible thanks to wxPython. You use it following a three-step process.

Automatic id3 Tag Generator

You start the procedure by using Easypodcast's creation wizard, which will automatically create an id3 tag when you select a working MP3 file.

Automatic RSS Creator Based On Selected MP3 Files

You then go to locating the MP3 files in the directory and selecting the ones to be included in RSS. You let the automatic RSS creator do the rest.

FTP Uploader For Needed Files

After the creation is over, you get to the step of the FTP uploader for both MP3 and RSS files. You simply choose the files and add them, and then you're on the full configuration screen, with macro support.

A tool for you to create your own podcast, the Huffduffer way. This is done by finding links to audio files on the web and adding them to your podcast. You can even subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds. To put it simply, if you ever wanted to put together a podcast of audio files that you've discovered on the web, the easiest way to do it is by using Huffduffer. As they like to call it, they take the pain out of podcasting found sounds.

Huffduffing: Pin-Pointing By Triangulating

If you don't know what Huffduffer means and where it derives from, there is a technology called huff-duff. Its use is to triangulate the position of radio transmissions. So primarily, this is a way of pinpointing interesting MP3 files on the web. Once you find it, you huffduff it directly on the site, and it is added to your podcast.

Tag With Key Words

This is a very helpful function for marking your targets. Once you huffduff an audio file, you can then tag it multiply. This way it is easier to find related files, huffduffed by others.

A Page For Every Podcast, For Every Tag

Note that with every tag you use, a separate podcast is created. Using tags you can always discover interesting podcasts by other people. Pretty much every page on huffduffer.com has a corresponding podcast, and anyone can subscribe to the ones they find interesting.

Touted as the best free recording software you can get for Windows. It saves straight to MP3 or WAV any audio you hear on your computer: Streaming, Skype calls, microphone, analog or digital media to name a few. There's a wide range of sound qualities also, and you can add your own custom skins as well.

Interface For Recording, And Converting From CD-ROMs

Allowing recording from your sound card, you can capture audio from any source, fine-tune depending on it, even have silence detection. For the conversion, either of individual tracks or an entire CD, Mp3myMp3 will automatically attempt to grab the CD's track data and album cover image from an online CD-ROM database, when connected.

Schedule Your Recordings And Batch Rename Files

All you have to do is specify a day and time, plus URL of internet radio station or podcast, and add to your recording events list. You can also batch rename sound files easily and efficiently. You get to use features such as automatic numbering, adding custom text before or after filenames, or search and replace options.

Playlist Interface And Options Screen

Create podcast playlists by adding MP3, WAV, AU or AIF files. Thanks to its user-friendly interface, you can reorder audio tracks just by dragging and dropping. Extra on-screen options for saving in WAV or MP3 file formats, from 16 to 320 Kbit.

If you are starting with podcasting, PodBean will prove of great use, as it makes publishing easy, in three steps. It spares you from having to learn tech stuff and offers promotional tools that empower you, along with iTunes preview and statistics. Described as a state-of-the-art podcast hosting solution for internal communications and training, radio networks, and media organizations.

Advertising And Statistics For Podcasts

Efficient PodAds, with opportunities for all types and sizes. Brands are matched with targeted podcasts, in an effort to assist the maximization of revenue. You can get additional help for this task from the extensive statistics available.

Unlimited Podcast Hosting

The hosting plans for podcasts are affordable and unlimited, meaning they hold no caps on storage or bandwidth. You won't have to deal with increasing costs, should the number of your published podcasts rise significantly.

Podcast Distribution And Promotion

What is evenly great with no limitations is that you'll enjoy a reliable hosting network with full distribution. Distribute your podcast freely among podcast listeners, to iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Amazon Alexa, and all the podcast apps. You are at once listed in PodBean's directory, and your podcast is shared to social networks, especially integrated with Facebook and Twitter.

If you have recorded the episodes of your podcast series, you can upload and store them with Podomatic. It gives you the chance to use promotional tools that will bring you the popularity you are after. There is also the availability for receiving in-line calls from listeners. Geographical data of all interactions is here to help, track and analyze the growth of your podcast.

Create Your Own Site

Through a partnership with Weebly, Podomatic gives all premium level members the chance to have their very own website. Its features include eCommerce, blogging, responsive web layouts, podcast exclusive themes, social media integration, and integrated podcast feed.

Free Podcast Hosting, And App For iOS And Android

This great app lets you in on one of the world's largest communities of podcasters and DJs with the Podomatic podcast player. If you check the features that come with the free accounts for podcast hosting, you'll see that you'll have all you need to get started with our free accounts.

Promote Your Podcast

More tools are at your disposal when it comes to promoting your podcast. For instance, direct display on Facebook and Twitter feeds, as well as embedment of your episodes on your site, and social media networks. Advertising and crowdsourcing are also supported.

If you are in the podcasting business, or about to step in, you should know that this popular platform serves for a lot more than sharing, discovering and listening to great music. As a podcaster, you can be a part of a community, uploading 12 hours of audio every minute, consisting of 175 million unique monthly listeners, spread around 200 countries.

Solid Podcasting, Accessible 24/7

Rely on SoundCloud for building on the same infrastructure that serves audio to million listeners. You just upload, and your podcast will play anywhere on the web, as well as in podcast apps.

Embedded Players, Smart Stats

Though your podcast will play literally everywhere, it won't get chaotic. You'll have control and insight into play activity, at all times. Plus, intuitive, detailed stats help you understand and grow your audience.

Timed Comments And Twitter Cards

As far as your aforementioned audience is concerned, you can keep them close, read their comments on your episodes and respond. A big extra is sharing your episodes in people's Twitter streams. So easy. In fact, seamless integrations are available with all major social networks.

If you consider yourself a demanding podcaster who wouldn't be satisfied with a free solution, then you should give StudioRack a chance. This modular live audio and video production system lets you run up to 8 plugins on just one insert, save chain presets, open them on any DAW, or monitor in low latency via a SoundGrid server. It is compatible with the most popular hosts, has a dedicated component for Pro Tools TDM and HDX systems, and gives you access to both Avid and Waves offload capabilities.

Integration In Three Ways

You can integrate it with your system by using the Waves SoundGrid ASIO/Core Audio driver, or the HD/HDX or HD Native Avid playback engine, or by local processing - using any ASIO/Core Audio driver.

Local CPU Or SoundGrid DSP Server Processing

Choose between these two options for processing your StudioRack plugin chains. Either directly to your host computer's CPU or to a SoundGrid DSP server. There is a processing mode switch for that. The second option enables you to use hundreds of plugins simultaneously.

System Compatibility That Is Interchangeable

You can use the same plugins and settings for your session, no matter if you created it with or without SoundGrid processing. You get to maintain your workflow and chain presets to make your job even easier.

Create, schedule and run your live interactive podcasts, οr Community Calls as they are called in TalkShoe. This website encourages people to participate, by live or recorded listening, calling, or texting in. You can even integrate the recording of your podcast on your website, which can be downloaded either way.

Easy Creation

You name it and you are good to go. Simple as that, you either start your community call right away or schedule it for any future time.

Promotion And Invitations

Invitations can be sent on the spot from TalkShoe, but this is not the only way you can promote your podcast. You are enabled to use a widget, placed on your blog or social network pages.

Multiple-Device Interaction

Your audience can join your Community Call either by listening to the stream, chatting on the website or calling in via phone or PC. In fact, they do not even need to be TalkShoe members. Anyone can participate.

Sooner or later, most podcasters face the modest results of converting text to MP3. While there's still no app to give a human feel to the speech coming out, you describe what you get from VozMe "as good as it gets". It follows a simple procedure and lets you hear it as an audio stream, or download it as an MP3. Embedded to your website or used through an iGoogle gadget, are also options.

Instant Conversion From Two Languages

VozMe is available for English or Spanish text. All you have to do is type or paste the text for your podcast and it will be available for you in both languages as an MP3 file.

Ready-Made Podcasts

As soon as the conversion is completed, you can download and save the converted text as an MP3 file. Your audience can download it, too.

No Registration

VozMe doesn't require from you to get registered to the website. It is all a simple process.

Touted as the voice of the web, YAKiToMe! has made its name as the world's leading text-to-speech (TTS) website. There you can find a large stable of free readers and an unrestricted usage model. First and foremost a cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) TTS provider, it allows you to convert text to speech automatically. User experience and support guaranteed.

Manage Your Podcasts

Along with the conversion app comes software for managing, publishing, and sharing. Reading comprehension and retention are stimulated by providing simultaneous input to auditory and reading/writing learners.

Compliant With Special Needs Of Learners

YAKiToMe! helps readers with visual impairments, dyslexia, and other learning and reading disabilities. The free usage model makes YAKiToMe! TTS technologies available to users of all economic demographics, as well.

Speed Read, Anywhere, Anytime

If your audience lacks the time, they can take advantage of the high-quality voice fonts reading fast combined with text display. Great solution for high retention and comprehension. It can also be done while driving, exercising, doing household chores. Anywhere, anytime.

Conducting a live online interview brings a new element to your podcasts. You have people watching, commenting and asking questions in real time. Undoubtedly, this is a much more valuable and interesting experience for your audience. Furthermore, the solution of Google Hangouts On Air is a simple three-step procedure, by which you create more dynamic podcasts using the available built-in features.

SEO And Photo Editor

Here, your podcasts will become more than basic audio files, and you can create better SEO for them. Surely you can make a video podcast, but if you don't deem it necessary, you are provided with useful tools to edit the photos you will use.

Progressive Content Marketing

Google Hangouts On Air are considered to be a progressive form of content marketing. This is due to the fact that they're live events, hosted on Google+. They stream to and record on YouTube simultaneously.

Live Audience

It is important to point out that the result of this is not a pre-recorded call, but a live event with an audience. This feature boasts a series of other characteristics, too.

Everyone has used it for calls and chat. Using Skype for podcasting is a simple as taking the next step when strolling along. Its a great tool for collaboration, as everybody knows how to work with it, and it is pretty reliable as well. The upside is that you are familiar with it. The downside is that you'll be needing additional software and hardware to complete the task.

Combine With Recording Software

There are many apps and programs that'll do the work for you. As long as they are compatible with Skype. Choose one, and upgrade your activity and your audience's experience.

Skype And Digital Recorder

Many consider this as a part of the podcaster's toolbox. There are many options out there, so you have to do your search to find the one suitable for your needs. This will definitely upgrade your ability to record audio.

Mixer For Recording A Skype Podcast

Mixers will throw in that professional touch, sure to make a difference for your audience. Every sound setting will be adjusted more easily, so your powers will focus more on the creative rather than the technical part.

If you are searching for something that you can become familiar with in no time, try Zencastr. Recording two or more people on independent channels, from inside your browser, is what it delivers. You won't even have to download or install anything, and you still can achieve studio quality. Post-production is also in the package.

Live Editing

You can use the soundboard to insert any audio, such as an ad or an intro, instantly on recording, so that you can save time and effort.

Built-In VoIP (Voice over IP)

Zencastr gives you and your audience the option to voice chat directly through it. No need for integration or a combination of other apps.

Cloud Drive Integration

Your Dropbox account is synced, and everything you record is instantly there as well. Available for you to share or edit.

As the name states, this tool allows you to capture any sound played by a computer, instantly or with the time-shift feature, as well as video from the PC screen or from hardware video devices. Additionally, you can merge video with audio tracks, split tracks, and more. You can also process digital audio with the use of add-ons, such as equalizer, audio cleaning, noise cancellation, and automatic gain control.

Conversion In Many Types

Conversion between different audio and video formats (AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG-4, 3GP, compressed and uncompressed WAV, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, APE) is available. Convert and edit without losing quality.

Enhanced Audio Process

You get to normalize, split, cut, or join compressed audio files. Try editing tags or chunking a long broadcast. Also, perform audio process tasks by the group.

Free Technical Support

Technical support is here for the free-hobbyist edition, as well. Not only free but fast as well, makes the choice of Total Recorder a privileged one.

Very popular podcasting plugin for WordPress. It will suit both beginners and experienced podcasters, as it displays more than one modes, players, and subscribe tools, among others. Note that it fully supports iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Blubrry Podcasting directories.

SEO And Subscribe Tools

It is an easy task to create a subscribe page, thanks to the shortcode embed and sidebar widget that is optimized for responsive websites. Make it easy for audiences to discover your podcast through search engines.

Podcast Importing And Migration Tools

Migrate your podcast from a series of other podcast platforms without losing a single episode. You can also import your podcast from SoundCloud, LibSyn, PodBean, Squarespace, or other podcast RSS feed.

Multi-Podcast Support

PowerPress supports you in creating and separating your podcasts either by category or by media format.

Spreaker is a solution that is very helping for a podcaster that starts from scratch, offering a vast variety of tools. Every part of the podcasting path is covered, as you'll get support when recording and broadcasting. You even have apps for analytics at your disposal. All these are multi device-friendly, and they promote the upload of files and the migration of content using the RSS Importer.

Host, Distribute And Measure

Hours of audio storage space and unlimited bandwidth for you. Social networks, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and other spaces where you can distribute your podcast. Embedding widgets and scheduling episodes are other cool features.

Upload, Connect And Interact

Uploading and publishing new episodes from any device is an easy task. More tools like mixers and broadcasting software can be simply connected. Spreaker also covers you for live interaction, chatting and getting comments on your episode's page while you broadcast.

Desktop, Mobile, And Web-Based Console

Manage your episodes and drafts for mobile or desktop devices. You can also record and upload the podcast whenever, wherever through Spreaker's web-based console.

This studio is based on the idea that things don't have to be harder than they need to be. So, the concept of effortless broadcasting, promoted by BlogΤalkRadio, makes the simultaneous managing of multiple elements a child's play. It's a solution that will publish your broadcasting, host and update your RSS feed, as well as sync it to iTunes and other host sites.

Dissemination And Visibility

Use it to get exposure for your broadcasts from its popular website. Furthermore, your show can be shared and embedded via social networks, and the web.

Connectivity And Accessibility

Sharing new content with your audience can be automated by linking your social accounts. Once you share, it will be accessible to all listeners. Post it or embed it so that anyone interested can tune in.

Analytics

BlogTalkRadio tracks all listeners, from every distribution channel, giving you valuable insight as to the demographics of your listeners.

Transcribing your podcasts is a basic function, and Express Scribe Free is here to help you do just that. Give those search engines the essential info that is included in your audio, in a format that can be crawled, and found. What is more, having transcripts gives you more options for disseminating your material. Transcribe audio files at their customizable playback speed, "Hotkeys", and speech recognition software.

Hyperlinks

Add them to your transcript and post it on your blog or site to get the attention of those who prefer reading over listening or watching.

Transcribe Audio Recordings

With its professional audio player software, it will assist you in transcribing audio recordings directly.

Label Milestones

Use transcription as a way of keeping track of important moments. This is common practice among many podcasters, and can be found in their show notes.

Wondering which are the characteristics of a well-produced podcast for eLearning? Read the article 7 Tips To Create Podcasts For eLearning to discover 7 tips on how to successfully create podcasts for eLearning and integrate them into your eLearning experiences.

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Top 20 Free Podcast Tools For eLearning Professionals (2018 Update) - eLearning Industry

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eLearning is much more than simple text online. To accommodate for the different learning preferences of your online learners, you must create supplementary online training content in a variety of formats. In the case of podcasts, you may fear that this will significantly increase your costs.

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The above link is a list off events during the Civil Rights Movement from the 1960's that the students can use to pick an event to research and create their own Podcast that showcases their understanding of the event and maybe even to add their own opinion of the event. I added the picture below because it really surprises my students when they see white people walking with African Americans and supporting their fight for equal rights. Many of my students think only African Americans were involved in the fight for equal rights for all.

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My philosophy of educational technology has always been that using it in the classroom was a great idea; however, I haven’t used it too often because I wasn’t very familiar with the programs and because of the many problems that can occur while using technology that I couldn’t or wouldn’t know how to solve which would leave my students just sitting around and not doing anything at all. Even though I have learned a lot in this class, I still feel like a novice who is afraid to use technology in the classroom. Since this is my first educational computer course, I am hoping that as I continue to take more computer courses and develop my computer skills that I will feel confident enough to use technology in my classroom every day. Both of the school districts that I work for use technology in the classroom every day, so I need to be able to do the same.

I think there are many benefits that the internet can add to the classroom. One of the biggest benefits I see to using the internet for classrooms is the student’s ability to access the classroom 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This means that if the student is absent, he or she doesn’t have to wait until their return to class in order to get their makeup work. This “all access pass”, so to speak, also applies to the teacher. Not only can the teacher grade papers whenever they have the time, they can allow students to turn assignments in at any time, as well. The teacher can make assignments due by 11:59 pm on Friday, January 5, 2018 if he wants too. Teachers can post their assignments on their website and students can access them whenever they want. So, if students lose the assignment they can find a copy of it on the class website and they no longer have to wait to get to class to get a new paper.  The internet is also a great tool for keeping students and parents apprised of the students grades, missing assignment, and other school related information, such as school emergencies or closures. Another benefit for teachers would be that when students turn in an assignment, the computer could be programmed to grade it and put that grade in the grade book. Not having to grade as many papers would be very helpful to most teachers.

Despite the many benefits, the internet has many challenges, or drawbacks, that come with it. The biggest drawback I see is the student’s ability to “wander off” and just be playing on the internet instead of being productive. Another huge drawback is the student’s ability to bully others while online. This behavior seeps into the classroom atmosphere, contaminates it with its negativity and leaches the classroom of the cooperative nature that classrooms need to be successful.

Then, of course, is the issue of some teachers using technology to advance student learning while other teachers avoid using the internet or technology in their classrooms because of their fear of the internet and technology. While I am one of those teachers who is afraid of using technology in the classroom at this time, I am committed to learning all that I can in an effort to be able to help my students function in the world that they live in today and tomorrow.

So far, I think my philosophy of educational technology has been mostly reinforced. I still believe that using technology in the classroom is a great idea and I am still reluctant to use it, but I am more committed to learning about the different technologies available, how to incorporate them into my lesson plans, and giving my students more autonomy and ownership for their own learning. Learning how to use the different educational platforms has been reinforced, not only by this class and its online forum, but also by the schools that I currently work for and their increasing use of technology in the classroom. I am really eager to learn how to use Canvas or another educational platform from an educator’s perspective. This would be a class that I would be willing to pay for.

As an extension of the above educational philosophy, I am very concerned about my students and their lack of effort in the classroom. Many of my students claim that they are bored in the classroom and don’t see the point of going to school. Given all of the high stakes testing and the focus on curriculum that teaches to the test, I can’t blame students for being frustrated with the system yet unable to change it. Thus, one teaching idea that I am very eager to explore in my classroom is the Multi-genre Research Paper. Even though it is considered a research paper, it isn’t the traditional research paper with 5 paragraphs and parenthetical documentation. Thus, I think my students would really enjoy this project because it would allow them to pick any topic to research and then create, using any of the technology programs I found while in this class, to create a “research paper” for their topic. With this project, students have more autonomy and control over the actual paper they create and I can see this paper being one of the changes that students need to bring them back into the educational fold and make learning fun and interesting again. Here is a link to an example of a multi-genre research paper: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/romanots/pdf/bloodandbravery.pdf