Gifted classrooms are places where learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning.

1. By Mike King & Jesse West Dodge City Public Schools Integrating Technology for Creative Classrooms

2. This presentation will include the following topics: I. Introducing the Digital Native II. Creating Digital Lessons III. Creativity in Gifted Education IV. Digital Tools for Creativity V. Putting It All Together with PBL and Web 2.0

3. Part I Introducing The Digital Native Video Hyperlink

6. Part II Creating Digital Lessons Video Hyperlink

8. PowerPoint through Hyper-linking A hyperlink is referred to as simply a link that automatically brings the referred information to the user when the navigation element is selected PowerPoint is a presentation medium that provides emergence, emphasis, and exit of elements on a slide and are controlled by Custom Animations.

11. Movie Maker is video editing software that is included in recent versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. Digital media can be edited to short sessions to emphasize discussion topics or points of interest in a lesson.

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16. Part III Creativity in Gifted Education Sir Ken Robinson Video Hyperlink

22. Part IV Digital Tools for Creativity

25. Google Earth is a virtual globe program It maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe. It is available under three different licenses. Google Earth Web Link KMZ File

26. Digital Storytelling refers to using new digital tools to help people to tell their own real-life stories. Photostory3 is a free Microsoft production tool that can be used to organize digital photos along an event’s timeline that allows digital creators the ability to add transitions, motion, sound, and titles, to a production. Download

27. Digital story telling combines the conversion of written narrative to digital voiceovers that is aided by computer tools. What Is a Digital Story?

28. Part V Putting It All Together Project Based Learning Video Hyperlink

29. Project Based Learning Project-based learning is a model for classroom activity that shifts away from the classroom practices of short, isolated, teacher-centered lessons and instead emphasizes learning activities that are long-term, interdisciplinary, student-centered, and integrated with real world issues and practices.

33. Digital Content Tools Delicious is a bookmarking service that is specifically designed for saving and sharing bookmarks. It is useful tool for educators because the software application allows for the storage and categorization of hundreds of links to interesting web sites. Lessonwriter creates lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English language skills from any reading passage. Use any content from any source and just copy, paste, and submit it on LessonWriter.com YakiToMe is a free text to speech program. Listen to work documents, homework, PowerPoint presentations, emails, and novels while you relax, commute or exercise. Zoho is an online Web service that lets you do almost anything online that you can do on a desktop computer—from creating documents to building a spreadsheet to managing a database, plus conferencing, project-management, and chatting.

35. Multimedia Tools

36. Extended Time Frame Creating Mind Maps Analyzing project content, planning collaborative Web 2.0 responsibilities, estimating time, and preparing resources are key tasks in a project. This section highlights these tasks - and shows the student how to be successful as a project planner. A map helps students develop the timeline for the project, and gather resources to support critical learning activities in the project.

37. Extended Time Frame Tools Creating Mind Maps

39. Assessment Tools This simple tool allows you to collect feedback on a document you have posted. Students could post a piece of work for peer assessment before submitting a final redrafted piece for teacher assessment. This site will particularly appeal if you use rubrics or marking grids in your assessments. You can either browse through a selection of shared rubrics or make your own. A rubric is a scoring tool for subjective assessments. It is a set of criteria and standards linked to learning objectives that is used to assess a student's performance on papers, projects, essays, and assignments.

40. Part V Putting It All Together Web 2.0 Video Hyperlink

43. Converse Post ideas Respond Forum Write Publish Comment Create Publish Comment Converse Post Ideas Respond Share Edit Collaborate Engage Blog PBworks Three great ways to communicate with students

44. Collaboration Study Tools FlashcardExchange is a flashcard-sharing site that lets you create and study digital forms of everyone's favorite 3x5 cards. The directory already has a large list of subjects. FlashcardExchange can be helpful for test preparation, certification exam review, and language learning. Study Stack allows teachers and students to create flashcards, crossword puzzles, matching games, word searches, and other classic study games for any subject area. Quizlet is designed to make learning fun. You enter a vocabulary list of any words or data you want. Quizlet gives you a specialized learning mode, flashcards, randomly-generated tests, and collaboration tools for classmates.

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