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Great podcasting done by Kindergarten students.  Two kindergarten teachers from Miller Perry Elementary located, in Kingsport, TN are creating great podcasts with kindergarten students! Read this article and listen to more podcasts on their class websites.

http://mrswhitinger.schools

http://kellnersclassroom.com/

These are my links for May 29th through June 1st:

• Debategraph home – Our goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any public debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all.
• Literacy Activities – K-5 grade literacy guides and activities
• Mind and Visual Puzzles and Activities that enhance critical, logical,and creative thinking skills, and keep your brain active! – For active minds and brain-teaser enthusiasts: play, create or solve intriguing puzzles
• Photographic Libraries – The Photographic Library Directory is a unique resource that provides a broad range of visual solutions to enhance the creative process.
• Wikimedia Commons – Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to all. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here.
• Commons:Welcome – Wikimedia Commons – Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to all. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here.
• Electronic Books (Ebooks), Preschool Online Games – Wizz-e.com is one of the first EBooks publishing companies that provide Children?s EBooks, free kids EBooks, preschool online games
• Welcome | MagCloud – MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we’ll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.

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Photostory 3 is a great free digital storytelling tool for Windows. It allows for taking photos and turning them into a video. This application would be useful for teacher to take photos from field trips and turning them into a video. The ability to add titles to each picture makes it helpful for students to recall what they did on the trip.

Photostory 3 can also be used by students to create a digital story report. Instead of writing, students gather images and record their narration to tell the story.

The school can use Photostory 3 to highlight class activities for Open House or teachers could do the same for conference night.

The option to edit the photo effects can highlight important moments on the field trip. The added Ken Burns’ effects make the transitions stand out and add a dramatic effect. You have the option of changing the time spent displaying each photo, also. You can add voice narration to go along with the video by recording a separate audio file and importing it into the video. You can decide to add a music clip, as well. There a multiple ways to save the completed project to display on a computer, portable device, media center or e-mail. Visit JakesOnline http://www.jakesonline.org/ for tutorials on using Photostory 3.