Haugen’s Tech Tips Blog

Wow… Alan Levine has done us all a great service by compiling a list of fifty online tools for storytelling, from slideshows to timeline tools to sites that let you combine text and diverse media formats. In addition, he’s used each tool to tell the same “Dominoe story” and often links to other examples. This provides a great means of comparison. Don’t miss this fabulous resource!

Draw like Jackson Pollock!

This is a place for FUN… simply move your pointer and the virtual paint splatters. Click the heart to change colors. Then when you’re done, learn more about Jackson Pollock at The WebMuseum, Paris.
Image uploaded with Skitch!

I keep coming across one of my favorite children’s authors & illustrators Peter Reynolds again and again. I first found him at the TRLD conference in San Francisco, in 2000. He was there to promote his software, but I convinced him (it wasn’t hard) to sign a copy of The North Star for my newborn nephew Joe. Not only did he sign it to Joe, he added a little illustration. His software was good, too!
If you don’t know Fable Vision, or Peter’s books (especially The North Star and Ish), or The Blue Bunny Book Store, you’ve got to check them out! Peter combines a whimsical warmth, a storyteller’s vision, and a solid constructivist approach to learning that makes me want to pull the roof off every school so we can all find our own stars.

ArtThink is the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s curriculum site, which provides theme-based activities in visual arts, language arts, history and social studies.

ArtThink includes a glossary, online lessons, special features, tools and games.
http://sfmoma.org/artthink/default.asp

Thinkfinity.org, formerly Marco Polo, is home to an amazing consortium of web resources for education:

• ArtsEdge – for arts integration, from the Kennedy Center
• EconEdLink – economics
• EdSiteMent – humanities, from the National Endowment for Humanities
• Illuminations – math, from NCTM
• Read-Write-Think – literacy from NCTE
• Science NetLinks – science
• XPeditions – geography, from National Geographic
• Smithsonian Museum of American History

These sites offer excellent reference information, as well as links to online activities and other reputable educational sites on the web.