Michelle Miller Marie Booz

Research Databases Virginia Beach City Public Schools and Virginia Public libraries provide students and staff access to numerous subscription-based research resources. These databases provide full-text access to encyclopedias, books, magazines, journals, and newspapers as well as media, maps, and images. These resources may be accessed at school or home by going to Proquest Gale World Book Grolier

Discovery Streaming There have many upgrades and new features added to Discovery Streaming this past summer. More Search Options Visual Search Results New Sorting Options New Filtering Options Series Relationships More in This Series More to Explore Enhanced Assignment, Quiz, and Writing Prompt Builders Classroom Manager Rating Options Sharing Options

Instructional Uses of SharePoint Sharing Content with Multiple Classes (list or library) Teacher Site Discussion Board Surveys Wikis Blogs My Site

VoiceThread VoiceThread is a web-based communications network that allows people to post media artifacts—a document, a slide presentation, a video, or a collection of photos—for community feedback. Commentators can add remarks by means of microphone, webcam, keyboard, or telephone. VoiceThread What is a VoiceThread Examples: Many Voices of Darfur Spanish 5 Myths What Do You Value

Screencasting Allows you to show what is happening on your computer screen with audio. Screencasts provide students with lessons they can watch at their convenience, as often as they choose, to review class material or to help understand concepts they find difficult. Requires a screen capture software. SmartBoard Notebook Promethean ActivInspire Camtasia (CRS & LMS) Freeware (Cam Studio, Jing)

Podcasting A podcast is a digital media file, usually audio or video. The mode of delivery is what differentiates podcasts from other ways of accessing media files over the internet. Special software applications known as podcatchers (iTunes, Zune, Juice, and Winamp) allow users to know when a podcast is available. RSS – Really Simple Syndication – is another way for content publishers to make podcasts and other content available to subscribers.

Audacity Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. Audacity Allows you to mix audio clips for a professional sounding podcast. To add music to your podcast use Soundzabound. VBCPS has a paid subscription to the site. (Note: This site can only be accessed from within VBCPS) bound

Blogs A blog (web + log) is a type of website that provides commentary or news on a particular subject or may function as a more personal online diary. A typical blog combines text, images, audio, video and links to other blogs. As a blogger, you can offer subscriptions to your blog through a RSS feed which allows users to know new content has been posted. VBPCS offers a free Campus Edition Edublog.Campus Edition Edublog Microblogging – Features very short posts (Twitter).

Wikispaces Free Web space to post documents, podcasts and video Team Collaboration Example of a Team Site Student Collaboration Example of a Student Wiki Project Wikipedia World’s Largest Wiki