For all its conveniences, significant barriers to effective digital communication exist. These digital communication barriers can interfere with the ability to get a point across via email, chats, texts, messaging, discussion boards,...

With the massive shift to virtual work and education, it has become crucial that we strive to make all the content we put online accessible, particularly to people with disabilities who often experience barriers to accessing content....

A learning module that begins with the satirical article "Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequences" by The Onion Staff, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students understand that keyword searching is an effective way to locate information on the Internet. They learn how to select keywords to produce the best search results to meet their goals. Then they...

Check out this list of terrific tools for tech creation that offer a wide variety of engaging end products kids can create, from stories to animations to music to games.

Learners will select and enjoy their own range of contemporary and historical texts, display a knowledge of different genre and their particular content, and identify literary aspects of chosen texts for sustained silent reading. They...

In this activity students explore writing and performing poetry in various forms: writing poetry, choral readings, mime, and preparing a multi-media presentation by designing a web page.

Tutorial on creating images for the Internet, with text and screenshots.

In this lesson, students talk about dressing up and taking on identities that are similar to or different from them. They are then introduced to the idea of avatars as a kind of "dressing up" inside video games and consider the ways in...

For this lesson, students learn about the concept of "time capsules" and then apply the idea by selecting time capsule contents to represent both the time they live in and their own lives and tastes. They then extend this idea to online...

In this interactive instructional activity, students learn the basics of how stories are structured, gain vocabulary about storytelling elements, and explore how the arts, specifically drawing, can be a valuable way for students to tell...

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How can we help students to move beyond summary and toward interpretation? A combination of digital popular culture modeling, heuristics, and choice - along with digital composition - can initiate that process. Interpretation combines...

This lesson teaches students how to create a mixed media alteration of a digital photo using a printed picture and tracing paper.

This resource presents 100 different ways to use a digital camera in the classroom.

Visualize your digital footprint by recording your online actions in a spreadsheet.

This four-question assessment over digital transmission and storage of information has a resources accompanying each question. The resources include 5 videos and a diagram. Students study the resources and then take the assessment.

Learn about Zora Neale Hurston with this video clip, printable biosketch reader, and support materials. About the Show: "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum" is a PBS KIDS show based on the popular book series, "Ordinary People Change...

This website is an evolving compilation of resources designed to support the development of student multimodal authoring at all year levels. It features examples of different types of student multimodal compositions (both print and...

Read, write, and present a digital narrative with transition words to help us put the events in order! After modeling the instructional activity, groups of students will write narratives to recount a short sequence of events, they will...

Think. Create. Inform. You become the reporter. PBS connects high school students to local PBS Stations and news professionals to produce original, student-generated news video reports. Get involved and learn how to report, problem-solve...

Exploring how creative tools can be made more accessible for everyone. This is an excellent set of digital resources for students to try analyzing how easy they are to use and how effective they would be for those with disabilities.

Experience the image collections of the Delaware Art Museum through storytelling. Read and/or listen to stories that others have told about artwork in the museum. Use interactive media to tell or picture a story. Includes lesson plans...

Artopia is utopia for artists and artist wannabes alike. Each gallery allows students to complete interactive activities, watch videos, read about artists, and practice being an art critic. The gallery areas are music, theater painting,...