WIT podcast - Episode 5 - Italian Fairytales

Gisella Licari, a professor of Modern Languages at GVSU, is our guest and discusses the creation of orginal Italian Fairytales by her language students. The illustrations of the Fairytales were created by fifth grade students. The Italian language students at GVSU used iMovie to create the stories.

A quicktime of one of the Fairytales

WIT Podcast - Episode 4

Using Skype in and out of the classroom

Andy Mann from Ottawa Area ISD (http://www.oaisd.org/oaisd/site/default.asp) talked to WIT about assisting K-12 teachers in the use and concerns of Skype in the classroom.

The resources that were mentions in Episode 4:
Skype - http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html - free download
Pamela - http://www.pamela-systems.com/ - limited use free download

Student/Teacher Collaboration
Global Schoolhouse Foundation - http://www.globalschoolnet.org/index.html
Xlingo - http://www.xlingo.com/ - Foreign Language exchange
Taking it Global -http://www.takingitglobal.org/
EPals - http://www.epals.com/index.tpl - free to join - request schools with chat, audio, video voice capabilities

User Groups
Blog on Skype
World Class Schools - http://worldclassschools.00politics.com/mexico.html

Vicki David - http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/

Polycom Communicator - http://www.polycom.com/products_services/1,,pw-14992,00.html - information from Ploycom

Imagination - http://imagination3.com/LaunchPage - collaborative illustration application