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Nik Peachey: Tools for Digital Story-Telling

6 Reasons (and Nifty Tools) for Exploring Digital Storytelling Direct to tools: Animatron (communicating with visuals) Storybird (power of imagination) Odyssey Writer (writing can be fun) Canva (fluency in personal delivery) Animoto (critical thinking skills) Book Creator (orientation to intellectual property)    

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Nik Peachey: IO Tool NowComment – Scalable Online Conversations Centered on Documents

A great tool for creating online discussion around documents. NowComment makes it easy to have rich, engaging discussions of online documents no matter how large (or small) your class or collaboration group. NowComment is fast, powerful, and feature-rich: you can sort comments, skim summaries, create assignments, hide comments, reply privately, and much more It’s free, …

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Steve Pieczenik: Counter-Coup — US Intelligence Joins with WikiLeaks to “Put Down” the Criminal Cabal Seeking to Extend Control Over US Government

Phi Beta Iota: Steve Pieczenik was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger, Cyrus Vance and James Baker. His expertise includes foreign policy, international crisis management and psychological warfare. He served the presidential administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the capacity of deputy assistant secretary. As we constantly …

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Nik Peachey: WhatWasThere – Historical Info Tool

Great site with a really nice app. Most of the images are in the US, but growing number around the UK and would be great to get students to add to them. WhatWasThere – Put history in its place! Allows anyone to upload historical photo and see photos from others in geolocation context.