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Showcase: My science video
Author: Ed Townsend School: Spring View Middle District: Ocean View County: Orange Year: 2008 Students are creating science videos. Includes script writing, storyboarding, shooting, and editing. Students will direct, produce, write, film, act, and ...
Added on 7/3/2008 by Student Technology Showcase
Duration: 2.17 minutes
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Showcase: Cougar Cable Network
Author: Adam Keuhn School: Clara J. King Elementary District: Cypress Elementary County: Orange Year: 2008 “We are sorry to interrupt you for this special news update from CCN. Let’s go live on the scene to find out what the buzz is all about!â...
Added on 7/3/2008 by Student Technology Showcase
Duration: 4.85 minutes
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Showcase: Character Wiki for "The Crucible"
Author: Alexis Presley (Greenlee) School: El Modena High District: Orange Unified County: Orange Year: 2008 Description Groups of students created a website for a character from "The Crucible". Their websites include a Character Journal, a detaile...
Added on 7/3/2008 by Student Technology Showcase
Duration: 2.62 minutes
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Showcase: AlphaSmart NEOS in K!
Author: Erica Bisaccia School: Robert C. Fisler Elementary District: Fullerton Elementary County: Orange Duration: 00:01:34 Year: 2006 Description Kindergarteners use digital cameras and AlphaSmart NEO keyboards to capture and record classroom o...
Added on 7/3/2008 by Student Technology Showcase
Duration: 1.58 minutes
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Showcase: Global Awareness and Cultural Literacy
Author: Chandra Prough School: Abraham Lincoln Elementary District: Newport-Mesa Unified County: Orange Duration: 00:01:27 Year: 2006 Description In this project approximately 80 third grade students from Lincoln Elementary school participated i...
Added on 7/3/2008 by Student Technology Showcase
Duration: 1.45 minutes
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Showcase: MTN33 Mako Television Network
Author: Bill Kaiser School: Vista del Mar Middle District: Capistrano Unified County: Orange Duration: 00:02:05 Year: 2006 Description By adding a school-wide broadcasting capability, journalism and yearbook students will expand their roles bey...
Added on 7/3/2008 by Student Technology Showcase
Duration: 2.10 minutes
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Showcase: Understanding Egyptian Civilization
Author: Quynh Vu School: Elizabeth Dickerson Elementary District: Cypress Elementary County: Orange Duration: 00:02:16 Year: 2005 Description Students will do research on geographical, political, economic, religious, and social structures of ear...
Added on 7/3/2008 by Student Technology Showcase
Duration: 2.27 minutes
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Bring California History Into Your Classroom with Calisphere Images & an iPod
Calisphere Accolades The Bay Area California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP Region IV), University of California Irvine History Project (UCIHP) and University of California's Calisphere team worked in partnership to: =promote awareness and increa...
Added on 6/22/2008 by Kathleen Ferenz
Duration: 2.25 minutes
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Calisphere Treasure Hunt
Teachers work in trios and search Calisphere online archive for historical photographs. They are posting their findings on a wiki. (http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/) Workshop materials available at: www.ctap4.org/calisphere/index.htm
Added on 6/22/2008 by Kathleen Ferenz
Duration: 1.03 minutes
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Remember Your Mnemonics!
This media file was created for Elementary upper grade students and Middle school students for use in the area of Social Studies (Geography). An added hope is that it will help English Language Learners find a way to learn Geography in a way that might ...
Added on 6/15/2008 by Kristi Crisp
Duration: 2.95 minutes
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My Family: A New Kind of Show and Tell
We will be using this video file to show students how to incorporate family photos in a media presentation vs the old "Show and Tell" they are used to. This will be incorporated with the Social Studies curriculum when focusing on families.
Added on 6/15/2008 by Kristi Crisp
Duration: 45 seconds
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Houghton Mifflin Sound Spelling Cards
This video was created to aid the students, parents and staff at McKevett Elementary School in Santa Paula, California. We hope it is used to learn the sounds of the letters in the English Language.
Added on 6/11/2008 by Kristi Crisp
Duration: 10.98 minutes
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Podcast

Podcasts


Literary Character Book Report
Instructions for a Book Report project where student makes a 3-5 minute presentation of a book as a character from the book.
Added on 6/17/2008 by Dawn Maloney
Duration: 5.78 minutes
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College Project
CSUCI Presentation
Added on 6/16/2008 by Tonya Leal
Duration: 2.27 minutes
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Poetry Unit
Poetry from Ms. Leal's Class
Added on 6/16/2008 by Tonya Leal
Duration: 42 seconds
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frontloading #3
In this podcast we explore the second step to frontloading: Developing background knowledge and vocabulary through a pictorial input.
Added on 6/16/2008 by steve decoste
Duration: 7.37 minutes
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frontloading #2
In this frontloading podcast, we again are introducing the function in familiar way, except now we are incorporating technology.
Added on 6/16/2008 by steve decoste
Duration: 4.50 minutes
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My Family: A New Kind of Show and Tell
We will be using this Podcast to show students how to incorporate family photos in a media presentation vs the old "Show and Tell" they are used to. This will be incorporated with the Social Studies curriculum when focusing on families.
Added on 6/15/2008 by Kristi Crisp
Duration: 45 seconds
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frontloading #1
Demonstration lessons of teh essential components to frontloading for reading instruction
Added on 6/13/2008 by steve decoste
Duration: 8.00 minutes
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Houghton Mifflin Sound Spelling Cards
This podcast was created to aid the students, parents and staff at McKevett Elementary School in Santa Paula, California. We hope it is used to learn the sounds of the letters in the English Language.
Added on 6/11/2008 by Kristi Crisp
Duration: 10.98 minutes
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Welcome to Mr. Dinkler's class!
This is a podcast/video for my web page that will serve to let parents and students know who I am and what my expectations are for the school year.
Added on 6/2/2008 by Joshua Dinkler
Duration: 8.15 minutes
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CUE Student Voices
This student voices episode was created in the Central California CUE affiliate by distributing an iPod with an iTalk and asking for student input.
Added on 5/15/2008 by Burt Lo
Duration: 5.37 minutes
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Alan November Keynote Speech
CTAP Region 1 is pleased to be able to post Alan November's Keynote address delivered at the LACOE 21st Century Skills Symposium. This was made possible with permission from Promethean. Alan November makes us think about how we can teach 21st Century skil...
Added on 4/30/2008 by Jeff Haugen
Duration: 1.15 hours
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Oak Glen Hike
Hike up a southern slope of San Bernadino Mountains, just east of Yucaipa. Gorgeous vistas above the mid-day fogs; blissfully lope down a steep wash.
Added on 3/29/2008 by Paul Heilemann
Duration: 1.37 minutes
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Tips and Tricks Episode #1 Readability Statistics
This is a quick how to video demonstrating the classroom use for Word's readability statistics.
Added on 3/14/2008 by Brian Curwick
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Image

Images


Calisphere
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories,...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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JARDA > Personal Experiences
Title: Dwight, Yoshiko, Iku Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley The images in this topic were created by men, women, and youth during their incarceration in relocation camps. Artists expressed the inter...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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JARDA > Daily Life
Title: Manzanar, Calif.--Mealtime during early days after evacuation at Manzanar, now a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. In housing, as well as at meal times, family life is observed. -- Photographer: Albers, Clem -- Manz...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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JARDA > Places
Title: Members of farm families board evacuation buses. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. -- Photographer: Lange, Dorothea -- Centerville, California. 5/9/42 Contributing Institution: The ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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JARDA > People
Title: T/4 Taniguchi visits his wife and daughter at the Minidoka Relocation Center before returning to his unit in the Pacific. Taniguchi volunteered for the Army in 1942 when he and his family were at Tule Lake before it became a segregation center. He ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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California Cultures > Native Americans
Title: [Phelan with native Americans] Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. At the time of Spanish colonization in the late 1700s, California was home to more than 300,000 native people in more than 200 ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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California Cultures > Hispanic Americans
Title: Pickets on the highway calling workers from the fields, 1933 cotton strike. Creator/Contributor: International News Photos, Inc. Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Hispanic explorers first reache...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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California Cultures > Asian Americans
Title: [Unidentified children on bicycle.] Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley People from Asia began migrating to California during the Gold Rush era. But a number of factors — including the 1882 Chi...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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California Cultures > African Americans
Title: Kathleen Cleaver and Panthers in Prosecution's office - 968 Creator/Contributor: Peter Breinig Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Although a relative few Afro-Latinos and other Africans came t...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1950s-1970s: Social Reform > Struggles for Social Justice
Title: Huey Newton trial, second day July 16,1968 Creator/Contributor: Barney Peterson Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images show how a range of groups during the 1960s and 70s chose to voic...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1950s-1970s: Social Reform > The Free Speech Movement
Title: View of students seated in Sproul Plaza. Creator/Contributor: Free Speech Movement Date: Nov. 1964 Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley These images show UC Berkeley's Free Speech Movement as ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1950s-1970s: Social Reform > The Civil Rights Movement
Title: Martin Luther King Memorial Rally - 1968 Creator/Contributor: Joe Rosenthal Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images show the Civil Rights movement through the lens of California news p...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1939-1945: World War II > The 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Title: A serious moment for this 21-year-old Japanese-American, for he has just signed voluntary enlistment papers which puts him into a special combat team in the Army of the United States. Mitsuma Yokohari, a former resident of Red Bluff, California, wa...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1939-1945: World War II > Japanese American Internment
Title: Following evacuation orders, this store, at 13th and Franklin Streets, was closed. The owner, a University of California graduate of Japanese descent, placed the I AM AN AMERICAN sign on the store front on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. Ev...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1939-1945: World War II > Richmond Shipyards
Title: Workers at launching of C-4 Troop Transport Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. The war in Europe had an enormous impact on American industry. Wartime factory work created new job opportunities,...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1939-1945: World War II > Life on the Home Front
Title: Marie Kitazomi, formerly of the Tule Lake Center, is now employed as a secretary in Indianapolis. She is here shown purchasing a $100 war bond with money saved from her salary. The booth at which she made the purchase is under the auspices of the C...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1939-1945: World War II > Women in the Workforce
Title: Shipyard "Dress Code" poster Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images show women at work during World War II, when the shortage of male workers opened new jobs to women. Photographs depi...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1929-1939: The Great Depression > Building Bridges, Dams, Power Plants
Title: Marin Pier and Tower Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. California's booming population during the 1930s strained the existing infrastructure. These images depict the government-funded bridges,...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1929-1939: The Great Depression > San Francisco General Strike
Title: Picket parade [5-10-1934?] Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. The images in this group capture moments from a pivotal episode in the rise of organized labor in the United States: San Franciscoâ...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1929-1939: The Great Depression > Help and a New Deal
Title: No work, no eat. Los Angeles, Calif. Creator/Contributor: Blanding Sloan Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images show how the US government responded to the widespread unemployment of...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1929-1939: The Great Depression > Hard Times
Title: Pickets on the highway calling workers from the fields, 1933 cotton strike. Creator/Contributor: International News Photos, Inc. Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley These images show how the Gre...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1929-1939: The Great Depression > Dust Bowl Migration
Title: Home of Oklahoma drought refugees, February, 1936. Creator/Contributor: Lange, Dorothea Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley These images show the devastation that drove the Dust Bowl refugees to...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1900–1940s: Emerging Industrial Order > Popular Culture
Title: Mary Austin and Diego Rivera - Cuernevaca, c. 1932. Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. These images show some of the ways that people spent their free time during the early part of the 20th cen...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere
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1900–1940s: Emerging Industrial Order > Early Advertising
Title: San Francisco, Calif. (Sutter and Octavia St.)--Billboard advertisement at edge of Japanese quarter, photographed on morning when 600 persons of Japanese ancestry from this section were evacuated to an assembly center. -- Photographer: Lange, Dorot...
Added on 6/17/2008 by Calisphere