Creating Digital Kits       

By Erin Herndobler

What is a Digital Kit?

a collection of websites, music, videos, pictures and sounds that you can use for

classroom units.

Where to Find MaterialsWebsites

Sounds

Video Segments

Photos

Music

• Social Bookmarking     Diigo.com, delicious.com

• Find Sounds    findsounds.com

• YouTube, TeacherTube    youtube.com, teachertube.com

• Pics 4 Learning    pics4learning.com 

 • Free Play Music

    freeplaymusic.com

Steps for Creating a Digital Kit

1. Set up Specific     Media Folders. 2. Download Files3. Copy and Paste Citations.

4. Distribute or Archive Kithttp://www.slideshare.net/jgingerich/digital-kits-presentation

Saving FilesSave and sort files by topic 

Don't be afraid to rename filesVideo Files Download YouTube videos      http://www.keepvid.com• Quicktime (.mov) good for imove• Windows Media Player (.asf)  

 Photo Files• .jpg• .gif • .png

     

Always..                       Copy and Paste your URLs to                        create a citation document                       for each kit. 

                              Why?

  If you ever publish your work publicly you

need to list all your resources

Use Digital Kits in...  • A Slide Show• A Presentation• Graphic Organizers• Comic Strips• Web 2.0 tools• Movie• Podcasts

Topics

Why Create Digital Kits?

 • Engage students  • Saves Time  • Create Schema • Scaffolds ELLs

  

 

ReferencesJennifer Gingrich, the speaker from the digital kits workshophttp://web.mac.com/jennifergingerich/jennifergingerich/Blog/Blog.html

Slide Onehttp://musformation.com/pics/ipods-2dheart-small.jpg

Slide Two http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/firefox_icon.png  http://static.technorati.com/10/09/04/17695/itunes9icon.png http://www.veryicon.com/icon/png/System/Black%20%26%20Blue%20Add%20On/GarageBand.png  http://www.mikey-san.net/static/damage/imovie_large.pnghttp://kidologist.com/wp-content/2009/01/iphoto_icon.jpg

Slide Fourhttp://www.slideshare.net/jgingerich/digital-kits-presentationPage 17

Slide Fivehttp://www.iconarchive.com/icons/gordon-irving/leopard-extra-folders/512/Apple-Logo-icon.png

Slide Sixhttp://nvcla.org/don%27t%20forget.jpg

Slide Sevenhttp://www.g-g4u.com/tag/ipad-software

http://www.applemacvideo.com/articles/how-to-put-dvd-into-apple-imovie.html http://www.comeeko.com/ps/comic_strip/s/image/0/60/725/comic-p.jpg?1199238082

Slide Ninehttp://www.costeljm.category13.com/img/photoStack.png