Editor's Note: Several articles this month focus on using and creating media in schools. Among them are digital film, podcasts, and voice, and there's one article on becoming media-savvy.

How To

Adding Impact to Digitally Filmed Stories
By Jon Orech
Help your students make their digitally-filmed stories even better with these valuable professional-grade tips.

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From the Classroom

Teaching Students to Become Media-Savvy Consumers
By Andrew Powell
An elementary-school teacher helps his international students cope with the pressures of consumerism thanks to a valuable thought-provoking website.

Breaking News! Students Create Radio-Style Podcasts
By Christopher Young
Creating pop-radio style podcasts teaches a group of creative middle school students some very valuable skills.

Giving Students A Voice Through Technology
By Patricia Sattler
How a generation fascinated by visual images discovered the benefits and fascinations of the spoken voice.

Helping Young Students to Master Technology
By Nicole Luongo
Today's elementary students will better hold their own in tomorrow's world by learning some essential technology skills.

Professional Development

Getting Good With Google Docs
By Laura Fogle
The computer revolution is even more revolutionary now that Google Docs lets you do some amazing things.

Ideas and Opinions

It's Not Just a Game – It's Skills for Life
By Dennis Southwood
Should we use computer Role-Playing Games in the classroom? Yes, argues this educator, for the valuable life-long learning skills that they help students acquire.

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FREE Resources: History
FREE stands for Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. The web sites listed below are excerpted with permission from the FREE web site. This month, we highlight web sites for history.