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Teachers: Enhancement of Learning Through Technology

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Teachers: Enhancement of Learning Through Technology

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Free clipart to enhance your websites! Just a few of the many free sites out there.

http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm

http://www.webplaces.com/html/animations.htm

http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/

Laura Yanow


http://www.brainpop.com/

Requires subscription, but our district’s tech teachers & librarians LOVE this!

 

http://www.classroom20.com/

For using 2.0 – includes forum w/ a question about “convincing parents to let students use Internet”

 

http://www.thepathfinderproject.org/create.htm

How to create a pathfinder

 

http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/

Internet Public Library – pathfinders

 

Barbara Burkhalter


Students: ResourcesStudents: Resources

www.education-world.com

A website chock-full of information and links relating to integrating technology into the curriculum, lesson plans, professional development, and information for the administration.

Laura Remer

 

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www.fno.org

A journal about technology in education. User-friendly. Also has information about website authenticity.

Laura Remer

 

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www.clrn.org/home

A resource for educators that helps them find standards-based internet learning resources, software, and visual materials.

Laura Remer

 

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plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/

Set up to train a public library staff on the newest technologies, this website has some great learning tools for us.

Laura Remer


For those who haven't used podcasts yet (me, for example), this article covers some basics and organization ideas as well as both high and low-tech (using pantyhose to cut out ambient noise!) troubleshooting: http://www.thejournal.com/articles/21814_4

 

Jason Roach

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Here's an article about dos and don'ts for using blogs in the classroom. Especially useful for those of us new to using them.

http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22014

Jason Roach

 


Free Open Source and Web-based Applications

http://opensourceresources.wikispaces.com/

Many good links in a variety of catagories

 

Renee Varnadore

 

 


http://podcastfreeamerica.com/

Resource for creating podcasts (teacher or student generated).

 

http://www.stager.org/podcasting.html

Resources for educational podcasting.

 

Margie Llinas

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http://classroom20.ning.com

A social networking site for people interested in using web 2.0 collaborative resources in education.

Laura Remer 

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www.edutopia.org

Online or paper, this resource is great for keeping educators up-to-date on how the internet can be used creatively in education; makes education more relevant to today's student.

Laura Remer


http://nsdl.org/

National Science Digital Library

Very Comprehensive Science Resources for K-20 teachers, students and librarians.  Now includes free video, podcasts etc. on itunes U.

 


 

www.fossweb.com/CA/index.php

FOSS (Full Option Science System) is produced by The Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley.  It provides complete science units for K-5; however, even if a school is not subscribing to the program, the website offers exhaustive bibliographies, videographies, and webographies on each of the areas of study.

Lucinda Abbott


baynature.org/

Bay Nature: offers hundreds of articles on all aspects of the plant and animal life found in San Francisco Bay Area.  Short videos (about 2 1/2 minutes) would be great for introducing an area of study.  Scroll down to find links to many articles and organizations.  Although this is local to northern California, other areas of the country may also have similar organizations offering the same kind of resources.

Lucinda Abbott

 


 

TeacherTube http://www.teachertube.com/ is a good alternative to YouTube. It does not usually get blocked by filters. I have been collecting technology and elementary school tutorials from its "Channel" to my Google Reader. Teacher or classroom Groups can also be created. Perhaps we can agree to post one of these on the blog.

 

Renee Varnadore


CUE:  Computer-using Educators, Inc.

http://www.cue.org/

Promotes effective use of technology in educational community.

 

GlobalSchoolNet.org

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/index.cfm

Linking kids around the world through support of 21st Century Learning.

 

Ginny Golden

 


 

 Site Index 


 

http://haugenka.edublogs.org/category/education/literacy/student-publishing/ 

Haugen has a good example of an edublog Haugen’s Tech Tips Blog

Technology, Digital Literacy, and Learning for All Students

Renee Varnadore


 http://www.mygradebook.com/

Practial and useful site for teachers that enables online recording and sharing of grades with colleagues, students, parents

Laura Yanow

 http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

This is an online library of 2176 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format(tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects).

Laura Yanow

http://webquest.org/index.php

This site helps teachers design and implement web-based learning experiences. Great for all grades.

Laura Yanow


http://landmark-project.com/

Created by David Warlick as a resource page teachers in the 21st century.  It pushes the use of technology in new ways as learning and teaching morph in the information age.

 

EPN: The Education Podcast Network

http://epnweb.org/index.php

A collection of podcasts intended for instructional use.  Some are created by students; some are for teaching; some are both.

We can access student and class podcasts, subjectspecific podcasts, and education podcasts. I can search "Elementary Grades" (90) schools have podcasts

 

http://www.skype.com/

http://www.wengophone.com/index.php

Do you think these could be something teachers could use to "bring in" guest speakers in faraway places?  They are both free online talk, chat, and/or video-conferencing tools.

Anne Lee


A website that reviews and posts valuable educational websites is the Librarian's Internet Index: http://search.lii.org/index.jsp?

 

You can create fun online quizzes for webpages with this tool (registration required):

http://www.mystudiyo.com/act66343/go

 

Margie Llinas

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Here is a great way to conduct online polls among students. Students themselves could design and use polls for all sorts of things:  http://quimble.com/

Jason Roach

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http://climatechangeeducation.org/

Linda Barnett suggested this resource. We could use this as an earth science pathfinder resource for students and teachers.


Janine suggests that we start categorizing our links. We should come up with categories and then some format for listing the name of the site, URL and a description.

 

Assessment

http://www.rubistar.com rubric generators

 

Blogs

http://www.blogger.com/  another blogging tool

http://www.edublogs.org/ great blogging tool for teachers to make their blogs

 

Collaborative Learning Environments

http://www.ning.com/ secure social network generator

http://www.moodle.com a course management system designed to help educators who want to create quality online courses. The software is used all over the world by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers. Moodle is open source and completely free to use.

http://thinkature.com/ real-time collaboration

 

Concept Maps

http://gliffy.com

Content Management

http://www.noodletools.com/  research, citation, grading software & support

 

Content Sharing

http://www.teachertube.com educational video site--we could have a poll to vote for weekly videos!

http://www.schooltube.com

http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/ Apple Learning Interchange (photo, audio, video sharing site for educational purposes)

http://commons.wikimedia.org open source images, sounds, and videos

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior wikijunior collaborative non-fiction book publishing

 

Cyber Safety

http://www.connectsafely.org/ safe social networking online--tips for parents, teachers, and teens

http://www.ctap4.org/cybersafety/ cyber safety

http://www.netsmartzkids.org NetSmartz

http://kids.getnetwise.org GetNetWise

http://www.wiredsafety.org Wired Safety

http://www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy Federal Trade Commission's Kidz Privacy

http://www.safekids.com Internet safety software and resources

http://www.isafe.org ISafe training/teaching materials

http://www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/safety2.htm FBI Safety Rules poster

http://www.wiredkids.org Wired Kids resources, tips, safe sites

 

Feeds

http://www.feedburner.com/ create your RSS feeds here

 

Lesson Plans

http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/tealinks.html Joyce Valenza's teacher links

 

Media Literacy

Center for Media Literacy (http://www.medialit.org)

Media Literacy Clearinghouse (http://www.frankwbaker.com)

Media Literacy (http://www1.medialiteracy.com)

Media Literacy Speaker, Peter D. (http://www.medialiteracy.net)

 

Pathfinders

http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamafrica/ Wild Cam Africa--students can watch animals visiting a protected pond in a game reserve in Botswana, Africa. Biology/Life Science 

http://newzcrew.org Current Events

http://care2.com social activism

 

Presentation Tools

http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/mmedia/FastStoneCapture.html Fast Stone Freeware: Screen capture software for educators

Professional Reading Room

http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/kqweb/kqhome/kqhome.cfm

Social Networking for Youth

http://www.imbee.com

http://www.teens.secondlife.com

 

Standards for the 21st-Century Learner

American Association of School Librarians Learning Standards for Students (http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslindex.cfm)

California State Standards (http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/ )

International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students (http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_stands.html)

Parnership for 21st Century Learning (http://www.21stcenturyskills.org)

Association for Supervision and Curriculum and Development (ASCD) Whole Child Initiative (http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd)

 

 

Virtual Bookshelf

http://www.librarything.com tool for creating an online "library" of books on your virtual bookshelf (does Google books have the same capabilities?)

 

Wikis

http://www.pbwiki.com/  wonderful wiki for collaboration between teachers/students/administrators

http://www.seedwiki.com

 

Wiki Tips

http://www.educators.pbwiki.com tips for teachers and librarians in using educational wikis (intro video here: http://www.archive.org/details/PbwikiForLibraries+)

 

Interactive Plugins 

 

 

Class Calendar

Chat

Slideshow

You Tube Video

 

 

Janine Weston


http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/video/video Joyce Valenza's Teacher Librarian

http://joycevalenzaworkshop.wikispaces.com/ Joyce Valenza's Workshop

http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/slelementaryschoollibrary/slelementaryschoollibrary The Elementary School Library of Knowville

Anne Lee

Global Collaboration

http://www.think.com global collaboration in online learning communities

http://knowville.org/  help children to read a billion books, write a billion books, and do a billion projects

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