At times, teaching can be overwhelming. You have stacks of papers to grade, conferences to attend, lessons to plan, emails to respond to, and, if there is any time left—teach. So much to do, and so little time in which to accomplish it.
The web has a pantheon of resources, often with a staggering depth. Finding enough time to slosh through so much material can be a daunting task riddeled with frustration trying to find something 'just right' for what you need. Gathered below are some resources that might be usefull. While in no particular order they are already 'tried and true'.
If you have a favorite web site, tool, or resource, please don't be bashfull, share it with others. As you are familiar with it, please write a few descriptive sentences describing what it is and how it's usefull. The courtesy of a description may save someone a little time. Our own Blackboard is a terrific place to share web resources, but often gets lost in the long list of other announcements or forgotten where it was seen. Here, we have an opprotunity to share, and archive, resources all in one place that is always available 24-7. All it takes is a good idea and pressing the 'Enter' key.
A truely mind boggeling collection of web resources covering everything from presentation tools to collaborative, drawing, writing, mapping, quiz and many more catogories. Be prepared to spend a little time with this site and I promise the ideas for your classroom will bubble right out the top of your head. Have fun!!!
A wonderfull collection of short tutorials, tips, and tricks that can be used to spice up your wiki page. Some are a bit technical but all have easy to follow directions. Give it a try!
Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Ideas on how to use a Wiki in the classroom. All are practical and readily doable. A 'must read' for any teacher wrestling for an idea to engage their students.
Add your own pictures, music, or video clips, add any text, and Animoto customises
a video for you. Publish to any web site or view online. A great tool.
This tool allows educators to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and immediately publish it online. Teachers can also set up classes and assign projects to students. Students complete the assignments by creating their own online projects or reports. Teachers and students can even add images and links to their pages. Have some great fun with this one!
Online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate. This one is a must see for all teachers.
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars, even recording your own voice, and use them on your Wiki, website, and in email messages. The kids love it! If you want to hear those wonderfull kid giggles this is the place.
Submitted by Ms. Hawkins: A very good collection of resources.
Most of the media in these collections are attached to generous copyright licensing. Though you may not need to ask permission to use them when publishing on the Web for educational purposes, you should cite or attribute these images to their creators unless otherwise notified!
Submitted by Mrs. Cross:
Another jaw dropping collection of resources to engage your classroom. 40 pages of tools, utilities, and resources. If you can't find something here you're not looking very well. These have been reviewed and ranked by usefullness. A must see collection.
Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share
and (soon) print. This site was recommended in the ForPD newsletter. This site is new and in Beta version, so expect some glitches.
At times, teaching can be overwhelming. You have stacks of papers to grade, conferences to attend, lessons to plan, emails to respond to, and, if there is any time left—teach. So much to do, and so little time in which to accomplish it.
The web has a pantheon of resources, often with a staggering depth. Finding enough time to slosh through so much material can be a daunting task riddeled with frustration trying to find something 'just right' for what you need. Gathered below are some resources that might be usefull. While in no particular order they are already 'tried and true'.
If you have a favorite web site, tool, or resource, please don't be bashfull, share it with others. As you are familiar with it, please write a few descriptive sentences describing what it is and how it's usefull. The courtesy of a description may save someone a little time.
Our own Blackboard is a terrific place to share web resources, but often gets lost in the long list of other announcements or forgotten where it was seen. Here, we have an opprotunity to share, and archive, resources all in one place that is always available 24-7. All it takes is a good idea and pressing the 'Enter' key.
a video for you. Publish to any web site or view online. A great tool.
Most of the media in these collections are attached to generous copyright licensing. Though you may not need to ask permission to use them when publishing on the Web for educational purposes, you should cite or attribute these images to their creators unless otherwise notified!
Another jaw dropping collection of resources to engage your classroom. 40 pages of
and (soon) print. This site was recommended in the ForPD newsletter. This site is new and in Beta version, so expect some glitches.