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THIS MONTH'S FEATURED RESOURCES:
 Year End Ideas /
Projects - Some fun ways to finish out the year with your class! Find
an idea or two you can use in your classroom to make the end of the
year fun & educational for your students.
June Resources - Lessons, projects, and resources to bring June into the
classroom! Ideas and resources for end-of-the-year activities, summer
reading resources and lists, and Father's Day activities.
21st
Century Skills – The
content knowledge and applied skills that today’s students need to master
to succeed in a continually evolving workplace and society.
 Del.icio.us
- Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using a social bookmarking
service. Has many educational
possibilities:
- Web
sites for student research or projects
- Books recommendations
- Professional research
- Students can find resources at home and access them
at school and vice versa
- Share what you are reading or view what your peers are
reading on the web
- Web site collections tagged by topic
- Del.icio.us Made Easy –
A blog post about Del.icio.us and resources for educators.
- Andrew Brown’s screencast on Del.icio.us
– step-by-step directions.
- Del.icio.us
For Teachers and Learners – Another great blog post about using
De.licio.us.
- Social Bookmarking
in Plain English – A short introduction to the concept
of social bookmarking, using Del.icio.us as the example.
- A Few "High Profile" Ed Tech Delicious Users:
- Consider using a digital projector to project the multimedia
items for entire class viewing (Flash movies, interactive tours, graphing
activities, etc).
- Many of the sites have printable resources for students
and teacher facilitated lesson plans.
- Send home website addresses connected to your classroom
topics in your newsletters or list them on your classroom websites.
Parents and students can explore the sites from home.
- Consider assigning websites for additional practice,
a place to begin research, or as an enrichment activity.
- Use online resources as CARE partner activities.
Web Sites for Teachers and Students
- Visual Bloom's - An excellent
resource for teachers who are looking for web resources that can be
used to address the needs of Bloom's Taxonomy.
- Bloom’s
Taxonomy Poster for Elementary Teachers – Hope that this poster
will serve as a visual reminder for teachers as they continue to guide
students to become better thinkers, just as Bloom imagined many years
ago!
- Tips, Tools
and Technology for Educators –
Highlights educational
tools and resources that teachers would find useful in the classroom.
- Google
Earth Across the Curriculum - Provides teachers ideas for using
Google Earth in their classrooms.
- Make Beliefs - A free comic strip creation tool that provides
students with a variety of templates, characters, and prompts for
building their own comic strips.
- AudioOwl
is a website full of free high quality audio books. There are books
from over 40 different categories. You can search for them by title,
author name or key phrase. You can even preview the author's voice
and narration of the books before you download.
- Storyline Online is an online, streaming video program that
features members of the Screen Actors Guild reading award-winning
children's books. There are dozens of stories to choose from that
range in topic and theme.
- Online Audio Stories is an exciting online collection of free
audio stories for children. Classics like Beauty and the Beast
and Hansel and Gretel are all free to download. The stories
include text that students can read along with. There are stories
from famous authors like Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Brothers
Grimm, William Shakespeare, and many more!
- Lit2Go: MP3 Stories and Poems
- An
online treasury of children's literature in audiobook format that
can be played on any computer or MP3 player.
- Piclits - A creative
writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected
keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words
in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story,
and meaning of the picture.
- Holocaust Resources
for Teachers - This
section of A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust includes articles, books,
documents, films, photographs, plays, museums, software, Web sites,
and a glossary.
- A Teacher's Guide to
the Holocaust - A
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust offers an overview of the people
and events of the Holocaust. Extensive teacher resources are included.
- Ideas for Podcasting
in the Classroom - Book Talks, Literature
Circles, Process Drama, Meet the Author, Science Logs, Art Critiques,
Historical Audio Diaries, Oral Histories.
- Free
podcast recording and hosting sites:
- Exit
cards/slips - A quick and efficient way to informally assess whether
students understand a concept that has been taught. They may be used
at any grade level and every subject area.
- "Let
It Slip!" -- Daily Exit Slips Help Teachers Know What Students
Really Learned - An article from Education World
- Exit cards
- Admit/Exit Slips - An effective way
to informally assess student understanding.
- Launching
Self-Directed Learners – Teaching students to take charge of their
own learning.
- Web
2.0 Tools ( from Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators)
- Web 2.0 – A New Wave
Of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? – An Educause article
If you would like to contribute websites, lesson plans
or ideas on how you have used
online resources in your classroom, send your ideas
to byersj@spsd.sk.ca
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