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Track Tropical Storm Josephine, Track Hurricane Ike, Track Hurricane Hanna / Stormpulse / Hurricane tracking, mapping
Excellent interactive site that tracks the path of active hurricanes, and achives the path of recent hurricanes. Both the active and achive pages have many interesting overlays. Excellent data source with great visuals.
Google Earth *PRO* is FREE for Educators! | Welcome to NCS-Tech!
Information about how to use Google Earth Pro for free! It has some great overlays that I am sure will help you as you begin the year with georgraphy and on into your units on explorers!
Creatively Speaking: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative Mind | Edutopia
Discussion of how we need not reform education but rather transform it into something new to meet the challenges of the future. Short speech by Sir Ken Robinson that is about 15-minutes long.
Join PBwiki summer camp and earn a free classroom wiki - The Daily Peanut
This is a great opportunity to earn a free pbwiki for your classroom. Join in with the PBwiki Summer Camp to learn more about how to use wikis in the classroom.
Poem: The Average Child
The challenge... to make all children...feel more than average!
FORTUNE: How I Work
Read a few of these fellow workers outside of the field of education. It gives interesting insight into the way they work and only a glimer of what skills are needed in the workplace from now and into the future.
Imagination Cubed
Interesting drawing tool that allow you to draw online and then send it to a friend via email. At that point they can edit the drawing and send it back. Might be cool for group brainstorming.
WritingFix: Interactive Writing Prompts & Lessons for Teachers and Students
Amazing resources for writing! THis site includes a Random Daily Prompt Generator, Writing Connections for Picture Book & Chapter Book Lessons, Constructed Response resources to prepare students for high stakes testing, Brain-based Writing prompts to access qualities of the right-brainand left-brain and many other great links for the writing teacher!
Go2Web20.net - The complete Web 2.0 sites directory
This a comprehensive directory of Web 2.0 sites that do a variety of jobs.
MYVisit 2007-2008 Series
Virtual author series. features live creators, live interaction, and live learning.
movingforward » ProfessionalDevelopmentManifesto
Moving Forward is correct. This is a great wiki that promotes an ed tech philosophy of student learning, sound pedagogy, and research based strategies. I see it as a process of getting our priorieties in order.
Copyright issues in the classroom and beyond
THis is a great source for understanding copyright issues in the classroom and beyond. It is important for educators to set a good example of digital citizenship!
The LOT’s and HOT’s for Assessment | Educational Origami
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy discussion. Blog entry that gives a variety of technology applications and how they rank on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.
NECC 2008 Webcasts
What in the heck is necc? It is the annual National Educational Computing Conference. I like many others did not have a chance to attend NECC 2008 in San Antonio, so I will attend via webcast in an asynchronous manner, so can you!
create a mixtape / mixwit
Remember Creating Mix Tapes for your BF & BFF? Now you can do it in the virtual world also! I am not sure of any educational value...but it is fun!
Infinite Thinking Machine-Googleplex
Blog entry highlighting the many great presentations and resources provided by Google Certified Teachers
Materials (Google Teacher Academy Resources)
Great Resource for all of the many applications provided by Google.
Google Docs (Google Teacher Academy Resources)
Google Docs is a fabulous application that can help one collaborate with several individuals at one time on the same document. It is also a place to store documents online and have access to them even if your own computer is not available!
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