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A list of resources compiled by the UNI Automation and Networking Students summer 2011
Updated on Jun 27, 11
Created on Jun 23, 11
Category: Schools & Education
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WHAT:Hippo Campus is a tutoring website that offers digital instruction on several topics. Some are interactive and others are tutorials, but all are multimedia lessons on popular material taught in the classroom.
WHO:• Teachers for study help, or extra support• Students who need visual education• Parents who need help helping their students
PRO:All of the lessons I’ve watched have been easy to understand and very helpful.
CON:Some lessons are dry, while others are interesting. You should view them before recommending them to students.
Evernote is a tool that allows you to “remember everything.” You can take pictures of items, download music clips, type to-do lists and search it all by keyword. This is a tool that can be used with almost mobile device out there. For example (this happened to me), say you are reading a magazine in a doctor’s office and you see a recipe you want to make. You can take a picture with your phone, put it in Evernote, and then go on with your day. Then, when you remember you wanted to make that awesome fruit salad, you can search those words on Evernote and even though it was a picture, Evernote will find it.
WHO:• Teachers who teach note-taking• Teacher-librarians can use it for book lists, taking pictures of book recommendations on the web, etc.• Students• Anyone who is busy
PRO:This saves tons of time, helps organize you, and can be done from all devices.
CON:It’s a bit tricky to get use to and hard to remember to use, but once you make it part of your daily web life, it’s amazing.
WHAT:What should I read next is a web 2.0 tool that takes the book you are currently reading and suggests other books that you might like. It’s an amazing resource for students who might get stuck reading a series and then not know what to read next. I had this happen for several students – they couldn’t get past Harry Potter or Twilight.
WHO:• Teacher-librarians and educators could post this link on their homepage, etc. • This source is great for students of all ages.
PRO:This can be done from any computer and can be a great help in the library.
CON:It doesn’t tell you if the book is in YOUR library, so the student must double check the availability of the book.
This site is perfect for creating signs for your library. Everything from Dewey to "just read" signs. Beautiful illustrations. This site also has resources that go along with your Jan Brett collections
This site shows you step by step through a video how to save and preserve your books in case you get water damage.
This site is great for librarians looking for summer reading program ideas. It also has free downloadable fonts to use in your library.
Zentation helps combine video and slides for online presentations. You can upload a video to YouTube or slideshare and then upload a powerpoint file or link a slideshare slide deck. Then you time the graphics in your presentation. In the end you have a video playing with slides alongside it. I could see this as a fun way to include pictures or illustrations to go along with a speech or story told aloud and recorded. Presentations can be shared on blogs and websites with embed codes and thumbnail image links.
Slide share allows you to upload your powerpoint presentation and embed it into a blog or wiki for others to view. With so many teachers comfortable with using powerpoint this seems like a great way to help bridge to incorporating blogs or wikis for class communication. The process is very quick and simple. You just need to create a SlideShare account. As a side note, audio and transitions do not transfer, but this could help keep students from putting too much time into those things.
This is a fun website where students can create avatars with both human and wild animal parts. It can be used to tie in a fun writing activity. Students can work on adjectives and descriptive writing to explain their character. There are many options and lots of wild creations can be made. When you are done it gives you a name, some facts about the animals’ parts you used, and it can be printed or emailed.
Free information literacy game – helping students with learning about using the Dewey Decimal System for ordering books on the shelves.
A great sight for PreK-2nd grade. Interactive site to teach students to navigate around a web page and tools to help them use a mouse successfully.
A site where you can create a presentation to share with others. Very user friendly.
Typing game for elementary students. Interactive and fun with British characters talking the students through the direction and explanations.
A free social cataloging website where people can register books to create their library catalogs and reading lists.
An image and video hosting website, used quite often to share personal photos with others.
This website gives teacher librarians resources to use such as a monthly library newsletter that can be printed for your library. It also gives ideas and research for promoting libraries.
We have been blogging for this class, but their are resources for students to blog in classrooms or with the library teacher. http://www.kidblog.org is a great resource to use for such blogging. Kidblog.org is easy to set up and easy to use. I am currently using it with my students to blog about books read during the school year and hoping to keep in touch with these readers over the summer. Parents are also able to be a part of this blog. Classroom teachers can use it for an e-journal for students that are either reluctant writer or would give them a different mode for writing. Parents can use this blog to keep in touch with the writing and thoughts of their child.
I used this at the beginning of the year to start off with book excitement and hopefully get kids started on a "wish list" of books they would like to possibly read. It was a success and throughout the year kids asked to go back and explore some more trailers on the site. It contains hundreds of book trailers on new books, award-winning books, and book trailers made by students. It shows the reading level, to get kids more familiar with how that system works. There are also links for more information about the author and the book.
A podcast is a digital media file. The Denver Library in Denver, CO, has connected on its website a variety of podcast. The address for the podcasts is http://podcast.denverlibrary.org The podcasts are diverse by genres and types. Classroom teachers, librarians, students, and parents would benefit from this free resource. Classroom teachers can play interviews, books, and even speeches for their students in connection to the lesson. Students can listen to a variety of audiorecordings of books, interviews, and speeches for interest and research papers. Librarians can share these podcasts with their students or promote it as a site to visit. Finally, this is a great resource for parents that want to share book time with their child, are looking for book resources for their child(ren), or if they are home-schooling or tutoring their child(ren).
63 items | 23 visits
A list of resources compiled by the UNI Automation and Networking Students summer 2011
Updated on Jun 27, 11
Created on Jun 23, 11
Category: Schools & Education
URL: