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Resources for & to support Elem. students' learning -K-5 (Gen. Ed & Sp. Ed.)
Updated on Nov 14, 11
Created on Sep 18, 11
Category: Schools & Education
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Collection is part of STHS Library Guides. New tools catalog is organized by function (wikis, podcasting, etc) & topics related to technology use in schools (media literacy, fair use, privacy). Applications for Education -STHS Library New Tools is a good site to refer your colleagues to when they need a quick reference to learn about new to use
"Square of Life: Studies in Local and Global Environments is an Internet-based collaborative project in which students will investigate their local environment and share that information with other students from around the country and the world. Participants will:Identify living and non-living things in their school yards.Share their findings with other participating classes.Look for similarities and differences in the reported data.Prepare a final report or presentation based on their findings. "
Variety of Rubrics available to review here
"notes from Dr. Carl Owens' presentation, "Cool Tools for the classroom" at the 2011 Mississippi Educational Computing Association annual conference in Jackson on February 8th."
An application that provides contextual spell checking, along with powerful grammar and style checking. It provides helpful explanations for the grammar and style errors that it finds. The user can personalize the rules of the application by setting it to always ignore specific errors. There are settings to personalize in other ways as well.
Writing on a blog is different in many ways than writing for print. The following are ten suggestions I've created which can help bloggers write better posts. Please chime in with your own ideas and suggestions, I'm sure there are lots of things I'm leaving out! For more assistance, refer to Steve Dembo's great 2008 series of posts and project, "30 Days to Being a Better Blogger," and ProBlogger's 2007 post series, "31 Days to Building a Better Blog."
free website that lets you create timelines ...
Free web brainstorming application online. Allows one to create, share and collaborate, embed in a blog or website & save as an image.
Access Mindomo workspace from anywhere & start collaborating w/ other users! Use Mindomo for lesson plans, lectures & gathering research material. St - use Mindomo to help solve problems collaboratively, to learn & generate new ideas, to learn difficult subjects quickly. Educators - use Mindomo to create assignments, lesson plans, to brainstorm w/ students. Allows one to create, share and collaborate, embed in a blog or website & save as an image
"11 Things You Should Know About Blogging"
"The Updated Monster List of 111 Online Learning Resources"
Website is place where people can collaboratively create short stories. Folding Story users can start a story from scratch or contribute to stories started by others. Users can contribute to multiple stories & track those stories' developments in their account dashboards. Folding Story users can invite their friends to join their stories through email or Facebook Connect.The concept of Folding Story isn't a new one & could easily be replicated on Google Docs, Zoho Writer, TodaysMeet, Wall Wisher, or any number of other collaborative communication tools. The slight advantage of Folding Story is that there is a list of story starters already in place.
The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current & professional development
1493 items | 1 visits
Resources for & to support Elem. students' learning -K-5 (Gen. Ed & Sp. Ed.)
Updated on Nov 14, 11
Created on Sep 18, 11
Category: Schools & Education
URL: