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"EDSITEment lessons on Slavery, the Crisis of the Union, the Civil War and Reconstruction"

Lesson plans for teaching about slavery

"Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, enabling you insert questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out or draw answers on the screen. "

for our pc's ?

"Web Worksheet Wizard and Project Poster have combined to make Web Poster Wizard. This FREE 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. "

You can capture your screen and record your voice to make screencasts (tutorials, e-lessons, etc.). Only available for Windows computers

"Laptop and microphone Joe Dale is an independent consultant working with CILT, Links into Languages, The British Council and the BBC. He is host of the TES MFL forum, former SSAT Languages Lead Practitioner and is a regular conference speaker. Joe has been podcasting since 2006, you can read more in his blog Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom. Creating and listening to podcasts offers many learning opportunities for pupils both in and out of the classroom. The cyclical process promotes speaking, listening and writing skills and can improve pronunciation, confidence and engagement. Scripting, recording and editing caters to a range of learning styles, facilitates peer assessment, pupil voice and collaborative project-based learning. Pupils are able to access higher order thinking skills, foster creativity, revise lesson content and deepen their understanding as a result. Podcasting also allows pupils to publish professional sounding audio inexpensively to a real audience, giving them a sense of ownership and a more relevant and meaningful purpose to their work. Showcasing pupils' work in this way can forge links with the wider community and celebrate achievement too. Downloading podcasts on to a computer or mobile device lets learners review their learning at their own pace at a time which suits them wherever they may be and as many times as they want. Providing a transcript makes the content even more accessible and enables further personalised and distance learning to take place."

From the Voki for Education Newsletter Voki in the Languages Classroom

An example of how Voki is being used in language lessons.

An example of how Voki is being used in language lessons.

"collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting. Lesson plans also included."

A wealth of free resources that can help you jazz up those tired old (or new) lesson slides and presentations.

Lesson plans, activities and teaching resources using NXT for Mindstorms robots

Flickr is a fantastic site for sharing photographs with others, and as such it's also a brilliant resource for finding and using photographs to use in a lesson.

"Create beautiful ShowMe's in seconds one-tap record ShowMe lessons share ShowMe's with anyone ABSOLUTELY no training required"

An online portfolio allows you to compile what makes you employable - it should include things like your resume, cover letter, references, certifications, transcripts and any examples of your work (including writing samples, press clips, artwork or lesson plans). Plus, you should include basic contact information, such as a phone number and email, and more modern information, like a Twitter handle, LinkedIn profile, or Facebook URL. Put all of this into one online package that's easy to browse and voilà - you have an online portfolio!

How can we keep students focused on schoolwork with all the electronic temptations surrounding them? By engaging the students completely with our lessons, keeping students actively involved in their learning, and reflecting on our practice to avoid blaming the technology or kids' short attention spans, in my opinion.

Grockit is very easy to use and has a user friendly interface. It lets its users search for a YouTube video and once found, they can then both watch the video and use the right side panel to write their questions or comments. They can then share this page using a generated URL with their students or colleagues.

"atr is packed with features designed to foster the levels of engagement you would normally associate with a social game. We've got everything from a non-linear interface, to a heavyweight Experience Points and Levels system, through to Social Curation features and lots more in between. You can find out more about these features by exploring the links on the left, but first, allow us to answer a very important question."

teacher and student accounts are free!

A very complete list of Google Earth Activities