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iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » What do you love: Google's multi-search se... - 0 views

  • What it is: What do you love is a nifty little search space from Google
  • With What do you love, students can type in a search term and instantly get results grid-style from Google images, create an alert, find patents, look at trends, email someone about the topic, explore the search in 3d with SketchUp, find books, watch videos, translate into 57 languages, organize a debate, find blog posts, maps, call someone, start a discussion group, plan an event, view it in Google Earth, create a instant bookmark to the search, or make the search mobile. 
  • This is a super way to help students organize and view information and options for sharing from one place. How to integrate What do you love into the classroom:  What do you love is a great tool for helping students learn about how searches work.  Students can instantly see a variety of search options and can begin comparing/contrasting results from the different streams.  Ask students to consider which types of searches lend themselves to each type of search (images, video, web, blogs, maps, etc.).  It is nice to have a one-stop shop of search results all within one page like this.  Students can quickly look at the top items from each available stream and decide from that one point which option best fits their search needs.
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  • Tips: Fair warning, this is a search engine.  You can’t always guarantee that what a student searches will come up with appropriate results.  I often remind students that if they come across anything that makes them feel scared, uncomfortable, or confused they should tell a trusted adult so that we can sit down and help them work through what they found and offer recommendations for a better search.
Tracy Watanabe

grmr.me - 1 views

shared by Tracy Watanabe on 04 Nov 13 - No Cached
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    Darcy Goshorn said, "Innovative mashup of grammar instruction and digital badging." The work of a writing instructor never ends. Grmr.me can cut down on that work and improve student learning by providing instruction on common writing errors rather than simple correction. We call the most common errors writing felonies. Each writing felony has a video that demonstrates how to identify the error and how to correct it. Below each video are interactive quizzes that confirm a topic is mastered. Writers who pass the assessments earn a badge.
Tracy Watanabe

WordSift - Visualize Text - 2 views

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    Creates a word cloud -- great for theme and word choice Then creates interactive word cloud -- with clickable words -- select a word and the visual word map thesaurus shows up, plus quotes and main ideas, plus research and encyclopedia info about that word. Try putting in a speech or other text ... it will identify main themes based on most frequent use of words... or will identify word choice... or use for vocabulary...
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    Creates a word cloud -- great for theme and word choice Then creates interactive word cloud -- with clickable words -- select a word and the visual word map thesaurus shows up, plus quotes and main ideas, plus research and encyclopedia info about that word. Try putting in a speech or other text ... it will identify main themes based on most frequent use of words... or will identify word choice... or use for vocabulary...
Tracy Watanabe

Managing Student Work in Google Apps | AJUSD Campus Blogs - 0 views

  • This is absolutely awesome for managing student work in Google Apps. Doctopus allows you to share a document with your entire class without having to share individually and without having to place it in the Template Gallery. Plus, it collects all of the data in one spreadsheet! You can share the document for the whole class to work on it, for group work, or for individual work.
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    This is the best way I've seen to manage distributing assignments and collecting them in Google Apps. No more need to share a doc, the script will do it for you. Then it will send it out to each individual student (or groups), and keep it in a nice folder for you. No more searching your email or Google Docs to see if it was completed...
Tracy Watanabe

The Digital Curriculum Part 2… Nine Amazing Free Digital Curriculum Resources... - 0 views

  • First… lets take a look at the free  (or almost free) resources provided below
  • 1. Khan Academy As the site states… watch, practice… learn almost anything. There are over 3,100 videos in multiple STEM areas
  • You also may wish to look for videos or activities using the Common Core at any level of math by exploring Khan’s Common Core Page.
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  • 2. MIT Blossoms BLOSSOMS video lessons are enriching students’ learning experiences in high school classrooms for students across the globe. This amazing video library contains over 50 math and science lessons, all freely available to teachers as streaming video and Internet downloads and as DVDs and videotapes
  • The lessons intersperse video instruction with planned exercises that engage students in problem solving and critical thinking, helping students build the kind of gut knowledge that comes from hands-on experience. By guiding students through activities from beginning to end, BLOSSOMS lessons give students a sense of accomplishment and excitement. You can even check these lessons out by standards.
  • 3. Curriki  This is the community of K12 open resources. Currently Curriki has 6.5 million users and contains over 40,000 K12 free learning resources
  • You may also wish to explore Wikijunior, a project  to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12
  • 5. HippoCampus This amazing resource claims to be teaching with the power of media. HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE)
  • 6. WikiBooks Welcome to a collection of open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit. The Wikibooks collection currently contains 2,443 books with 40,980 pages.
  •  Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals
  • As a general rule only instructional books are suitable for inclusion
  • 4. NROCK The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement
  • Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together
  • 7. CK12 Interactive Book I bring this amazing resource up because it is a a relatively new initiative. The community at CK12 Flexbooks and Wolfram Alpha have combined efforts to bring you this awesome Interactive Algebra Book. 
  • 8. Flexbooks I did include this in the last post but wanted to make sure it was added to the list. So… what is a FlexBook?  They may be best described as customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12 education. FlexBooks are customizable textbooks that teachers can use online,via  flash drives, CD’s, or as printed books.
Tracy Watanabe

Six Vocabulary Visits | What Else - 0 views

  • 1. Listening Vocabulary
  • Did you know about these free audiobook sites for children?
  • What about student research and reading online?
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  • Where do you see these fitting in?
  • 2. High Frequency Words
  • 3. Academic Vocabulary:12 words
  • One way to learn words is through flashcards and learner-friendly glossaries.
  • Other Flashcard Apps:
  • 4. Academic Vocabulary: Content Words
  • 5. Improving Vocabulary
  • 6. Sharing Vocabulary
  • 7. Listening Vocabulary
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