Cohort 21 Shared Resources

VideoNotes is a neat new tool for taking notes while watching videos. VideoNotes allows you to load any YouTube video on the left side of your screen and on the right side of the screen VideoNotes gives you a notepad to type on. VideoNotes integrates with your Google Drive account. By integrating with Google Drive VideoNotes allows you to share your notes and collaborate on your notes just as you can do with a Google Document. 

"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting."

Designing the Learning Environment for Mathematics and Literacy, K to 8 Imagine the ideal learning environment for today's learner. What would it look like? Think about how much the world has changed in the last three decades and how rapidly it will continue to change in the years to come. How do we ensure that the instruction we provide is responsive to the shifting demands of the 21 st century? Researchers and practitioners in a wide range of disciplines - early childhood and developmental education, psychology and cognitive science, school architecture and design - maintain that the key to learning in today's world is not just the physical space we provide for students but the social space as well(Fraser, 2012; Helm et al., 2007; OWP/P Architects et al., 2010). The learning environment, they suggest, is "the third teacher" that can either enhance the kind of learning that optimizes our students' potential to respond creatively and meaningfully to future challenges or detract from it. Susan Fraser, for example, writes: "A classroom that is functioning successfully as a third teacher will be responsive to the children's interests, provide opportunities for children to make their thinking visible and then fosterfurtherlearning and engagement." (2012, p. 67)

All things google, and all things demonstrated!

"MathleteBlogs.com is a resource for mathematics teachers to connect their math students with peers from around the globe to enhance their mathematical learning experience from K-12."

This is the article from Jen Bibby's recent post. She uses this to lay the foundation of her approach to French, but also to pose the question: what 21st century tools allow educators to access and compliment what we know about brain-based learning?

Month by Month program for Digital Citizenship with a different focus for each grade level.

"Monthly Digital Citizenship Themes"

Great resource that a former colleague created.

Mastering Twitter for the Tweet illiterate!

Easy to understand video for kids on copyright and using Creative Commons

An important part of Digital Citizenship is understanding copyright, especially when it comes to images. SO many students just pull images from any website with no regard for whether they are copyrighted or not. This article has a lot of information on "Copyright curriculum for kids".

Tips and tricks for using Google Forms

Justin posted this article in our Google+ community - this is a great opportunity to get some good conversation going around big ideas of the role of EdTech, and the role of teachers in the 21st Century educational arena!

I've used Google Docs for a collaborative writing project in Grade 6 French and can't say enough good things about it!

Interesting infographic on The Use of Social Media in Schools

Interesting infographic on what the digital classroom looks like

"Great new tool to help find the best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula rated for learning."