Content Literacy

I like the idea of this post. Find four or five sources of information, invite students to read, and reflect critically on what they read. I like the idea that it promotes the use of individual writers, allows the teacher to select the sources, gives the students some choice, and includes a very strong use of technology.

I think a great way of getting students involved in a discussion about a topic. I like the premise of this idea. I wonder about using this with SS or ELA or Humanities content areas.

Part of the wonderful NASA information on the web.

Showcase poster sessions

The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology.

Great tool for creating dynamic timelines. Easy to use with great examples. Here's an example that a teacher uses with his English class http://mhsenglish10.wikispaces.com/Early+Am+Lit

The art of personal storytelling. Great how to resource in PDF form on the site

Digital Story telling examples including Scott County Kentucky's DS examples

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

A service of Internet Archive ( www.archive.org ) to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections. Constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.

Web site dedicated to students, teachers, parents, and the general public-to read milestone documents, consider their meaning, discuss them, and decide which are the most significant and why. This initiative creates a number of ways to do that-through classroom activities and competitions, and votes.

Great social studies resource. Lots of PRIMARY SOURCE material, as well as models for how to link to material, write secondary accounts that use primary sources. Great teacher resource!

Fairly interactive, some primary source pictures, some primary source material. A great example of how a timeline can be used to show the flow of related events or just things that happen when.

Interesting discussion of how to deal with plagarism by teaching students to include links to material, giving credit for the thought and including their own perspective of why it's important. Plagarism is not going away, so how do we teach our students about how to deal with it.

A nice balance of videos from instructional point of view and from student product point of view. Worth looking at for the specific content examples as well.

Original Web 2.0 description by Tim O'Reilly 2005.

MIT Open Courseware. A great way for students to access material that may not be presented at their level anywhere else. For that matter a great place for teachers to brush up and expand their thinking. I spent about an hour on the combinatorics course developed by an MIT student for high school math students who are 'bored' by high school math classes. If you are interested, it pushed my understanding pretty quickly!