Content Literacy

Site for students to practice their listening and typing skills. It's not an easy task typing words correctly while listening. the site does a good job of repeating information. Might be worth having students use as a practice tool. 

Great online science resources. Yes that's YouTube in the list, there are some great videos on YouTube. 

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

Great starting point for a research project on the civil war. Start here, then introduce different states' declarations of cause. Great way of laying a foundation for the cause of the war before studying all of the generals, battles, and treaties. 

Great site for Google Map overlays. Very versatile and has lots of different overlays. 

y version draws upon collections of photos specified by a tag in flickr. You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures.

From NASA, what more do you need to know. Everything that humans have done to explore the solar system....

Let's give students learning tasks that tell them, "You can be as smart as you want to be." Great article on changing the mindset of American mathematics students from smart kid.s are smart rather than smart kids work hard to be smart. 

Some interesting wordle resources. 

Sqworl is an online bookmarking tool that saves a screen capture of each page you bookmark. To help you organize your bookmarks, you can create multiple groups of bookmarks in your Sqworl account. Should you choose to share your bookmarks you can share one or all of your bookmarks groups via the unique urls Sqworl assigns to each group.

"sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world's visual language" The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.

Great blog for understanding some of the do's and don'ts associated with blogging in the classroom. The rest of the blog has a lot of interesting posts on edublogging as well. If you are a beginner to blogging with students, this is a great place to start the development of your routine. 

If you teach science, you've got to get this into your curriculum! How often does a chance like this come along? 

Great ideas for using Evernote. 

Census at School is an international classroom project that engages students in grades 4-12 in statistical problemsolving. Students complete a brief online survey, analyze their class census results, and compare their class with random samples of students in the United States and other countries.

Digital library for Earth system education with grade level and content resources. 

Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Response to Intervention (RtI) for Elementary and Middle Schools

Online map that supports the USGS wall map. The site has several different layers, and map perspectives to choose from. 

http://inderscience.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&eissn=1746-7268&volume=1&issue=2&spage=159 The purpose of this study is to identify the benefits that mobile technology can provide in education. From a review of the literature and interviews with individuals in the field of education, we developed an activitybased model to associate the uses of mobile technology with their benefits. The model first identifies the general uses of mobile technology in education and the specific activities that they encompass. Then, the benefits from their uses are identified with overarching themes emerging as follows: greater efficiencies and effectiveness in learning, increased individual support and opportunities for personal development, better methods of collaborating and communicating and greater exposure to technology.