Content Literacy

Apps developed by the Civil War Trust to enhance visiting national battlefields, include informative videos, battle maps, historical information of the battles. Sponsored by Google and the History Channel

Tool for embedding documents into blog posts and web sites. 

Denise Finley's unique perspective on differentiating vocabulary instruction. 

This wikispace has been designed to help mathematics teachers and teacher leaders examine effective mathematics instruction, as outlined in the book Accessible Mathematics: Ten Instructional Shifts that Raise Student Achievement by Steven Leinwand. The suggestions are intended to serve as sample activities and discussion prompts for preparing all mathematics teachers to plan, teach, assess, and promote a mathematical learning environment that is considered "Common Core-ready."

Examining Exemplary Mathematics Instruction in Howard County Purpose: This wiki has been designed as a repository for resources and for sharing of ideas. Each of the seven visitation teams will have an opportunity to share reflections and pose questions for further analysis. This is a public wikispace so please respect norms related to confidentiality. Keep the conversations about the work...do not include school or teacher names.

Can they take on Blackboard or Moodle? Interesting layout and design. I've not used with students, but they are trying to make a presence at ISTE this summer.

Very interesting digital book interface.

Nice little article to learn how to use Google Search more effectively. 

Edutopia resources for improving student performance. 

Interesting site that compiles explanations via animation and video. Worth considering as an information source. 

Read Steve Fulton's approach to researching with his middle school students as they were reading the Hunger Game. I love his approach to incorporating the book, what students already knew, Diigo for sharing, summarizing, and gathering data, and then the writing process. In my opinion, this is how it should be, the focus is on writing not the use of technology. The technology just helps achieve the goal more effectively. 

If anyone is looking to have students create digital products, this is a great site to consider as an option for students. Create 3D popup books that students can use to tell their story and share. 

Nice collection of iPad in school resources and knowledge base for someone beginning or wanting to implement/integrate iPads into the classroom. 

Interesting image sharing App/Site that uses a cell phone App to share nature images with geolocation information. Very much like the citizen journalist movement that mobile devices has caused. We now can have citizen naturalists gathering information and sharing real-time. 

MyBrainshark.com is the perfect solution for the shyer set. Audio narration can be added through this website, as well as some nice background music for effect.

What mathematical competencies must a teacher have to teach the subject well? This has proven difficult to investigate (1). A current view is that teachers' knowledge of mathematics "remains inert in the classroom unless accompanied by a rich repertoire of mathematical knowledge and skills relating directly to the curriculum, instruction, and student learning" (2). Unfortunately, there is no consensus on which "knowledge and skills" might activate teachers' inert knowledge. Two perspectives prevail, neither with a research base that enables strong claims about practice. The majority of current studies focus on explicit knowledge of curriculum content and instructional strategies. Such knowledge might be assessed directly through observation, interview, or written test (2), with a parallel research emphasis on the formal contents of teacher education programs [e.g., (3)]. A second school of thought, presented here, is that the most important competencies tend to be tacit, like skills involved in playing concert piano, learned but not necessarily available to consciousness.

Great music clip library for use in presentations and podcasts. 

Great presentation from Chris Lehman. What makes this presentation so powerful (besides the nice clean design) is the actual projects that are part of SLA. 

Create your own infographics, easily.