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Stories about time: Interactive timeline tools. This is a helpful resource that outlines a variety of timeline tools that could be used educationally.

This is a cool site to checkout and bookmark the tools that you may be able to use at some point. Timelines are great in that they provide a way for students to organize their thinking about a particular topic. Check out some of the timeline tools outlined in this link.

100+ google tricks that will save you time in school provides lots of great tips.

"TimeGlider is a data-driven interactive timeline application built on the (Adobe) Flash platform. You can "grab" the timeline and drag it left and right, and zoom in and out to view centuries at a time or just hours. TimeGlider allows you to create event-spans so that you can see durations and how they overlap. Being web-based, TimeGlider lets you collaborate and share easily. You can create timelines about the last year of your family, the last century of world events, or about pre-historical (bce/bc) times. Currently, one can zoom out to a scope of millenia:"

Timelines are great ways for students to organize and present information.

"Science News for Kids is a web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14. Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials. Our emphasis is on making the Web site appealing by offering kids opportunities to comment on and grade the subject matter, get ideas for science projects, and try out mathematical puzzles. At the same time, we offer teachers creative ways of using science news in their classrooms."

Strategies, resources, and tips from the NY Times (with lots of links to materials they provide + update) on teaching strategies for informational text to meet the demands of new common core standards.

" Groupboard Groupboard is a free online shared whiteboard and chat app that can be easily embedded into your website. It works on any web browser including iPhone, iPad and Android with no downloads or plugins required. Groupboard has been used by universities, online tutors, architects, designers and artists since 1998 for distance learning, collaborative design and online doodling! 2- Concept Board 3- Scribblar Scribblar is another great whiteboard tool that is perfect for online tutoring. It is actually used by teachers, students, and schools in over 25 countries. 4- Twiddla Twiddla is a real-time online collaboration tool. Its beauty is in its simplicity and accessibility: no plug-ins or downloads, no need to work around complex firewalls, no advanced scheduling. 5-Vyew Vyew allows you to meet and share content in real-time or anytime. Upload images, files, documents and videos into a room. Users can access and contribute at anytime. 6- Skrbl Simple and easy online multi user whiteboard, start skrbl, give out your URL & start working together. Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space. There are no new tools to learn, nothing to download, nothing to install. 7- Web Whiteboard Web Whiteboard is a simple online tool for writing and drawing together with other people. It is optimized for instant access and ease of use. You might also like: Personal Learning Networks: A Short Guide for Teachers ... RealtimeBoard A Great Tool for Visual Collaboration A Great App to Track and Find Your Misplaced or Lost iPad Ed Tech Terminology and Concepts Teachers Should Know About Linkwithin Newer Post Older Post Home Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest RSS Email Educators Technology Follow On "

"The Best Resources For Learning Research & Citation Skills September 24, 2009 by Larry Ferlazzo | 8 Comments This "The Best…" list is sort of a combination of two lists I had been thinking of making to go along with The Best Online Resources To Teach About Plagiarism (Another list to keep in mind might be The Best Reference Websites For English Language Learners - 2008). The more I thought about it, though, the more I felt that a list of engaging (and even fun) sites to teach research skills and accessible citation resources would make a good combination. Since a graduation requirement in our district is that seniors need to develop a "Senior Project," I've spent some time finding these kinds of helpful sites that might be accessible to English Language Learners.  I have to say, though, that these sites (except for the first one) would probably only be accessible to more advanced ELL's. Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learning Research And Citation Skills: LEARNING RESEARCH SKILLS:"

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There are numerous videos that are history related. This site would have some materials that would possibly work to introduce science topics as well. There are a number of timeline.tv links about disease, plague, medicine of medieval times, etc. Very interesting material.

Graphic Map as its name suggests is designed to help students and teachers in their writing and reading activities. It works according to an evaluative system that charts the high and low points related to a certain item or group of items like : chapters in a book , sums of money, events during a span of time, scenes in a play.

Splash allows, for free, users to create an event. Users can track RSVP in real-time. Splash can be connected to the hosts' twitter feed to pull in relevant #conversations to bring your page to life.

Interesting tool. I have bookmarked an example of splash as well as this direct link to spash.

This is a cool Public Domain Review. Users can go on and browse by medium, images, books, film, audio or by time period.

Karl Fisch's blog post 12/7/2008 a website where students (or anyone) can practice building their vocabulary and at the same time donate rice to the United Nations World Food Program. Additonal subjects include Art, Chemistry, English, Geography, Languages, and Math.

This site contains beginner math worksheets, advanced math worksheeets, spanish words, pre-school activities, time activities, geography activities and organization activities.

This site has a variety of connent area resources and activities.

"TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and safe classroom use of Web 2.0 . Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus."

Teacher's first look like an interesting place for teachers to locate a variety of resources for teaching. As you will see by the home page a corporate partner with this site is ISTE which is the International Society for Technology in Education.

"The objective of this site is to provide teachers with source materials, lesson plans and classroom activities for all grades K-12. This site is designed to help busy teachers use their time efficiently. The indexed websites are not organized by grades as each website listed may have several resources for different ages. If you want to discover how to become a teacher you can check our career guide."

Are you a tired teacher then here's the site for you.

Both of these presentations are excellent. If you have whiteboard or clickers in your school or use promethean software you will learn so much from Deb Pickerings presentation. I recommend that everyone take time to review these archived presentations.

Excellent keynote speakers. I highly recommend these archived presentations.

Moderately challenging United States map review. Students must drag states to their correct location (not labeled); judged both on accuracy and time.

Making Greate Photographs Memorable pictures are made using time-tested techniques, methods -- and, yes, even tricks. To help photographers of all stripes up their game, LIFE.com launched a series of "lessons" on photography, focusing on elemental aspects of picture-taking. Focusing on themes like portraits, lighting, composition, and taking travel pictures, these galleries provide simple, straightforward answers to some of the most common questions about "how to make great pictures."

Interesting site, please share with anyone who may be interested.

The purpose of this resource is to provide "Just in Time" training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Eductional Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should prossess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discuver what studetns need in order to meet the NETS for Students.

This site is really nice. Many of the things we talked about in the grad class are covered here but the really nice thing about this site is that it take the NETS-T that we used and makes a connection to Marzano's 9 (Classroom Instruction that Works) and 21 things. It is really interesting. On the home page check out the two downloads of 21things and Marzano. On the right if you click on any of those categories, tools that can be used are presented. This is definitely one you will want to save in your own diigo library.