CVSD Secondary Group

Blog post - downloadable poster about Moodle

Mohamed Kharbach's blog post list about graphic organizers.

Pat, I loved this link. I added them to the CVSD diigos and to the LFS wiki.

A mneumonic Device is used to help memorize a string of words. For example Every Good Boy Dies Fine to remember the treble clef E, G, B, D, F.

mneumonic device tool, good one to share with the students

Provides information on instructional strategies that benefit a wide range of students. From the Saskatoon Public School Division.

seeks to educate children in grades four through six - tweens, in the parlance of marketing - about how advertising works so they can make better, more informed choices when they shop or when they ask parents to shop on their behalf.

A tool to create attractive headings and other images.

Create attractive headings for Moodles, Wikis, and other websites.

Creates 3D headings that are great for websites. Creates simple bubble letters.

Check out Jen Wagner's slideshare on ideas for using Wordle in the classroom.

Start you own book club. You can invite your friends. Have discussions online or in person. Find other people with similar book interest.

This is pretty cool. What a great way to share what you are reading with your friends. What a great way for kids to discuss their books. Wouldn't it be cook if a teacher could set up a club and invite their students to it to discuss what they are reading online.

Off the charts Karoke is a PBS site. You can create your own song or poem and music will be put to it and you can sing along.

An assortment of free power point presentations on a variety of topics.

Thanks for sharing this one. Looks like lots of ready to ppts.

Website - A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart below, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average.

The text that originated this movie was published on May 29, 1990 with the title "State of the Village Report", and it was written by Donella MEadows, who passed away in February 2000. The statistics have been updated based on specialized publications, and mainly reports on the world's population provided by different resources, like Un publications, PRB. org and others. Please see these statistics as a tendency, and not as accurate.

Something to think about regarding the global society.

I like this! Using for my 7th grade geography students and sharing with the rest of department.

With Google Earth, you can create awesome tours, taking viewers on a virtual trip from place to place. You can enhance your tours with narration, images, videos, text, and other types of information. The tours you create can even be embedded into a website.

How to get started using google earth.

Smithsonian's interactive exhibit on the history of Transportation in America.

Looks like an interesting site for those interested in history.

Interactive tool to aid inpoetry writing.

Interactive tool to aide in poetry writing.

Lots of web tools for K-12 classrooms. Like the fact that all the information is in this one resource.

Thanks Joy Weikert for sharing.

Compilation of Web 2.0 tools broken down into grade-level categories. Each tool is briefly described and links are provided.

Purdue University's online guide-book to successfully using the APA style in writing professional papers.

Excellent resource based on the 3-part documentary by the same. Includes a host of varied resources on race, focusing particularly on its history in America. Wonderful interactives, background readings, and plenty to explore.

Mathalicious is really cool site. Users select their math topic and then are given real life situations where the math is used. It appears each situation comes with a complete lesson plan, with essential questions and all informtion that the teacher will need. The lessons are not just for math teachers but go across varied content topics, but relate back to math.

Cool site. Mathalicious connects math to real-life activities by providing complete lessons for teachers.