CVSD Secondary Group

The new site is loaded with lots of great content including images, videos, tours, maps and tutorials on how to get started with Google Earth. We invite you to explore the new site, starting with these five areas:

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TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. On TED.com, we make the best talks from TED available to the world, for free. More than 700 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

This website is amazing. It is a maaaassive interactive list of web 2.0 tools, complete with links, tutorials, reviews, descriptions, strengths, weaknesses, and samples aimed directly at teachers. If you want to feel overwhelmed with possibilities, check it out. I've been trying to experiment with one or two things from their list each day and have already found a couple I'm in love with (see big think above).

The "YouTube" for big thinkers. Hosts a collection of video interview of experts on major world topics, easily embedded and shared.

Homepage for Common Core Initiative that houses information and links on the new standards adopted by Pennsylvania

Cool Text has over 1,200 fonts available for download or use with the generator.

Check out this fun font-maker!

Drag your mouse over cities of the world to view the front-pages of famous newspapers from today's date.

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

Useful tool for creating attractive headings for various websites. Insert text and the website will construct a series of images that spell out your heading.

A tool to create attractive headings and other images.

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

Animated map that presents all the conquerors of the Middle East from the past 5,000 years in just 90 seconds.

Online collection and databank on instructional tools, emphasizing resources that can be used to guide student thinking and understanding.

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

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

NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America's space agency. Great annotated photo gallery.

Blog post - downloadable poster about Moodle

Blog post - ELL resources

The literature life and times of Edgar Allan Poe

Interesting site on Edgar Allan Poe for anyone who works with poetry.

Physics Central - Learn how your world works.

Looks like an interesting site for all ages.

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.