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Professional for K-12 teachers Reading comprehension strategies and activities to prepare students for state tests- without "without teaching to the test", presented by Mary Blow. Includes a blog area. Classroom Connection: * Refer to and practice various types of questions daily and across all content areas so students are familiar with them for the test--as well as a life skill * Use "think pair share" to review homework, questions from assignments. * Use blog to communicate with other teachers about strategies to prepare students for state tests *K-2 teachers- begin to use strategies and teminologies with younger kids to familiarize them

k-12-Professional Virtual tours of reading and writing workshops---14 videos of all components of reading/writing workshops Classroom Connections: * Use videos to see how to set up your classroom for reading writing workshops * Use videos to see how to conduct a reading and writing workshop, as well as conferences and sharing * Use blog to communicate with other educators to learn more about managing a reading/writing workshop

Create your own timeline and publish to your blog or website

7-12 With plot diagrams becoming a thing of the past. Students can now use timelines instead to outline the plot of a story. There is rarely one clear climax or one moment of resolution. Now students can explore plot further using timelines. One drawback is that it seems that these timelines are most popular for factual information. For ELA, this can be done as a pre-reading strategy, but the plot outline would be for fictitious stories.

K-12 Great for a class/ group collaboration in and outside of the classroom and great for personal use! Con: District permission, public to everyone, anyone can add or delete information.

Grade Level: 6-12 I think some of my best ideas were ones that were scaffolded off of another teacher's website. This link is to a high school video production in none other than Hollywood, CA. It is set up in the style of a blog, so you can take note of daily activities in their classroom as they happen. This may or may not spark an idea in your own classroom.

K-12 Secure online class forum for teachers and students to extend learning outside of the traditional classroom. Con: Probably need your district's permission.

3-12 Students and teachers can create an online poster and also collarborate. Con: Everyone must register to use and must watch for bullying.

K-12 Online drawing easel. Students can draw anything and everything and then share it! Free, no registration. Con: No limit to what students can draw.

3-12 Teachers and students can create or search voicethreads. Images, videos, documents can be uploaded and students can collarborate and/or add comments to voicethreads. Cons: must register and limited access for Free version.

6-12 A social networking site, similar to Twitter, but for educators. Teachers can sign up for Free. Cons: need district permission.

I found this site while browsing the web and it is very cool. I like analogies and this site has some great ones.