Mentor High School Shared Resources

Self-Organized Learning Environments (SOLEs) are created when educators and/or parents encourage kids to work as a community to answer their own vibrant and challenging questions by using the internet.

Type in what you are passionate about and how much time you have to spend and you will find a campaign you can help with. Good resource for PBL maybe.

"CaptureCast is a free Chrome extension that enables you to create screencast videos on your Chromebook. With CaptureCast installed you can record everything that you display on your Chromebook's screen. The CaptureCast extension gives you the option to record your sound. An option to record yourself through your webcam is also offered in CaptureCast. In fact, you could choose to just record your webcam and sound to make a video blog entry."

"Watchkin is a free service that allows you to watch and project YouTube videos without seeing the related sidebar content typically seen on YouTube.com. Watchkin can be used in a few ways. You can enter the direct URL of a video into Watchkin to have the sidebar content removed. You can search for videos through Watchkin and have family-friendly results displayed (if a video appears that is not family-friendly Watchkin has a mechanism for flagging it as inappropriate). Watchkin also offers a browser bookmarklet tool that you can click while on YouTube.com to have the related content disappear from the page."

A collaborative tool for making online music and podcasts

What a great way to get your students reading non-fiction content related articles in your classroom, while making a game of it!

A socially-curated discovery engine of websites, mobile apps, desktop programs, and electronic products for teaching and learning.

The web provides limitless opportunities for learning, creating, sharing, and exploring the depths of human knowledge. But it is also an unsafe arena where one needs to be equipped with the needed tools and know-how to better stay safe and browse the net securely. As parents and teachers, we need to teach our students about the basics of staying safe online and luckily there are several resources to help you do that. Google Safety Centre is one of the best of them.

Pronunciation, translate text, translate speech, translate handwriting, translate documents, save translations to a phrasebook

"Write clearly using only 1,000 commonly used words"

Filter &refine search, get better results, search within a site, find public data, search by file type, exclude words,

Essay Map, graphic map, and compare and contrast map