NYSRA 2010

Rubric Maker by Scholastic-great tool for assessment! Very easy to use.

Scholastic provides materials for teachers for dealing with grief.

Scholastic provides materials for teachers for dealing with grief.

Elementary students can make a difference many ways!

The kids-version of Facebook-at least that's what they are telling me. I need help with this one! I would like to add all of my students easily...guess I need to watch the video.

New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education. Lots of resources, many resources. Join for free.

Online mindmap that connects words. Recommended by Debbie Dermady.

NY Papers--serial story. Recommended by Debbie Dermady, President, NYS Reading Association.

Mohawk Regional Center (Model Schools) suggestions of helpful tools.

Cybersafety and more--very sensible blog. Rather than hiding behind AUPs (Acceptable Use Policies) and blocking of websites, this blog takes a broader view. For those of you at NYSRA who Donald Leu on 4/5/11, I think he'd like this blog entry.

Connect with teachers and students world wide--safe website. (Donald Leu is on their advisory board)

Interesting website--videos for web 2.0 by kids, field trips, how to make video...links to other websites. Lots of possibilities.

Recommended Web 2.0 tool--received award from Merlot in 2011, which is impressive!

You could have students create online books (upload images, etc) and then record with screencast (e.g., Jing or Screencast=o-matic_ for sharing.

Good recommendations from Harvard Ed Letter, including google sebsites and Weebly.

Great website to gather data...to to middle of page and click on Chart Creator. Excel made EASY!

Good basic introduction to social media from this blog. I like the suggested list by grade/educational level at the end.

Digital storytelling can be done collaboratively with this tool, which is free to download.

I just used this site/download with an iPod project in my classroom. It is probably the most important site I have found in years. The primes is simple and there are probably pleanty of other sites like it but.... WOW. You can drop your files into the dropbox and they are saved to the "cloud". Then amazingly they are on every computer ( or iPod) you have linked to the account. I entered my account info on the student iPods and made a folder for each student, when they were done with a project, they saved it to the folder. The great thing about this was i could access their assigment from anywhere, my home computer, my iPhone, another iPod in the class, the smart board...it was limitless, I could share it with anyone, no matter where I was...how powerful. I also made a folder of "mrs. Kondrick's resources" where I put videos, audios, assignments, rubrics etc, and then they could watch them/use them at their own pace ( so ethnic that works well with our individualized daily 5 reading block.

Livescribe (reviewed positively in NY Times 8-19-10) allows the writer to take notes that are translated to computer; can also record and play back. Lots of potential, though a bit pricey (around $200--probably will come down, if we are patient!).

I searching through our old posts and found this one. The pens have come down in price, I bought one last fall ($100). My principal also bought a dozen or so with multiple paper packs (an educator bundle). I am using them in the fourth grade tier 2 intervention group for fluency. The students use them to record their reading, then they can listen to them selves to determine expression, monitor their time, and answer comprehension questions (again listening if they need to). I use them in 6th grade for literature circles. The students initial when they talk, so I can go back and tap their initials and evaluate their questioning/discussion. Some of my teachers use them for running records to share with other teachers and parents too.

Trying to demonstrate how to read faster? Try Exercize, which is an online speed reading website. (lowest wpm = 100). Can change font, spacing between words and number of lines.