NYSRA 2010

Supercool. Can't wait to input some words and try this out.

This website has information on keyboarding (techniques, strategies, games) and PPt. FREE.

Locating similar websites can be a challenge--here's a quick way to seek alternative websites. Looks interesting! Good to share with kids too. I think it could be described as a targeted search engine.

Blog about tools for drawing diagrams--free ones as well as paid ones. I particularly like (Inspiration--$ because you can hyperlink and save as a Word document with hyperlinks too--as well as bubbl.us--free.

Scholastic website with lots of tools and curriculus for 4-12th grades. Digital curriculum to flesh out your units of study.

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American Museum of Natural History--great interactive website with lots of science and social studies information and games.. Kids can post questions. Appropriate for CA 7-12.

Student multimedia book projects. Might have potential.

Thinkfinity (which is supported by Verizon only) provides educational resources, lesson plans and more. There are professional development opportunities within the website (e.g., workng with refugee families), though there is no information on the background of the presenters nor whether these reflect professional literature. Nevertheless, looks interestng.

Henry Jenkins, MIT, issues with digital literacy not allowed in schools nor is collaborative learning, school issues--lack of access to Youube, etc

Recommendations for back channeling (networking computers for real-time online conversations while presentation/video is happening). Interesting possibilities. Twitter and more.

Creating online books--could develop and save with screencasting program (line screencast-o-matic).

graphical knowldege engine; might be useful in classroom to compare books, etc. More recently I tried inserting term (community) and was impressed with the automatically generated web/semantic map.

NAEP and assessment of technology skills.

easy stopwatch to use!

New Media Literacies website--recommend this group to anyone interested in web 2.0 and more.

Kim Yaris kyaris@literacy-builders.com, www.literacy-builders.com This is a very cool site to find words with similar meanings. Type in a word and then a visual web of words with similar meanings.

Source for podcasting sound effects. Lots of informaton on podcasting too.

Participation (in class) with new mouse mischief--will work if students have access to computer during PPt. Curious to see this in action.

Grockit is an online social learning community--good for test preparation for SAT, ACT, GRE etc. Of course, they are trying to get you to purchase theiri online test preparation program. Might be helpful to persons working with secondary learners.