Are you looking for standards-aligned electronic learning resources to help your students? Here, you can find free Educational Resources, reviews of Online Courses, and commercial Electronic Learning Resources.
I chose this resource for chapter 8 because on this site you can browse resources by subject area and grade level and read summaries and reviews by educators. This website is helpful when finding and evaluating software applications for a classroom.
" ...images are intrinsic to digital storytelling's communicative possibilities. Students use images to construct arguments connecting theory, history and story in their projects. " -The Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive
In the field of education, teachers and their students, from early childhood classrooms through graduate school, are using digital storytelling in many different content areas and across a wide range of grade levels.
This site presents digital essays, narratives, and interactive storytelling.
We chose this website because it gives information about how to create digital stories to show to your class. We thought it was a different way to teach material that many teachers may not think to do. We thought that because it is not very common that when digital stories are shown to the class, they will be more interested in the material that is being taught.
Your students are creating fantastic projects to show what they know. You can take their learning, and your ability to assess their achievement, to an even higher level using digital portfolios. Portfolios have long been a mainstay in the visual arts, where skill and expertise cannot be accurately represented by percentage points and letter grades.
This is an app that allows students to collaborate with one another to create a drawing. The app could also be used for students to communicate in other ways than face-to-face. The best part about this app is that students do not need to be sitting next to each other to create a drawing. Students from across the room could communicate through the app without discussing face to face. Allowing students the opportunity to express creativity in methods other than writing could increase students level of comfort with a specific material.
Andrew Marcinek has written a really good article on how to become a successful digital citizen and even provides specific skillsets at certain grade levels.
This page is a great example of a mastery level online classroom. Mrs. Marka uses this classroom webpage to post assignments, study guides, upcoming events, pictures of past events, quizzes, and links to other useful pages. She even created a login where a student can login into his/her personal account to view graded assignments. You can also send an email straight to Mrs. Marka if you have questions on an assignment, grade, or upcoming event.
This is a fairly simpler resource for evaluating information you uncover. The following is an example of this: the website includes the "5 W's" one should consider when validating a resource. These W's are who? What? When? Where? and why? Since this approach to questioning a source is obviously easier to understand and explain, it could be used for lower level classes to educate the kids on what to do BEFORE they use information or a source.
This is a rubric for teachers and students to check their information and resource they find whether achieve the objectives. This rubric rate 4 levels of outcome of information and resource. It helps students and teacher process effective evaluation.
This website contains different kinds of professional online databases such as ProQuest and EBSCO. It provides students search engine for different level of students. The elementary school teacher and student could use it as a portal to access the skill of information literacy and conducting online research.
I love this website because it's like a huge, online how-to guide on how to implement the use of iPads in your classroom. It has ideas for every age level and games that follow Bloom's Taxonomy.
This website contains many things centered around iPad use in the classroom. It has a list of K-12 iPad apps. It also has several ways for teachers to evaluate apps based on different criteria to see if the app is classroom worthy.
This is a website within classjump.com (collaboration tool) that one school created so teachers, faculty, students, and parents can collaborate and keep open lines of communication. From this site, you can view any teachers lesson plan for any particular class, as well as, get updated on upcoming events. Within this one site, there are many subpages that are easily organized so that any teacher, student, or parent can access the information they need. Assignments, payments, events, and many other things have been collaborated on this one website to make communication at any level much easier.
Completing class projects can be fun for your students, especially if they know exactly what is needed. Creating guidelines can be time-consuming though, so we've made a way for you to do it in no time! To make a project checklist for your students, first choose the grade level for the type of project you want your students to do.
A running record is a tool that helps teachers to identify patterns in student reading behaviors. These patterns allow a teacher to see the strategies a student uses to make meaning of individual words and texts as a whole. Running records, when paired with comprehension inquiry, can be used to identify an instructional reading level for individual students.