This website allows students to explore art and it's history. This is good for students to learn more about the arts because it will give them more information than what will be taught in the classroom.
BrainPOP is an interactive website where students can learn information about all subject areas taught in school through videos and games. The information conveyed in the lessons could give students a new perspective about content they are learning or challenge students who understand the content to apply it in new ways. The website includes videos, games, assignments, and quizzes for teachers to implement in their classroom.
CyberWise is a source for adults (parents and teachers) who are seeking online safety and education information that will help them educate kids. It offers videos, tutorials, and lesson plans.
This website explores the difference between projects and project based learning. Projects can represent a range of tasks that can be done at home or in the classroom that, quickly or over time. Project Based Learning according to this website features project and focuses on how learning and the product itself.
This website contains a tab for information, but it also has a tab for parents which is different compared to other websites explored. It also features a tab for teacher development talking about a conference for teachers to help with PBL.
Differentiated assessment is an ongoing process of evaluation where the teacher gathers information and data before, during, and after instruction to better facilitate the learning. This process ensures success for all students in the differentiated class with data provided from a variety of sources assisting in giving an overall view of student achievement.
Differentiated assessment is an ongoing process of evaluation where the teacher gathers information and data before, during, and after instruction to better facilitate the learning.
This website gives several examples that teachers can use for assessing.
I thought this was a nice resource for ideas to differentiate your assessments. One of the items for fair assessment was many different kinds of measures. This source provides you with a lot of good ideas as well as cool activities
This site is good because it tells us about behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism learning theories. It explains different significant learning trends, and gives us some basic background information.
This tool is primarily for teachers. The website informs teachers on different projects they can use in the classroom, explains the theory and background knowledge needed to teach project based lessons, and shows them the teaching concepts they can use in order to teach the project based learning lesson.
Resource #4: I enjoyed this resource because it can be paired with the brain pop video in resource #3. This quiz can be used to inform students about digital etiquette and test their knowledge for what is and is not acceptable when communicating with technology.
An example of a wiki created for your classroom to retrieve information from. Perhaps one could be created where the students can edit the entries as well?
" ...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.
I chose this resource for chapter 7- Web Resources for Teaching and Learning, because it provides a "new" interactive method for teacher-student learning. This source provides information for everything you need to know to help engage both the teacher and the students more.
You can use this tool to quickly make assessments for your class. The assessments are interactive and you can look at the data from your students after
Another good resource for making portfolios from the textbook. It shows the benefits of going digital with portfolios and integrating technology into them. There are also various examples.
Many educators require student portfolios because they are an ideal way to get students to reflect upon their learning. To create portfolios, however, students must spend a lot of time managing th...
Many educators require student portfolios because they are an ideal way to get students to reflect upon their learning.
Shows student why portfolios are going digital, and the benefits of them going digital.
Welcome to the Carnegie Cyber Academy, the most prestigious cyber defense training facility in the world.
At the Academy, we train our cadets in online safety so that they can protect themselves and others from the attacks of malicious Cyber Villains. The Internet is a growing part of our daily lives. It is my hope that future generations will be able to continue exploring Cyberspace in a safe and secure way.