Saint Joseph College Bookmark Sharing

Poll Everywhere is a quick way to take a class poll to stimulate discussion. Responses can be sent via cell phones, Twitter, or web browser. Results can be displayed using PowerPoint, Keynote or the web. Showing results can provoke discussion. Can be used in any discipline and most any grade.

If you have not used LiveBinder, take a look at this LiveBinder. If you are already using it, review the binder and perhaps add it to your shelf in LiveBinders for future reference.

Critical Thinking: A Necessary Skill in the Age of Spin http://t.co/9uWBTfvS

Lisa Dabbs offers 10 women who are teachers and educators who offer much to others (students, other teachers, etc.). She celebrates them in honor of March, Women's History Month. Aviva Dunsinger, Shannon Miller, and Shelly Terrell are among those included.

Provides descriptions of alternative sites to use to find videos for use with students. Lots of options. 

Recommendations of tools to use to build a classroom or school website--all free tools. Includes Google Sites, Weebly, and Yola.

Wow! Lots of resources here. Plenty to explore. The digital storytelling tools are grouped by categories. Best of all, Byrne offers description of each and immediate links. Love that he did this with Google Sites. So easy to read and use to link to the sites.

An exciting blog maintained by 5th graders. Very interactive, colorful, and inspiring.

An example of a blog post from a blog created and used in a 5th grade class. Shows how Blogger can be used to showcase students' projects.

Blog post that guides you through My StoryMaker My StoryMaker is an easy digital storytelling tool that works great with beginners.

Find out about Class Connect a way for teachers store lesson ideas and instructional materials. This is Richard Byrne's blog post about. 

This is a helpful list of resources, with brief descriptions of each. A good number of these resources are growing in popularity. Resources are categorized: devices, lesson planning, classroom resources, learning management systems, and cloud resources.

Some quick tips to share with others regarding commonly made grammar mistakes. Presented in a lively fashion.

The new teacher wiki gives information about its Twitter chat #ntchat. Lisa Dabbs moderates the chat. This wiki was also nominated for on the best ediucational wikis in 2010.

An outline creator for writing papers. This tool might be helpful for linear thinkers. It provides a formula approach to writing that some might like.

Explains what a URL shortener does, why to select bitly.com as your URL shortener, and the overall advantages of being able to shorten a URL into fewer characters. This shortening is particularly helpful for long cumbersome URLs.

A wonderful example of a collaborative blog project in which students submit blogs about what they learned on a given day. Wonderful way for students to showcase their learning.

Great list of Twitter chats from @cybraryman1 Find hashtags of relevance and check to see if specific groups also have scheduled weekly chat.

It's All About The Hashtag: Good overview about hashtags help educators use and search Twitter for resources.