Saint Joseph College Bookmark Sharing

Literacy strategies can be used by more than just English teachers

Useful chat-room for a class, temporary

PDF for NETS-Teacher for ease of access

These are e-books that Deb Norton's students wrote. The students are looking for comments from EDUC 584 students. Please consider taking a long. It would be good to see what students create with ebooks.

The comments are as valuable read as the article itself--presents varied viewpoints and responses to Common Core Movement.

Lots of excellent resources by subject area and other areas such as music, study helpers, and test motivation. 

from Jerry Blumgarten aka Cybrary Man

Pew Research study about technology use in US classrooms. Helpful to see the statistics from a large-scale study, which indicates increased use of technology in the classroom.

Example of KidBlog by 1st graders

Leah Mermelstein's blog

I received a professional development with Leah Mermelstein and she does a great job explaining reader's and writer's workshop.

Another digital story telling tool.

Photo prompts for writing and discussion. 

Audioboo recordings can be posted with KidBlog.

A site for finding and downloading high quality photos for use in projects. These photos have been entered into the public domain and the user can use them freely, though the Pixabay site might be acknowledged as well as the photographer who took the photo.

Another class blog that is part of a spring 2013 QuadBlogging project. Looks as though all the schools are focusing on the weather in their parts of the world. An easy and effective way to teach geography and comparable skills. 

Online sites for creating videos so no software is needed. I have used WeVideo, which has gotten better apparently since I last tested it last month. Use Animoto regularly, but need to watch the pacing and slow down the videos. Zimmer Twins is fun site. Need to play with it more. Have used Screenr and other screencast tools, but Screenr is one I abandoned in favor of other options. More options for using online sites to create videos continue to pop up. 

PixnTell app is free and looks easy to use for creating digital stories.

great quiz questions