Group items tagged

This is a collection of links to resources and helpful sites for teachers. We hope that this list will grow and become useful for our students, faculty, partners and alumni!

Used by the Spalding bookstore for custom course packetes

Allows you to work online to create or use a SMART Notebook file.

Sample classroom Web sites Academically and intellectually sound, including meaningful information, activities, and links Thematically and artistically coordinated using common backgrounds and structures that link your site together graphically and thematically Interactive, including WebQuests, electronic communities, and other activities for students Attractive and appropriate material for your students, their parents, and your teaching colleagues Relevant and marketable: includes a portfolio of your professional work and accomplishments How do I create a classroom Web site?

Open Education Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials freely available online for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner. Examples of OER include: full courses, course modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab and classroom activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and many more resources contained in digital media collections from around the world.

July 25, 2013 By: David Kapuler A "Flipped Classroom" is a classroom that uses class time to do activities/lessons (guided by the teacher) and "homework" time for guided instruction, usually through video. Basically, it turns a classroom upside down: the learning of a topic is done at home and then the applied practice or work is done at school.

Millennials live and breathe on social media, so teachers are learning how to incorporate the medium into the classroom successfully. In doing so, teachers not only encourage students to engage actively in the material, but they also provide online communities for students that might not exist for them in real life.

Bringing technology into the classroom almost always comes with a learning curve. Some teachers joke that their students picked up tech skills more easily than they did, and others still just don't get the training they need to effectively use the technology tools that they are given for their classrooms. So when you get an iPad (or iPads) for your classroom, what do you do now?

thanks jan this is great!

Thanks Terri. I really like Diigo a lot as it is such a great way to spread the word about wonderful resources like these. I also like the weekly blog/digest that is sent it. I find it very helpful.

3-ring binders--the mainstay of education for decades--now seem clunky, heavy, unwieldy even.. You never have a whole punch when you need one so you end up forcing holes into the margin. The rings break or bend and then the pages don't turn properly, and still you persevere, using them even as your younger colleagues abandon...

In Intelligence Reframed Howard Gardner contends that "literacies, skills, and disciplines ought to be pursued as tools that allow us to enhance our understanding of important questions, topics, and themes." Today's readers become literate by learning to read the words and symbols in today's world and its antecedents.

Tell stories using graphics.

create videos that have dynamic look and feel. Great resource to use throughout the whole year.

The link to the resource as well as helpful information on its use appear in this blog.

Watch2gether is a neat site through which you can watch YouTube videos and host text chats about them at the same time. I've written about the service in the past, but it just got a facelift so I'd like to point it out again. It is really quite easy to use Watch2gether.