Summer 2012 Ed Psych Group

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The NASA Kids Club website contains excellent video and other resources to connect to Science lessons. http:__www.nasa.gov_audience_forkids_kidsclub_flash_index.html Also, this link for Educators is great. http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html You can find links to teaching resources, NASA TV, and others information. I also joined the NASA Educators Online Network and I get emails from them about webcasts, and chat sessions as well as other events. I had a class come in the library last year and chat with an astronaut about what we were learning.

This site is great and really growing. Since I helped Tina Cross write the grant to implement this, I am a little biased. Teachers in Muscogee County, at CSU, and employees at the Coca Cola Space Science Center as well as some others have created some incredible vodcasts that can be used in the classroom. They are already connected to the standards and are checked for accuracy of content. Teachers receive training with Tony Vincent on podcasts and student learning. He is a well known speaker at technology conferences like GAETC and ISTE.

This is Tony Vincent's site. He is a well known speaker at technology conferences like GAETC and the ISTE Conference (formerly known as NECC). Tony is incredible with podcasting, vodcasting, and using iPads to teach. If you want to know about integrating any idevice there is help for it on his site. His blog is linked on here as well. His Learning in Hand podcasts are extremely helpful. He even has suggestions for using Twitter in your class.

This website has great information from the NY times. It is a way that people can blog about the issue presented for that day and people can voice their opinion as well as view others opinions on the issue. The blog I looked at pertained to Education but there are other blogs, such as politics, etc.

Kathy Schrock's Website-this site is part of Discovery Website. The website provides many interesting sites where the teachers can find information for lessons and find information for enhancing their classroom. Kathy even gives her picks of the week.

PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online.

This site gives lesson plans and activities you can do with children in the classroom. In addition, it gives educational videos to use in the classroom and helpful articles which will help teachers develop their learning. I like the classes that teachers can take to understand different concepts related to children's learning.

Differentiating our classrooms and providing choice is always a challenge. This website offers basic templates to get started with in creating menu and choice boards (tic-tac-toe boards). It is from another district but has some useful links. I like to see what resources other discticts are using.

For those of you not in Muscogee County, their website http://secondaryinstruction.com/ is one of my favs and offers many useful resources.

I think that a good, relavent brain teaser can be a good closing to a lesson or segway into a lesson. I like this website because I think it can be useful for several subjects.

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/riddles/index.htm This is another fun brain teaser website that the kids liked because it is real friendly on the smartboard.

Science360 Knowledge Network immerses visitors in the latest wonders of science, engineering, technology and math. We gather the latest science videos provided by scientists, colleges and universities, science and engineering centers, the National Science Foundation and more.

Not just for keeping up with celeberties anymore. Ever gotten stuck in a lesson plan quandary or rut? Technology has given us yet another way to interact and bounce ideas off of other professionals out there. Tweet your ideas or questions and ususally get dozens of responses from other teachers.

PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online.

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).

WeTransfer is a free service to send big or small files from A to B. I found this site on Stumble Upon and it has helped me when I want to send really HUGE files to someone that won't fit in CougarNET.

This website offers several videos that show good examples of student work and other videos that can be used to motivate student learning in the classroom. Our goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student video lessons at our website.