teacher-librarians

Excellent guide to research

Prezi on creating video book reports (trailers) with details.

"The feature that I've found most useful is the ability to order search results. If you are doing searches by date, as my students were, Blekko allows you to add the slashtag "/date" to the end of your query and retrieve information in a chronological fashion. "

Great resources for both using Dropbox and sharing it with other educators.

very easy to use poll generator

The league allows students to cast votes, individually, in which they choose between two competing people, ideas or things. In a discussion on climate change, for example, they could vote for which they thought was the bigger cause of global warming: aeroplane emissions or volcanic activity - discuss! Each student chooses repeatedly from random pairs. By repeatedly casting votes, the students create a league, ranked in order of the most powerful, important, popular or influential. The results are often unexpected - students are surprised to see how their peers voted - and a good starting point for discussion. Why does this person have more power than another person? What makes this pop star more influential than that politician? How is this power used?

Lots of wonderful Google stuff to teach from Joquetta Johnson

Wow! What a wonderful array of teaching tools for us to use and share.

Qwyneth Jones' comic explanation

Responsible teachers recognize that schools must give students the understandings and skills they need to stay safe not just in school, but outside of school where most Internet use by young people occurs. Over-filtered school networks set up a false sense of security; the real world of the Internet is quite different from the Internet at school.

Every Voice Makes a Difference - download a flashcard for some basic tips to help you address comments you might hear in different situations.