UWCSEA Teachers

Water statistics website for Grade 3

Getting good data on the many issues related to freshwater has long been a challenge. Here you will find data tables from the World's Water series, along with select content from the 2008-2009 edition.

Virtual tour of water saving house

A list of games related to: "The state of health of a whole society, and the policies and actions of government to maintain or improve overall well-being."

An interactive version of "If the world were a village...."

Great blog, k-12

"Welcome to "Googlios" where free Google tools meet ePortfolios.   This site is intended to be a collection of resources for those interested in using ePortfolios in Education. "

"The Information Fluency Continuum provides a framework for the instructional aspects of a library program. The framework is based on three standards that form the basis for the skills and strategies that are essential for students to become independent readers and learners."

Let people reserve fixed length slots of time in your Google Calendar.

Moby offers his music for student filmmakers for free :-)

" Based on the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed into Google this year, Zeitgeist captures the spirit of 2010. "

13,000 photos from all over the world - great resources

Apple link on how to make ePub files with Pages.

"  For Kane, video is also a key to the project's success.--  "Improving teaching requires adult behavior change.  Imagine trying to get someone to quit smoking by showing them a video of a bunch of happy nonsmokers … and yet that is the way we do professional development for teachers, by showing them some third person teaching instead of showing them their own work." According to Kane, teachers need to see and analyze their own efforts, and then discuss with their supervisors what they are doing well, and what they could do differently to improve. This can be done by showing teachers their own videos and by providing feedback that is related to student achievement. Heather Hill, an associate professor of education at HGSE, developed a rubric for guiding classroom observations that will be used to help score the videos. Project organizers hope the effort will help lead to a new approach to professional development. "We are trying, said Kane, "to get people to quit smoking by taking them into their closet to smell their own clothes."

Make a fake facebook account for historical figures etc. Hopefully this will bookmark the actual page!

lists of her books and the texts her lessons are based on

Blog post re teaching simile, metaphor, personification, poetry -- and Love That Dog by Sharon Creech.....

Powerful video about the need to disconnect with tech and connect with others. A little simplistic (not all offline behaviour is good, not all online is bad), but a really good discussion starter for us all.

Amazing interactive that shows the size of everything in the universe....

article talking about both the iPad 2 (which isn't out yet) and a rumored iPad 3 in the fall (????)