UWCSEA Teachers

A blog post/review of:  "Once Upon a Wartime, an exhibition which opened earlier this month at London's Imperial War Museum, takes five children's novels about war and conflict and uses them as a starting point to explore what war can mean for children."  Carrie's War, War Horse, The Machine Gunners, The Silver Sword, and Little Soldier.  Shows photos of what is in the exhibit.... Useful if you teach any of the books....

Ideas from a consultant about using twitter in the classroom. Quite cool posters.

Video on people being innovative

A great list of excellent web tools for different learning styles.

Allows you to search the world for family names, shows you where the highest concentration is, shows you the top first names that go with that family name etc

program to create myths and legends, has background and characters but you can also upload your own.

Guy Claxton great ideas learning to learn and metacognition

Flickr group showing art created using the app Brushes

Good for Internet safety-not believing everything you read!

Great resources to integrate into UOIs

A great list of reasons to use Tweetdeck :-)

Funny youtube vid about flying with budget airlines. Not suitable for children

EARCOS 2011 presentation -- a Google Doc

"Watch YouTube videos without comments, suggestions, or the 'other' things."

new wikispaces for the UWCSEA IT dept

a British fantasy author who should be better known.... if you teach kids grades 5 and upwards, you should read some of her books so you can recommend them.... 

Warren Buckleitner's selection

"wcsmusic, formerly i music, is an exciting concept aimed at widening access to musical excellence through the production of revolutionary interactive learning materials. Due to the generosity of our funding partners, our products are available completely - FREE OF CHARGE. These include our award winning software, The Virtual Javanese Gamelan, and our second module, Virtual West African Drumming. These materials will offer a full 'hands on' practical exploration of an aspect of music from a computer workstation, integrating performance, composition and aural perception. Follow the links to discover more about the materials we are offering. wcsmusic is the trademark of Wells Cathedral School."

"SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students.  It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that our staff of research experts and librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content on findingDulcinea. We constantly evaluate our search results and "fine-tune" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university Web sites.  "

"Poetry Month has begun! Celebrate by adding your voice to our poem, helping it soar around the world... The first version of our poem is a single line by wonderful writer Naomi Shihab Nye, visit litworld.org/poem to submit your own lines and watch our poem grow and change throughout April! "" I send my words out into the air, listening for yours from everywhere.""- Naomi Shihab Nye" Via LitWorld - An International Non-Profit Advocating for and Working Towards Global Literacy