UWSSLECInfoTech

This article gives ideas on how to use interactive boards in the classroom. Every class this year received a new updated smart panel. It is my job through professional development to encourage use and train the staff on the use of the new panels. This article will give them many ideas to integrate the use into their teaching.

Our school is currently working on a book study. This site of information will be very helpful to the staff on the Whole Brain Teaching Book Study Group. This site offers resources and advice with implementing Whole Brain Teaching classroom management skills.

Impressive collection of really old audiobooks...simple and free!

Studying pioneering is more fun with the Oregon Trail. My 3rd-5th graders loved this game and I'm loving this website for all the old media it contains. Great for showing students how things used to be.

Some of the most popular subject areas are: Computer Service, Language, Data Science, Business and Management, Engineering, and Humanities. There are tons more to choose from. Online courses can be taken for free. These could be used for professional development opportunities. I especially liked "The Foundations of Happiness at Work". : )

This is a resource that would be excellent for a health science, social studies, history, or sociology class. It could also be helpful for a debate club or something similar. It provides resources (handouts, videos, graphs) to be used by students and teachers to examine universal healthcare around the world. PBS also offers lots of other topics that could be used at all different age levels.

HyperDoc sharing

Named on AASL's 2017 list of top educational websites. Can be used for topic/lesson hooks for library media lessons or to share with classroom teachers

This HyperDocs community has awesome resources for us as teacher-librarians and a wide range of subjects for classroom teachers as well.

I would share this resource with teachers via my library pages on the district website for them to use to enhance their lesson planning.

"The Ways" is a great resource for 4th grade teachers and students as they delve into their Native American Unit. It is part of the Wisconsin Media Lab and shares a great map and community stories from WI.

Interland is an awesome resource for teaching digital citizenship! It's from Google and my students love it and beg to go on it. There are different worlds and support materials for teachers to use before introducing each world.

"A selection of resources to help teachers learn more about and get started with Google Expeditions." This resource will help teachers learn how Google Expeditions works and see which Expeditions are available. This is a resource that many teachers may know very little about. If devices for VR are a difficulty to obtain, there are also free resources for them. Cellcom in our area allows classroom kits to be shipped out to a teacher for a short amount of time.

"Be Internet Awesome is a collaboration between Google and the Internet Keep Safe Coalition (iKeepSafe.org). It is "a multifaceted program designed to teach kids the skills they need to be safe and smart online." The resource includes a game called, Interland, that can be a stand alone tool as well as a full curriculum that enables teachers to teach digital citizenship fundamentals. The lesson plans are geared toward grades 3 to 5." It think this is a great free tool from Google that I had not heard about that allows teachers to gameify Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship. I played the game a bit and I wonder if maybe teachers should take it, as we had a phishing spam a few years ago where teachers gave personal information online to an email that looked like it came from our local credit union.

This a web page with an abundance of resources about relating to weather. The severe weather challenge piqued my interest the most. I would share this with my third grade teachers to aide in the teaching of the weather unit. For our bilingual students they do the weather unit twice, the more resources the better!

I would share this with the fourth grade bilingual teachers. We co-teach an animal unit and videos are extremely helpful, especially for bilingual students. It is a lesson plan with video links that show animals in their natural habitats.

I would share this with my pre-k and kindergarten teachers.This is a fun interactive website that focuses on patterns. Teachers would use this after they've introduced patterns to their students. This is an excellent learning center activity.

I think this is a great resource to offer my teachers so they can offer it to their students. This is a fun and easy way for pre-k and kindergarten students to learn about matching sounds to letters. Teachers will be able to use this activity at one of their learning centers. The interface is very user friendly. The graphics are colorful and engaging to young students.

I am going to be sharing this with the Agriculture teacher at my school. I have worked with her in the past and I know that she will appreciate this newly found resource to use in her Animal Science class

This is a lesson plan that could be used in Engineering, Business, Design or RtI enrichment courses. It challenges students to find a local problem and solve it in a manner of one class period.