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I'm not a fan of giant lists, to 6 is a good number to share. Some of these we've learned in class, some are not as obvious. #4 is a good new strategy to use, that I've never seen before.
Lesson/activity from Common Sense Media dealing with cyberbullying. Useful for promoting an activist approach to dealing with bullying issues and supporting targets of bullying. oer jg
Useful tool/demonstration from OER Commons to guide students in evaluating a website as information source. I've used Diigo's annotation tools with students to practice evaluating websites as sources. This would be useful to use as a guided example prior to their independent practice. OER JG
Today's student generation is mobile, online and Internet-savvy. They are all computer gurus, and they often engage better with their electronics than they do with paper and pencil. As the saying goes, when you can't beat 'em, join 'em: charge into the information age as a 21 st century teacher.
Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
An excellent OER for reading and writing lesson plans and graphic organizers.
Welcome to Prezi, the presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring your ideas to life and make you a great presenter.
An excellent OER for students to use to organize and show their learning.
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Icons!! An excellent way to help students remember!
Our music teacher is attempting to correlate her curriculum with what is taking place in the classroom. This lesson may be a great way to do this. I also see the library piggy-backing with this...perhaps through the use of PebbleGo!
A set of lessons that I could use with my K-1 students in the library as we do certain library lessons. I know it seems rather basic but I always need ideas to show my paraprofessional as well because there are times I just cannot be in the library.