Wilson Grad Class

collection of Internet Safety Resources

Free Internet safety resources.

Excel Concatenation steps. Use concatenation when you want to combine more then 1 cell.

Neat trick for Excel when you need to combine two cells.

Copyright Center for social media this link talks about fair use and copyright

New site I found on copyright and fair use with regard to media.

Eduwiki.us is a wikispace created to help educators connect and share web 2.0 resources. You can join this wiki.

Interesting site. Has everything alraedy linked and searchable.

Eduwiki.us is a wikispace that has links to hundreds of web 2.0 resources.

Interesting site. Has everything alraedy linked and searchable.

Lists of uses for a document camera broken into Primary, Intermediate/Middle and High School

50 uses for a document camera

This site has links that provide information about various technology tools: PowerPoint, CPS clickers, document cameras, wikis, blogs, social networking, social Bookmarking, Podcasting, Vodcasting, Online calendars, event management.

Great site with lots of information on various technology tools.

This organization hosts electronic field trips with four main parts: the trip, journal, the virtual visit (a streaming video), an Ask the expert tool, and a hosted web chat.

Take your children on a efieldtrip or check out this site to learn more about virtual fieldtrips. Free

This site has numerous (2,100) carefully selected and annotated resources. You can click on the lobby link on the main page to go to the resources. You can click on the welcome to K12imc.org a t the bottom to go to the instructional media center where there are additional links taking you to specific locations on the site. At the bottom of the IMC page you can click on explore the worlds of K12IMC.org and within the explore page you will be able to link to more resources that are clearly described. Within each of the resource links you will go to a page where there will be a variety of content specific links. This site was interesting. There were lessons for teachers, there was a link on the explor page that will take you to experts in various fields. This is a site worth checking out because a user could, through this one site, find numerous credible and useable resources.

Found this site to be very interesting and loaded with lots of useable resources.

ABCya! Word Clouds are graphical representations or words. A Word Cloud can represent any main idea or topic based on the words used. ABCya! Word Clouds are fun and exciting because they allow for creativity and imagination beyond lists or graphic organizers.

This is a Beta Version 2.0 tool. It is a tool that uses Word Clouds.

This is CSI for the history classroom.

Looks interesting. It is investigation for the history classroom.

I checked out the investigation link. It looks like there are a variety of investigations that students could do.

A site to test your geography knowledge.

Please share with teachers of geography.

Youth Voices is a meeting place where students share, distribue and discuss their digital work online.

If you are looking fora way to have your students interact with others, this might be helpful. It looks like you can have your own private group or you can select to allow others to join. I am thinking that you could connect with a class in another school in or out of state and you could set up a group for the two groups of studetns to interact. Maybe they could talk about a novel they are reading or about a current event.

Advise and asnwers about sexting.

Common sense media has information broken down by grade level. This link takes you to sexting there are resources for educators available on this link.

"The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age. When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal. With digital storytelling, students can: Improve their writing. Show creativity. Have a voice. Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment"

Resource for teachers about digital storytelling.

"With Nuance PDF Reader, you get the most accurate online PDF conversion available through NuancePDF.com - without having to install extra software. No more copying and pasting or retyping PDF documents. Just use our hosted web service to convert PDF to Word, Excel, RTF or WordPerfect using Nuance's industry-leading OCR technology. It's never been easier to upload, convert, and start using information previously trapped in a PDF."

Good to know about this should you need to convert your PDF files to Word, Excel, RTF or Wordperfect.

Free easy way tos end big files (2gb)

Free easy way to transfer big files.

Free site to create timelines. This tool allows for layering. There are also other lists that can be added to your timeline

Easyt to use tool to create timelines and you can also add layers to your timelines.

Black and white movies provides downloads of movies from the 20s through the 70s. Free

Download old black and white movies

This is a home fire safety site with information an activities to teacher children about home fire safety.

Liked this one too.