Wilson Grad Class

Google Apps Education Training Center is a new online learning environment designed for educators and students who want to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context. The site offers six modules, including Google Apps Education Edition, apps Mail, Calendar, Docs, Sites, and other tools. The training will cover customizing apps for individual schools; organizing e-mail effectively; creating shared calendars; collaborating with others online; using documents, presentations, and spreadsheets; delivering and collecting surveys, quizzes, and feedback; developing media-rich websites; and setting up internal video portals for schools.

What appears to be free training on google apps.

"Today's kids connect, create, and collaborate through media. But who helps them reflect on the implications of their actions? Who empowers them to make responsible, respectful, and safe choices about how they use the powerful digital tools at their command? Our Common Sense Parent Media Education Program and our Digital Citizenship Curriculum give educators, administrators, and parents the tools and curricula they need to guide a generation in becoming responsible digital citizens."

Free materials on Internet safety, cyberbulling, digital citizenship, parent materials also included.

NBC Learn has launched this website called Finishing the Dream. It chronicles the h istory of the civil rights movement. It includes more then 100 stories from NBC News archives. Materials include documentaries on significan events over the course of 60 years, including the Montgomery bus boycott; the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas; the Freedom Riders; and more. The content provides the opportunity for community leaders, teachers, and students to discuss the impact of the civil rights movement and to consider related modern issues that affect people today.

Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

Check out all the free tools. I liked the diagrams.

Mindtools is another site with information about doing icebreakers and it also includes further down the home page a variety of icebreakers that can be used.

more icebreaker activities

This site has a variety of icebreaker activities for free. There are also some additional activities that can be purchased, but there are a number of them free.

Nice site for those who run student groups or professional development programs

Digitales is a great site to assist in the development of evaluation rubrics for a variety of project types.

Digitales is a great site to use to create rubrics for a variety of proeject types.

New Glogster Widget in Wikispaces.

New widget for those who like wikispaces and glogster.

Cool site with free publications from FTC about internet safety and many other topics.

Hope your year is going well. Thought this was a good site. Please share with anyone you think would be interested.

Internet Detective provides the opportunity for a student to improve their searching skills. The site is broken into information pieces, review sections to apply the information and practice sections where you are the detective.

This is a neat site where the student becomes the Internet detective.

Physics Central - Learn how your world works.

Looks like an interesting site for all ages.

Blog about 5 writing activities. 1. Dialogues, 2. Instant Message Peotry, 3. Chain Instant Message Poetry 4. Mobile Phone Compositions, 5. Questionnaires with Urtak.

Interesting ideas.

Make unlimited free polls.

Another free tool that you can use to make polls and surveys.

Top 5 ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom is an article that shares the educational value of Twitter.

This is interesting.

The purpose of this resource is to provide "Just in Time" training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Eductional Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should prossess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discuver what studetns need in order to meet the NETS for Students.

This site is really nice. Many of the things we talked about in the grad class are covered here but the really nice thing about this site is that it take the NETS-T that we used and makes a connection to Marzano's 9 (Classroom Instruction that Works) and 21 things. It is really interesting. On the home page check out the two downloads of 21things and Marzano. On the right if you click on any of those categories, tools that can be used are presented. This is definitely one you will want to save in your own diigo library.

Six step process in the instruction of vocabulary (building academic vocabulary).

This site is broken down by grade level (right side) and there are a number of games lists (left side).

Create an online community of your classroom Share inspiration, ideas, reading, thoughts, Post discussions, deadlines, homework Instantly create surveys for students Keep parents informed of daily projects

This site is so cool. I went in and set up an account and added some people to a class. It was so easy. This will be a terrific site for educators. You can set up your students in a private class account. You can then post questions for them to comment to. You can post items on a calendar, bookmark sites you want them to review, hook up with other classes to collaborate and share, create surveys. I think teachers are going to love it. It is free. When you create your account, the information students need to get to your created class is generated by you and as long as you give them the class code and their password they should be able to get in.

Check out these 10 tools to create digital books.

Tech and Learning article about top 10 tools to create digital books. I think you all have this on your RSS, if not, you may want to add this blog to your reader.

GrowingWithGoogle - wonderful site for those who need support with google . Lots of tutorial videos about a variety of Google tools.

Check out this terrific wikispace on google. Lots of tutorials on various google tools. People in Hanover, this will really be a big help to you now that you have google apps.

Mathalicious is really cool site. Users select their math topic and then are given real life situations where the math is used. It appears each situation comes with a complete lesson plan, with essential questions and all informtion that the teacher will need. The lessons are not just for math teachers but go across varied content topics, but relate back to math.

Cool site. Mathalicious connects math to real-life activities by providing complete lessons for teachers.