Wilson Grad Class

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.

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).

The New York Times Inaugural Words allows a user to view the inaugural speeches of all presidents. The user can see what words were most frequently used in each speech as well as other presidents who used the same words. What a cool tool to compare president or the events from one period in US history to another.

A co-worker here at school shared this site with me. It is really cool. It is a timeline tool that allows the user to compare inaugural speeches for all presidents.

This site lists a colelction of mainly science and health-related virtual field trips and online labs.

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

Believe it or not, Facebook and Twitter aren't the only cool social networking sites on the Web. If your kids are too young for Facebook, or you're concerned about privacy, consider looking into some lesser-known social networking sites geared for tweens, preteens, and yes, even teenagers. We've rounded-up some of the top social networking sites that allow kids to keep a tighter rein on their privacy. Our choices include sites that limit the ways you connect with friends, offer greater control over how you interact, or home in on specific interests. Some of the sites for kids on the younger end of the scale offer more parental controls, too, so you can have a better sense of what your kid is doing online.

A good break down of easy and free ways to ad images, video, and music to your classroom. It list free sites and software for teachers and students to use to create slideshows with music or videos with music. It also includes a site (Discovery Education streaming) that features videos of student adventures around the world. This article is also accompanied a link to another article that features students exploring story telling of a real life adventure.

Article about bringing the works of Shakespeare alive with performances on YouTube and rap. Inner city students can now understand the literary works of the most well known and read English author of all time. I remember when I was in high school most of us hated reading Shakespeare's plays, but if we were allowed to "remake" them with the plot untouched that would have been much better. Just shows and alternative assessment that gives students ownership over their learning.

Marc, I shared this with a teacher at the high school who teaches shakespear.

Timeline creator

I found this article very interesting. I know when I was in high school there was a lot of goofing around and behavior problems on the bus to and from school. I think that having internet access on the bus would really decrease these problems. Some students spend a lot of wasted time on the bus to and from school and this is a way to make this time productive. Students would be able to work on homework and do research. I also thought that having this option for sports teams to use was great. Imagine being a coach and giving your players access to the internet in between games, or on the long bus trips to the tournament.

One of the wonders of the Internet is that it can bring the world to you instead of your needing to find the time and money to explore the traditional way. The following virtual tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space. You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized whale, and visit ball parks and theme parks. There is even a section of incredible virtual tours that Google Earth has compiled that shares the world in a whole new way.

This is a wikispace tool kit covering a number of tools. Glogster is a really cool tool for teacher and for students to create and organize information. Here is a wikispace with a page all about glogster. This wikispace also covers blogs, copyright & Fair Use, filmmaking, google docs, podcasts, voicethread and wikis

Lots of great resources on this wiki. Select a topic and link out to numerous resources. Start on this embedded glogster page and go out to wiki pages.

interactive games for kids

A great article on how the econony is affecting high school students decisions on choosing between a four year college or a two year college. With the way things are going in our society in regards to finance more students are becoming aware of and trying to avoid having to pay back large student loans.