WSD eToolBox

Meant for the Moodle admin to set up Moodle for teachers to be able to share and use questions in the Moodle question bank.  Meant for the people setting it up but also helpful for teachers.

Creating a Shared Quiz Question Bank notes A great explanation on how teachers would correctly share questions on Moodle with quiz categories, etc.  Meant for the teachers to read and learn how to do.

The Teachers Engage section is the main hub for the community and where you will find general discussions and resources focusing on effective uses of technology in the K-12 classroom.

You can do a lot with wikis. But before you get to the fancy stuff, you have to master the basics - and that goes for your students, as well. Now that the school year is underway, we put together a quick 15-20 minute activity, designed to get students comfortable with using wikis. All you need is this PDF handout, a wiki of your own, and a few minutes of preparation:

This wiki is a template that you can use for any Professional Development or Training sessions that address the use of wikis in education. With Mark's permission, we are making it available to educational technologists who are looking for tools to show their teams what can be accomplished with wikis in general - and Wikispaces in particular - in the K-12 environment.

Handout for teaching students/teachers how to edit, create pages, add links, images, files and embedding video, in 15-20 minutes

"Creating cartoons and comic strips can be a good way to get reluctant writers writing. While creating comics you and your students can work through the elements of fiction in a context that is fun and familiar to them. "

Historypin is a way for millions of people to come together, from across different generations, cultures and places, to share small glimpses of the past and to build up the huge story of human history.Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories.Each of these pieces of history finds a home on Historypin, where everyone has the chance to see it, add to it, learn from it, debate it and use it to build up a more complete understanding of the world.

A nice selection of templates for storyboards using Google Docs

Great tips and notes for using OneNote

Funny video dealing with Blackberries, Apples, etc - Great for techy folks!!

Word Tamer is a neat site for learning the process of developing characters, settings, and plots in creative writing. Word Tamer is set up as an interactive journey through a carnival of literary devices. As students move through the carnival they develop characters, develop a setting, and develop a plot for their stories. At each stop in the Word Tamer carnival students can print out the words they have written. Along the way there are videos to help students understand the roles of characters, settings, and plot development in crafting a good story.

We Video is a collaborative online video creation tool. In the video editor you can upload your own media clips or use stock media clips to produce your video. The video editor provides tools for trimming the length of display and or sound of each element you add to your video project. What makes We Video collaborative is that you can invite other people to create and edit with you. We Video offers four different user plans. The free plan allows you to upload your videos to YouTube and Vimeo but does not allow local downloads.

Educational videos in YouTube, organized by subject area. NICE!

YouTube for schools, teachers and students.

"What do you do with a QR code? When you see one, you can use your smartphone or any mobile device with a camera, QR code reader app and internet access (i.e. iPod) to scan the square. Once you scan it, the code will point your device to the web-based location set up by the code creator. So how can these be used in education? Here are some ideas."

Want to know your learning style? Take the quiz. There are 24 questions, and it will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. At the end, you'll find out more about how you learn.

Over the years we have seen little time or funding devoted to professional development (PD) that might equip teachers with the skills required to make smart and productive use of new technologies. What little PD we have seen was devoted mainly to the learning of software and how to operate the latest toys. We have too often placed carts before horses. Managing learning in the laptop classroom requires considerable savvy. This article explores the dimensions and characteristics of such classrooms, identifies the chief challenges facing teachers in such space, and suggests moves, tactics, strategies, tricks and scaffolding designed to optimize student learning.

"Are you thinking of getting a No Name-Calling Week off the ground in your school, but you aren't sure where to start? Well, you're in the right place - below you will find many useful items that can help you plan, promote, and carry out many different kinds of anti-bullying events and activities. Whether you are a teacher, student, administrator, counselor, or parent, there are materials here for you, and the best thing is that they're all FREE! "

"With projects, you can put your wiki members into groups so they can work independently. Each project on your wiki is made up of a unique set of teams of members, pages, files, and settings. There's no limit to the number of teams within a project, or to the number of pages within a tea"