WSD eToolBox

Nice resources for using google earth with the civil war.

"The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas and it has been a privilege connecting with all of the people who have taken time to add an idea. It is remarkable what can be achieved and created together if you give people the right way to do it. Thanks for all the help so far."

"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below. "

Create and print a brochure or flyer in minutes. Choose a theme and then customize with photos and text. It's a great way to create brochures and flyers that work.

Google Tools to Support Bloom's Revised Taxonomy - Nice chart that breaks down the differet Google Tools into the different levels of Bloom's. Very cool!

Get a rare look inside a bald eagle nest in the wild and participate in an online chat too!

"the various ways to print a Wikispaces page"

Okay, you have created your master piece and burnt it to DVD using DVD SP or iDVD. As you only want this one copy and need hard drive space, you trashed the entire DVD project. Soon after, you find that you now need extra copies of the DVD (typical). What follows is the process for making DVD copies from any DVDs that are not Copyright protected. We will be using the Mac's Disk Utility application. This article has four sections and covers Leopard, Tiger, Panther and Jaguar.

uquery.com is a new search engine focused on the emerging market of iPhone & iPod Touch applications. We have listened to many requests of the community and the frustration of being able to search and find applications on the iTunes AppStore. With 263,907 applications available on the AppStore, it has become tremendously difficult to find the right application. Our goal is to index and offer a very fast and easy way to find the application that you need. Utilizing new indexing technologies we have created a huge index of all the applications currently available in the United States iTunes AppStore. With features like: filtering by price, date and category and a full-text index of the application description, we allow all iPhone & iPod users to quickly improve their app discovery experience.

"Music Quizzes, Games, Practice Pianos and Help Pages by Ms. Garrett Scroll down the page to play over 130 elementary quizzes, puzzles and games about music. Music Information and Theory pages below will help you learn the names of music notes, rhythms, terms and the names of famous musicians and composers. I have posted a list of the programs that I used to create the quizzes at the bottom of this page."

Links to site where Avatars can be created

" Continuing in the area of Digital Citizenship, we like to give you ideas for protecting yourself in digital environments. Despite its over 500 million "friends," so many are still relatively new to Facebook. This article from Huffington Post is for them as well as you, and features a list of the 13 things that you don't want to make public on Facebook. Read on for some great tips."

"Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere."

"Selection of ESL resources to help you learn English "

"This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities. Even though the primary focus is for ESL, native English speakers may also find some interesting things on this site. This site is non-commercial and has no advertising. TESL/TEFL teachers may want to recommend this site to their students. "

A virtual boatload of links and sites for ESL students

"In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders. "

"Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. I designed it for my own classroom, and want to share it with other teachers... for free! * Flubaroo works with Google docs"

"Zunal WebQuest Maker is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time without writing any HTML codes. "

"Although, realistically, you would not use all of these technologies, you should be knowledgeable in what each of the following technology is and how it could be/might be used in a classroom.(\ "