Wissahickon Staff Developers

workshop from Pete and C

the man's site

an interactive resource that makes playing with algorithms really fun! beginning to advanced, good practice site for multiplication

Matt Levinson dialogue informs and makes one think about applications and integration of social networking.

Challenging times create economic and social pressures that can undermine our most basic values. For more than 30 years we have been offering teachers and students ways to confront prejudice, apathy, fear, and violence. By teaching students to think critically, to empathize, to recognize moral choices, to make their voices heard, we put in their hands the possibility-and the responsibility-to do the serious work demanded of us all as citizens. Founded in 1976, we are an international educational and professional development nonprofit organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.

ABCya! Word Clouds are graphical representations of 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. Simply enter the words you want to use. Imagine the possibilities

SweetSearch is a Search Engine for Students. Most search engines search billions of Web sites and return tens of millions of results; some are from reliable Web sites, some are not. SweetSearch searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been evaluated and approved by a staff of Internet research experts at Dulcinea Media, and its librarian and teacher consultants. SweetSearch excludes results from the unreliable sites that rank high in other search engines, and waste your time. It lets students choose the most relevant result from a list of credible results, rather than having them waste time on unreliable sites.

With Ahead you can layout, share and publish content of any kind and any resolution on the web. It works like an online version of InDesign that instantly transforms your layout into a zooming presentation, rich media blog, personal scrapbook or ... your imagination sets the limits. Very similar to Prezi!!

This is an amazing resource for teachers of all content areas. Along the same lines as NLVM, but with more content areas covered. Many lessons may be used with your ESL students.

More content than NLVM, AMAZING resource for interactives, videos and lessons. Good for all grades. Worth promoting with your teachers!

some excellent free resources from England. Games that challenge and provide reinforcement.

This page provides free resources for math. Games and interactive fun.

DO read through the different grade levels to find content that may be contained in another grade level selection.(sorted by grade which is not as effective as by topic) Excellent resource for retelling an idea

The what, the why and how of 100 web 2.0 tools

more than just a listing- a brief description of the resource

Google Wonder Wheel is a new great feature from Google which allows you to see relevant search results to your query in a unique semantically relevant and graphically design way. The following is a step by step guide on how to use the GoogleWonderWheel tool:

An awesome site from Alberta Canada. This web 2.0 site has it all. check out "Emerge Day 2 -Writing and Literacy" for a stellar powerpoint on current 2.0 tools that enhance the process.

Check out the recent presentations for amazing power points and information that supports technology integration