Tech Resources for Staff

Family Read Night

Teacher Technology Wiki – created 2010-2011 School Year

More links for Teachers

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TOOLS -TEACHING RESOURCES

Using Flip Video Cameras in the Primary Classroom http://www.pre-kpages.com/flip_video.html Ideas, testimonial, sample video

Awesome Library - http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

Teachers dotNET http://teachers.net/ Projects, lesson plans, and more!

Crossword Creator Adventure http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/

Theme Units and Activities http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~greentown/grtheme.htm

Skype http://www.skype.com/ providing free voice and video calling to other Skype users worldwide

elearnr http://elearnr.org The purpose of elearnr is to share links, resources and guides related to elearning.

Scribd http://www.scribd.com/ Uploaded documents, presentations, for sharing

Thinkfinity http://www.thinkfinity.org/ free educational resources for everyone

Internet / Technology Tutorials http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line.htm

Links for K-12 Education http://www.internet4classrooms.com/k12links.htm Curriculum, Student Populations, Tech Integration and more

Lovely Charts http://www.lovelycharts.com/ Online diagramming program

Graphic Organizers http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2983 from Scholastic

FREE http://free.ed.gov/ Teaching and learning resources from Federal Agencies

Timesavers for Teachers http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/

Library of Congress for Teachers http://www.loc.gov/teachers/

How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/ explains even the toughest tutorial in a very simple and easy to understand language

Atomic Learning http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/home Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use everyday.

Scholastic Teaching Resources http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/teach.jsp

The best, free Interactive Whiteboard Resources http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx Regularly updated to save you time!

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INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES – RESOURCES

Cognitive Strategys http://www.unl.edu/csi/index.shtml Strategy instruction and lessons

Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com An online community for sharing instructional videos

Apple Learning Interchange http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/index.php Educator created lessons, resources, movies, images, special content

Copy right issues in the classroom and beyond http://www6.district125.k12.il.us/staffdev/Copyright.html> >

Digital Directions http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2009/01/21/03techlit.h02.html Tech literacy confusion article for teachers

Chatzy http://www.chatzy.com/ Create your own free chat room

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Search a definition in Google….

www.google.com  ~~~~~~~  In the search bar type:  (EXAMPLE) define: house
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(define: YOUR WORD)   ~~~~ you will see Web definitions for YOUR WORD ~~~~  click to see the definitions

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BEGINNING WITH THE MARCH WEEK OF TECH MORNINGS, RESOURCES SHARED WITH THE SMALL GROUPS WILL BE POSTED HERE.

LINKS PREVIOUSLY SHARED IN THE WATERCOOLER : ICE 2010 SESSION LINKS| DISCOVERY ED 2010 TECH TOOLS | SCHOLASTIC TEACHER SHARE RESOURCES | GRAPHIC MAP FROM READ WRITE THINK |GRAPHIC MAP STUDENTS | AMERICAN RHETORIC WORD CLOUDS | BEHIND INAUGURAL SPEECHES |

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Our first sessions were dedicated to
sharing two subscription sites that we subscribe to.

BrainPop   http://www.brainpop.com and United Streaminghttp://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

For more information on these session, please do not hesitate to stop by!  Here is the  DiscoveryEducation United Streaming handout from that week’s activity.

March 16 – 17

Read, Write Think – Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Lesson Plans |   Student Interactives |  Classroom Resources |  Printouts

Also…National Library of Virtual Manipulatives -  choose a grade level and topic

April 13 – 14

Clip Art / Images

  • All created clip art belong to the person who created it.
  • Each person who creates clip art sets the terms of usage for it.
  • Copyrights protect the person who creates the clip art.
  • Changing clip art that you did not create does not make it yours.
  • Free To Use On Personal Web Pages: means that you may use the graphics on your own noncommercial site but may not use them in any other way. If you have advertisement of any kind on your site, then your site is a commercial site.
  • Free To Use On Personal or Commercial Web Pages: means that you may place the images on your personal site, or on your site that has advertisement on it, but the clip art may not be used in any other way, such as placing the images in a collection on your site for others to use.
  • Linkware: is a term that means if you use the specified image or images, you must link back to that site.
  • Find and read the terms of usage. Can’t locate the terms of usage, or the terms of usage are vague and unclear? Email the Webmaster for clarification of use.

Resources:

DK Online - http://www.mammal.dke-guides.com/clipart/mammal/book_mammal.htm(also example of terms and conditions)

Collections - http://www.hellasmultimedia.com/webimages/ (also example of terms and conditions)

Creative Commons - http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

Open Clip Art - http://www.openclipart.org/

Clip Art, Pics, Graphics - http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/clipart/

Virtual Library of Friendly Use - http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/cfimages.html

Microsoft Office Clip Art - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/FX101321031033.aspx

D102 Creative Commons - http://gallery.d102.org/main.php

Discovery Education Clip art and Image - http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

A BONUS: KEYBOARDING SHORTCUTS ON MACS

Here is a list of some sites that give all of those time saving short cuts we all need!

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343

http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html

http://www.danrodney.com/mac/

http://guides.macrumors.com/Keyboard_shortcuts

Pages shortcuts http://www.apple.com/support/pages/shortcuts/

Print size on a webpage ….

Apple / Command +/=  ~~~~~~  enlarges the print on the page

Apple/Command -/-  ~~~~~~~~ decreases the size of the print on the page

PRINT FRIENDLY WEBSITE -

Have you ever tried to print a web page and get lots of ads and unnecessary “junk” on the print out?

Take a look at http://www.printfriendly.com/

  • Print Friendly website lets you type in the url of the page you are looking to print.  Then this site lets you choose from the url page what you want to print!  Very cool!  Take a look when you get a chance.

HOW TO CREATE SPANISH LANGUAGE SYMBOLS - CLICK FOR THE .PDF

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