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Author: Gail Holloman Holmes
"We can easily forgive a child whom is frightened of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." --Plato
Traditionally community is defined as a group living in a local area. With the collaborative and sharing tools provided by the internet a community may reach across continents. Consider expanding your community with some of the free collaborative tools described below.
Google Documents - Users can create, share and collaborate on projects using word documents, spreadsheets, forms and presentation docments.
PbWorks - (Wiki) - Users can create, edit and collaborate on projects
Wordpress - (Blog) - Users can reflect, create journals and receive feedback from others.
Finding just the right websites can make all the difference in planning for that next great lesson. Try exploring the following sites when designing lessons for your classroom.
Diigo- Online bookmarks can be used to gather resources.
NCWiseOwl- Research and internet resources
NortelLearnit.org - Lesson plans and how to videos.
LearnNC-Standard Course of Study and Lesson Plans
SAS - Interactive and student centered lessons
Shakespeare Online - Plays, poems by Shakespeare
Preparing for a test can be fun with the right website. Visit these sites to see how much fun studying can be.
Fact Monster - Almanac, Atlas, Dictionary and Encyclopedia.
IKnowThat.Com - Simulation activities
NUMBER2- Practice the SAT, ACT, GRE and build vocabulary.
USA Games - Study US Regions, States and Capitals.
2BillionKids - A variety of curriculum based web resources for all grade levels.
Word of the week
camouflage (noun)
A disguise that allows a person to blend in with the enivornment.
Educational Hub
Motivate
Educate
The Quiz Hub provides out of the book learning. Students can build higher order thinking skills while teachers can create assessments to measure their successes.
If you want to bring the whole family together with challenging math problems, try Figure this.
Join Calculation Nation and enhance math skills by competing against the computer or challenge other internet users.
Looking for resources to extend learing through research? Consider using MIKIDS and watch reading and writing become a joy.
APPLICATIONS
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Rubistar- Describe the project students are to create and have them create as a class a rubric by which the project should be graded.
Animoto Introductions- Students should use a digital camera or the internet to find three pictures to describe themselves using as or like (simile). Pictures should be uploaded to animoto and descriptive text added for each (i.e. I am like the petals of a rose, soft to the touch.) This activity could be duplicated using any of the multimedia tools on the resource page.
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Educational Games - Use educational game templates to create a challenging and competitive environment for learning and mastering vocabulary reviewing lessons learned or simply to explore a new topic.
Quizlet- Create a stack of question and answer flash cards. The questions and answers may be an introduction to a unit, characters in a story, quiz/test questions, etc. Hand students either a question or answer as they enter the classroom. Give them a designated time limit to research the response to their question or answer. Allow students time to circulate the room to find their student match. The student pair becomes the expert on that topic during discussions.
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Bubbl.us - Have students type the main idea or top of study in the start bubble. Follw the main idea with the key points related to the main idea. Students should create subsets of key points when necessary. When the bubble is complete, depending on age group, students should compose sentences or paragraphs to demonstrate their understanding of the key and sub points illustrated in the bubble.
Web Resources
Online MULTIMEDIA
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
RUBRICS
VOCABULARY
Bubblus - Create colorful mind maps, share, embed in blog or website, email print or save as an image.
Holt - Provide teaching notes with lessons and tips.
Lexicon - Construct, and modify ideas with 17 thinking tools for creating graphs.
Mywebspiration - Online collaboration
Graphic Organizers and Literacy Strategies
Recipes for Success- Personalize rubrics for curriculum use.
Rubistar - Create customized rubrics to be stored online or printed.
Teachnology- Generate over 100 rubrics.
RCampus
ProProfs - Create list and study vocabulary through games.
Quizlet- Create your own vocabulary list or used pre designed lists.
Study Stack- Find a list to study or create your own.
Animoto - Narrate your pictures with text to tell a story
Prezi - Online presentation tool.
Stupeflix- Create a presentatio using your pictures, videos and text.
Voicethread - Talk and share images, documents and videos.
'We can easily forgive a child whom is frightened of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.' Plato
CONTACT US
If you have questions or would like to collaborate, please contact me by using the form to the left. Look forward to hearing from you!
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Google Documents
Google documents can be used to create and collaborate on documents. These documents can be used to
January - Word of the Week
January 1-8
visionary (noun)
A person of unusually keen foresight. A dreamer; one whose imagination overpowers his reason; one with impractical ideas.
January 9-16
A disguise or concealment that allows one to blend in.
January 17-23
DID YOU KNOW
Although ants will eat just about anything, they prefer sweets. When ants find food, they leave behind a pheromone, a chemical trail, to lead other ants from the nest to the food source.
Honey bees are the only insects that produce food for humans.
Crocodiles can not stick out their tounges beause it is attached to the bottom of their mouth.
A dragonfly has six legs, but can not walk.
