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If you click enough, you’ll find video and text with tips about keeping kids safe online. Links to other resources make this a great site to pass along to parents.
tags: internetsafety, technology, tbot
Archive for April, 2008
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Scholastic, Helping Children Around the World to Read and Learn | Scholastic.com
Publisher and book fair juggernaut Scholastic comes through with some solid content for classroom teachers. In just a few minutes I found a to-do list generator, plenty of printer-friendly organizational tools and worksheets, and loads of lessons. They’ve even posted SMARTboard notebook files for download. Yeah, you have to pay to get everything, but there’s enough free stuff to keep us public educators interested.
tags: reading, classmanagement, printables, tbot
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Pew Research Center: Writing, Technology and Teens
Amanda Lenhart discusses survey results concerning school writing, personal writing, and writing in social networking. Could this be used to promote blogging/texting/chatting standards instruction in schools? If schools don’t teach students to use social networking and web 2.0 tools effectively and efficiently, who will?\n\nOf interest is this quote: “A considerable number of educators and children’s advocates worry that James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, was right when he recently suggested that young Americans’ electronic communication might be damaging ‘the basic unit of human thought — the sentence.’” This seems a little bit like saying if teens got a hold of new type of watch, they might damage the space-time continuum.
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This site generates drill-and-kill worksheets for the basic math operations. PDF output is easy to print and give to students, or use on an interactive whiteboard for division practice.
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Differentiate This! Part Two: How?
Mathew Needleman advocates for differentiated instruction and then hands us the tools to make it happen. Stopping just short of actual lesson plans, Mathew suggests some solid activities for engaging learners.
I guess I should blog a link to little blurb that I wrote for Edutopia Magazine. I commented on an online article, and they plugged it in to this month’s print version. Kind of cool that blog comments can live beyond the ten minutes I spend typing them.
Feedback: Technology as a Tool | Edutopia
- Dealing with interruptions
I work with 26 potential interruptions every minute of my work day. My goal is to know them as people, and capture their interruptions in meaningful, actionable ways. This link has some great strategies.
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- Classroom Management
Larry Ferlazzo posts a terrific reflection on classroom tweaks and twists. The second semester can really wear on students and teachers. Larry describes nine strategies he implemented to mix things up and reconnect with his students.I admire Larry a ton
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- Classroom Management: Appropriate Consequences
Mathew Needleman throws down some serious classroom management wisdom. Not only is he a video ninja, he’s also an insightful, reflective teacher.Man, I’m striking it rich on management strategies tonight.
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- Project wiki / Education Pack
I need to follow some of these people.
- Alice.org
How does this compare with Scratch?
(tags: inbox technology digitalstorytelling reading)
- 1286.pdf (application/pdf Object)
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- Lit2Go: Just So Stories, Lit2Go: Just So Stories, “How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin”
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- Lit2Go: Just So Stories, “How the Leopard Got His Spots”
The University of Southern Florida has recorded five of Rudyard Kipling’s short stories made the audio and text available for download. This story is a myth about adaptation. Good for science as well as reading.
(tags: reading science myth adaptation audio)
- How the Leopard got his Spots
Great summary and background of Rudyard Kipling’s short story
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Concept mapping is kind of like mind mapping, but instead just drawing lines between objects, you describe relationships with verbs or short phrases.
I heard about this concept from the most recent ISTE podcast.
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This GIF image shows the growth and evolution of the Roman Empire in 20-50 year increments. Color coding shows the shift from republic to empire to divided empires.
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Text timeline with a simple, straight forward list of events and rulers. Covers Ancient Rome from 753 BC to AD 476
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Thousands of free, creative commons music samples and loops for use in Audacity, Garageband or any multitrack video editor.(tags: music)
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Speaking of music, these tips for using music in the classroom are great for engaging the musical intellegence.(tags: music)
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Getting students up and about in the classroom is a great way to increase attentiveness and productivity. As a bonus, it’s fun to exercise.
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This timer is cool for quick activities like math minute assignments(tags: classmanagment timer)
