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Word Counter - Word Counter
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): process writing (48), word choice (28), writing (365)
In the Classroom
Demonstrate the use of Word Counter on your Interactive Whiteboard. Once the redundant words have appeared on the program, display the text they came from and have students make suggestions for stating the sentences in a different way, or using synonyms. Post a link to Word Counter on your webpage for parents and students to use at home. Use Word Counter for your own writing in newsletters home, emails to parents, graduate work, and notes to administration. Be sure to share Word Counter with your colleagues.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Ok2Ask'®: Google Six Series (part 3): Google for Every Classroom January 2014 - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12As a result of this session and through individual follow-up, teachers will: Explore the various educational resources available for using Google in the classroom. Browse and explore the benefits of using YouTube'® (owned by Google) for education. Learn time saving Google tricks including Google Translate, Google Video Chat, and more, Find online tools (by Google) to use to create, organize, and save time, Explore the many resources on TeachersFirst related to Google's offerings, and (Follow-up) Create a lesson for your own classroom (or position) using one of the Google tools shared. Applicable NETS-T standards (2008)*: 1a and b, 2b and c, 3a and d. * The text of these standards is copyrighted. Please read the full text at ISTE's NETS-T page.
In the Classroom
View this archived webinar to learn how to bring Google into your classroom. Learn about using Google Video, Google Translate, YouTube and more. Take a look at the resource page for more information. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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MakeUseOf Cheat Sheets - makeuseof.com
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): computers (102), search strategies (28)
In the Classroom
Useful both with students or personally, this is a site that you will definitely want to bookmark or save in your favorites. Print the guides for use with classroom computers, in computer labs, and to tape in student notebooks. Create a permanent link to these guides on your class website or blog for students (and parents) to use at home. Encourage students to use these sheets to become "techsperts" at a certain program and to share their expertise during byod activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Class Messenger - Learn Anything, Inc.
Grades
K to 12tag(s): classroom management (159), DAT device agnostic tool (179), homework (42), polls and surveys (55)
In the Classroom
Set up accounts for all of your classes. Send homework, project, and supply reminders. Send changes to plans due to a Snow Day. Remind students of upcoming events, practices, or things they need to bring to class or practice. Don't forget any extracurricular activities. You could also use this to communicate with parents. (Allow them to sign up for these updates at back to school night using a laptop or provide them the necessary information on your class web page.) Remind parents of big tests, report cards, field trips, deadlines, back to school night, sneaker days, conferences, and more. Learning Support teachers can promote organizational skills by having students and their parents sign up to receive reminders about tests and homework. Add your own messages to help parents know how to help their elementary child study. Need supply donations? Send out a request using Class Messenger. Set up a faculty reminder group within your school for emergency closures or department meetings and activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask'®: Sharing and Solutions for Technology Coaches January 2014 - TeachersFirst
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K to 12As a result of this session and through individual follow-up, coaches will: Explore TeachersFirst, evaluating its resources, original content, and value-added reviews for potential in meeting the needs of teachers and students they work with. Search and share resources for hard-to-find curriculum topics or specific teaching challenges they and their teachers encounter. Explore professional offerings to support effective teaching. Find and exchange challenges, ideas, and solutions with other coaches through live discussion during the session. Generate a collaborative coaching "wishlist" of as-yet unmet coaching needs. (Follow-up) Use selected solutions from this session and/or TeachersFirst's resources to suggest or model new strategies/resources in an upcoming coaching opportunity. Applicable NETS-C standards*: 2a,b,c,d,e,f; 3 a,b,c; 6a
tag(s): professional development (164)
In the Classroom
View this archived webinar to learn some new ideas to use in your position as a technology coach, specialist, or facilitator. Take a look at the resource page full of helpful ideas! Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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PledgeCents - pledgecents.com
Grades
K to 12tag(s): grants (18), service projects (24)
In the Classroom
Use this site as a potential funding source or make a donation. Join the site (free). Then take the time to write up a clearly-worded project proposal along with pictures and video. You can even make the project a challenge to your school community, if you wish. If you are a student council or Key Club adviser, make one or more of the projects on this site your targeted service project for the year. Or use this venue to collect funds to purchase materials for your own school or club service projects. Encourage philanthropy to support good causes: kids helping kids! Share with your school's Parent Teacher Organization as a fundraising tool for any and all projects. Don't forget to send the project descriptions with local media such as small town newspapers, local TV, or service groups who might make a donation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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K-12 Digital Literacy & Citizenship Curriculum - Common Sense Education
Grades
K to 12tag(s): cyberbullying (48), digital citizenship (68), internet safety (118), media literacy (65), social networking (112)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this website as your first stop for any lessons related to responsible digital behavior. Share a link to videos on your classroom website or blog for students (and parents) to view at home. Download and use lesson plans and materials as part of Common Core lesson planning. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as Word Clouds for Kids, reviewed here, for younger students, or Wordle, reviewed here, for older students. Ask students collect ideas on a collaborative bulletin board like Scrumblr, reviewed here, (quick start- no membership required!) demonstrating information presented from these Digital Literacy & Citizenship lessons. For example, ask them to anonymously share, "Things that surprised me."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math @Work - Scholastic
Grades
5 to 12tag(s): careers (139), division (161), fashion (10), financial literacy (87), percent (82), ratios (63)
In the Classroom
Click Common Core Lessons to find information or click the link WAY up at the top of the page. Be sure to bookmark this page and check back for new additions as more information is frequently added. These lessons make a great addition to your substitute folder for an easy and fun way to practice math. Include lessons with your career unit or with any math topic contained in the webinars. Post a link to the video on your class website for use as a model and challenge students to create their own math lessons corresponding to different careers. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create videos and share them on a site such as TeacherTube reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Wideo - Wideo
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Wideo is much like Go Animate reviewed here. However, Wideo's advantage is in the ability to upload your media. (Note: This could be a disadvantage if inappropriate material from the general public is uploaded. The site does have a public gallery, but nothing inappropriate was viewable at the time of this review. It is always wise to check the gallery prior to using in class (or simply steer the class away from the gallery.) This tool has a wide variety of applications for the classroom. Have students make an animation about a historical figure or a character in a novel. As students write their own story, use Wideo to animate the characters. Use Wideo to explain lab procedures or make a commercial about the superpowers of an element. If you use a template, the work will be quick and can focus on content instead of glitz. Students can explain vocabulary words, chemical equations, solving for X and more. Challenge your gifted students to create an entire animated series. ESL/ELL or world language students could create animations to practice or explain their new vocabulary. Use one of the templates to "advertise" an upcoming class project or even the daily homework assignments on your class we page. Have students help create ads for new books in the library!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask'®: Great Timesavers January 2014 - TeachersFirst
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K to 12As a result of this session and through individual follow-up, teachers will: Locate resources within TeachersFirst to provide real-world learning experiences for their students, Locate and evaluate effective, web-based tools and resources in support of teaching and learning, both for themselves and for their students, Evaluate TeachersFirst membership features applicable to their individual technology expertise and teaching situation, Locate and use the many tools available to TeachersFirst members, (follow-up) Use the features of FREE TeachersFirst membership to maximize student learning and parental communication while saving time. Applicable NETS-T standards (2008)*: 1b, 2a and b, 3d * The text of these standards is copyrighted. Please read the full text at ISTE's NETS-T page: http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/nets-t-standards.pdf?sfvrsn=2. This session is appropriate for teachers at ALL technology comfort levels.**
In the Classroom
Learn about TeachersFirst membership in this informative and time-saving session. View this archived webinar to learn about membership. Take a look at the resource page full of wonderful tips! Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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NYLearns.org - The Research Foundation of State University of New York and PL
Grades
K to 12tag(s): commoncore (102)
In the Classroom
Begin or extend your experiences with Common Core. Find real examples to use or be inspired to create one of your own. Educators and administrators alike can examine, discuss, and reflect on website materials and current practices. Save this in your bookmarks or favorites to explore as time permits.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Crafting Digital Writing - Troy Hicks
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): copyright (51), digital citizenship (68), digital storytelling (155), professional development (164), writing (365)
In the Classroom
The Common Core State Standards Anchor Standard for Writing CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 calls for students to use the technology to share their writing and to interact with others as part of this digital writing process. With this in mind, sharing this Digital Writing resource with your English department members and with science and history departments is a natural. This page is a terrific resource for any upper elementary or secondary teacher who wants students to produce writing or present research results digitally. For those interested, here is a video of Troy Hicks outlining the principles of his approach and the five themes he adheres to for a writing class: Troy Hicks Video. This video is hosted on YouTube. If Youtube is blocked at your school, it may be worth viewing at home prior to introducing your students to the resources. Use this companion wiki page directly with students or create an English department Symbaloo webmix or Livebinder of digital writing resources for students to practice ethical and powerful digital writing. Make digital writing a year long initiative in your school.Comments
Excellent resourcesPatricia, NJ, Grades: 6 - 12
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Tagboard - Tagboard.com
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): microblogging (41)
In the Classroom
Use this tool to follow any political event such as The State of the Union address, elections, and other major events. Get a perspective of people in the country or the World by identifying the different responses and viewpoints from those in other locations. Compare viewpoints with those of the formal media. Follow any major news event or items related to the event (reactions to the Super Bowl commercials?) Follow major achievements, world events, and more. Use on an Interactive whiteboard or projector to introduce a class topic or follow current events. Have students submit a record of tweets that show their learning over time. Students can create an Infographic or other multimedia presentation about reflections and information learned from the Tagboard. Have students make a mash-up using one of the many TeachersFirst Edge Tools reviewed here. For your own professional learning, create a Tagboard to follow one of the many educational Twitter chat hashtags listed here.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Products can be shared by URL
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Spigot - spigot.org
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): media literacy (65), news (262)
In the Classroom
Use these articles to discuss the future of education and the use of technology both in high school and higher education. As students are the most important stakeholders in education, many of these articles are relevant to them and their future. Students will especially be interested in the Practice and Alt. Culture sections of this site. Discuss current events in your classroom and ask students to investigate an angle on technology and/or education for a persuasive writing piece or debate. Students have incredible insight into their own learning and technology use. Keep this link bookmarked on your classroom computer or linked to your blog, wiki, or class page. Use examples from this site to look for bias or editorial slant as part of an information literacy unit. Select articles for experience with informational texts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Google Hangout - Google
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K to 12tag(s): chat (51), DAT device agnostic tool (179), video (278)
In the Classroom
Start a Hangout and invite others from your Circles or Google contacts. Connect whole classrooms across the country for book clubs. Connect experts such as authors and scientists to classrooms of children. Create connected learning experiences with other students, especially those in older grades. Connect world language classes to classes in other countries. Students interested in graphic design can connect with an expert or artist far away and share current work in a virtual critique. Connect students with mentors or older students for help with homework. Teachers can hold "office hours" for homework help and asking questions. Whole buildings can collaborate and share professional development with others in their own district and beyond! Be sure to connect with other educators on your own and enjoy the professional development that also exists within the Hangouts! Be sure to create Circles within Google Plus to meet any concerns with your administration regarding privacy.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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Otter - Scurry Labs
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): calendars (47), classroom management (159), homework (42)
In the Classroom
If your school does not provide such a space, Otter is perfect for teachers to create a simple class page for interaction with parents and accessibility by students. Manage your classroom with this tool. Use as a class hub to manage documents, photos, and files. Be sure to share your link so students and parents can access both in and out of the classroom. Use Otter in teacher ed programs to show future teachers how a website can enhance instruction.Edge Features:
Includes an education-only area for teachers and students
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be shared by URL
Includes teacher tools for registering and/or monitoring students
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EngageNY Video Library - New York State Education Department
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K to 12tag(s): commoncore (102), professional development (164)
In the Classroom
This is a great site to share during professional development days. Share the parent video during your Open House or Meet The Teacher night. Bookmark and view videos to help understand implementing Common Core in your classroom. Check back frequently to see what has been added. Find ideas for specific lesson ideas.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Glossary of Instructional Strategies - Kelly Jo Rowan
Grades
K to 12tag(s): preK (288), teaching strategies (25)
In the Classroom
This is an excellent site for experienced and new teachers alike! Share ideas with your student teacher or mentoree as examples of different ways to present lessons. Share with other teachers during professional development sessions. Choose one or two new instructional strategies to try each month to liven up classroom lessons. Since this site is frequently updated, check back often after you mark this one in your professional favorites. Instructional coaches will want to keep this as a handy reference.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Emaze - emaze.com
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K to 12In the Classroom
Create a slideshow for any classroom presentation, with all grade levels. In lower grades, use teacher-created shows or make one together as a class on the projector or interactive whiteboard. Share it on your website or blog for students to review or for students who were absent. If they are allowed to set up personal accounts, have students create and collaborate on their own presentations. Alternatively, create a class account for students to use. Share students' work on your classroom website or blog. (Be sure to get parent permission first!) Use this tool in many different ways. Have students use this online tool as they would any presentation tool. Use this site for research projects about famous people from the past and present. Have cooperative learning groups create presentations about science or math topics. Have students create presentations to "introduce" themselves to the class during the first week of school. Link or embed the presentations on your class wiki and have others guess which student they describe. Share student projects with parents and others via URL. Use the infographics template to make quick and easy infographics about any subject. Report information from class polls, create infographics for reports on states, famous people, or any topic that would include multiple uses of data! Be sure to demonstrate HOW to use this tool on your interactive whiteboard or projector.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask''®: Google 6-Part Series (Part 2): Google Search Secrets - TeachersFirst
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K to 12As a result of this session and through individual follow-up, teachers will: Explore several of the various educational search tools available through Google, Browse and explore Google Trends, Google Correlate, Blog Searches, and more, Explore the many resources on TeachersFirst related to Google's offerings, (Follow-up) Create a lesson for your own classroom (or position) using one of the Google tools shared. Applicable NETS-T standards (2008)*: 1a and b, 2b and c, 3a and d. . * The text of these standards is copyrighted. Please read the full text at ISTE's NETS-T page.
tag(s): search engines (62)
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View this archived webinar to learn some new ideas to search on Google. Take a look at the resource page full of wonderful Seach Secrets. ! Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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