Best of the Best: Websites That Enhance Instruction and Learning
Presented by Judi Wolf
Email
- techteach@roadrunner.com
Website - http://www.techteachconcepts.com
Blog - www.judiwolf.blogspot.com
The New Internet
-2.0
Blogs –https://www.blogger.com
Example of a Classroom Blog - http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=70735
My Podcast - http://www.mypodcast.com
Twenty One Classes Blog Site - http://www.21classes.com/
Podcasts Example: - http://www.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/podcasts.html
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Walking through Wikis - http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/
Subscribing to Blogs: RSS Feeds – Bloglines - http://www.bloglines.com/
Classroom 2.0 - http://www.classroom20.com
Evaluating
Websites
Media Awareness Network - http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/index.cfm
Fact or Folly - http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/wa_teachers/fact_or_folly_teachers/index.cfm
Martin Luther King’s Hoax Website - http://www.martinlutherking.org/
Kathy Schrock’s Website Evaluation Guides - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html
Email Hoaxes - http://www.snopes2.com/
Keeping Your Students Safe On The Super Highway:
The Safety Test from PBS - http://pbskids.org/license/
Netty’s World - http://www.nettysworld.com.au/
Jo Fool or Jo Cool - http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/special_initiatives/games/joecool_joefool/jo_cool_kids.cfm
Privacy Playground - http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/privacy_playground/
NetSmarts - http://www.netsmartzkids.org/indexfl.htm
Teaching To Use The Internet With
Respect
Copyright and Fair Use - http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf
Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright - http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/
Teacher’s Permission to Use Form - http://www.landmark-project.com/permission1.php
Student’s Permission to Use Form - http://www.landmark-project.com/permission_student.php
Keyboarding:
Dance Mat Typing - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
Sense-Lang - http://sense-lang.org/typing/
ABC Ya Keyboard Challenges - http://www.abcya.com/
(Go to Fifth Grade)
Taming
The Tedious Teacher Tasks:
Personal Education Press - http://www.educationalpress.org/
Preschool Printables - http://www.preschoolprintables.com/
Activities from Jan Brett - http://www.janbrett.com/
Discovery School Custom Classroom - http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html
ABC Teach - http://www.abcteach.com/
Education World Teacher Tools and Templates - http://www.education-world.com/tools_templates/index.shtml
Teacher Resources For Using The
Internet:
Thinkfinity - http://www.thinkfinity.org
Annette Lamb’s Four To Explore - http://42explore.com/
The Scholastic Network - http://www.scholasticnetwork.com/
Finding Broken Links:
The Way Back Machine - http://www.archive.org/
Kid-Friendly Search
Engine:
Quintura For Kids - http://kids.quintura.com/
KidsClick - http://www.kidsclick.org/
The Internet Public Library for Kids
- http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
Ask For Kids - http://www.askforkids.com/
Fact Monster - http://www.factmonster.com/?link=tmplnav
Education World Hunts For Fact Monster - http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/archives/factmonster.shtml
Little Explorer’s Dictionary - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
Managing Websites:
Delicious - http://del.icio.us/
Web Worksheet Wizard - http://wizard.4teachers.org/
Making a Simple Class Blog - http://www.blogger.com/
Using
Images In The Classroom:
Google Images (Click on Images) - http://www.blogger.com/
Picasa - http://picasa.google.com/
Jigzone - Making Pictures Into
Puzzles - http://www.jigzone.com/
Flauntr - http://flauntr.com/
Photo Story – Where to Download http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
Video On Demand!
United Streaming - http://www.unitedstreaming.com/
Brain Pop Junior - http://www.brainpopjr.com/
You Tube - http://www.youtube.com/
Teacher Tube - http://www.teachertube.com/
Current Events In The Classroom
The New York Times Learning Center - http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
Washington Post For Kids - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/kidspost/
Time For Kids - http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
Online
Stories and Other Audio
Book Pals
Storyline - http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/
Story Place
- http://www.storyplace.org/
Voices From The
Days Of Slavery - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
Testimonies of Living Voices (Native Americans) - http://www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices/voices.html
Holocaust Survivors - http://www.bl.uk/services/learning/curriculum/projects/voices/main.htm
Ellis Island
Immigrant Stories - http://www.wwnorton.com/inventing/interface/ch18/ch18_features.htm
Battle
Lines – Letters
From America’s Wars - http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.html
Show Them The Originals
The American
Memory Project - http://memory.loc.gov/learn/
Developing Map Skills
Yahoo Maps - http://maps.yahoo.com
Google Earth - http://earth.google.com/
Map Puzzles - http://www.yourchildlearns.com/map-puzzles.htm
Literature
and the Extension of Reading :
Book Adventure -
http://bookadventure.org/
Scholastic Writing Workshops - http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm
Kids Books - http://www.scpl.lib.fl.us/kids/kids_booklists.html
PBS Stop and Go
Story Writing - http://pbskids.org/stopandgo/
Reaching
Out To Others
KeyPals - http://www.epals.com/
Ask The Experts Website - http://askanexpert.com
Manipulating Math
Base Ten Blocks - http://www.arcytech.org/java/b10blocks/b10blocks.html
Virtual Manipulatives from Utah State University
- http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
Illumination Tools - http://illuminations.nctm.org/mathlets/shapebalance/index.html
Some Interactive Websites
A Math Dictionary For Kids p- http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
Rainforest Maths - http://www.rainforestmaths.com/
That Quiz - http://www.thatquiz.com/
Math TV - http://www.actionmath.com/index.html
National Geographic For Kids - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
StarFall - http://www.starfall.com/
Game Goo - http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
Literactive - http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp
Simulations
Weather Maker - http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter/blizzard/index.htm
Forces Lab - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/lab/loads.html
States of Matter - http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/states_of_matter/
Virtual Field Trips – http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/adventure.php
Efield Trips – http://www.efieldtrips.org
Web Cameras - http://www.earthcam.com/network/
Where
To Find WebQuests:
The WebQuest Page - http://webquest.org/
Where To Find
Online Projects
CIESE
Collaborative Projects - http://www.k12science.org/collabprojs.html
Global
School House - http://www.globalschoolnet.org/GSH/index.html
Technospuds - http://www.technospudprojects.com/
Keeping Informed:
4-8 Grade Listserv
– http://www.edu-web.net
KinderKorner
Listserv - mailto:kinderkorner-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Kathy Schrock’s
Site of the School Day - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/sos.html
Education World Newsletters - http://www.educationworld.com/maillist.shtml
Teacher’s First Newsletter - http://www.teachersfirst.com/
Subscribing to and Reading Blogs - http://www.bloglines.com/
Listening to Podcasts - http://www.edtechtalk.com/