Technology: SMART classrooms, Smarter Kids - Jen Larva
At the 21st Century Teaching and Learning Conference (June 28, 2011), Jen Larva shared a set of websites that she recommends for use with a SMARTboard:
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30.6.11
29.6.11
Revision is more than a classroom exercise - preview online
Real Revision - Authors' Strategies to Share with Student Writers
by Kate Messner
"How do you show students that revision is more than a classroom exercise to please the teacher? Take them into the real world of writing for publication. In Real Revision, award-winning author and teacher Kate Messner demystifies the revision process for teachers and students alike and provides tried-and-true revision strategies, field tested by students' favorite authors."
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Learning to Love Reading in 30 Minutes a Day
Students make tremendous reading gains.
[LINK to read article]
"To make the most of our 30 minutes a day, I decided to design a program that incorporated Allington's four approaches within a readers' workshop model. We would not only teach comprehension strategies, but also give students plenty of time to read and fall in love with books at just right levels. I hoped that as students became avid, engaged readers, their reading fluency would naturally increase."
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28.6.11
Meet The Stars: Books & Web 2.0
An online "course" for TLs in 8 sections
Meet The Stars: Books & Web 2.0
"The vicarious star-studded glamour of the Hollywood era provides a backdrop for a professional development opportunity available to Saskatchewan teacher-librarians. Designed to engender a passion for reading and exploit the potential of a range of emerging technologies, Meet The Stars: Books & Web 2.0 explores all facets of the school library program - information literacy and the reading and literature programs. Meet The Stars is poised to become an overnight sensation in Saskatchewan libraries."
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Advanced operators for Google searching
Be a Google Power-User!
Try some of these operators to improve your search results:
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New Math Resource from Stenhouse - "Object Lessons"
Object Lessons - Teaching Math Through the Visual Arts, K-5
by Caren Holtzman and Lynn Susholtz
"When Caren Holtzman and Lynn Susholtz look around a classroom, they see "a veritable goldmine of mathematical investigations" involving number, measurement, size, shape, symmetry, ratio, and proportion. They also think of the ways great artists have employed these concepts in their depictions of objects and space -- In each chapter, the authors use everyday objects to create rigorous, hands-on activities that address key mathematics standards and concepts."
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27.6.11
5 minute Arts - video library
Learn techniques and ideas to share with your students
This repository of video clips can help you learn a technique before teaching it to your students. Some of the segments are even fine to show to a class. (Preview first!) Note: each clip starts with an ad, and there are some popups as well.
Categories include: Design, Digital Art, Drawing & Painting, Filmmaking, Jewelry, Origami, Photography, and Sculpture, among others.
Example:
2 good drawing tools online
In-browser drawing programs
Kerpoof
Sumopaint
Many other drawing tools to explore
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iPad as a Whiteboard substitute
Turn Your iPad 1 or 2 into an Interactive Whiteboard
"Everyone is so excited about tethering the iPad 2 to a projector, admittedly very cool, that we have missed something else at least as good if not even better! Go all the way: make the iPad 1 or 2 into a complete interactive whiteboard solution!"
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Inference - definitions and activities
Assorted Inference Websites
How Language works
Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
3 scenarios with suggested answers
Inference Lesson and practice
Being a Critical Reader (inference)
Graphic organizer
The June Issue of The Question Mark
Key factors that determine whether or not a student will do well in school.
"Complex challenges — like improving schools — demand solutions that address all of the various inputs and factors that influence success. There is rarely a challenge involving people and organizations that can be handled by emphasizing a single factor or input.
It takes considerable skill to understand and address the many inputs that contribute to school success or failure. The decision-makers must have a taste for nuance and subtlety."
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"What do TLs Teach" - poster
Skills for Success
Joyce Valenza has created a striking poster (in many sizes) based on AASL's Information Power competencies. TLs can embrace the points as a "personal challenge", or even use them as a "transmedia manifesto!"
See the poster here:
Flickr page with other sizes:
This would make a great poster for a class, library or school display. The medium size could be used as a "postcard" handout to teachers in September!
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24.6.11
The next level of search skills - Webinar
Sensemaking: The next level of search skills
(Webarchive playback)
Abstract: "Sensemaking is what you do when you collect, organize and
restructure information to come to some deeper understanding. In essence, it's the process we follow when we research complex historical topics... or when we're buying a refrigerator. I'll talk about ways that people do sensemaking, some best practices and how you can improve your sensemaking behavior."
(asks for email address to view)
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J.K. Rowling's Announcement
Pottermore
Harry Potter goes digital!
Youtube clip:
The site:
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Teaching Math - K-4 - a video library
A video library for K-4 math teachers;
52 video programs (from 15 to 30 minutes in length) and guide
(Now on DVD or view on the site: select the VOD icon - you may have to select it twice! It may take a minute or two to load.)
"See how the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards are used in elementary classrooms across America. Elementary teachers tap the excitement and energy of children from kindergarten through grade 4 as they solve problems, learn to make connections between concepts, and communicate and reason mathematically. Teaching Math K-4 documents effective teaching and learning in many schools: small, large, rural, suburban, and inner-city."
The Arts in Every Classroom - K-5 - online video series
The Arts in Every Classroom: A Workshop for Elementary Teachers
(Available on DVD or streaming from the site)
Video Page: (Scroll down -click on VOD icon)
Support materials:
"The programs in this video library show classroom teachers and arts specialists using the arts in a variety of successful ways. The 14 video programs — filmed in elementary schools around the country — along with a print guide and companion Web site, serve as a professional development resource for K-5 teachers seeking new ideas for integrating the arts into the classroom."
Bandtalk Newsletter online
Bandtalk Journal (The Summer edition)
is available on the BCMEA website:
"Please feel free to pass on the journal to anyone who might be interested. There are a number of great articles submitted by our members that I'm sure you will enjoy!!!"
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23.6.11
Watch short clips on features in Google Docs
Wnat to know more about Google Docs?
These short clips, put together by the folks at Google give an overview to the many features available to Google Doc users.
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Jazz up your Powerpoint presentations
28 FREE PowerPoint Animation Templates!
Get 28 GREAT animated PowerPoint templates for free, courtesy of Brainshark, m62 Visual Communications, and Microsoft! Use and adapt them how you like and get animated today.
View a short movie of each of the slides in action; to download, select the "attachments" tab in the movie window and choose the animation you want.
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