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| Tech Tips Newsletter | ||||
| Educational Links: | ||||
| School Center | DCSD Web Publishing - Online | |||
| Atomic Learning | Online Technology Tutorials - MVHS login and password reqired | |||
| unitedstreaming | 4,000 videos, 40,000 video clips and thousands of images, unitedstreaming is a digital video-on-demand service brought to you by Discovery Education. | |||
| Web 2.0 Tools | The purpose of this page is to encourage and support teachers who would like to teach or use in their instruction Web 2.0 Tools. The tools include Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Podcasts, Google education and more. This is a work in progress and being developed by educators and students leading conversations to help students develop 21st Century Skills. | |||
| PbWikis | Your own ad-free wiki in 30 seconds |
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| Inspiration | Tips / tricks and lesson ideas for Kidspiration & Inspiration | |||
| Discovery School | Lesson plans, teacher store, Kathy Schrock | |||
| TeacherTube | Safe, educational alternative to YouTube for videos | |||
| Blogger.com | A blog is your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more. All for FREE. | |||
| Google Docs | Create and share your work online |
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| Google Groups | What can you do with groups? |
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| Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? | ||||
| del.icio.us | social bookmarking |
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| Zoho Show | The online tool for making powerful presentations.Whether you are a professional, a teacher, a student, a businessman, a salesman or anyone looking to put together a cool presentation, you have come to the right place. Zoho Show's pre-built themes, clipart and shapes coupled with features like drag-and-drop makes it an easy application to use. | |||
| Poducate Me | Practical solutions for podcasting in education. | |||
| Flashcardfriends | Create flashcards, find and modify existing flashcards, share them with friends, test yourself ... it's fun, free & it works! | |||
| Picassa | Picasa is a free software download from Google that helps you: |
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| Bubbl.com | Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. | |||
| Edutagger | edutagger is a social bookmarking service for K-12 learners and educators, allowing you to store your web links online and share them with others, all within an educational context. | |||
| Curriki.org | The Global Education & Learning Community Access to knowledge and learning tools is a basic right for every child. Our goal is to make curricula and learning resources available to everyone. |
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| Game Templates | Game Shows | Templates |Websites that can be downloaded and used for your classroom activities | |||
| Consortium for National Education Technology Standards | ||||
| 4 Teachers | Free online tutorials & resources | |||
| Apple Learning Exchange | ||||
| PBS Teacher Source | Free educational resources tied to PBS programming and correlated to stante and national standards. Search by subject, grade level, or keyword. | |||
| Writer's Companion | Lesson plans and ideas on how to implement the writing process in your classroom and general reference links. | |||
| Best Practices | ||||
| Mediablender | ||||
| Timeliner / Graph Club | Tips / tricks and lesson ideas for Timeliner & Graph Club | |||
| Plagiarism Stoppers | ||||
| Papers & Plagiarism | ||||
| Instructional Websites | For teachers by teachers | |||
| Blue Squirrel | Utility for downloading complete websites | |||
| Cable in the Classroom | ||||
| Atomic Learning | Online Technology Tutorials | |||
| Learning Electric | Online Technology Tutorials | |||
| Enchanted Learning | Online graphics | |||
| Pics 4 Learning | Online graphics | |||
| Clip Art for Teachers | Premier Site for Lesson Specific Clip Art | |||
| Noodle Tools | Tool for making citations (NoodleBib MLA Starter under "Free Tools") | |||
| Web Quests | Learn about Web Quests | |||
| 21st Century Learning Initiative | An interesting project. Largely concerned with reshaping schooling, but they also feature some excellent background links and papers on the biology of learning. | |||
| All Kinds Of Minds | The LearningBase provides insights into the learning challenges that students face. Take a close look at the skills that must be mastered, the neurodevelopmental factors that may influence student's success, and common obstacles that students may encounter on the road to mastery. We'll also offer hints and suggested activities that may help them minimize or overcome their differences in learning. | |||
| Math Through Fantasy Football | Book describes how to get students involved in math through Fantasy Football. | |||
| Math Playground | Here is a site that has games, activities, and a blog for teachers -- check them out. | |||
| gliffy.com | Here is a free concept mapping tool that allows online collaboration among other features. | |||
| Federal Resources for Ed Excellence | Engineering, mathematics across the curriculum, solar andhydrogen fuel cell cars, cyberinfrastructure, Antarctic research, history of the Americas, papers of presidents and Congress, Mark Twain, and Henri Rousseau are among the topics of 12 new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find: | |||
| Mathematics Across the Community College Curriculum | Provides course descriptions and student projects in anthropology, art, biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, English, environmental science, health, marketing, mathematics, nursing, physics, policy studies, political science, social services, and urban planning. | |||
| Cyberinfrastructure | Examines the convergence of three realities -- the spread of the Internet, the shrinkage of computers, and the accumulation of databases -- that has led researchers to envision a planet- wide grid of computing, information, networking, and sensor resources. Learn about projects to develop the emerging cyberinfrastructure. Find out how researchers are beginning to depend on it. Discover resources for teaching and learning about information technology. | |||
| Junior Solar Sprint and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car Competitions | Focuses on designing and building solar and hydrogen fuel cell cars. Explore components of solar cars. Conduct experiments to improve car performance. Find activities for measuring solar cell output, tips on vehicle construction and transmission design, and formulas for calculating vehicle performance. See a list of regional competitions sites. Find out how to integrate solar vehicle activities into the curriculum. | |||
| Teaching Engineering | Provides more than 500 lessons and activities for teaching engineering content in K-12 science and math classes. Topics include oil and energy consumption, water and electricity, mass and volume, various energy sources, heat transfer, solar heating systems, collisions and momentum, electrons, cellular respiration, biomedical engineering, and more. Lessons connect real-world experiences with concepts and skills already taught in K-12 classrooms. | |||
| The Invisible Web Revealed | "The Web is increasingly moving away from being a collection of documents and becoming a multidimensional repository for sounds, images, audio, and other formats." Because much of this information is not accessible to many general search engines' software spiders, we need to look for specific search tools that will lead us to this hidden content. Some of these tools include directories, searchable sites, free Web databases, and a few general and many specialized search engines. | |||
| Teachingbooks.net | Bring Authors Into Your Classroom. Online. Anytime. | |||
| teachers' domain | Teachers' Domain is an online educational service with two related components — collections and courses — that help teachers enhance their students' learning experiences and advance their own teaching skills. The Teachers' Domain collections include classroom-ready multimedia resources for use in lessons or independent study, and the Teachers Domain Professional Development courses utilize many of the same resources along with videos of exemplary classroom practice. | |||
| Scholastic Teacher | Get students excited about history, reading, writing, science, and math with engaging Web-based activities that support cross-curricular learning. Teacher guides help you integrate activities into lesson plans and offer extensions for offline enrichment. Think your students would like to interview Ben Franklin or oversee a world hunger eradication campaign? Check it out here. (K–12) | |||
| Literacynet | Fantastic resource for struggling readers. The content consists of current and past news stories on topics such as the environment, politics, science, culture, and adventure. Students may choose to read the text, listen to the text, or view a short video clip of the story. Each module includes interactive activities to test vocabulary and comprehension. (MS, HS) | |||
| Digital Camera in Education | Learn how to use that digital camera in all types of classes, from math to ELL. | |||
| Comic Life allows you to easily create comic books (or documents that look like comic books). Upon opening, Comic Life immediately finds and opens your iPhoto library, giving you a collection of photos to work with. Then you select your template, drag photos into place, drag speech bubbles on top and type text into the speech bubbles. Comics can have as many pages as your storage allows. When finished, comics can be printed, exported as web pages, movies, photos, or uploaded to a .Mac account.
There are tons of curricular connections including: vocabulary, storytelling, storyboarding, etc. |
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| Federal Resources for Education | Free Resources | |||
| Professional Links: | ||||
| PERA | Public Employees Retirement Association | |||
| DCFT | Douglas County Federation of Teachers | |||
| CIGNA | DCSD Healthcare | |||
| DCSD Healthcare | ||||
| Delta Dental | DCSD Dental Plan | |||
| Vision Service Plan | DCSD Vision Plan (VSP) | |||