Unit+8+-+Resources+for+Transforming+Education

**Resources for Transforming Education!!**
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For this activity //**, **// search the web, online publications, blogs for a few resources to share with the class. Show your Internet expertise by finding resources that support our quest for transformative educational practices.

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toward transformative practices || http://www.edutopia.org/student-opinions-classroom-technology-tools || I thought this resource was a good one because it had technology ideas from a students point of view. It also has links to ideas for implementation. || It will help educators by listening to what students want. The links at the bottom of the page lead to apps and other programs that help by subject area. It's simple to navigate and seems to hit the high interest technology that students can be creative with in the classroom. It ties otherwise unknown programs to content which makes our jobs easier in finding appropriate technology to use. || -google search by image: if students come across an image that they like, they can then search other images/info based on what is represented in their original picture. -google web clipboard: an easy way for students to keep track of the websites they have pulled information from. This should improve works cited pages. -google share button: would allow students to share information they 2have found with each other through social networks and email. || 2. http://www.edmodo.com/
 * ~ Name/District ||~ Resource ||~ Why you chose resource ||~ How it will help educators stay current and move
 * < Cheryl/eTech ||< Ohio 21st Century Partnership Website [|http://21stcenturyskillsohio.org] || This is a resource which brings a “one-stop shop” focused on infusing 21st Century Skills into education to Ohio. || Ohio has made a commitment to building world class skills and knowledge in our educational system. Educators, administrators, students, parents, business and civic leaders and policymakers are now collaborating to re-vamp historical school designs and traditional classroom learning environments, re-tool academic content standards and assessment tools. ||
 * Lori V. || Edutopia website with ideas and resources for how to implement technology and cool new kid approved ideas and tools.
 * Tyler Turner || Google Chrome Webstore https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/ext/15-by-google?utm_campaign=en&utm_source=ha-en-na-us-extensions-categories-google&utm_medium=ha || Aids in helping students research effectively. || My three resources can both be found on this page. During my last research activity, I found students struggling to find relevant information. They had no idea how to research or where to find information. I have found a few apps from the chrome web store that will aid in speeding up the research process in the classroom.
 * Mary Wormley || 1. http://museumbox.e2bn.org/index.php

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googledocs.com || 1. I thought this was a good resource because it allows students to use something different to present text, video, hyperlinks, and images about their topic. 2. Students can access theses sites from home or school to complete assignments or projects. || 1. This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. 2. All three of these work very well to help students and teachers manage assignments and projects. || http://oxfordreference.com || Homework helpline that is staffed by online librarians. Students can type in a question and they will help with the answer. Online dictionary can be helpful for unknown words || First site is great for students who just can't find the answer needed. The online librarian can help with the answer. Afterward, a tranlated document of your conversation will be emailed to you. Second site is helpful when needing to know word definition or part of speech. Students may be more willing to go to a site like this when they don't know the meaning of a word instead of asking the teacher/another student. || useful to review Math vocabulary. || Quizlet.com will help educators create a set of review flashcards for any subject. The students then can access the teacher created flashcards on their i-Pod Touches. After reviewing the teacher created flashcards, students can even create their own set of flashcards or search Quizlet for another set of flashcards. I highly recommend Quizlet.com to further reinforce concepts in any subject. Students seem to enjoy this website immensely. || I plan to encourage my language arts class to use this site next week when we tackle a small research project. || This site will help me teach my students better ways to use the internet which is such an important skill for their future educational endeavors. This site is ideal for elementary and middle school students. It teaches them how to limit the number of words that they type in for a search. I am sure that this will help my 6th graders, as they want to type complete sentences for a google search. || 2. http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/index.htm || 1. Wonderful site that gives word problems and allows students to build visuals that show the forumula 2. Site is geared to the visual learner. Can be quite useful for science kids that need some remediation. Very easy to understand. || Both of these sites are pretty good. The first is VERY interactive and pretty challenging. It give the students a different perspective of what goes on "inside" word problems. Great for decoding. The second site is science, and on a less aggressive mode. This is a more basic science site with lots of photos, pictures and diagrams. It includes many different classes of animals, rocks, insects. Really a great place for kids that are struggling to get another look at the basics. || 2. http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ || 1. I use this site when I have a topic that I need to teach or review, but I need a little extra 'ooommph' added to it. Sometimes as a teacher, I feel that I need to entertain the students at times. 2. This site has many ideas for web2.0 tools. Very organized and broken into categories with links. Very helpful if you are not sure what is available. || 1. So many people think that youtube is just about music or violence. There are actually many postings that are made by teachers to teach lessons about almost any topic (although some are somewhat dry). I shared a pythagorean theorem rap with my students after we had learned about it just to reinforce the formula to them ...in music! Fun for me and fun for the students. 2. I am working on a project where I will want students to present something visual to me in the end. When the time comes, I will visit this site to see what options my students may have available to them. Treasure box of web 2.0 tools!!! ||
 * Amy Long || http://knowitnow.org
 * Lori Vandeborne || http://www.ccusd93.org/education/components/docmgr/default.php?sectiondetailid=18621&catfilter=ALL#showDoc || I found this website that provided PDF downloads for iPods in the classroom assignments || If you click on each PDF there are different types of lessons that you can print off and follow for using iPods in the classroom. I also liked this schools technology home page if you click on the links on the left of the page. There are PDF downloads for instructions on digital story telling and examples as well. There are also links to other technology and project based learning resources as you navigate through the website. ||
 * Cindi Molk || http://quizlet.com || I found this site extremely
 * Cindi Molk || http://exchange.smarttech.com || I I love this site. I use this site at least three times per week to enhance smartboard instruction for my students. || The SmartBoard Teachers' Exchange is a wonderful website for teachers of all subjects to research lesson plans or search for SmartBoard slides/activities/games designed by other educators. The SmartBoard Teachers' Exchange is a wonderful site to enhance SmartBoard instruction, whether adding a brand new concept or supplementing an established unit of instruction. I highly recommend this site to teachers of all subjects who use a SmartBoard in their daily lesson. ||
 * Ellen Johnson || http://answergarden.ch/ || This web 2.0 tool is good for getting and providing feedback to a group of students. || I think that this will help teachers and students alike. It will provide feedback. It will encourage the students to think their ideas through. They have to be concise with their answers. The idea of this tool is to create a question. The students then go on and type an answer with 20 characters or less. Only 25 answers show per "garden". However, the more times a word is used in the "garden", the bigger it grows (similar to Wordle). I think the students would enjoy using this once in a while. I have not yet used it so I don't know if the students can see others' answers before they respond or not. It will be interesting to see how this works. I plan to use it soon. ||
 * Ellen Johnson || http://www.boolify.org || This site helps younger students learn to narrow an internet search.
 * Bo Walter || 1. http://www.thinkingblocks.com/
 * Shannon Kuhlman || 1. http://www.youtube.com/
 * Ryan Miller || 1. http://www.thatquiz.org

2. http://www.flipsnack.com || 1. Thatquiz.org is a free service for teachers who want to replace paper tests with online testing. It also has an online grade book providing fast analysis of class and individual student progress and an exchange for teachers to share the resources they create. For students, it is a skills site that is especially useful for math practice and testing. I can use it for vocabulary in my LA class. 2. FlipSnack is an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications. It reminds me of mixbook but much higher quality.

Once created, you can embed your flipping book collection, download them or share them on social networking websites. || 1. Teachers are always looking for ways to get immediate feedback to better prepare for future lessons for their students. This site help to test them in a format that is also fun for the kids.

2. As a LA teacher I am always looking for new ways that my students can share their work in class. This seems like a fantastic visual tool! ||