Useful sites (weekly)

• Real-Time Technology in Middle School Language Instruction — THE Journal An Article: The challenge of teaching language well is one that is central to the K-12 experience. Web 2.0 provides some tools to help meet that challenge.

• TiltViewer Download   This is a free, customizable 3D Flash image viewing application. Can be used to navigate content in 3d.

• Jeopardy Online Jeopardy game creation – good for students to make up a topic review 

• 100 best first lines from novels A list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit for Contemporary Literature at Illinois State University:” 

• TPCK – Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge – TPCK This is a wiki page that explains TPACK, a model for professional development to implement 21st Century Skills in the classroom. It looks at the integration of technical knowledge, pedagogical knowledge & content knowledge.

• WritingFix: a Right-Brained Writing Prompt…Story Starters: Powerful Sentences Story Starters offers interesting sentences that can help students to start their writing. This tool comes up with random sentences to get students started. 

• ImaginationCubed is a multi-user drawing tool. You can use a pen, stamp,shapes, line or you can type. You can also change the color of the background.

• The complete text of Macbeth: Scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth 

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Search, Read, Study, Discuss. Searchable etext that offers resources,a study guide and discussion (with other readers)

• Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators – Assessment Rubrics – Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators A great guide for rubric related generators and/or sites for Web Page, General, Multimedia, Web 2.0, Articles about, Educators, Alternative, Portfolios, Graphic Organizers

• DigiTales – The Art of Telling Digital Stories Interactive page that allows you to customize your Digital Media rubrics for makring digital projects. 

• Blogging Rubric | Remote Access This provides a useful starting point for creating a marking criteria for blogs

• Celebrate Change: Let’s Make the Whole School a Library! School Library of Victoria conference blog : Celebrate change, lets make the whole school a library. Many great posts that that offer a rich array of ideas, resources, tools and techniques enabling us to adapt the role of the school library to take advantage of the innovative information landscape.

• The Alannah and Madeline Foundation: Cybersafety and Wellbeing Initiative 

• Google Squared Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web, for any topic you specify

• The Film Foundation Educational Program from the The Film Foundation The Story of Movies is an interdisciplinary curriculum introducing students to classic cinema and the cultural, historical and artistic significance of film. Has a film lesson library. Icludes lots of resources and a message from Martin Scorsese.

• Periodic Table http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/bpes_new/bpes_new_uk/STAGING/local_assets/downloads/secondary_resources/pt_preview_080409.jpg A periodic table which includes real-world applications for all the elements

• New York Times – Linked Open Data For the last 150 years, The New York Times has maintained one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. In 2009, we began to publish this vocabulary as linked open data.

• Collecta Real time results from social media

• Grogger | Crowdsource your Content Use a Grog – a ‘Group Blog’ – to publish the best content of an entire community of contributors. Increase the quality and quantity of your content. 

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.