Useful Links

   by  Brian Metcalfe 

• Digital Storytelling – Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything “Digital storytelling is one way for students and teachers to share their knowledge. This page includes links to support the use of digital storytelling for both teaching and learning. “

• When We All Teach Text Structures, Everyone Wins | Cult of Pedagogy How to teach text structures for better reading comprehension and improved retention. Teachers of history, science, and other subjects are now expected to weave literacy instruction into their teaching of content. But how should they do that? What are the most effective ways to help students learn to read challenging content-area texts? This article breaks down the research behind explicit teaching of text structures and includes a video that shows how to do it (Great for content-area literacy).

• 10 Ways to Integrate Google Drawings in Your Teaching ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning “Here is a step by step visual guide to help you learn how to use Drawings  to create posters.”

• Morphing into a 21st Century Teacher (updated) | An Ethical Island Teachers play a crucial role in developing 21st century skills in their students. If they are going to do this, they need to have a certain set of characteristics or skills and model for the students. This infographic by Mia MacMeekin lists 27 ways to be the 21st century educator.

• 16 Pinteresting Ways Educators Use Pinterest – PikeMall Tech Ideas for teachers.

• From The Archives: “Five ways to get kids to want to read and write” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… A reminder about a well-written article with practical advice for parents and teachers

• Literacy in the Digital Age – Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything Kathy Schrock’s page features some wonderful links to many sites that help to explain the key literacies that are part of today’s literacy landscape. Well organised under clear headings, these offer a great resource for educators and offer many opportunities for classroom inclusion.

• Hey guys, do you know what kind of reader are you? – BookLikes This infographic features six kinds of readers together with a short description on each. When I looked at the categories I find that I am a bit of a cross between a couple of these.

• Fan Fiction Takes Flight Among Teens | School Library Journal An interesting piece about fan fiction. It hexpalins what it is and discusses the development of fanfiction, some of the better known fanfic sites and also names some well-known authors who have written faction in the past..

• Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Free Edmodo Apps to Try This Year “Edmodo a good system for organizing and sharing content with students. The single log-in aspect of Edmodo gives your students access to excellent tools without having to keep track of separate user names and passwords.” Seven free Edmodo apps are briefly explained and linked in this post.

• Coding for Kids Revisited | Edutopia An annotated list of six resources that could be used for coding with primary school students (5-11). They are all free and provide students with opportunities to be exposed to programming.

• 18 Useful cybersafety tips for teenagers – Generation Next | A Social Enterprise dedicated to protecting and enhancing the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Young People and their Community Practical, simple no-nonsense tips for parents and teachers to use with young people

• Spezify – Visual Search & Inspiration Spezify is a visual search engine. It gives related concepts at the top of the page and then finds images, definitions, quotes, symbols and sites related to the specified search. To limit some of the results you can click on the tools icon and take out some of the social networking sites. NOTE: Some of the search results may include ‘M’ rated content.

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