Useful links

   by  kathryn.heiser 

• General Shakespeare — Good Tickle Brain: A Mostly Shakespeare Webcomic “An eclectic collection of mostly Shakespeare-related comics and other miscellany” – from Good Tickle Brain site”

• Shakespeare’s The Tempest Narrative Map | Mike Wirth Art Tempest Island Narrative Map. Mapping places and actions in The Tempest

• The correct usage of ‘thy’ and ‘thou’… – The Meta Picture Infographic – usage of thy and thou

• Runde’s Room: Differentiation in Writing – Goal-Setting Clip Chart “A Personal Writing Goals Clip Chart. It is for use in the classroom to help students track their personal goals.  Students use a clothes peg to do this  Students’ names re written on the clips. “

• BookSeriesInOrder.com – Book Series in Order “The goal of this website is simple: to list the series of every book in order. We provide the book series in order by author(ie: Lee Child), and then in order of the character or series(ie: .Jack Reacher) Where applicable, we provide you with both the publication order of the books written, as well as the chronological order of the books.” May be useful for school libraries as it has YA titles as well.

• New Chart Comparing The Best Tools for Creating Educational Posters and Inforgaphics A chart that compares four useful web tools for creating posters and infographics. It looks at the cost and what you can do with each. These tools are all quite student friendly and less technically complex.

• http://infolit.org/

• Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys – Episode 3 of 3 – YouRepeat

• Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys – Episode 2 of 3 – YouRepeat t

• Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys – Episode 1 of 3 – YouRepeat “Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School for Boys – Episode 1 of 3”

• Extraordinary School for Boys: helping boys love literacy – Telegraph “Extraordinary School for Boys: helping boys love literacy After fresh reports of the widening gender gap in the classroom, Gareth Malone tells how he helped some pupils to learn to love literacy .

• Tools | MIT – Docubase

• Gareth Malone: Extraordinary School for Boys “Extraordinary School For Boys is an ambitious three-part series in which Gareth Malone joins the staff at Pear Tree Mead Primary School in Essex. His mission is to re-engage boys who don’t like school and who, like many across Britain, lag behind their female peers. Gareth works with a cross-section of 11-year-old boys, from sporty jocks to secret swots.” Ep 2 is about reading

• Skills for Social Progress http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/skills-for-social-progress-executive-summary.pdf “Skills for Social Progress: The Power of Social and Emotional Skills” OECD 2015 Executive summary” What are the skills that drive well-being and social progress? Policy makers, including eleven Education Ministers and Vice-Ministers, discussed this question at the OECD’s informal Ministerial meeting on Skills for Social Progress in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 23-24 March 2014. They unanimously agreed on the need to develop a “whole child” with a balanced set of cognitive, social and emotional skills so that they can better face the challenges of the 21st century.

• Sutton Trust – Teaching and Learning Toolkit “The Sutton Trust-EEF Teaching and Learning Toolkit is an accessible summary of educational research which provides guidance for teachers and schools on how to use their resources to improve the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.”

• How to Do a Reverse Image Search – YouTube A great tutorial that assist everyone in being a better digital citizen by showing how you can find out information about an image you might find/have. ” Found a photograph online that you’d like to use on your site, but not sure where it came from or who took it? Or are you a photographer who wants to know where your work is being posted? In this Treehouse Quick Tip, we’ll learn how to do a reverse image search using Google Images and TinEye”

• 8 ways Minecraft works on your brain | Playable Good article about how Minecraft assists thinking/learning.

• Science Fair Project Ideas, Answers, & Tools Science Buddies is a website for science teachers. It offers lots of ideas and tips for science projects. They are well set out and it even offers a topic selection wizard to help students narrow down a topic if they are unsure of what to choose. From them: It “ empowers K-12 students, parents, and teachers to quickly and easily find free project ideas and help in all areas of science from physics to food science and music to microbiology. Whether your goal is to find a fun science activity for your kids or win the international science fair, Science Buddies puts comprehensive, scientist-authored tools, tips, and techniques at your fingertips.”

• March 2015: Literacies for the digital age: Information and digital literacy – DEN Blog Network Highlighting the digital literacies our students will need to succeed, this post offers some ideas on how to infuse information literacy and digital literacy skills into the curriculum. Very practical advice and easy to apply.

• Lessons in Creative Commons, Part 2 | Betchablog A very important clarification to the “ND” or “No derivatives ” definition of the CC licences. This is such an important area for all educators to fully understand. Thanks to Chris for following up and sharing the lessons in this post. As always the devil is in the detail and some times the wording of explanation could be so much better and the confusion avoided.

• Lessons in Creative Commons | Betchablog Chris argues for his rights under the CC agreement licences

• Teaching Kids to Code – Teachers With Apps “No one who is part of this new movement believes all kids should grow up to be programmers.  We believe it would be a beautiful outcome if all kids grew up knowing how to use computers to enhance their natural abilities, whatever those are, and grew up with the confidence to be “makers” instead of just consumers. Computer programming is ultimately about problem solving and creating.  “Thinking like a computer scientist” really means understanding what problem you are facing and breaking down that problem into solvable chunks.  The better you get at recognizing the problem the more efficient your solutions become.”

• How to Start a Children’s Book Club for Tweens This article offers advice to anyone working with young people children (Tween) who are interested in books, or if you want to help them discover the world of literature. “A children’s book club is a great way for your child to make friends and socialize outside of school.” These tips here can help you get started and although directed at the younger end of the spectrum (primary) school, many can be adapted for use with secondary school students.

• Book Discussion Groups | Professional Tools This ALA site offers some great advice and links to further information about book clubs and reading groups. “Many libraries provide meeting space for book clubs or administer one or more book discussion group.  This page provides general information about book groups, starting with “one book” programs, some resources for guiding book groups, references for specific types of book groups, and an anonymously contributed guide to establishing and running a book discussion group. “

• Teen Book Clubs | Field Notes A good post for anyone wanting to start a YA book club in their school. There are lots of ideas and links to other great sites that offer tips and strategies, starting from the very basic: how you might recruit members, how to structure a meeting, choosing books, and holding discussions.

• Free Technology for Teachers: Tozzl – Create a Multifaceted Message Board Richard Byrne reflects on this digital message board and decides that it has quite a few useful applications in schools – with classes. “Tozzl allows you to quickly create private, password-protected message boards as well as public boards. “

• Educational Technology Guy: Read & Write Text to Speech web app comes to iPad and Android “Read and Write for Google is an excellent Chrome app that provides text-to-speech functions from your browser. They have just released a free iPad and Android app. The apps provide text to speech functions, which are great for ESL, learning disabled, visually challenged and struggling readers, on your device, just like the web app does in the Chrome Browser and Chromebooks.

• The cheat sheet to choosing effective education apps – Daily Genius “In an attempt to uncover what works, I combed through a few hundred apps and analyzed them by asking the following questions: How easy is this app to use for less tech-savvy students and teachers? Is the app free? This is crucial for multi-device or BYOD classrooms. What are other educators saying about this app? How are an array of classrooms using this app? How often should the app be used? Can the app be used out of the classroom? Is it designed to be easy enough to use when teachers or classroom leaders aren’t there to help? There are, of course, many other questions to consider when trying out an iPad app (or any other smart device app) for classroom usage. However, I’d recommend taking your deliberate time and spending as much time testing, researching, and trying out as many apps as possible.”

• BusyTeacher: Free Printable Worksheets For Busy Teachers Like YOU! A lot of useful resources for teachers here.

• 15 FREE Google Drawings graphic organizers — and how to make your own | Ditch That Textbook A great explanation of how teachers and/ or students can use existing technology to better organise their ideas and thoughts. “Paper versions of graphic organizers can do a nice job of that. But by making them digital in Google Apps, they instantly become customizable. Multiple people can collaborate on them in real time. They can be shared with a link, embedded in a website or downloaded as an image file”

• Best Ed Tech Practices: Discovery and Curation In today’s educational world the skills of resource discovery and curation are important. This post focuses on providing guidance in finding high quality, supplementary resources for learning and ideas for organizing these resources for future use.

• 9 Ideas for Making the Most of Education Conferences “A few good ideas to assist you in getting the most out of the 2015 conferences that are conducted and fully exploring everything that they have to offer.

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

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