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Monday, June 29, 2009

Smartboard for "Pennies"

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Search Engines

  • Diffen: for compare and contrast searches
  • Good research sites for kids
  • Google Fast Flip (When you're looking for the latest in the news)
  • Google Scholar (When looking for concrete information.)
  • Middlespot search
  • Quintura visual
  • Spezify (Beware. This search engine is addictive.)

Professional Links

  • APA Research Style Crib Sheet
  • Book Think Baltimore--Free Books!
  • Critical Friends
  • Florida Teaching Certificate
  • IA
  • Live Binders--a great tool for almost everything!
  • My English Companion Page
  • National Clearing House Transcripts
  • Online courses KDS
  • Online courses Wisconsin
  • Spanish Dictionary
  • The Chicago Manual of Style
  • Turning Points
  • wiki?

Literacy Links

  • 21st Century Literacy Links
  • Adolescent Literarure (Great Site)
  • Annenberg Media Fact Check (media literacy)
  • Blog about Lucy Calkins
  • Book Screening (book trailers)
  • Bookbump (online location for your library that makes book suggestions
  • Books Should Be Free (free audio downloads!)
  • Brainstorm online
  • Core Principles of Media Literacy
  • Creaza--mindmaps and audio visual editor and cartoonist
  • Critical Literacy - Good questions to ask the text
  • Fountas and Pinnell leveled book site
  • Google Lit Trips
  • Great Books Foundation
  • ipod inspired writing prompts
  • Kiddie Records (Downloads of the classic kid records.)
  • LibriVox Audio books in the public domain.
  • Lightning Bug: your online writing partner!
  • Literacy Org.
  • Media Clearinghouse
  • Media Literacy - amazing site!
  • Melissa Forney - good ideas DO come out of Florida
  • Mixbook for Educators (online and printed books)
  • Mystery net--a place to practice inferring.
  • New York Times Learning Network
  • Project Look Sharp - with premade media literacy units
  • Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University
  • Short Stories online
  • Starfall: GREAT phonics & early reading site.
  • Story on line (stories read out loud by actors)
  • Storybird: collaborative Online Storytelling
  • Wealth of resources for anything LA

Storytelling

  • Elder Barry
  • Marilyn Kinsella
  • Story Arts
  • Storytelling With Children
  • Tim Sheppard

6 + 1 Traits

  • Lots of grammar/sent. flu./word choice
  • Brain Based Writing (lots of PowerPoints)
  • Sentence Composing (works well with jeff Anderson.)
  • 6-Traits blog
  • Scholastic has a lot of videos here to teach writing
  • Writer's Workship mini-Lessons with LOTs of help!
  • Spunk & Bite
  • Jeff Anderson!

Unit Planning Resources

  • 5 Traits of Highly Effective Posters
  • Atlas Curriculum Mapping
  • Bloom's Question Construction Wheel
  • Bloom's Taxonomy Questions
  • Bloom's Taxonomy Questions & Sample Activities
  • Education Oasis
  • Free materials such as graphic organizers
  • Glogster
  • Habits of the Mind
  • I-Search Paper
  • Internet Movie Data Base
  • Online mindmapping
  • Powerful thinking tools from exploratree
  • Read Write Think
  • Slideshare REsources
  • The Differentiator--Great tool for planning with Bloom's taxonomy.
  • Thinkfinity
  • Use the best search engine for the job.
  • Visible Thinking

Tech Stuff

  • Age of Exploration - Wet Paint
  • Audacity Tutorial
  • Beautiful word cloud site!
  • Block Posters--print any image as large as you want it.
  • Cool Tools for Schools - Amazing!
  • DimDim Free webinar hosting
  • Education on searching from Google
  • Education Podcast Directory
  • Getting Tricky With Wikis
  • IA Tech Buzz
  • Just One More Book
  • Kid Cast
  • Learn Wikis
  • Learning in Hand
  • Livebinder about google resources!
  • Livebinder of search engines
  • Mind mapping tool
  • Online picture Customizing
  • Publish Your Own Books
  • Slide Share
  • The Rasterbator (upload your image and print large high quality images)
  • Tiny Uploads Shrink and Upload Photos for Embedding.
  • Voice Threads at IA web site
  • Web 2.0 tools for ed. in one place!
  • Web of e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education!
  • Wordle
  • Zamzar--online file conversion (like pdf to jpeg)

Assessment

  • 6 Traits Student Scoring Guide
  • 6 Traits Teacher Scoring Guide
  • 6 Traits Teacher Scoring Guide in Spanish
  • MAP testing site
  • Multiple Intelligences

Miscellaneous, but Important, Websites

  • Adolescent Brain Documentary
  • Annenburg Media
  • Brain Research
  • Color Scheme Designer
  • Doing what Works--research based education online
  • Habits of the Mind
  • IA ELL Wiki
  • Internet Movie Data Base
  • Learn to Be Healthy
  • National Geographic Image Collection
  • Super TEacher Tools (including jeapardy review games)
  • Templates from Microsoft

Books I LOVE!

  • Conventions, Etc.: Everyday Editing by Jeff Anderson
  • Conventions, Etc.: Mechanically Inclined
  • Spelling: Strategic Spelling by Jonathan P. Wheatley
  • Writing Across the Curriculum by William Zinsser

My Blog List

  • IA ELL
  • InterAmerican Academy Pre-K News
    Thursday Update
    14 years ago
  • Kindergarten 2008 InterAmerican Academy
    Newsflash
    15 years ago
  • Mr. Valentine's Classroom Page
    Thank You for Two GREAT Years!
    16 years ago
  • Mr. Valentine's Educator Page
    WII Smartboard
    16 years ago
  • Mrs. Stevens' 5th Grade
    Third song
    13 years ago
  • Practice Makes Perfect
  • Sentence Stalking
    Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
    12 years ago

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Susan Stevens
Although I live in Ecuador, my heart is with my family. I am married to a wonderful man; I love cooking, teaching, reading, writing, and Jesus Christ.
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