October is Connected Educators Month

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Global Learning, Online Projects, Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) | Posted on September 30, 2015

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The Connected Educator Month (CEM) initiative networks educators and education stakeholders through connected professional learning experiences worldwide. Over the past three years, millions of educators and others around the world have participated in hundreds of professional development and other educational opportunities, offering highly distributed, diverse, and engaging activities to all stakeholders at all levels.
http://connectededucators.org/10-things-to-do-before-connected-educator-month-2015-launches/

Nearpod Resources

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Digital Storytelling, Online Projects, Presentation Tools | Posted on August 24, 2015

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Nearpod is a FREE tool that works on any device and allows teachers to guide students through presentations and activities both synchronously as well as asynchronously.  The EdTech Teacher blog has a helpful post with tips and suggestions for using Nearpod in your classroom.

Read Ups

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Blended Learning, Common Core, Online Projects, Reading/Language Arts, Student Response Systems | Posted on December 3, 2013

read upRead Ups is a site where teachers can set up a chat room to discuss any form of student reading from literature to informational text.

A ReadUp is a social reading experience. Think of it as meeting up inside a book.

ReadUps uses a web-based reading system for tablets and laptops. Create a ReadUp event and invite friends to read with you for a limited amount of time, sharing comments on paragraphs. It’s free. Distributed. Ephemeral. Give people the URL to your ReadUp and you’re good to go! When allotted time runs out, the ReadUp disappears. #simple #social #disruptive

Mooculus

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Global Learning, Math Resources, MOOCS, Online Projects | Posted on September 24, 2013

mooculusMooculus is on online calculus course available free to students of all ages.

Smithsonian Quests

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Common Core, Online Projects, Problem Solving, Project Based Learning, Thinking Skills | Posted on March 26, 2013

Smithsonian Quests From the art world to the zoo, from underwater to outer space, from current problems to future solutions, your students will have the freedom to explore their interests and make connections across subjects. They’ll develop skills and enhance their learning through discovery, while earning digital badges as credentials along the way.

Watch this video to learn more:

 

Digital Blooms – Tech Integration Ideas

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Online Projects, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills, Web 2.0 | Posted on February 22, 2013

Digital Blooms is a wiki with many ideas (most shown through video) of applying Blooms Taxonomy in classroom instruction through technology integration.

Meograph

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Digital Storytelling, Flipped Classroom, Online Projects, Reading/Language Arts, Science Resources, Social Studies Resources, Videos | Posted on December 6, 2012

Meograph helps easily create, watch, and share interactive stories. It combines maps, timeline, links, and multimedia to tell stories in context of where and when.  It is truly 4-dimensional story telling.

Fakebook Gallery

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Online Projects, Reading/Language Arts, Social Studies Resources, Web 2.0 | Posted on December 6, 2012

Fakebook Gallery has profiles of historical figures and simulations as to what their “Facebook” or Fakebook pages would look like.  Great place to give students ideas to do a similar project.

Mapping Media to the Curriculum

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Desktop Publishing, Digital Photography, Digital Storytelling, Flipped Classroom, Online Projects, Podcasting, Presentation Tools, Technology Help, Technology Planning, Web 2.0 | Posted on December 6, 2012

 

Mapping Media to the Curriculum – What do you want to create today?   This site has visual icons you can click to find places to create curriculum content, assessments, and publish online.

Mapping Media to the Curriculum

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Collections of Links by Subject Area, Online Projects, Web 2.0 | Posted on October 3, 2012

 

Mapping Media to the Curriculum is a site where teachers and students can click on the topic under “What do I want to Create Today” and come up with a variety of Web 2.0 tools to help them accomplish the task.

Real World Math

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Google, Math Resources, Online Projects, Problem Solving, Project Based Learning | Posted on March 22, 2012

 

  Real World Math

 This website is designed for educators who wish to extend the concepts of the math curriculum beyond the pages of the text.  Google Earth is the dynamic tool that will be used to accomplish this.  Google Earth provides startling clear satellite views of the globe in an interactive 3D environment.  Beyond the visual, users can add placemarks, annotations, photos, and models, as well as measure distances and draw paths.

Within this site you will find lesson ideas, examples, and downloads for mathematics that embrace active learning, constructivism, and project-based learning while remaining true to the standards.

50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Digital Storytelling, Online Projects, Reading/Language Arts, Technology, Web 2.0 | Posted on March 20, 2012

  50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story

This wiki has more than 50 tools to help students publish digital stories with links to Web 2.0 Resources.

Mystery Class

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Math Resources, Online Projects, Problem Solving, Project Based Learning, Science Resources, STEM Resources | Posted on March 16, 2012

  Mystery Class

The Mystery Class investigation is an eleven week hunt in which students try to find ten secret “Mystery Classes” hiding around the globe. The changing amount of sunlight at each site is the central clue.

Students take an inspiring journey from knowing only sunrise and sunset times to discovering exact locations of the ten sites. This investigation demonstrates that, as spring sweeps across the Northern Hemisphere, daylength changes everywhere on Earth. Students see that these dramatic seasonal changes in sunlight affect the entire web of life.

The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Math Resources, Online Projects, Project Based Learning, Science Resources, STEM Resources | Posted on March 16, 2012

  Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education 

  CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. We focus on projects that utilize real time data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet’s potential to reach peers and experts around the world. Below is a catalog of projects that are currently being or have been sponsored by CIESE . Each project has a brief description and links to the National Science Standards and NCTM math standards it supports.

Design Thinking for Educators

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Middle School, Odds and Ends, Online Projects, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills | Posted on March 2, 2012

Design Thinking for Educators

The Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators contains the process and methods of design, adapted specifically for the context of education.  The site includes video stories of implementation and offers a free downloadable toolkit for educators.

SHOUT Online Environmental Learning Project

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Online Projects, Science Resources, STEM Resources | Posted on January 30, 2012

  Shout Learning.Org 

Connect online to interact with experts in the field, share ideas, and collaborate with people around the world who, like you, are committed to solving environmental challenges. Shout gives participants a framework for success, with resources and tools for exercising social responsibility while building the 21st-century skills of collaboration, innovation, and critical thinking. When students are connected through technology and empowered to build activities in their own way the learning experience extends far beyond the four walls of a classroom. Check out the participants on the map and take your own stand in making the world a better place. Now that’s something to shout about!

Primary Wall

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Desktop Publishing, Graphic Organizers, Odds and Ends, Online Projects, Writing | Posted on December 9, 2011

    Primary Wall.com is a lot like Wallwisher and allows students to brainstorm together and add ideas to group projects.

Visual.ly

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Desktop Publishing, Educational Resources, Graphic Organizers, Infographs, Odds and Ends, Online Projects, Technology | Posted on November 3, 2011

  Visual.ly

Great site for finding, creating, or uploading infographics on any topic imagineable.   I can see math teachers using these infographics to compare data and as a great starting point to lead to larger mathematical questions.

Five Card Flickr Story

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Digital Photography, Online Projects, Reading/Language Arts, Writing | Posted on October 13, 2011

Five Card Flickr Story is a great site to get students writing.  Students choose five photos, one at a time, and must build a story to match the pictures.  Fun idea that could easily be duplicated for younger students.

MIT Open Courseware

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Math Resources, Online Projects, Science Resources | Posted on October 13, 2011

 MIT Open Courseware is a site where students can access free, online ontent focusing on STEM topics and challenges.  High school math and science teachers can use many of the modules to supplement classroom instruction.

Vocaroo – Record Sound

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Digital Storytelling, Online Projects, Podcasting, Uncategorized | Posted on October 12, 2011

Vocaroo.Com is a simple, free, easy site where you can record sound wave files to be emailed.  These can be used for podcasting, videocasts, screencasts, etc..

Intel Learning for Teachers and Students

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Differentiated Instruction, Global Learning, Lesson Planning, Online Projects, Problem Solving, Professional Development | Posted on August 18, 2011

Intel Compelling Learning for K-12 Teachers

offers online, free, classes on topics ranging from Data Analysis, Educational Leadership, assessment, collaboration in digital classrooms, and project based learning.

Intel K-12 Project Based Learning for Students

has free webinar based learning course to help you as the teacher design project based, real-life, learning experiences for your students.

 

 

Minigroup

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Global Learning, Odds and Ends, Online Projects, Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), Professional Development, Social Media, Web 2.0 | Posted on July 10, 2011

minigroup Minigroup.Com

Minigroup is a completely private platform that lets you share the right stuff with the right people, without intrusion from strangers, friends-of-friends, or search engines, all from a single account. Use custom identities to share appropriate personal information with various groups.

23 Ways to Use Wallwisher in the Classroom

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Desktop Publishing, Graphic Organizers, Lesson Planning, Odds and Ends, Online Projects, Social Media, Web 2.0 | Posted on May 5, 2011

wallwisher

23 Ways to Use Wallwisher in the Classroom is a great blog post on Innovation 3.  You can access Wallwisher and set up a free account atwww.wallwisher.com.

Using Skype Effectively in the Classroom

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Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Blogs, Digital Photography, Digital Storytelling, Odds and Ends, Online Projects, Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), Social Media, Videos | Posted on April 14, 2011

skype59-p8haul The Complete Educator’s Guide to Using Skype effectively in the classroom

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