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Home > Resources > Links > Noel's Web Class These links are setup as a part of a five day exploration of what resources are available on the Internet and how to integrate those resources within the classroom. Note: All of these links can be found on our pages located within the links area on the Norris Home Page. I have compiled these here is a systematic order with a variety of topics to "wet the taste" for what resources are available for educators on the Internet. *** Monday *** Tuesday *** Wednesday *** Thursday *** Friday *** Mondays Topics Links and discussions: Welcome & class overview Behind the scene's look at the Internet and some tricks to finding pages. (Discussion/Lecture)
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Great activity site for young Readers (K-2) Neuroscience for Kids
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html Great site for Anatomy from the University of Minnesota TVO Kids has a great site with over 100 online educational games. (K-4 age level)
Book marking and keeping track of web sites you visit A couple of optional sites for keeping track of your book marks and sharing your book marks with others include:
Finding information on the web: Using the Norris Searching links page, we will look at how to find information on the web. Each participant will evaluate one of the search resources and present their findings to the class. Remember... not all information on the web is good information. -- A short side step... A cause we should all be concerned about! Searching the internet for educational information to use in class-- Norris Searching Page. Discussion on teacher home pages and how to get your information on the web for students to use.
Daily Activity: Developing a Web/Worksheet with Hyperlinks for a classroom activity using Microsoft Word. Utilize a variety of searching resources to find educational information on the Internet. Each class participant will sign up for an account on the ikkepbookmarks site or the Mybookmarks site and utilize that sight to share bookmarks. Example Web worksheet --The American Presidents (example without hyperlinks) can be downloaded here. Using HPR*TEC's Web Worksheet Wizard to get classroom worksheets and information on the Internet. Using Project Poster by HPR*TEC to have your students post information, projects, presentations and assignments on the Internet. OR... you can use this service which is very similar and free as well: Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into activities appropriate for learners. (Click here to search for examples.)
Tuesdays Topics Links and discussions:
************************************************************ Fact Monster is a fun resource for kids Shodor Interactive Math Activities Power Proof Reading is a great tool for English skills by grade level (Gr 2-8...but could be used in higher grades.) (Need flash player installed... it is under your start menu under Internet.) Spellingcity.com is an excellent site for spelling bee preparation. Also includes a great "Teach Me" function that spells out the word using visual and auditory input to improve retention.
Esu 5's Page
on Interactive web learning resources -- Great links and information.
Developing online quizzes: Discovery Schools Quiz Center A great free quizzing tool. Lets look at some sample quizzes. Or a sample Quiz noel created. (Free site) Also has several other nice tools! Quia's site offers online quizzes and games. (There is a subscription fee each year. $49/yr.) Noel's sample site: Quia's site Take a look at a sample page. Try our Norris Staff Challenge Game or a sample multiple choice quiz. Quia survey developed by ESU5. (All have been Developed on Quia.) There are There are many activities that are available for free. Funbrain offers some nice free materials as well as online quizzing. (There is a subscription fee for the Quizlab section.$49/yr.) There are many activities that are available for free. Quiz Star offers a online quizzing site. (Used to be free, but now charges a small fee.- $30/yr.) ThatQuiz is a free site where you can create quizzes, add classes and students. Not as fancy as some, but free. It does have a lot of free, pre-made math quizes. (Phil Severson in our MS uses this site!) Smile is a site that allows free on-line Quizes and activities to be made. (Free- Michigan State University maintains this site!) Quizbuilder Offers a nice online quiz feature where it builds the HTML Code for you to insert into your web page. ESU5 has a nice page with online-quizzing resources and examples. ************************************************************ Learn how to store and edit photos online. Here is a list of available resources. ************************************************************ Daily Activity: Class participants share a web resource or link with other staff members. Each class participant will create an account on Discovery Schools Quiz Center and create an on-line quiz.
Wednesdays Topics Links and discussions:
************************************************************ How stuff works - This site has answers to the more general questions like "How does a CD-Player work?" It also has quite a few pictures. How things work - This site, Hosted by the University of Virginia, this page answers lots of specific questions about all kinds of devices in an easy understandable way. BrainPop-- Has small flash-like movies explaining many topics. (Great for Younger kids.) (Small fee to see all movies....but some free ones are still available.) The Visible Human Project A nice anatomy site!
Tech Topics....
What causes Earthquakes? Why does my heart beat? What is an electron?
Ever wonder about this stuff? Well, TechTopics is here is bring it all together
for you. We started with a bunch of cool exhibits from TheTech, found links to
other places, and created activities and projects to help explain things. Now
you can explore science right at your desk! They also have
some other great online tools
and exhibits. Putting your classroom or activities calendar online: All of these sites are free resources: Teach-ology offers a nice online calendar for posting your class activities and assignments. (This is my favorite calendar site for K-8 teachers! It has a young student look to it.) Take a look at my Sample Calendar. The calendars net site also offers some nice free calendar services. Google calendars offers a nice free calendar site. This site also allows you to import your calendar items from an export file from Outlook or other calendar programs. It will even call you to remind you of an event!
PowerMediaPlus is
a similar site. These videos are available to all ESU 4-5-6 schools free
of charge. (Fee is paid by the ESU.) Contact your media
specialist or technology coordinator to get a log-in. Handout on converting Youtube and other Flash videos to video files. (Word format) ************************************************************ Just an interesting site with videos on the future of technology, etc.... TED.COM Check out the video on the new touch screen technology... or how to make a touch screen from a Wii Remote..... along with many other interesting topics. ************************************************************ Daily Activity: Developing Web pages and activities using the Hot Potatoes Software -- Hot potato page Class participants will place a classroom calendar on the Internet using one of the online calendar sites. Class participants share a web resource or link with other staff members.
Thursday's Topics Links and discussions:
************************************************************ Access Excellence has a great site on Biology and Education Check out the Visual Library. TerraServer: Microsoft's astonishing rich collection of aerial and satellite images of places on earth (Other mapping and Geography links are on our Norris Geography Page.) The CIA World Fact Book has a wealth of information on countries and excellent maps. Discovery Works -- Has some nice science links and virtual fieldtrips. Pete's PowerPoint Station --One of the best for Great PowerPoints already made for you! A five star site!!! A great sign language site! It even shows you how to sign using video clips!
************************************************************ Using games and puzzles in the classroom: Visit the Norris Puzzle Site Remember...the Hot Potatoes program will make web pages with your puzzles you can post online. (We have already looked at this program.) Interactive Polls for your website: Quia's new subscription service includes survey capabilities (Click here to take a sample Quia survey. This site was already featured above.) Or check out the sites below for free polls that can be added to your personal website / class page:
Daily Activity: Class participants share a web resource or link with other staff members. Class participants will develop puzzles and surveys for use within classroom instruction.
Fridays Topics Links and discussions:
************************************************************ Personal Educational Press: This web site lets you turn your computer and printer into a printing press for free educational materials such as:
A similar site to above that does tracing words is found here. Encyclopedia Smithsonian -- A wealth of Information from A to Z
FunSchool's site has many great educational games. States and Capitals Game-- A nice game for practicing Capitals. Free resources from the Government (Nice site.) Check out the section on just the constitution. ************************************************************ Finding clipart and photo's on the web. Check out Noel's Clipart and Photo links A few selected clipart sites:
A list of photo sharing, photo developing and digital image resources sites. Using the Thinkfinity- Marcopolo web site for finding classroom materials and lesson plans. Nebraska's Marcopolo web site. Norris site on Thinkfinity. Check out the Library of Congress. Daily Activity: Class participants will utilize a photo site to save and share classroom photos. Class participants share a web resource or link with other staff members. Class participants will download images and clipart for use with web projects Class participants will utilize the Thinkfinity-(Marcopolo) web site to find lesson plans and resources.
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