Wednesday, December 18, 2013

21st Century Teachers Meet ~ Our December Notes




Some great classroom resources were shared during our December round of 21C meetings. Here are some of the sites worth looking at based on our colleagues recommendation. 

SchoolToolsTV ~ The short daily videos on this site are about relationships, connections, and basic social skills.  Great think abouts for morning meetings or to work on classroom climate and relationships.  




CNN Student News ~ These videos are geared for upper elementary and are about a 10 minute review of the stories in the news today.  

Educator Chat Weebly   ~ this is Mrs. Hoppe’s website of links and materials

Educator Chat Blog~ Mrs. Hoppe’s blog.  You can subscribe to it on the right so you do not have to continually go back to check for updates
Have Fun Teaching ~ this teacher shared this site as a great resource for primary.  She noted the videos for letter identification and for sight words.
Kideos~ this site was referenced for great brain break materials for students… Lots of fun things here.  this site organizes itself by age group and also by categories.




Mission Monday~ Two teachers trying to change the world, one classroom at a time.  Here is how:  “Every Sunday night we will provide you with a climate intervention. On Monday morning we have a podcast ready to download or to listen online. Tuesday night you can expect a blog reflecting on the challenges we face and the solutions we implement.”
Newsela~ A great informational text, current events site that is lexiled for varying reading abilities.  Read more here:  Tech PD Blog ~ Newsela
Activity Village ~ a great site for free activities for home and school
Big Brown Bear ~ a Primary Learn to Type program; I added this to the Grade 1 keyboarding links as well as our Keyboarding Links for Grades 2-8.
Wonderopolis ~ this site that has been revamped and is totally awesome in my opinion.  A must check out site!  Great for informational text reading.  Plus, the site reads to younger kids.  Love the Wonder words section.  I think kids will LOVE this.

What great tools are you using with students or professionally to help you be a 21C teacher or are helping you teach your curriculum standards or differentiating learning for students?
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Monday, December 2, 2013

A Visual Twist to Writing Prompts

From pppst.com ~ Phillip Martin
It is not a new revelation that writing is VERY important and it can be made even more valuable when connected with higher level thinking skills.  Now imagine, also using visuals as a prompt.  How cool would that be?  Here are a few resources to help you get this started.  I imagine these being used as blog posts or prompts that students would use to write frequently and for varying lengths of time (W.CCR4).  These are also effective ways to inspire student thinking and lead in to narrative, argumentative or opinion writing (W.CCR1, W.CCR2, W.CCR3).  Students may also use these images to draw evidence from literary or informational texts.  (W.CCR9)

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Here are some blog posts where teachers talk about their use of video and pictures with their students:


Try this blog post for fun....

How can you or will you use this in YOUR classroom with YOUR students?  







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