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Resources You Can Use

noreply@blogger.com (Walker World) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:11:00 +0000

http://www.teachersfirst.com/index.cfm
A good website full of Web 2.0 resources and detailed descriptions of each (along with recommended levels of "tech knowledge" to use each tool).

http://www.protopage.com/web2point0forteachers#Web_2.0_For_Teachers/Subject_Specific
An excellent web 2.0 resource tool for teachers

http://reading.ecb.org/index.html
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Watch our engaging 15-minute videos and try the online interactive activities."

http://www.dipity.com/
Online time line creator

http://www.wordle.net/
Wordle is a tool that creates word clouds. You can enter text or a delicious account and it will make a word cloud from the information. Students could create word clouds from information they have created or they could enter text from something they are going to read and see the prominent vocabulary. Wordle allows you the flexibility to change many of the settings for your word cloud.

http://www.biguniverse.com/
Students (or teachers/parents!) can create their own picture books with just a few clicks.The illustrations and layout options are wonderful and will allow students to see a professional quality book that they created online

http://www.mathway.com/default.aspx
Will solve math problems and give a step by step description

http://www.mathplayground.com/
Tons of math skills practice, worsksheets, manipulatives, and more. Be sure to click on "manipulatives" and check out some of the cool tools. These would be fabulous on the SmartBoard, or have the students work on them during computer lab.

Goya Museum
How to build it

http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx
Arts education and much more

Shift Happens

noreply@blogger.com (Walker World) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:15:00 +0000

If you haven't seen this, it is worth checking out. It was produced by a principal in Colorado to get his staff thinking about 21st century skills and how we are preparing students for the new millenium.

Our First Web 2.0 Class

noreply@blogger.com (Walker World) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:02:00 +0000

Thanks to everyone who came to class last Thursday. I hope you all came away with something useful. Here is the link to the podcast we made.

http://media.switchpod.com//users/mmiller/web20class.mp3

If you need some help posting to your class blog or have an idea to brainstorm about, I'm available. Let's all try to have some student work on our blogs by the end of january.

Please leave some comments or post on your own. Remember this is a collaborative process. We are smarter together than on our own.

Mitch

The Walker Web 2.0 Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Walker World) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:32:00 +0000

Hello fellow Walker teachers and welcome to our blog.
One of the choices for this Thursday's staff development will be our web 2.0 group. If you want to participate in this group please click below where it says comments and let me know. Also you can respond with the type of tools you would be interested in learning more about and maybe how you would like to use them.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Mitch