Classification of organisms

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Glogging and Blogging

Okay, I think I have become a little wacko.  It is 5 a.m. and I am blogging about glogging.  I have been wanting to have my students do a project using Glogster.com.  After introducing to Tech221 and asking them to try it out I made a couple of glogs myself.  I am addicted.  I have spent all night dreaming up projects that my 7th and 8th graders can do. 

 

I have also decided on a new classroom mantra. Fun, Fun, and more Fun.  After listening to the teachers at my school that went to ISTC last weekend and their discussion of one of the sessions on the ‘reasons to have fun’ in the classroom, I realize that I am a closet ‘fun teacher’.  I do think that if students can equate fun and excitement with learning than we will have life long learners on our hands.  So when the statement was made in the lunch room that mass murderers come from households that did not have any fun time it home that even though none of my students will ever be mass murderers I need to make sure that we have fun in the classroom just because.  Therefore, even though I normally daily try to inject a sense of fun everyday with my general demeanor in the classroom I am going to find activities that allow students to have more fun.  Some of the ways that I do this already is to use smart board games for review, to make sure that in my chemistry unit we burn stuff up, and now I am going to include making glogs.  Glogster glogs are my new fun addiction.  I am old (over 50) and if I can have fun and be inspired by such a simple concept what will my students think.  I know.  They will LOVE it.

The first thing that we are going to do is to film ourselves doing chemical reaction experiments and then put them in a glog.  I can’t wait to share them with all of you.  I encourage everybody to become a glogger.

Lesson Plan maker and examples

One of your classmates asked for some lesson plan templates and examples.  With a simple 5 minute search this is what I came up with.

http://lessonplancentral.com/

http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Guide.shtml  Details what are good and bad lesson plans

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/WriteLessonPlan.htm  10 steps to good lesson plans

http://www.adprima.com/easyless.htm  Parts of a lesson plan

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lesson.htm

http://www.tammypayton.net/library/lesson.shtml

http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~orchard/Templates4Teachers/wordtemplates.htm

http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/lesson_plan/

http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/templatesresources.htm

http://www.wvschools.com/harrisoncounty/lpt/lptindex.htm

http://www.wordtemplates.org/school-word-templates/lesson-plans-template/

Examples

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/lessons/lessons_teacherdeveloped.html

http://www.getworksheets.com/samples/lessonplans/

http://www.learningforlife.org/lfl/programs/samples.html

Great for kindergarten

http://www.poissonrouge.com/  Check this out.  I got this from my blogging group.  (http://digitaltoolsforteachers.blogspot.com) This has been the best PLN group that I have connected up with.  It is really the only one but I am thrilled that Ms. Tenkely has taken pity on me from ilearntechnology.  I am learning new things nightly.

tessellate

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Tessellate/

twitter handbook for teachers

Should teachers use twitter?  Here is a twitter handbook for teachers.   Check it out and see if you learn anything that you can use in the classroom.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/14062777/Twitter-Handbook-for-Teachers

News for tweens

http://tweentribune.com/

Another great resource.  Up-to-date news for tweens.  Easily accessible for students and interesting too.

Example of Using a glog

http://mckilloplibrary.edu.glogster.com/McKillop-Book-Reviews2/

 

This is a must visit glog.  Very interactive and well done.

I bet the students loved doing this and the parents must

have been excited to access this to see what their students

were doing at school.

teachers that use technology in the classroom

These are blogs of teachers that use technology tools to enhance learning in the classroom.  Check out what they are doing.

http://misterpfoxford.blogspot.com/

Check out the following wiki for relevant guides on “How to’s”

http://area6ict.wikispaces.com/

Using wallwisher in history.

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/isthistory

Interesting Websites for Tech221 to investigate

I was reading through my favorite blogs this weekend and I came across these websites that I thought you might find interesting and want to add to you library of tools.

Have fun.

High School

http://www.ourcourts.org/play-games/argument-wars

http://www.absorblearning.com/en/Free_online_Absorb_resources/

http://www.arkive.org/

http://freezeray.com/

http://www.periodicvideos.com/  This site is amazing.

http://lgfl.skoool.co.uk/index.aspx

http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/index.php?cat=Featured_Sims

http://www.kscience.co.uk/animations/anim_1.htm

 

Middle School and

Elementary

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/

http://www.storylineonline.net/ The stars read stores online to students.  Streaming video.

http://www.arkive.org/

http://www.stellarium.org/

http://illuminations.nctm.org/

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_menu.htm

http://www.signedstories.com/page/index.cfm

http://www.tutpup.com/

http://ecodazoo.com/

http://www.tes.iboard.co.uk/

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/

http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/home.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/

http://bensguide.gpo.gov/flash/states_puzzle_lines2.html

 

Smart board Resources

 

http://annemarie80.edublogs.org/2009/07/20/smart-board-resources/

Music Resources

http://moodstream.gettyimages.com/

http://www.y8.com/games/Music_Match

http://www.kenbrashear.com/

http://www.helpkidzlearn.com/creative/making_music.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/cartoons/shaunthesheep/games/bleat/index.shtml

http://www.muxicall.com/

http://www.toytheater.com/music.php

http://www.poissonrouge.com/piano/index.htm

 

Just for fun

http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/  Sketchpad

http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/games/typingchef.php

http://www.nbcolympics.com/science-of-the-games/index.html  Olympic Science

PIMPAMPUM :: Phrasr .:.

PIMPAMPUM :: Phrasr .:.
http://www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/?id=22073

acapela.tv : be content

http://www.acapela.tv/Fish-1-211-104557842_c131c318b71df

Visit this site and see what you think of this.  Could you use this
in the classroom?

My periodic table glog

http://marilynwinter.edu.glogster.com/periodic-table/

Access my glog here.

Glogster

Below is an example of glogster.  An interactive poster.
It was fun to make and I think that students would enjoy
using this tool to create and publish with.

genetics

Try this quizlet vocabulary list.

Copy of Search Engines

Visit this livebinder to view alternative search engines.
Set up a livebinder account and make some binders.
Embed one in your blog.
View some binders and save them to your personal account.
Do you like this site?  How could you use it with students?

 What do you think?  How many of your classes are like this?