It’s summer time and you really didn’t think I would stop at 40 sites… especially when I can make it one half of a hundred! I have really enjoyed sharing these websites I feel should be in every teacher’s toolbox! I have now have fifty… maybe more someday (Chapter 2?). This is post number five… remember I am picking these from thousands. It is my way of saying happy summer!
Booking Info – Time to think about your new school year needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have done 100′s of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page… Please contact me soon if you have an interest. My summer is fully booked but it is not to early to think about planning PD for the next school year …. dates are already beginning to fill! Remember that I have limited dates since I also still provide PD for my own district. Please contact me soon. – Mike
Part 5: Forty… Now Fifty… Educational Websites To Put In Your Toolkit
Get ready for a series on Maker Movement in K12 Education… first make some time to sign up and follow me on twitter (@mjgormans). – Michael Gorman (https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/)
- Generate free MLA citations
- Autocite or Manual Entry to learn process
- Citation Guides assist in locating information from various types of source
- Fee based services remove ads or generate APA, Chicago and others
- Generate printouts of web pages without ads and navigational clutter
- Easily add the Bookmarklet to your browser
- Add the Button to your webpage
- Print, email, or save PDF file
- Enables teachers to deliver customized, Common Core aligned learning and digitally
- Create and share their curriculum and lesson materials
- Embed a layer of questions, quizzes, and rich media annotations into any reading assignment
- Track mastery of literacy skills and Common Core standards in real-time
- Use only what you need from any video. Search for videos from Youtube, Khan Academy, LearnZillion, Crash Course, etc.
- Insert audio notes or record over a video with your voice
- Add questions along the video to give your students immediate feedback and track their understanding.
- You can also upload your own videos to EDpuzzle and make them perfect for your class.
- Tailor Quizlet study sessions to your students’ different learning styles and goals
- Millions of students use Quizlet at home, to study everything from languages to science to history
- Generate self-grading practice quizzes or print handouts for your students
- Liven up your classroom with study games that your students will love to play
- Know how every student is doing at any moment… A free app that works on any web-enabled device in the 1:1 classroom
- Students give instant feedback about their understanding in private and in real-time
- Check for evidence of understanding with multiple choice or short answer responses
- Student driven: Differentiation made easy while students learn skills of metacognition
- 21st Century Critical Thinking Platform
- Bringing research, organization, and writing to one place
- Highlight and save from anywhere … Export to a file or send via email
- Bibliography in APA or MLA
- Evaluate a website for research
- Use critical thinking skills to examine a site
- Online form with evaluation questions
- Email finished form of evaluated website
- Allow for students to look at the opposite views of a subject
- Created polls and forums
- Encourage discussion
- Get feedback
- Formative tool for evaluating writing
- Checks writing, spelling, vocabulary, composition, structure
- Gives a report style feedback with even a grade
- Differentiates on different styles of writing
cross-posted at 21centuryedtech.wordpress.com
Michael Gorman oversees one-to-one laptop programs and digital professional development for Southwest Allen County Schools near Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is a consultant for Discovery Education, ISTE, My Big Campus, and November Learning and is on the National Faculty for The Buck Institute for Education. His awards include district Teacher of the Year, Indiana STEM Educator of the Year and Microsoft’s 365 Global Education Hero. Read more at 21centuryedtech.wordpress.com.
