Recent Changes

SheDr. Leach is off another teacher, or teaching her class, but in caseif you need
As we work on adding technology to our classroom, there are resources available to you in the left navigation bar. Click on the links to find neat sites and guides for use!
From our December IU Meeting, neat sites to share!

She is off helping another teacher, but in case you need help right now, take a look at this site to help you!
As we work on adding technology to our classroom, there are resources available to you in the left navigation bar. Click on the links to find neat sites and guides for use!
From our December IU Meeting, neat sites to share!
Good sites for creating classroom blogs: (blogs are great for creating a classroom journal)
21 classes.com - http://www.21classes.com
class chatter - http://www.classchatter.com/
wordpress- wordpress.org
Teacher collaboration:
Keystone Commons- to learn together (must have user name and password) - http://keystonecommons. paiunet.org/
SAS (Standards Aligned System) http://www.pdesas.org/
Zooburst.com - http://www.zooburst.com/ is good for Digital Storytelling
mixbook.com. - You can publish a book but embed the code for your website, instead of purchasing book!.
Linoit.com is a tool that creates stickies for on a wall or message board. Messages can be posted and aggregated for classroom discussion.
Enjoy!
Katie

First, go to Voicethread.com
From here, click on the tutorial, "What's a VoiceThread Anyway?"

Each
Each day, you very latest!
http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Student News Daily
http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/
Current Events
http://www.izzit.org/events/
The
http://www.izzit.org/events/
The Week in Rap
http://theweekinrap.com/
The New York Times Upfront Magazine
If you have been a Social Studies teacher for a few years you might have received a complimentarly copy of “Upfront” magazine. For our class, get a free trial subscription to see what is inside the magazine and to glean ideas for your classroom.
TakeTake a look your classroom?
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/index.asp

Each day, you can have your students watch the video to keep up with the very latest!
http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
Student News Daily
http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/
Current Events
http://www.izzit.org/events/
The Week in Rap
http://theweekinrap.com/
The New York Times Upfront Magazine
If you have been a Social Studies teacher for a few years you might have received a complimentarly copy of “Upfront” magazine. For our class, get a free trial subscription to see what is inside the magazine and to glean ideas for your classroom.
Take a look at content in the left navigation bar to see what is offered in the magazine. Also be sure to check out the file tabs at the top of the page. There are resources for both you and your students! Would any of these ideas to be good to use in your classroom?
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/index.asp

Search Engines and Resources
world, “Bing”. We looked at site on Bing in our last unit and youYou probably are
Here is an article from the New York Times about these three search engines. There is a brief comparison of these three at the end of the article.
Review: Yahoo’s Shift to Bing Could be Risky Bet
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SearchEngines.html
Search Engine Showdown: The Users’ Guide to Web Searching
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
Also, great resources:
National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/
advanced students
http://www.merlot.org

Search Engines and Resources
There is a newcomer to the search engine world, “Bing”. We looked at site on Bing in our last unit and you probably are very familiar with Google, but Yahoo also has a powerful search engine, as well!
Here is an article from the New York Times about these three search engines. There is a brief comparison of these three at the end of the article.
Review: Yahoo’s Shift to Bing Could be Risky Bet
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/29/business/AP-US-TEC-Microsoft-Yahoo-Bing.html
For other search engines, check out these articles!
Recommended Search Engines – The Library – University of California, Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SearchEngines.html
Search Engine Showdown: The Users’ Guide to Web Searching
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
Also, great resources:
National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/
Merlot – Great for history references and articles, for advanced students
http://www.merlot.org

Next, Diigo is a web highlighter and social bookmarking tool, plus much more! This link is the link to the Google Search for Diigo. It is a little easier to navigate for a first time user. Click on the “About Diigo” and a “Guided Tour” for your introduction!
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=diigo&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

As your students send documents back and forth, you can also join their group and monitor student work.
For an introduction, please click on this link and begin your tour of Google Docs!
https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&passive=true&nui=1&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F%3Fhl%3Den%26tab%3Dwo&followup=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F%3Fhl%3Den%26tab%3Dwo&ltmpl=homepage&rm=false