Your Tiger Tech Update http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates Technology from here and beyond Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:12:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 10 Outstanding Websites for Students http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2011/12/12/10-outstanding-websites-for-students/ http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2011/12/12/10-outstanding-websites-for-students/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:12:52 +0000 skramstad http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/?p=253 Created a list of 10 websites for students for a PD at our school.

Ten Outstanding Free Websites for Students

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Handout for Presentation

Websites Worth Futher Exploration

We Are Teachers (http://www.weareteachers.com)

I Love Schools (http://www.iloveschools.com)

Donors Choose (http://www.donorschoose.org/)

Grant Gopher (http://www.grantgopher.com)

Classwish (http://classwish.org/)

Non-Profit Guides (http://www.npguides.org/)

Vernier Software and Technology: Good Resource on Grant Writing (http://www.vernier.com/grants/)

 

Grant Opportunities Each Year

List of Corporate Grants: http://www.vernier.com/grants/corporate.html

Touching Lives through Theater Grants (http://www.touchinglivesthroughtheatregrants.com/requirements.htm)

Riordan Foundation (http://www.riordanfoundation.org/)

The Teach@15 Award program (https://www.at15.com/contests_scholarships/teach)

Toyota Tapestry Grants (http://www.nsta.org/pd/tapestry/)

Toshiba Grants (http://www.toshiba.com/taf/)

Verizon Foundation (http://foundation.verizon.com/)

Edupedia Grants (http://www.edutopia.org/grant-information-resources-to-get-you-started)

 

Book: Granted: Teacher Writing Winning Classroom.  (http://tinyurl.com/43p7y5h)

Book: The Only Grant Writing Book You’ll Ever Need (http://tinyurl.com/43hmzl9)

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Handout for Presentation

Vimeo  (Veteran Foley Artist — http://vimeo.com/11436985)

TED Talk Video in Education – Salman Kahn — http://tinyurl.com/4gmfejq)

TED Talk Debate: Nuclear Power — (http://tinyurl.com/32lc237)

Khan Academy: CAHSEE Sample (http://tinyurl.com/http-www-khanacademy-org-vid)

Common Craft: Twitter (http://www.commoncraft.com/twitter)

Snagfilms – Documentaries (http://www.snagfilms.com)

Free Documentaries (http://www.freedocumentaries.com)

Smart YouTube Channels (http://www.openculture.com/smartyoutube)

Five Best YouTube Channels (http://tinyurl.com/26lm9lx)

100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers (http://tinyurl.com/5l68zc)

Lincoln HS Videos of the Week (http://tinyurl.com/3o5dswl)

Lynda.com (Paid Technology Videos) (http://www.lynda.com)

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  • Art: The Noun Project offers a free collection of clipart.
  • Careers: What is a Foley Artist? Good video on the art of movie sounds
  • Economics: National Financial Capability Challenge
  • Education: Elev8ed: Student Videos about Education Reform.
  • Geography: Maplandia and Google Earth Cool Places helps you find cool places in Google Earth.
  • Literature: A cool animated video about Mark Twain’s views on publishing a book.
  • Math: Math Games teachers can monitor at Manga High.
  • Music: Interactive Music Theory Lessons at MusicTheory.net.
  • Music: The New York Philharmonic Archives are now available online.
  • Performing Arts: Touching Lives through Theatre Grants.
  • Photography: Smithsonian Wild is a new Smithsonian website that houses more than 200,000 images of animals in the wild.
  • Photography: Great public domain photographs of nature can be found here
  • Reading/Literacy: Open Library offers is a collection of more than one million free ebook titles.
  • Science: Sheppard Software offers a number of periodic table games.
  • Science: Video: 132 Shuttle Launches in 132 seconds.
  • Science: Videos Fukushima Reactor Explained and Tsunami 101.
  • Social Studies: If It Were My Home offers a good comparison of different countries.
  • Technology: Salman Khan Academy: Video: Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education.
  • Technology: A site of good teacher training videos on a variety of topics, including Web 2.0 tools.
  • Writing: New discussion features have been added to Google Documents.

    • Other Sites Worth Exploring:

    ]]>     http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2011/03/28/sites-worth-checking-out-march-2011/feed/ 0     Celebrating Culture and Diversity through the Holidays http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2011/01/17/celebrating-culture-and-diversity-through-the-holidays/ http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2011/01/17/celebrating-culture-and-diversity-through-the-holidays/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:48:12 +0000 skramstad http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/?p=227 We had a day off on Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. I have gathered a number of websites and online resources celebrating our upcoming holidays and the significance surrounding these dates.  Take what you will from these sites and tweak to your heart’s content.

    Martin Luther King Jr.
    King Center:
    King Institute Home:
    Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech:
    Martin Luther King Jr. Online
    Teaching With Documents: Court Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers

    Presidents’ Day

    American Rhetoric:
    Lincoln Memorial Interactive
    Gettysburg Address Revisited
    Studying the U.S. Constitution through Documents
    Who Wants to be President? Infographic
    9 Resources about Learning about U.S. Presidents
    Get a free American Presidents Poster

    Chinese New Year

    The Chinese New Year: Moon Phases and Zodiac
    Chinese New Year Lessons Plans: Science Heroes
    Chinese Dragon Puppets

    Jackie Robinson Day

    Jackie Robinson’s Official Website
    Teaching with Documents – Beyond the Playing Field with Jackie Robinson

    Other sites worth exploring:
    DocsTeach – Use documents to teach history
    Vote Easy – Great website on voting and politics
    Picturing America – Exploring the connection between the arts and history

    ]]>     http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2011/01/17/celebrating-culture-and-diversity-through-the-holidays/feed/ 0     Edtech Worth Checking Out for 11/4/2010 http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/11/05/edtech-worthing-checking-out-for-1142010/ http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/11/05/edtech-worthing-checking-out-for-1142010/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:09:41 +0000 skramstad http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/?p=219 Subject Matter Sites:
    Social Studies: Great Depression, SHOW®/WORLD – A New Way To Look At The World, Teaching American Revolution
    Science: Virtual Cell Animation Collection
    ESL: Voxy
    English:Sites to Learn SAT Vocabulary, Visual Dictionaries and Thesauri, and Romeo and Juliet Interactive Folio
    Foreign Language: TypeIt — Typing Accents
    Art: J Paul Getty Museum
    Statistics: Google Fusion Tables

    Web 2.0 For Further Exploration:
    Phrays | Today’s word is Transfix. Now, write a sentence.
    peg.gd: My awesome little page
    Quotables
    Newsmap
    Incredibox
    Stunning Charts in PowerPoint

    Tutorials
    Wolfram Alpha in a Nutshell helps you explain Alpha to non-geeks
    YouTube – GoogleDocs Tutorials on YouTube
    Free Technology for Teachers: Google Tutorials

    Events
    LAUSD’s Educational Technology Blog – ACTFL Student Video Podcast Contest to Celebrate Discover Languages Month…
    Google Workshop: Learn Web Page Design with Google Sites on November 9, 2010

    Tips
    Need a good free Antivirus program? Microsoft Security Essentials.
    Symantec Antivirus also free to LAUSD employees: http://antivirus.lausd.net
    Windows 7 Family Pack – Great Value: More info
    Set GMail as your default email: Download here

    For Fun:
    YouTube Trivial Pursuit is as addictive as the real thing

    ]]>     http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/11/05/edtech-worthing-checking-out-for-1142010/feed/ 0     EdTech Worth Checking Out for 10/28/2010 http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/10/28/worthcheckingout10282010/ http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/10/28/worthcheckingout10282010/#comments Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:15:55 +0000 skramstad http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/?p=206 Good EdTech Articles

    Teaching with Infographics

    4,100 Students Prove ‘Small is Better’ Is Wrong

    Students No Longer Need Email Addresses to Create Edublogs

    7 Sites to Help Students Choose and Apply to College

    8 Good Sites for Space Science Lessons

    10 Resources for ESL and Foreign Language Students

    TED Talks – The beauty of data visualization

    Subject Matter Specific Sites/Tools

    Art – Picturing America

    English – Free Print Reading Online

    English – YourNextRead — Book recommendations

    Math — Math Open Reference

    Math – Dan Meyer’s compolete Algebra and Geometry Lesson Plans

    Math — Robb’s World Channel - Math Videos on YouTube

    Science – Wild Sanctuary

    Social Studies — VoteEasy

    Social Studies — Flow of History

    All Subjects — Sweet Search — Search for Students

    The Craft of Teaching

    Braineos — Flash card quizzes

    Best Tools in EdTech — 67 Tools in 60 minutes

    100 Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers

    Stripgenerator – Comic strip generator

    Google Family Safety Center

    CommonCraft – Information Videos on Many Topics

    Google Earth Lessons – Definitive site for using Google Earth

    Google Lit Trips — Using Google Earth to explore literature and history

    Advanced Tools Worth Further Exploration

    PanDoc – Converts files from one type of document to another.

    Knowcase – Simple collaborative outliner

    Xplana - Learning platform

    Twieducate – Twitter Social Networking for Schools

    Project Rome – online content creator

    Free Sound – free audio on the web

    Royalty Free Music

    Micropoll - Quick website polls

    ]]>     http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/10/28/worthcheckingout10282010/feed/ 0     Web 2.0 and Online Tools in a Blitz http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/09/24/web-2-0-and-online-tools-in-a-blitz/ http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/09/24/web-2-0-and-online-tools-in-a-blitz/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:38:45 +0000 skramstad http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/?p=201 Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us

    Web 2.0 Free Resources Worth Checking Out

    Math: Wolfram-Alpha and Chartle

    Social Bookmarking: Delicious and Diigo

    Flash Card Creators: Quizlet and Cobocards

    File Sharing/Syncing: Dropio and Dropbox

    Screen Capture and Recording: Screen Toaster and Jing Project and Screencast and ScreenCastle

    Feed Readers: Google Reader and FeedReader

    Stock Market: WeSeed and Google Finance

    Web Site Creator: Weebly and Google Sites

    Timeline Creators: TimeRime and X-Timeline.com

    Survey Creation: SurveyMonkey and Survs

    Creativity: Word Magnets, Wordle, Wallwisher, Glogster, Tagcloud

    Online Suite of Tools: Google Docs and Aviary and Zoho

    Audio/Sound Creators: Soundation

    Mindmapping/Brainstorming: Mindmeister

    Blogging: Edmodo and Edublogs and WordPress and Posterous

    News: Newsmap, Google Timeline, Newseum

    Quiz Makers: MyStudiyo

    Presentations: Prezi

    Video Creation: Voicethread and Stupeflix

    Embedding: Embedr

    Study Guides: Shmoop

    Debate: CreateDebate and Opposing Views

    History: Map As History, Smart History, Picturing America, Timelines.TV

    ]]>     http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/09/24/web-2-0-and-online-tools-in-a-blitz/feed/ 0     Top Twelve Free Resources for Educators and Students for 2010: http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/06/22/top-twelve-free-resources-for-educators-and-students-for-2010/ http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/06/22/top-twelve-free-resources-for-educators-and-students-for-2010/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:31:30 +0000 skramstad http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/?p=197

    1. Google Documents (http://docs.google.com)
    Free online word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software.  Great for collaboration and sharing for teachers or students.
    2. Quizlet (http://www.quizlet.com)
    Excellent online vocabulary testing software; powerful and useful.
    3. Google Earth (http://earth.google.com)
    Great supplement to any subject, connecting content to geography and mapping.  Advanced features allow for interesting mash-ups.
    4. Voicethread (http://www.voicethread.com)
    Easy online video creation tool.  Create documentary style slideshows, allowing commenting, sharing, and multimedia.  Check out 100 ways to use voicethread in education.
    5. SurveyMonkey (http://www.surveymonkey.com)
    Create online surveys easily and export data in an easy to use format.
    6. Google Sites (http://sites.google.com)
    Probably the easiest way for students to create their own websites in any content area.  No code necessary.
    7.  Ted Talks (http://www.ted.com)
    Awesome talks on all subjects by experts in their respective fields.  Check out Math Class Needs a Makeover and Bring on the Learning Revolution.
    8. Common Craft videos (http://www.commoncraft.com/)
    Fun, engaging videos about a variety of topics; short and good for kids.  Watch the one for blogs, wikis, and World Wide Web.
    9. RIA Animate
    Animated lectures. Drive and the Power of Time
    10. Diigo (http://www.diigo.com)
    Great social bookmarking website.  Save and share the best websites easily.
    11. Moodle (http://www.moodle.org)
    My personal favorite. Teachers have been creating hybrid online courses to provide online interactivity with their students through forums, online quizzes, submission of digital work, surveys, etc.  This one you will need assistance getting started with, offered through the district or Lincoln HS. (Email if you are interested in getting started.)
    12. Google Reader (http://reader.google.com)
    Read the web through RSS feeds (no need to visit multiple website when the stories archive automatically into your reader.

    ]]>     http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/06/22/top-twelve-free-resources-for-educators-and-students-for-2010/feed/ 0     RSA Animate: Drive and the Power of Time http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/05/28/rsa-animate-drive-and-the-power-of-time/ http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/2010/05/28/rsa-animate-drive-and-the-power-of-time/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 22:12:04 +0000 skramstad http://www.lincolntigers.org/updates/?p=195 If you really take some time, you can find some remarkable videos on YouTube.

    I’ve stumbled another set of videos in the spirit of TED by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). I’ve watched two of them: The Power of Time and Drive. These are gems, not only for the discussion, but for the engaging visual aid of “the drawing hand.”  A worthwhile 10 minutes of viewing for both.

    Drive raises serious questions about motivating kids as well as teachers and may reshape how we approach engaging our students and empowering our faculty through professional development.

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