Website Wednesday

• Spruce Up a Boring Resume
  Great infographic on sprucing up your resume
  

  
  tags: resume Career infographic how to

• Set Up an Online Resume
  Take students to the next level of resume writing by introducing them to various online resume options. Great for high school students.
  tags: resume Career digital how to

• Career Kids - My First Resume
  Simple fill-in-the-blank for students creating their first resume. Great for getting them started and considering what to include in their resume.
  tags: resume Career

• Booktrack Classroom
  Booktrack Classroom allows students to read with a movie-style soundtrack, or to create their own soundtrack for any story, essay or other text. Students can also create and publish their own Booktracks, reading them on the web or on mobile phones and tablets.
  tags: reading books english

• E-books : KQED Education | KQED Public Media for Northern CA
  

  Bring science to life at the touch of a fingertip. Download the latest iBooks Textbooks from KQED! Explore STEM topics and careers through real-world examples. Designed to engage learners through a blend of high-quality media, interactive elements and informative text, the books and accompanying iTunes U courses offer rich learning experiences both in and out of the classroom.
  tags: STEM science edtech ebooks

• Edutopia
  Edutopia presents K-12 Education & Learning Innovations with Proven Strategies that Work.
  This online magazine provides articles grouped by grade levels, videos, classroom guides and more. Great resource for new classroom ideas, educational research and trends, student engagement and more.
  tags: education technology teaching pedagogy edtech

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S'more - not just for eating

When I hear the word s'more, I visualize those great chocolatey, gooey campfire delights.  As you enjoy this mountain of decadence, the heated chocolate drips out and the marshmallow oozes out burning your finger from the heat.  But you savor every bite.  When it's gone, you make another because you only get to enjoy this treat around those late night summer campfires.

On this winter day, my heart was elated to find another s'more.  It might not be ooey, gooey, chocolatey, but it's still a great treat to explore!  Smore is an online flyer creator that can publish your flyers instantly via Facebook, email or embedding to a website or blog.  When you create your flyer, you can add text, photos, videos and audio.  You can choose from various design backgrounds and colors.  The most difficult element in creating a flyer is deciding what you would like to say.

The following video will walk you through a short tutorial on using smore:

Here is a completed smore flyer:


S'more photo by Colin Purrington http://www.welovedc.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/smore-by-colin-purrington.jpg

Ideas for using smore in the classroom: 

• advertising school or class events
• creating book reports
• creating profiles on historical figures
• making an order of operations poster
• explaining the food chain or water cycle.

 

Create your own smore and share the link OR share how you used smore in your classroom!

You're a 21st Century Teacher if...

Friday, I spent the day at Essdack with my Tech Integration Group.  They are an awesome group of people who share their expertise, ideas and inspiration.  One of the topics we focused on was the 21st Century Teacher.  A site called Simple K12 posted a list of 21 Signs You're a 21st Century Teacher.  The tasks are things you already do in your classroom, but then took it to the next level with the connection to technology.  After reading over the list, we voted on the top 5 items through Google Moderator.  (Google Moderator allows you to post topics or ideas that people can vote up or down.  We use this each month to decide on the topics we will cover at our meetings.)  From there, we took the top 5 items and created Wallwisher boards for each topic.  We then spent time adding ideas, tools and suggestions for supporting teachers to get there.  Here our boards and suggestions:

Created with Wallwisher

http://wallwisher.com/wall/97lhhagh7o

Created with Wallwisher

http://wallwisher.com/wall/llaqcd8lh7

Created with Wallwisher

http://wallwisher.com/wall/nmvjjbqy99

Created with Wallwisher

http://wallwisher.com/wall/g9gvffjham

Created with Wallwisher

http://wallwisher.com/wall/issvht25m0

These boards are still being added to, but they are a good starting place.  Personally, I had used Wallwisher in the past, but wasn't a huge fan.  I started using another tool, Lino, which was like Wallwisher.  Both are electronic bulletin boards centered around a specific question or topic.  Then you open the board so others can contribute resources to the topic or answer the posted question.  Either tool would be great for exit questions, brainstorming for a project or paper or collecting online resources centered around a topic.  I could see using this as part of a web evaluation activity.  The students have to find a reliable website related to a specific topic everyone is researching.  They could give the link and explain how they know it is a reliable site.  Here is a sample Lino canvas I used this summer during one of our training sessions:

After working with the new Wallwisher, I'm going to give it another try.  Although Wallwisher doesn't have an app for the iPad, I can still go to the internet on the iPad and use Wallwisher to create new boards or respond to boards.  Tom Barrett has a slideshow showing several interesting ways to use Wallwisher in the classroom.  On his blog, Sean Banville provides 105 ideas for using Wallwisher in the classroom.

So, are you a 21st century teacher?  Are there any signs that you use in your classroom already?  Do any of the signs inspire you to try something new in your classroom?