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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Website Wednesday

Website Wednesday is back!  For those of you new to our blog, I compile a list of 5-10 websites that can be used by educators for student multimedia projects, lesson plans, professional development and more.  Use what you can and push the rest to the side.  You can always come back later if you feel like you missed something.

Don't forget, you can access and search all the sites bookmarked for Website Wednesdays at https://www.diigo.com/user/gwenlehman.  Search by Tags, lists, titles or URLs.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Keeping it Current

I had an email a few weeks back with some great current event websites.  Most of these sites provide a teacher resource section with ideas for use in the classroom and educational resources.

http://www.tweentribune.com/
  • Pages for Tweens, Teens and Espanol
  • Stories are selected by tweens/teens in conjunction with professional journalists
  • Site is easy to navigate and updated daily


http://tweentribune.com/top10
Find out how other Teachers have used this site:  http://tweentribune.com/love



http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/
  • Provides current events for teens to use for school or personal use
  • Combines journalism and video to relate information on subjects of interest
  • Some videos available in Closed Caption
  • Each video has lesson plans, discussion questions, student activities, vocabulary and primary references

Find Educator Resources:  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/thenews/foreducators/index.php



http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/?iref=allsearch
  •  Ten-minute, commercial-free, daily news program
  • Appropriate for middle and high school students
  • Teacher resources include transcripts for each show, discussion questions, media literacy questions, downloadable maps and more


http://www.channelone.com/
  • Covers breaking news and in-depth issues affecting the world and nation
  • News coverage is geared towards teens
  • Teacher resources include transcripts, weekly news quizzes, lesson plans and more
  • Provides Education Correlations showing you how the issues and topics align with your state standards