Curriculum+Ideas

Interactive Curriculum Ideas

[|Wikispaces] A valuable tool to create a classroom site, (Everyone in the class will create a wikispace to share his/her curriculum project) Wiki Help for K-12 Educators

[|Tagxedo] Very cool tool. If you've used Wordle and you liked it, this tool is even more awesome!

Eighty Ways to Use Google Forms in the Classroom Thanks Barb!

Museum Box -  This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.

Format Pixel Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogues, portfolios and more. Using the formatpixel online editor you too can design page based projects, layout text, upload your own images, add interactivity and customise their appearance.

Story Jumper Publish your own children's stories in seven simple steps.

Atmosphir - a site for building online games. This will appeal to students who want to build video games. It involves high order thinking.

Ted Ed - Lessons Worth Sharing Video Resource with quiz questions and teacher editing capabilities. Very cool!

Creative Commons - This site is best used in your classroom to avoid copyright infringement.

[|How Tech Savvy are you?]

Technology to Teach - A great resource offering a collection of interesting articles and links to Web 2.0 tools with ideas for integration in the classroom.

Templars Tech offers a collection of resources based on subject area. It also offers links to other useful tools such as converters.

Cool Tools - a massive collection of Web 2.0 tools

Storybird - Art inspired story telling

Storybird reverses the process of visual storytelling by starting with the image and "unlocking" the story inside. Choose an artist or a theme, get inspired, and start writing.

[|Pixlr] A free on-line photo editor that lets you do almost anything Photoshop does, only it's free! And, you don't need to create an account. Use this to edit the photo for your wiki you will create.

Animoto - Free online video creation site. Design templates and contemporary music. media type="custom" key="20927812" width="170" height="170"

[|The Amanda Project]- This was presented at the National Council of English Teachers. It has become widely read, and the same premise could be applied to most books/novels. It is geared for elementary, but it would work well in junior high school too. [|Interactive books] improve comprehension as explained on [|Edutopia] including examples.

[|Prezi] is a storytelling website to create interesting presentations and to create stories. This site has been suggested for creating interactive stories. media type="custom" key="20990024" width="180" height="180" [|Voki] -- Create an online avatar. This allows students to interact as a character, person in history, teacher. Imagination is the only limit. Also, visit this wiki dedicated specifically to Voki use in a variety of subjects and grade levels.

[|Glogster]i s an online poster maker. Use to demonstrate students' understanding of concepts and/or construction of knowledge. Completely interactive.

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<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tell a Story in Five Frames - This is very difficult to do. Tell a Story in 5 Frames has two important parts. The first part is creating and telling a story through visual means with only a title to help guide the interpretation. The second part is the response of the group to the visual story. The group response can take many forms such as, a poetic or prose rendering of the visualization, a critique on the structure of the story, comments on the photograph, or other constructive forms of response. ([|An Idea] [|Found on Flickr] ) You could use your class Wiki for students to post their frames/pictures.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 130%;">[|Teachers Teaching Teachers] - a site with high quality intellectual ideas and theoretical explanation. Sounds pretty boring huh? If you've ever thought about making connections with teachers in other countries, or people who are experiencing issues within communities, this site offers examples as well as ideas.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 140%;">[|Web 2.0 in Education] - On this site you will find curriculum ideas for most subjects.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Voice Thread View the embedded video to learn about Voice Thread. It's interactive and can promote high level conversations. media type="custom" key="9814385"

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|Diigo] An interactive bookmarking site useful for any class, subject, or unit. It's free to educators. Take a look at [|Diigo Educator] for more information.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Google Docs This is cloud computing at its finest. You can create word documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and polls on line. It stores all information off sight. If you have access to the Internet, you have access to your files. You need a Google Email (gmail) account to access Google Docs. The account is free.

[|Skype in Education:] A way to connect visually with students and teachers in other countries. The site has a list of project ideas. You will need a Skype account to use Skype in Education, but both are free.

[|EPals] This site lets you connect with other teachers around the world. Couple this with Skype and you have a global classroom!

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">We will use [|Facebook] for discussion