If you’re looking for resources to help your students improve their information literacy skills and stay safer online, Google’s Digital Literacy Tool is a great resource to explore. I want to let you know upfront that some of this material is YouTube hosted, which will pose some filtering-related problems. Talk with your tech coordinator for [...]
Google recently announced the creation of their Google Family Safety Center and the Google Family Safety Center YouTube Channel Helping your children use the Internet safely is similar to teaching them to navigate the offline world. There are parts of the real world that you wouldn’t let your children explore unsupervised—and that goes for the [...]
There are more resources on the web than any one person can possibly keep up with – that’s why we need organized collections like those at www.ohiotreasurechest.org and www.d3a2.org to help sort it out. The great part is that there’s that much material, the bad part is that it’s easy to overlook great stuff. One [...]
I’ve had a handful of links hanging around in my reader that I’ve wanted to pass along, so I’m doing a little housekeeping here and getting those posted. TechLEARNING.com > Making Book Trailers with PhotoStory3 (If you haven’t checked out PhotoStory before, you should at least take a look at the sample movies and screen [...]
A great collection of multimedia resources on the web is at Teachers’ Domain. Developed by PBS affiliate, WGBH, the collection includes a number of free videos, interactive modules, and articles. Age appropriate content is available for essentially all grade levels. Free registration is required, but worth your time. The primary content areas include: Earth and [...]
www.free.ed.gov There is a wealth on information available on the websites for government agencies. However, given that there are so many of them (agencies, that is), hunting down good stuff can be hard to do, especially for students who have less experience with search skills, or even a limited ability to scan through materials. This [...]
PBS Kids Go! “Don’t Buy It: Get Media Smart” helps students understand the ways in which people and products are often portrayed by the entertainment and advertising media. “Children spend the majority of their days consuming mass media. On average, children spend four-and-a-half hours a day using television, video games and computers. Yet children are [...]
The Ohio Treasure Chest, a website created by the tech staff at North Canton City Schools, contains a wealth of standards-organized resources as well as curriculum connections, lesson plans, and assessments. Thousands of resources have been identified by other educators as being useful tools for teaching many of the indicators in each grade level. I’ve [...]
Scott McLeod (one of my favorite education/technology/leadership bloggers) has pointed out the availability of [free] tutorials on data analysis at School Data Tutorials. “The tutorials on the web site highlight many of the Excel skills that are helpful when working with building- and district-level data. The tutorials are targeted at data managers, principals, guidance counselors, [...]
INFOhio recently announced the release of the new INFOsearch tool. INFOsearch allows the user to search many of INFOhio’s resources simultaneously. This resource will make it quicker and easier to locate good content via INFOhio. Records can be targeted toward the usual K-5 /6-8 /9-12 groups and can be filtered by resource types. Tip: This [...]
