Week 7 - Friday Favourites E-Learning breakfast online

Hi everyone
This will be the last posting for the year.
We may continue in the new year.I have not reviewed the sites myself ( I wonder why? ) but maybe when the next two weeks are over, I will have a little browse.

November 13 – Top 10

Friday, November 13th, 2009 | Author: Jen

Another Friday…the weeks fly by don’t they? I hope you enjoy the great resources and videos I discovered and bookmarked this week. In no particular order, I have listed my favorite top 10 sites, blog posts, and videos of the week below. Feel free to share your favorite finds of the week using the comment link found at the bottom of this post. Have a nice weekend!

1. 100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School – this great post found at Online Colleges will keep you busy exploring and learning Google nuances for hours!
2. The Big Draw – this marvelous interactive site created by Access Art and the Campaign for Drawing encourages students age 8 and up to make storyboards and animate their drawings. The activity includes a number of worksheets that you can print to encourage students.
3. Father Guido Sarducci’s Five Minute University – I truly appreciated the humor of this YouTube video, particularly after helping put three kids through college…

Incredible Human Machine – “NGC takes you on a journey through an ordinary, and extraordinary, day in the life of the most spectacular machine ever created: the human body.”

Teaching Style Survey – (Grasha-Riechmann) Take the Grasha-Riechmann teaching style survey to give yourself an idea regarding your teaching style…a good reflective tool.

How to Use an Apostrophe – a neat online poster to help students with grammar

Thwoop – “At Thwoop!, you can view episodes of some of your favorite animated and television programs, get a glimpse at products new and old, and even review both so as to share your thoughts with your neighborhood of fellow Thwoop! Here is a sample educational video from the site…

50 Tools that can Improve your Writing Skills – a large list of tips aimed at improving your writing skills.

Happy Birthday Sesame Street! – this past week Sesame Street celebrated 40 years of bringing joy and learning to young children. View Season 40 Highlights when you visit this site.

Work It, Make It, Do It – a fun (somewhat loud) keyboarding activity

Friday Favourites - 6th November

Hi everyone,
Here are the postings for this week.

November 6 – Top 10

Friday, November 06th, 2009 | Author: Jen

Now that I have started my new job the weeks seem to fly by! I am always amazed when Friday rolls around. I hope you enjoy the great resources and videos I discovered and bookmarked this week. In no particular order, I have listed my favorite top 10 sites, blog posts, and videos of the week below. Feel free to share your favorite finds of the week using the comment link found at the bottom of this post. Have a nice weekend!

1. Power of the Pen – a heartwarming article and video about a teacher who sends his students and past students a handwritten letter on their birthday every year (even after they are no longer direct students). Thanks to Chris Atkinson for sharing this marvelous and touching video via Twitter and his blog: Teach It , Tech It, Learn It, Lead It.
2. CompareMyDocs.com – compare, recombine, and merge different versions of a document…all on line and all free!
3. Type It – this is a great web 2.0 resource for foreign language teachers. Use this online tool to type any text with foreign characters easily…choose a language, type whatever you need to type in a text box, and then paste it wherever you need it — into your word processor, e-mail message, etc. You can type foreign characters by clicking buttons or by pressing intuitive keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Letter) that don’t require you to grow additional fingers and don’t block normal letters.
4. Triptico – don’t be put off by the lengthy flash introduction; this is a marvelous online “magnet generator.” Simply type your words in the provided input box, select a background, and create your online manipulative magnets…great for interactive whiteboards!
5. Power Teaching Critical Thinking AMAZING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT!
6. 4096 Color Wheel – Use this tool to select the right color for web design. Hover over the square on this site to change saturation (left to right) and value (bottom to top) of the last hue. Use the keyboard to rotate hue: j rotates slowly counterclockwise, k rotates quickly clockwise, and l rotates slowly clockwise.
   Jump to a primary or secondary color: red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, or yellow. The enter key will also add the current color to the pick list.
7. Sleep, Sleep, Sleep – I have been sick, sick, sick this week so this Slideshare held real appeal…enjoy!
8. World Wall Links – a marvelous portal of links to help teachers develop word walls for their classrooms.
9. Punctuation Campground – a fun game that students can play to practice their punctuation skills.
10. 2009 H1N1 Flu Outbreak Map – an interactive Google map depicting confirmed and probable cases of the 2009 Influenza A/H1N1 outbreak.

Friday Favourites - October 30th

Hi everyone,
I have created a blog for the Friday Favourite online Breakfast sessions because I have been having trouble emailing the links through to you.
This also may be a better option because then you can refer back to this page at a later date.
Let's just see how this goes.
Next year we will still have some morning sessions, but this may just be another way of providing you with some ideas and options for integrating IT into teaching and learning.
Some of the material may be useful, other bits may not. Just scan through and have a look if you get a moment.
I work on the principle that if it takes me more than 2 or 3 minutes to be able to use the site effectively, I leave it.
All of the material for this blog comes from Farr-Out links to Learning.

October 30 – Top 10

Friday, October 30th, 2009 | Author: Jen

Happy Halloween Eve! I hope you enjoy the great resources and videos I discovered and bookmarked this week. In no particular order, I have listed my favorite top 10 sites, blog posts, and videos of the week below. Feel free to share your favorite finds of the week using the comment link found at the bottom of this post.

1. I planned to share a cool tech-tip/script with you today, but Nick Peachy did such a good job describing this cool YouTube strategy I would suggest that you take a few moments to read his post: My New Favourite YouTube Tool. The YouTube script he describes in his blog posting really is a great tool to know about and Nick did a great job describing it.
2. Desktop Background SlideShow - learn how you can create a marvelous screensaver using the free slideshow program/application described in the Tweaking with Fishal blog.
3. The Alphabetizer – It’s simple. Enter your terms in the input box, one per line, and they will be alphabetized.
4. Powerful Personal Learning Networks PLN - an excellent Slideshare presentation with embedded YouTube and posted by Mark Woolley…
   Powerful Personal Learning Networks PLN

   View more documents from Mark Woolley.
5. Gavin Dudeney’s Six Attitudes to Technology – an excellent post I read on the Six Things blog.
6. Amelia Earhart Links – a marvelous portal of links about Amelia Earhart
7. Where’s Waldo? – My kids loved the Where’s Waldo books when they were young and I always carried Waldo books in my substitute bag back in my per diem sub days…this site offers a fun and fanciful online opportunity to revisit a “good friend.”
8. Science News for Kids – “a web site devoted to science news for children ages 9 to 14. The site offers timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials.”
9. Bemboszoo – this site features marvelous animals created out of alphabet letters. You have to visit and play with the site to fully appreciate it.
10. World Food Programme: A Billion for a Billion – If you’re reading this, you can make a difference. It starts with one person and this video will give you a sobering perspective (along with statistics) regarding hunger in our world.