Resources

=Resources:=

**•****Wikispaces** **-** online collaborative website - see PD link on sidebar **How to handout:** **•**[|**SchoolTube**] **-** place to post and look for educational videos - need an account - set up your own channel for students to reference (super easy) **•**[|**Teacher Tube**] **-** place to post and look for educational videos - need free account and be a teacher - fabulous resources by teachers for teachers **•****Youtube in the Classroom by Dr Candy McGregor** **-** [|**YouTube**] **•**[|**Embedr**] **-** tool to store and show videos/playlists together without ads. Keep all unit videos in one embedr and keep others in other categories - fabulous tool **•Itunes -** free music organizer - you can post student podcasts and videos here for parents to subscribe to their productions for free with "Beanpods" (see below) **•**[|**Kidblog.org**] **-** only blog space that does not require email addresses for students **•**[|**Library of Congress Teacher Pages**] **-** Incredible resource for teachers **•**[|**Library of Congress Primary Source Sets**] **-** fabulous resource sets created by a librarian on many school topics with primary source items, teacher handouts, printable pdf photos - incredible ! **•**[|**Prezi**] **-** awesome presentation tool - power point on steroids - older students love it- sign up here for a [|teacher/student account:] **•** [|**epals**] Global pen pals - great way to connect your classroom globally - lots of safe school choices for free or subscription - This is a fee based one but very safe and popular - **•**[|**Google Sky**] fascinating - explore about and help sections to learn how to use - brand new **•**[|**Podbean**] **-** where you can go to set up feeds for podcasts to store and then link to itunes directory- Free account **•Webcams - l**ive webcams all over the world - fantastic -Here are some interesting links to explore: [| Live Webcams for Teachers] [|Yukon Education Student Network] [|earthcams] **•Virtual Tours -** great links on this website just for students.**.** [|**LDS**] **•**[|**Google lit trips**] **-** created by teachers to follow a book with google earth **•Geography- t**here are spectacular resources -[| National Geographic for Teachers][|My Wonderful World] **•ebooks-** free online books - here is a link to some resources some free ebooks for kids **•**Remember audio books can be downloaded from the public library to an MP3 player or burned to a CD and given to students along with a print copy to help focus and understanding. Great literacy tool. There are many free audio books online as well. **•**[|**Polls Everywhere**] **-** great polling tool **•**[|**Survey Monkey**] **-** great polling tool **•Moodle and Edmoto - free online course generating tools** **•**[|**Flash card generator**] **•Questioning tool kit -** [|**Jamie McKenzie's**] **- great** **•**[|**Zoho docs**] **-** free word processing software with collaborative tools for students to work on projects together if you can't use google docs **•**[|**Google docs**] **-** collaborative tools for sharing documents among students where multiple people can edit at one time. **•**[|**Stop watch**] for classroom timing on screen **•**[|**DropBox**] online storage and access . **Resources from AASL on Digital Literacy for Education**

•**Connect2Compete** •[|http://www.connect2compete.org] Connect2Compete is a national nonprofit organization designed to help narrow the digital divide by making high-speed Internet access, computers, education and jobs content, and digital literacy training more accessible for Americans without home connectivity. •**DigitalLearn.org** •[|http://www.digitalearn.org] PLA's new site is an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant-funded project to create an online hub for digital literacy support and training. Currently in beta, this site is launching in June 2013 and is intended to build upon and foster the work of libraries and community organizations as they work to increase digital literacy across the nation. •**DigitalLiteracy.gov** •[|http://www.digitalliteracy.gov] The Digital Literacy portal is an initiative of the Obama Administration to serve as a valuable resource to practitioners who are delivering digital literacy training and services in their communities. The portal organizes content conveniently, enables valuable discussion and collaboration among users and elevates best practices to improve the quality of digital literacy offerings. Users are invited to share their content and their ideas to make the portal more robust and to fulfill its role as a destination for practitioners devoted to enhancing digital opportunity for all Americans. •**Digital Literacy in New York** •[] New York Libraries: Leading the Way to Digital Literacy is a partnership between the New York State Office of Cyber Security & Critical Infrastructure and the New York Library Association to “convene, support, coordinate and enhance programs that provide digital literacy training.” This site offers public digital literacy education pieces. •**iConnect:** Skills for Working with Internet Beginners •[] Vermont's iConnect is training to improve skills for working with Internet beginners. The training helps participants communicate effectively and efficiently as they walk beginners through specific online tasks, and it also shows participants how to connect beginners with the resources they need to continuing learning and become comfortable navigating the online world on their own.