Technology+And+Media+Literacy+Resources+Home

=Laura Jean Moore =

Technology and Media Literacy Teacher
[|The Gillispie]School lmoore@gillispie.orgTwitter: LauraJean [|Bookmarks on delicious][|Flickr ljmoo]

Apple - Links to Help You Teach Class
 * [|Lesson Planning with iCal]
 * [|Leopard iChat VideoTutorial (YouTube)]
 * [|Apple Learning Interchange]
 * [|40 Free Screen Capture Tools (Take Pictures of Your Screen)]

Articles and Blog Posts of Interest California Resources
 * [|Managing the Mac Classroom - Tips for Teachers]
 * [|Podcasting takes Lessons Beyond the Classroom]
 * [|New York Times: At School - Technology Starts To Turn a Corner]
 * [|Five Reasons Why Educators Need to Embrace Internet Technologies]
 * [|Teachers and Technology]
 * 100 Video Resources Every Educator Should Bookmark
 * Teach Paperless: 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020
 * Teach with Picture Books blog
 * [|Library of Congress Primary Resources California Resources - excellent site for teachers!]
 * [|All California Library Resources]

Google Resources for Educators Inspirational/Professional Development Lesson Plan Ideas Using Technology Macintosh - Links to Help You Take Care of Your Computer! The One-to-One Classroom
 * [|Google Guide Making Your Search Even Easier]
 * [|Google Blog Directory - Search all Google Blogs]
 * [|Google for Educators]
 * [|101 Google, Tricks, Tips and Hacks]
 * [|Google Study Tips for Students]
 * [|Search Google News Archives]
 * [|Classic Google Posters to Print]
 * [|TedTalks - Inspired Talks by the World's Greatest Thinkers and Doers]
 * [|Google Advice to Students - Major in Learning]
 * [|Million Futures - Add your Idea about the Future of Learning]
 * [|Teacher Training Videos]
 * [|Lesson ideas using iPods]
 * [|iPods in Education]
 * Ideas for Using ComicLife in the Classroom
 * Response System - QuickieQ
 * Poll Everywhere
 * [|MaxOSX Keyboard Shortcuts]
 * [|How to Organize your Cuttered Desktop and Regain your Sanity!]
 * [|Managing the One-to-One Classroom]

__General SmartBoard Resources__

 * [|Worksheets You Can Use with a Smartboard]
 * [|Interactive Whiteboard Links Divided by Subject Areas and Grade Levels]
 * [|Power Point Slide Resources - lots of pre-made presentations for use with your SmartBoard]
 * [|SmartBoard Notebook Resources including Templates]
 * [|SmartBoard Website Listings]
 * [|Thirty-Seven Interesting Ways to Use Your Interactive WhiteBoard]
 * [|SmartBoard Tutorial - Themes]
 * [|SmartBoard Tutorial Video - Tables]
 * [|Scholastic Smartboard Lesson Plan Ideas]
 * [|Smart Notebook Lesson Plans]
 * [|Teachers Love SmartBoards - Website Listings]
 * [|Elementary Smartboard Lessons]
 * [|Instructional Development Department - Interactive Whiteboard Lessons]
 * [|K-5 Resources for SmartBoard from Oak Street Elementary School]

**NEW! [|Wolfram Alpha - A Computational Knowledge Engine]**
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 * [|Hakia - Search Results from Credible Sites Recommended by Librarians]
 * [|Debbie Abilock: Find the Best Search Tool for Your Needs]
 * [|Chunkit]
 * [|Behold - Search high quality Flickr images!]
 * [|Quintura for Kids - view your results in a tag cloud!]
 * [|Google Search Tips] (this is on YouTube so watch it at home or ask Joe to unblock it for you so you can watch it at school)
 * [|Google Book Search]
 * [|NetTrekker]
 * [|DuckDuckGo]
 * [|Tip of the Tongue - Find the Word you Have Been Searching for All Day]
 * [|KidsClick - Web Search for Kids by Librarians]
 * [|Ask Kids!]
 * [|Joongle - Aggregate Search based on Geographic Results]
 * [|Good Simple Search Engine tutorial by Pandia]
 * [|New, Targeted Search Engine - RoboCrunch - excellent!!]
 * [|Search Google News Archives - Also Creates Historical Timelines]

__SmartBoard Resources__
[|Official SmartBoard WebSite]

Invention/Imagination/Games/Art

 * [|Make a Cloud.]
 * [|PhotoMunchrs. An Interactive Game Good for Visual Perception, and Memory.]
 * [|ArtPad - Draw and Paint!]
 * [|Virtual Tour of MOMA (Museum of Modern Art)]
 * [|BBC Bite Size Games in Different Subject Areas]
 * [|Draminos - Interactive Dominos!]
 * [|This is Sand - Just Sand on a SmartBoard, But Really, Really Cool - Try it!]
 * [|Good Jeopardy Game Resources, Templates, etc]
 * [|Create Your Own JigSaw Puzzles]
 * [|Lots of Fun Backgrounds for Photos!]

Literature and Writing

 * [|From the BBC, Magic Key Grammar Adventures are excellent for SmartBoard!]
 * [|Diamonte Poetry]
 * [|Google Lit Trips (using Google Earth)]
 * [|Bembo's Zoo. This is an EXCEPTIONAL alphabet site]
 * [|Harcourt School Publishers Go for Grammar Gold Interactive Quizzes for Grades 1-5]
 * [|Grammar Arcade - Nice Interactive Games for Upper Elementary]
 * [|Grammar Gorillas]
 * [|Eats, Shoots and Leaves Punctuation Game - a bit challenging - better for upper grades]
 * [|PBS Kids Video Clips - Upper and Lower Case]
 * [|PBS Kids Video Clips - Plurals]
 * [|Literactive - Teaching Children to Read. Don't Miss this Site - Good Sequencing Activities with Fabulous Graphics!]
 * [|Punctuation Alien - Another Great One from the BBC]
 * [|Clean Up Your Grammar with Miss Maggie! Noun and Verbs]
 * [|Magnetic Board Poetry]
 * [|Word Games from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Web Site - VERY Good Interactives for SmartBoards!]
 * [|Island of the Blue Dolphin] s
 * [|Full-Length PBS Video]
 * [|Teach "Over, Under and Through" - good for Preschool, K and Early K]
 * [|Sesame Street Character Rhyming Stories]

Math

 * [|An Interactive Clock - Good for Telling Time Lessons]
 * [|A Give Change Game]
 * [|Analog and Digital Clocks Used in Everyday Math]
 * [|Math Baseball - Set the Level of Difficulty and Type of Math]
 * [|Splat Chart - 100's Chart]
 * [|Interactive numberline for use with lower elementary students]
 * [|A fun fish counting game good for early elementary students. Excellent graphics!]
 * [|Games for the Brain - Number Hunt]
 * [|Train Tracker - good for lower elementary and preschool]
 * [|Interactive Tesselation Activity]
 * [|Third Grade Interactive Math Sites - Long List] !
 * [|Interactive Area and Perimeter Activity]
 * [|Cool, With Nice Graphics, Comparing Fractions and Decimals Game]
 * [|Tangrams Puzzles]
 * [|The Ants Go Marching In - Multiplication Practice]

Maps/Geography

 * [|State Capitals]
 * [|GeoSpy - An Interactive Map Game from National Geographic]
 * [|World Geography by KBears.com. Has good interactive world maps, musics, games, etc. for lower elementary.]
 * [|Geography Games - an Earth Simulation Game>]
 * [|Add Text and Graphics to a World Map]

Science
Social Studies
 * [|Lunar Phases of the Moon]
 * The Sun in Motion - [|Surface of the Sun]
 * [|Interactive Greenhouse Effect Site - National Geographic]
 * [|Fantastic List of Interactive Educational Social Studies Games]
 * Holiday Christmas SmartBoard Activities

__Social Networking/Collaboration__

 * [|Global Green Schools Ning - Join Today!]
 * [|How to Use the Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking Site in Education]
 * [|Technology for Educators - Good Twitter Links for Educators]
 * [|Twitter - Who Should I Follow?]
 * Social Networking
 * Social Networking for Educators

__Standards__

 * [|California State Board of Education Content Standards]

** __Training Resources__ **

 * [|eInstruction Cricket and eInstruction Interactive Response System "Clickers" - Training]

**__Understanding By Design Resources__**
__**Examples of Schools Using UBD**__
 * [|California State Standards]
 * [|Understanding by Design]
 * [|Unit Planning Template]
 * [|Hawthorn School District]
 * [|Grand Island Public School]

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