Social+Studies-World+Langague

= = __** Resources for Social Studies-World Language Teachers **__

Mapping from Paper to Digital
[|Best Practice 1] - Amazing on-line text book created by two high school teachers and their kids [|Best Practice 2] - Sahara Caravan Project - 7th Grader Geography Project

Moving Outside the Classroom
[|Best Practice 3] - Video Chat with an author [|Best Practice 4] - Building Legacy

Think first - What is the unit, lesson, skill you want to teach? Don't start with the tool; start with the goal.

__Smartboard Notebook Resources__

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Lesson Activity Toolkit - Pairs (Matching game sample) [|Smart Exchange]- Great place to find other teachers' lessons Kevin Sullivan's Games - Shown at NJEA 2010 My Posterous Site - Links and information for using the Smartboard and Notebook software [|My Diigo Sites] tagged Smartboard [|Delicious] - All items tagged with Smartboard and SS (You can easily change to history in the search text box)

~Remember basic file management. When you find something save it in a place where it's easy for you to find again. For example: Create a folder called Smartboard Lessons, then another folder inside that one called Notebook Templates. Store all the games/resources made by others that you find there. When you find a need for one, open it up, edit it to fit your lesson, etc. and then re-save it in another folder based by the class/lesson. Your templates will always remain but now you have ready made games that work too!

__Internet Searching and Information Literacy__
You need to remember the Grammar of the web and how it works to search on various search engines. ~ [|Google.com] - Typically people only look at first 5 websites that come up in a search. ~Use the [|Advanced Search] feature until you learn the nuances. MAKE sure you teach the kids too!

Glossary of Symbols/codes:
" " = Phrase - = Eliminates Site:edu = searches only university sites Site:uk = searches only uk (Great Britain) sites [|Root Database]= site for finding country codes

Search Terms to add:
Interactive School or Schools "Online Resources" "Technology Resources"

~Don't forget to search by STATE as well. You can find great things like this School created Wiki for Texas with great resources for anyone!

**Social Studies/History** Publishers' Resources:
[|McDougal Littel] [|McGraw Hill] [|Houghton Mifflin EduPlace] [|List of many Publisher Online Resources]

__**Creating Interactive Documents**__
Find a pdf on the web - paste into Word ~Remember to view your activity from the back of the room Change the font size, color, spacing, etc. and save to a base folder ~Open it up and use the Smartboard Pens and then re-save it in a folder you have created if that class You can upload it immediately for absent students on their class page off your Teacher Page ~Terrific for teaching note taking!

**__Some Great Teacher Resources__**
[|Skype a Teacher] - Check out this great list of other teachers who will Skype with you - Check out the Directory and then the comments at the bottom Think school to school debate! [|Skype an Author]- Reach out to book authors

[|Language Clip Art Library]

[|Kathy Schrock's Guide for Rubrics] [|Kathy Schrock's History Links]

[|History for Kids] [|Scholastic News for Kids] [|Kids Past] [|Institute for Human Origins]

[|Google Custom Search Engine] - Great for limiting the results students get in a search and for guiding them in the resources they use

__Other Web 2.0 Tools__
[|Quizlet] - Terrific for making quizzes and practicing vocabulary [|Study Stack] - Another Vocabulary tool

[|GoogleMaps Directory] - Place to see all of the gadgets/widgets you can use in Google Maps [|Google Lit Trips]

[|Polleverywhere] - Terrific for gathering questions on an assignment or engaging students in a thoughtful discussion [|ietherpad] - Interactive, synchronous tool for collaboration [|Wallwisher] - Like an online bulletin board for ideas [|KidBlog] - You can set it so kids' comments are immediately up without your moderating their comments first. Just make it private. [|Nice Net]

[|RCampus] - Create rubrics and search through hundreds already made. Easy to post to your website too. [|Recipes4Success] - Create your own Rubrics and then edit with standard suggestions ~Create these as a whole class with your kids on the Smartboard

Podcasting and Audio
[|Vocaroo]

** ﻿Pics you can use in projects **

 * [|Pics 4 Learning] **
 * [|Flickr pics under a creative commons license] **

__Digital Storytelling Presentation Tools__
[|Glogster EDU] [|Prezi] [|VoiceThread] - [|Great Sample] by a 5th grade class OR this one created by a student all about [|Global Warming] [|Animoto] [|Xtranormal] [|Photopeach]

**__Teacher Pages__**
Remember to link everything up here! New websites, notes you write together, etc. Keep your hierarchy simple and easy to navigate

__Community & Funding__
[|Donors Choose]

**__Management - Classroom and Home__**
Raise up laptops on textbooks Have them close laptops (at least part way) when you need to teach Make sure you keep track of where they are on various online projects - check list of some sort Turn off projectors when not in use - Bulbs are very expensive

Remind parents: 1. Only 50 minutes of homework a night 2. Children should be using computer in a family area; not their bedroom 3. Think about charging their laptops in your room at night or at least have a "Homework/laptop Drop Spot" where everything is kept 4. Review doing homework and avoiding/eliminating distractions

~Send home a flier reviewing these ideas and others to be signed showing they have read the document.

__Publishing Kids' Work__
[|Wikispaces]