10-Rep Learning ~ Teague's Tech Treks

Learning Technology & Tech Observations by Dr. Helen Teague

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California Mission Websites

Jacqui Murray has collected a list of 40 websites that will inspire your fourth graders about California missions:

Weekend Website #111: 40 California Mission Websites.

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Tech BFF: Search Engine Showdown

BFF is an acronym for “Best Friend Forever.” These websites and tips are so good that they will become your technology BFFs!

A Recommendation from RefDesk:

Search Engine Showdown     http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/
Search Engine Showdown, the users’ guide to Web searching, compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the searcher’s perspective. Developed originally as a way to keep track of search engine features and search capabilities and to share that information with others, the site has grown to include: Search engine features chart; Detailed search engine reviews; An online newsletter; Statistical analysis; Search strategies.

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Crazy Things People Say to Teachers and How to Respond

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crazy things people say to teachers

From: http://teachingliteracy.tumblr.com/post/26765340762

(one of my favorite blogs!)

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Staff Picks! Favorite Resources from PBS LearningMedia

PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for easy, instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and photos, and even in-depth lesson plans. You can search, save, and share with ease. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia™ is free for educators. Click and visit today: http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

Explore this eclectic mix of interactives & video from PBS LearningMedia:

All Systems Are Go
Grades 5-8 | interactive + essay

The human body and its organs must operate in concert with each other to do their jobs. Challenge your students to determine which organs work in tandem and put Arnold back together again.

Guess How Whales Hear!
Grades K-5 | video + questions

What does the ocean sound like to a whale? (It isn’t quiet!) This resource reveals how one marine biologist used the scientific process to uncover what and how whales hear.

Community Garden
Grades 3-8 | video + teaching tips

An urban naturalist describes the ways that community gardens improve the quality of life for those living in Brooklyn.

Mission US: For Crown or Colony?
Grades 6-8 | interactive

This richly immersive choose-your-own-adventure experience puts your students in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old in 1770 Boston. An in-depth educator guide provides historical background and classroom activities.

Acids and Bases: Kitchen Chemistry
Grades 3-8 | interactive + questions

Step into the test kitchen to conduct virtual experiments and observe the results. Will your lab journal reveal the chemistry pattern?

 

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When the weather is hot go inside for educational games

As the temperatures creep higher and higher, outside activities are sidelined to the early morning hours.

What to do with the rest of the day?

Try some brain exercises and games!

Pull out a puzzle, dust off that deck of cards. Rumage and find all those scrabble tiles.

TiVo Jeapardy.

And remember your computer: digital, educational games can be huge tools for learning.

Here is a great website listing some of the best called Exercise Your Brain

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PBS TeacherLine online courses begin Wednesday July 11

Texas Educators: Keep up your professional growth with TeacherLine of Texas online facilitated courses. All our courses meet NCLB requirements and Texas education standards. Enroll in PreK-K “Raising Reader” courses or any PreK-12 STEM courses from the comfort of your home. Course begin Wednesday, July 11…Find out more at http://texaspbs.org/teacherline/

Read more at my post from this weekend: https://4oops.edublogs.org/2012/07/08/pbs-teacherline-online-summer-courses/

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PBS TeacherLine Online Summer Courses

Knock out a six-week professional development course this summer — before school starts — with PBS TeacherLine‘s online facilitated courses, available anytime, anywhere! All you need is an email address and an Internet connection. Courses start Wednesday, July 11th!

Below are the BONUS TERM courses open for enrollment now:

  • TECH340 Evaluating and Organizing Internet Resources and Content, Grades K-12, eligible 2 credits | Syllabus
  • TECH300 The Computer for Personal Productivity, Grades K-12, eligible 2 credits | Syllabus
  • RDLA340 Teaching Reading in the Content Areas, Grades 3-12, eligible 2 credits | Syllabus
  • MATH430 Seeing Math: Proportional Reasoning, Grades 6-12, eligible 2 credits | Syllabus
  • STEM420 Inspire Elementary Students with Engineering, Grades PreK-6, eligible 2 credits | Syllabus
  • INST342 Teaching with Primary Sources for the Library of Congress, (The Class I am facilitating) Grades 3-12, eligible 3 credits | Syllabus

Learn more about graduate credit options with accredited providers. Check out PBS TeacherLine’s course alignment to CCSS.

Many districts reimburse their teachers’ PBS TeacherLine course expenses.

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Using Assessment Data to Enhance Your Reading Program

Using Assessment Data to Enhance Your Reading Program

The first time I heard the word disaggregate was in the summer of 1996 while in graduate school.

A classmate, favoring a stule of horn-rimmed glasses, pocket-protector, and polyester pants, seemed well-suited to the word as he gave a presentation on test result. I cringed when he enthusiastically placed transparency after transparency on the overhead projector showing graphs and spreadsheets of numbers representing the latest scores on statewide tests.

I was watching the manifestation of my mother’s admonition that “a girl better learn math or be passed over by those who do.”

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