Best Conference I Have Been To... Perhaps Ever!

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:32:16 +0100

I love PD where you can take an idea and plug it right into your classroom. I am at the Curriculum21 Conference with Heidi Hayes Jacobs at Southeast Polk right now. Fabulous.

So many ideas on how to engage our students.

I know it is summer, but many teachers will spend some time this summer upgrading their lessons!

Check out some of these tools:

http://www.curriculum21.com/clearinghouse

So many resources!

http://www.appmakr.com/

Create an App or even better - have students create an App

Have students create a facebook page about a certain person, place, or thing.

Example (Create a facebook page like you are Abraham Lincoln - pics, info, etc...)
I know we don't have facebook access... SO engaging though...

Go to http://www.igoogle.com/ (Create your google account if you don't have one already)

Search something... anything!
In the lefthand column click on:

Wonderwheel
Timeline

Did you know you could search that way?? I didn't!

http://prezi.com/

Better than Power Point!

http://todaysmeet.com/

A great way to have a conversation online with your students!

Every laptop at Hoyt has a WEBCAM!

Go to http://www.skype.com/
Download Skype!
Tell someone else who has a webcam to download Skype... and CHAT!
Think about how you could make your classroom more global.

http://typewith.me/

We have used this already at Hoyt.
Again, how can you use it in your classroom!

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

Try this!
Also scroll down on this webpage and click on vocabgrabber

Certainly more to come! Let's become a 21st Century School!

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Best Conference I Have Been To... Perhaps Ever!