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**Interactive Whiteboard Resources**
Interactive White Board Resources and Integrating Strategies that support PA Standards. Interactive white boards can be integrated relevantly into any learning activity. The key is to make sure that it is relevant to the content and skills and supports your expected learning objectives, goals and outcomes.


 * LEQ** - How do I effective integrate my new interactive SMART device to engage students and facilitate higher order thinking?

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 * SMART Board Resources
 * SMART Exchange- Standards Based Lessons and Resources
 * SMART Teacher Tube - how tos for your SMART products
 * Software Download - download your home version of SMART
 * SMART Training - links to more training
 * SMART Quick Tips


 * Promethean Board Resources
 * Teacher Community
 * Promethean Planet


 * Other Cool Interactive Tools for Your IWB**
 * Web20guru - Tools by Subject
 * Classtools - create fun games for review
 * Visuwords - free online visual dictionary and thesaurus
 * Mr. Neusbaum'sInteractives for Learning
 * Sploder - create games to support geometry and high level thinking
 * Nobelprize Games - Great resources for learning high level concepts
 * Power Up- virtual game for learning and saving the environment
 * Visual Thesaurus
 * PhET- interactive math and science simulations
 * Spin and Spell fun way to spell new simple words
 * Web20guru - I have a ton of resources here that can be integrated into any content and any level.
 * Thinkfinity - a ton of aligned resources for you to use with any activity
 * Curriculumbits - a wealth of interactives for any concept
 * Elearning For Kids
 * Kidsclick - tons of great resources

**Mobi Training - Mobi Interactive Workspaces for Teachers**

 * **eInstruction - Online support and Downloads**
 * eInstruction Professional Community - downloads, resources and more
 * Product Training - learn some quick tips for your Mobi and Workspace
 * Interwrite Workspace - eInstruction Software
 * [[file:Interwrite Mobi Getting Started Guide.pdf]]
 * [[file:Interwrite Panel Getting Started Guide.pdf]]
 * [[file:DualBoard Getting Started Guide.pdf]]
 * [[file:SchoolPad Insert (Windows).pdf]]

**Web 2.0 Applications in the Classroom**

 * Web 2.0** in simple terms - the interactivity and your own productivity with the internet. The ability to add content to the internet via productivity and collaboration tools.
 * **Objectives**: Identify relevant online tools that will enhance instruction, engage learners, and promote high levels thinking and productivity. Choose a 1-2 tools that you will integrate in the next month. Report back about how the integration worked with your students.
 * **Web 2.0 Resources -** PSSA Anchors and Eligible Content

All sites can be used as activators, extensions, and embedded learning activities during instruction. The key is to think outside the instruction box. Provide students with options. Create rubrics for assessing projects.These tools promote the HOTS!


 * Use the DI /IT Lesson Plan Template to develop a fully integrated lesson plan.**


 * Wordle - Vocabulary Review, accelerator or extension activity
 * Tween Tribune - kids write the news, read the news and comment on the news. Free safe kid site for covering current events. Written by children for children! Get you students to write!!!
 * Mixbook - create a visual representations for any topic, excellent tools to build, publish and even purchase
 * Nota - create amazing web pages that allow post-it comments easy and fun!!! Safe too!
 * Wallwisher- great for brainstorming ideas with students or reviewing concepts, use with KWL
 * Letterpop - create great looking online newsletters for free!!
 * Kerpoof- write a story, create a movie, make a card to identify genre, fiction, nonfiction, read examples.
 * Toondoo - create cartoon books and more, a great way to get kids writing and responding to learning!
 * Doink - create animations for difficult concepts - allow students to create visuals for concepts in any content
 * Thatquiz - create online assessments for free!
 * [|Mystudiyo] - create fun assessments for kids, add video and more!
 * Onetruemedia - create great looking videos for covering a wide range of topics
 * Youcastr - create your own sports network with this site!! Fund raise for Newport!!!! Coming soon... hopefully!


 * Rubrics for Project Based Learning**Myt4L.com

I you liked the sites above, you might want to visit my wiki for more great Web 2.0 resources. You can spend hours here! Web 2.0 Guru

December PD
Today we will learn about online resources for you and your students to read and write online. These tools will get your students excited about reading and writing.

Reading Tools For Kids

 * Dowload Epub Books
 * [|Adobe Digital Ebooks]
 * Google Books- get some great previews and free full versions
 * [|Book Glutton] - Read online books with others, chat and annotate together.
 * [|Project Gutenberg] to read and share online. **AMAZING!!! Now Free MP3's at ...**
 * [|AudioBooksForFree]
 * [|FeedBooks] - thousands of public domain books for free!
 * [|Read Print] - online books for the reading
 * [|Vocabgrabber] - past text and grab important vocabulary from specific passages.


 * Audio Reading**
 * [|StoryNory] - audio files for stories
 * [|Big Universe -] build online children stories
 * [|Audible Kids -]
 * [|Story Online -] Listen to actors read your favorite books
 * [|Lit2Go]- audio book files for download.

**Writing Tools for Kids**

 * [|The Writing Site - (Five Types of Writing)] - Collins Writing Program and tech integration ideas **A+++++**
 * **[|Writing Exemplars]** - search for writing samples to use with you kids
 * **[|Interactive Scoring]** - for writing samples use with you kids
 * Blogs - Blogger get students to respond to questions before, during and after class
 * Notaland - create fun intereactive writing websites. Kids will love this one.
 * [|Doink]create fun annimations with this incredible free animation / drawing tool
 * [|Writing Fix] - a great website for interactive writing prompts and more
 * [|iWrite] - a wonderful website for students to learn how to write effectively
 * Brainyflix - create and post video and pictures to define vocabulary
 * Cueflash - create flash cards for kids to study. great to use with large display.


 * January **
 * Creating Digital ePortfolios for Authentic Student Assessment** - create criteria and rubrics for students. They should provide a rationale for each student artifact.
 * Use Wikispaces
 * Nota
 * Rubrics - Myt4L
 * Clarskon's Museum Box
 * Wix free web site construction

Creating Global Classroom Connections - find classroom partners from anywhere in the world. Open your students eyes to the world around them.
 * February**
 * ePALS
 * TWICE
 * Taking It Global
 * Classroom 2.0
 * PA Educators
 * Google Earth - create virtual Google tours with students.

=**March**= Differentiated Instruction - Best Practice 2.0 What is DI? Post here [] Scriblink

=**April**= Creating Online Assessments and Rubrics Resources to assist you with project rubrics.
 * Tech 4 Learning - create project rubrics easily, save, print and share


 * Create Free Online Assessments**
 * [|Mystudio] - create interactive online assessments and analyze the data
 * [|Teach-nology]- For rubrics, but you can create a ton of resources here.
 * [|ThatQuiz] - online classroom and quiz generator
 * Google Forms - create pre and post assessments for students

=**May**= Online Gaming in Education