A new link will be added each week. Try them!

(Link to Past Sites of the Week & Other Cool Links)

 

Robert Marzano's Classroom Strategies that Work (with an emphasis on identifying similarities and differences)
http://www.franklinhigh.com/tech%20inservice%20web/indexnew.html

...be sure to use some of Marzano's Classroom Strategies that Work in your classroom. This webquest will help you with the #1 strategy, identifying similarities and differences. It has been shown to improve test scores by 45 percentile points.

Jan Leonard's PowerPoint on Robert Marzano's Classroom Strategies that Work
http://www.franklinhigh.com/staffdevematerials/Integrating%20Marzano's%20Nine%20Strategies%20and%20Technology%20into%20Reading.ppt

...be sure to check out Jan Leonard's PowerPoint on Robert Marzano. It is filled with incredible links to helpful websites for immediate classroom use.

Photostory 3
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

...be sure to try this free download from Microsoft. It is easy to use and it is so much better than "show and tell'

Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

...be sure to try this free download. Edit music, create your own narration and then be sure to add it all to Photostory.

Homework
http://www.marzanoandassociates.com/pdf/homework.pdf

...in this interesting pedagogical article, Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering present the latest research on the value of homework.

e-Learning 2.0
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=29-1 

...in this interesting pedagogical article, Stephen Downes presents a well-done chronology of where we have been, where we are, and where we are going in the field of education and the new technologies

Primary Source Learning
http://www.primarysourcelearning.org 

...this site, created by practicing educators, "assists teachers and students in using Library of Congress primary source materials" and includes lessons that target the best instructional practices

Book Adventure
http://www.bookadventure.com/

...suggested by Linda Reining this is a reading motivation site for grades K-8.

Read, Write, Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/

...provides students and educators with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Back to School Sites
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/edres.html#back

...a list of helpful sites to help you out at the start of the school year

Using Excel
http://www.schooldatatutorials.org/home/

...an excellent tutorial on Excel with help on how to use it with testing reports. Strongly suggested by Mr. Roberts.

Introduction to Educational Podcasting
http://discovery.chtah.com/a/hBEAs2sAJcM3mAc61bcAOQdTH4E/ks281

...here is a posting to my blog with a link to four versions of an introduction to podcasting in the K-12 environment. If you cannot get to the blog (even now that it is posted internally), here are the links to the same presentation, hopefully offered in a format you can "see".

DK Curriculum-Related Clipart
http://uk.dk.com/static/cs/uk/11/clipart/home.html

...a super collection of curriculum-related clipart photos from the Dorling Kindersley books that students may use in projects

Kids' Vid
http://kidsvid.hprtec.org/

..."an instructional Web site to help teachers and students use video production in class to support project-based learning"

The Icing on the Cake: Online Tools for Teaching and Learning
http://kathyschrock.net/cooking/

...this site contains links to useful, no-cost online tools for teachers and students; take some time to browse the list and try them!

Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

...this informative and up-to-date page provides students and you with the information needed to make educated decisions about the places to search for specific types of data

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/

...have a URL that no longer works? Try the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive; simply type in the entire URL, and you will receive a list of the times that the site was cached. Click on a date and you can see the site. Sometimes the links and images are not available, but at least you can get to the information you need! The Internet Archive is creating a database of Internet material to allow researchers to access sites that may no longer be active.

Ms. Powell's Management Ideas for Teachers
http://www.mspowell.com/

...this site was submitted by Linda Reining. Created by a teacher who wanted to share managment ideas with others

...the front pages from over 300 world-wide newspapers, posted each day; a great site for accessing news reports from different viewpoints

The Constitution and Citizenship Day
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/newtheme0905.html
...lesson plans and sites about the Constitution and Citizenship Day. A focus on streaming video is a part of this link.

Blogs in Education
http://awd.cl.uh.edu/blog
...start your year off by learning, from this site, the reasons and methods for effective blogging in your classroom; make your blog interactive or just easily post information or have your students keep a journal or peer edit using their blogs

Back to School Links on the Franklin Site
http://216.124.253.252/backtoschool/backtoschoollinks.html
...lots of information and sites for lesson plans, discipline, etc.

America in the 1930's
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/front.html
...a well-done, content-rich, overview of this time in US history


Doodles, Drafts, and Designs
http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/doodles/index.htm
...a digital overview of a traveling exhibition presenting examples of industrial drawings from the Smithsonian collections; includes a bibliography of further sources to examine


BugGuide.net
http://www.bugguide.net/
... an extensive identification guide to insects and spiders of the United States and Canada


e-encyclopedia
http://www.dke-encyc.com/home.asp
...an easy-to-use, online encyclopedia produced by Dorling Kindersley and powered by Google; it includes both DK content and images and links to related Web sites

Tools and Templates
Education World: Tools and Templates
...posters, signs, graphic organizers, calendars, and MORE!