Best 21st Century Websites for Secondary Teachers

TIE Conference PresentationCate Sommervold ESA2April 2009Best 21st Century Websites for Secondary Teachers

ExpectationsC can you talk?H - How to get help?A What about Activities?M can you Move?P How will I know you are Participating?

Essential QuestionsWhy are you using a website?Instructional PurposeStructure of 21st Century LearningHow are you using a website?Instructional StrategyWhat website should you use?Understand characteristics of good websitesExplore internet resourcesHow do I use social bookmarking?DeliciousPortaportal

INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSEEfficiencyEnrichExtendEfficiency- This makes your life easier; No over overhead projectors/transparencies; easy to use; fun tools; flexibilityEnrich- Adds dimension to your teaching- hits more learning styles and differentiates to engage less traditional students engages 21st century learnersExtend- covers multiple standards, is interdisciplinary, cross curricular, hits higher levels of blooms- works with evaluation and analysis

Teacher or student resource?4THINK-PAIR-SHAREWhere are you?EnrichExtendEfficiencyWhere would you like to be?ThemesGlobal AwarenessFinancial, Economic, Business & Entrepreneurial LiteracyCivic LiteracyHealth LiteracySkillsProblem SolvingCollaborationAnalytical thinkingCommunicationFinding and Evaluating InformationCreating and InnovatingToolsNewspapers, books, spreadsheets, graphing calculators, computers, internet resources, websites, databases, digital libraries, television, observational and measurement tools, videos, DVDs, CDs, telecommunication, word processing, presentation tools, smart boards, GPS, probes, manipulatives, geometry tools, digital cameras, laptops, multimedia, scanners, video equipment, digital recorders,mp3 technology, cell phones6ThemesGlobal AwarenessFinancial, Economic, Business & Entrepreneurial LiteracyCivic LiteracyHealth LiteracySkillsProblem SolvingCollaborationAnalytical thinkingCommunicationFinding and Evaluating InformationCreating and InnovatingToolsNewspapers, books, spreadsheets, graphing calculators, computers, internet resources, websites, databases, digital libraries, television, observational and measurement tools, videos, DVDs, CDs, telecommunication, word processing, presentation tools, smart boards, GPS, probes, manipulatives, geometry tools, digital cameras, laptops, multimedia, scanners, video equipment, digital recorders,mp3 technology, cell phones7INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGYHow are you using a website?Matrix of the Four Planning Questions, the Nine Categories of Instructional Strategies, and the Seven Categories of TechnologyPlanningQuestionsInstructionalStrategiesWord Processing ApplicationsSpreadsheet SoftwareOrganizing and BrainstormingData Collection ToolsMultimediaWeb ResourcesCommunication SoftwareWhat will students learn?Setting ObjectivesWhich strategies will provide evidence of student learning?Providing FeedbackProviding RecognitionWhich strategies will help students acquire and integrate learning?Cues, questions, and advance organizersNonlinguistic RepresentationSummarizing and note takingReinforcing effortWhich strategies will help students practice, review, and apply learning?Identifying Similarities and DifferencesHomework and PracticeGenerating and testing hypotheses9WHAT MAKES A GREAT WEBSITE?Ease of access, ease of navigation, valuable and relevant content, credible and reliable, free10RememberInformation literacy:Is the information from a credible source?Is the information current?

Media literacy:What is the source?What is the bias?How is this material meant to influence you?

Lets get startedCheck your knowledge of Net etiquette.http://www.albion.com/netiquette/netiquiz.html Core rules to Net etiquette-http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

This is applicable to teaching your students, too.

Easy Websites to use next weekNewsmapWise MappingBBC Science and Health PageNational Library of Virtual ManipulativesRoadtrip NationFreely Educate

Multipurpose 21st Century websitesePalsVoicethreadHot ChalkWikispacesGoogleHotchalk= username: csommervold password: trinidadePals=14Social BookmarkingTodays class will explore/introduce:

DeliciousPortaportal

15What is Delicious?a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Folksonomy What is it?Folk + TaxonomyGrassroots approach to tagging and labeling Credited to Thomas VanderWaalCategorization not classification

How do you use it?However youd like.thats why it works!

A folksonomy represents simultaneously some of the best and worst in the organization of information.My PortaportalNavigate to http://guest.portaportal.com/bestsecondarywebsites

DeliciousNavigate to http://delicious.com/Search for SDESA2Look at what we already have marked for you

Find one that you have never heard of and think sounds cool.Tips to finding a missing siteCheck very carefully that you have entered the sites address accurately.Wait a few moments and try the site again.Use a search engine and enter the name of the site (not the URL)Trim the URL by eliminating elements of the address starting at the right. Use the Wayback Machine at www.webdev.archive.org it can retrieve archived websites with about a 75% success rate.Free to all schools from the State LibraryThese resources are found at this State Library page: http://library.sd.gov/databases/complete.htmWeb Feet contains the best websites, chosen by teachers and librarians. The sites chosen are evaluated, annotated and organized by Library of Congress subject headings. Subject areas covered include curriculum areas and selected general reference sites.SIRS Discoverer, a resource for grades K-9, features a Web Find search on its home page. This search takes students to sites selected by SIRS editors for educational quality. Each site reference gives the site source, a summary, and reading level rating.SIRS Researcher, for grades 6-12, specializes in "hot topics," offering an overview, pros, and cons of popular school research topics. Web site results are among those given for a search. The sites are selected by SIRS editors for educational quality, with a site source, summary, and reading level rating for each result.World Book Online, which has versions for each grade level. World Book Online Reference Center is for grades 5-9 (soon replaced by World Book Student)World Book Advanced is for grades 9-12+

21BibliographyISTE National Education Technology Standards (2008). International Society for Technology in Education. http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS Retrieved January 18, 2009. Lerman, James. (2005). 101 Best Web Sites for Secondary Teachers. ISTE Publications, Eugene OR. Mathes, Adam. (2004). Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html. Retrieved January 18, 2009.Pilter, Howard, Elizabeth Hubbell and Matt Kuhn. (2007). Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works. ASCD, Alexandria, VA. SD Technology Standards (2009). State of South Dakota. http://doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/nclb/index.asp. Retrieved January 18,2009.

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