Exploring+Tools

 Kate says: Choose two or three sites from this list and explore the resources. Think about how you would use these with your student. Join with one or two other teacher and create lesson ideas. These ideas may be for your subject area only or cross-curricular. Create screenshots explaining your ideas and post to the Google Slide show on the next page.

Practice  Khan Academy follows many of the recommendations of Clark & Mayer for effective practice techniques. Students are only required to accomplish 5 correct practice problems in any given area. Feedback is targeted and immediate. Multimedia based learning events are interspersed among the practice activities.
 * 1) Khan Academy – Log in with your ADW (**STUDENT.UMUC.EDU) account and join my class with the code YCR893

To go where you cannot go
 * 1) Google Maps/Google Earth * /Google Sky – Geography, sciences, literature connections
 * 2) Google Cultural Institute – Visit museums, view art collections
 * 3) Connected Classrooms – Virtual field trips

To share and connect
 * 1) Kidblog – Writing across the curriculum. Try it as a student - code is uvw356 - or a teacher.
 * 2) Feedly – RSS reader to keep up with blogs and current events
 * 3) Diigo - Social bookmarking
 * 4) Picassa  * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">– photo sharing/ collages

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Research
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Google Scholar – Research

When you are done... get ready to share...

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