Weblinks



=Weblinks = = = Add your favourite links here with a brief description. Add an explanation of how you use them if you wish. Please feel free to organise these how you want them - I have just added some to start us off. You might want to have an individual page for each KLA?, primary and secondary? Whatever....just do it and have some fun!

=**General**= www.freetech4teachers.com/ - The focus of this blog is on free web-based tools that teachers and administrators can use to improve the learning experiences of their students.

@http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/about/my-best-of-series/ - Larry' Ferlazzo's blog site - his 'best-of' page. He is a teacher of Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced English Language learners (as well as native English speakers) at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California.

@http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/levels/level1.shtml - Online typing tutorial/practice for students

=**IT**=

Social spaces
@http://www.edmodo.com/home - a secure, social learning environment where you can share ideas, files and assignments. Teacher creates a group, then has the students join using that code. Posts are seen by everyone in the group plus the teacher, who can edit/delete etc. Very useful for hands-on teaching of social space etiquette and safety. I am using it for Year 4 - 6 primary students, in conjunction with Scholastic Story Starters. Kids love it, as they can access it anywhere and talk to their classmates after school. I set up 2 groups for each class - 1 for library 'stuff' and 1 for them to chat on. Fair bit of work involved in checking the messages for content etc, but well worth the work.

=Library=

@http://skerricks.blogspot.com/ - blogs about anything library related. Ruth Buchanan spoke at the MANTLE 2010 conference and her energy and enthusiasm is truly inspiring. This is her site which presents many of the ideas she shared with us as the conference.

@http://library.thinkquest.org/5002/ - Do we really know Dewey?

=**English**=

Story Starters
@http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/storystarters/storystarter1.htm - Story starters serves up hundreds of creative combinations that take the writer’s block out of creative writing for students in grades 1–4. Set young writers loose with prompts that focus on character (who the story is about), plot (what happens in the story), and setting (where or when the story happens). (Note: This is useful up to Grade 6 and can be combined with Edmodo so students can 'publish' their stories to their classmates. They have to copy and paste from Story Starters into Edmodo)