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TIE Conference Presentation Cate Sommervold ESA2 April 2009 Best 21 st Century Websites for Secondary Teachers

Expectations C 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 Questions Why are you using a website? Instructional Purpose Structure of 21 st Century Learning How are you using a website? Instructional Strategy What website should you use? Understand characteristics of good websites Explore internet resources How do I use social bookmarking? Delicious Portaportal

INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSE Efficiency Enrich Extend

THINK-PAIR-SHARE Where are you? Where would you like to be?

Themes Global Awareness Financial, Economic, Business & Entrepreneurial Literacy Civic Literacy Health Literacy Skills Problem Solving Collaboration Analytical thinking Communication Finding and Evaluating Information Creating and Innovating Tools Newspapers, 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 phones

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY How are you using a website?

Matrix of the Four Planning Questions, the Nine Categories of Instructional Strategies, and the Seven Categories of Technology Planning Questions Instructional Strategies Word Processing Applications Spreadsheet Software Organizing and Brainstorming Data Collection Tools Multimedia Web Resources Communication Software What will students learn?Setting Objectives Which strategies will provide evidence of student learning? Providing Feedback Providing Recognition Which strategies will help students acquire and integrate learning? Cues, questions, and advance organizers Nonlinguistic Representation Summarizing and note taking Reinforcing effort Which strategies will help students practice, review, and apply learning? Identifying Similarities and Differences Homework and Practice Generating and testing hypotheses

WHAT MAKES A GREAT WEBSITE?

Remember Information 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 started Check 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 week Newsmap Wise Mapping BBC Science and Health Page National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Roadtrip Nation Freely Educate

Multipurpose 21 st Century websites ePals Voicethread Hot Chalk Wikispaces Google

Social Bookmarking Todays class will explore/introduce: Delicious Portaportal

What 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 + Taxonomy Grassroots approach to tagging and labeling Credited to Thomas VanderWaal Categorization 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 Portaportal Navigate to http://guest.portaportal.com/bestsecondarywebsites http://guest.portaportal.com/bestsecondarywebsites

Delicious Navigate to http://delicious.com/http://delicious.com/ Search for SDESA2 Look 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 site Check 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.www.webdev.archive.org

Free to all schools from the State Library These resources are found at this State Library page: http://library.sd.gov/databases/complete.htm http://library.sd.gov/databases/complete.htm Web 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+

Bibliography ISTE National Education Technology Standards (2008). International Society for Technology in Education. http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS Retrieved January 18, 2009.http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS 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. http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated- communication/folksonomies.html. 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. http://doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/nclb/index.asp.

Contact Information Education Service Agency East Dakota Cooperative (605) 367-7680 [email protected] www.edec.org/esa

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