Project+-+Resource+Creation+-+Development

Committee Members: Angela Little, Vicki Bennett, Joanne Schwartz and Diana Knight //This space is to be used to attach resources to consider for the main arch technology site, to post what quality lessons and resources look like, to locate templates, and discussion of committee topics.//

Mark emailed me a couple of interesting links to share with the group - //Patty// [|**http://digitalcitizenshiped.com/**]
 * Microsoft's Curriculum for Digital Citizenship-** The Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program is a free, turnkey instructional program. The goal is to create an awareness of the rights connected with creative content. Because only through education can students gain an understanding of the relevance of and a personal respect for creative rights and grow to become good digital citizens.

Free Webcasts from Inspiration Software [] The only thing coming up is a cast about using InspireData Here's the article from JSOnline that caught Mark's attention []

 Tech. Comm. at Arch meeting Date: Friday, April 24th Time: 1:00 Place: St. Joseph Center Rm. 219
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Page Contents 
 
 * Quality Lesson Resource List
 * Examples of other school resource link pages
 * Subscription Services, curriculum, etc
 * Lesson Plan Templates
 * Good Lesson Plans
 * Misc. Resources
 * Search Engines
 *  Educational Technology and Info Lit Assessments

=Quality Lesson Resource List=

Thinkfinity - This free, comprehensive digital learning platform is built upon the merger of two acclaimed programs Verizon MarcoPolo and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network. [|www.thinkfinity.org]

Edutopia - Provide not just the vision for our new world of learning but also the leading-edge interactive tools and resources to help make it a reality. http://www.edutopia.org/

Intel Education Initiative - Intel provides a holistic blend of technologies, programs, and professional development resources for teachers, which empower countries around the world. With improved teaching and learning environments, students are better able to develop the required skills.http://www.intel.com/education/

S.O.S. for Information Literacy - virtual idea factory for teaching information literacy skills http://www.informationliteracy.org/

21st Century Information Fluency - **[|MicroModules]** are self-paced, on-demand learning experiences each tailored to a specific topic. They are designed as 10-15 minute tutorials. **[|Internet Search Challenges]** test your strategies and tactics as you attempt to solve Internet research problems efficiently and effectively. http://21cif.imsa.edu/tutorials/

Education World - lesson plans, professional development, articles - http://www.educationworld.com/

SMART Educator Lesson plans -activities, programs and training to help you get the most from your SMART products http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/

teAchnology - Many lesson plans for various subject areas. There are also sections for ready-made rubrics and web quests. There is a place to join but I accessed information without joining. http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning - Lesson plans for various subjects and related resources for each of the subject areas http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/index.asp =Examples of other schools resource link pages=

MPS English Language Arts portal - login and password: mpsela click on plumtree user - http://mpsportal.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/portal/server.pt?in_hi_userid=34627&space=CommunityPage&parentid=1&cached=false&control=SetCommunity&PageID=0&CommunityID=349&parentname=Login Take a look at the calendar and ELA notice sections along with resource listings.

MPS Curriculum Design Asst. - I am unable to login, I will keep trying and update you later. http://mpscda.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/cda/Home.do

=**Subscription Services - Curriculum, etc.**=

PAID EasyTech is a proven, [|Web-delivered K-8 technology literacy curriculum]. It lets teachers seamlessly integrate technology skills into their math, science, language arts and social studies instruction. - http://www.learning.com/ To explore the site, I set up a Test Educator, you can login as: test1 password: test1 district: St. Catherine

PAID K to 8th Power - online computer skill and technology literacy curriculum. - http://www.kto8.com/index.php

PAID United Streaming by Discovery Education - multi-media content for all subjects and levels : http://www.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm

FREE Edu 2.0 - future of education - online learning community - learn, teach, resources, community (FREE) http://www.edu20.org/

FREE Thinkquest.org - The [|Oracle Education Foundation] offers K-12 schools a safe environment at no cost. ThinkQuest is password protected, teacher monitored, and includes no advertising. http://www.thinkquest.org/en/

PAID netTrekker - This educational search engine is divided into elementary, middle and high school areas. Teachers rate the sites linked to this search engine. You may refine searches by subject, language, learning aids, multimedia, and readability. http://school.nettrekker.com/frontdoor/

=Lesson Plan templates=

Backward Design Template from [Digital] Literacy - http://digitalliteracy.mwg.org/curriculum/template.html

=Good Lesson Plans=

=Misc. Resources=

Outline Maps - U.S., continents and countries http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/ Pete's Power Point Station - FREE powerpoint presentations and interactive activities for kids http://www.pppst.com/index.html Scholastic.com - Librarians page - Author and Discussion guide search http://www.scholastic.com/librarians/ Big 6 Super 3 for kids - http://www.big6.com/kids/K-2.htm Time 4 Kids - current event news stories by grade level with activities - http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers Freeology.com - Free Forms for Teachers - http://freeology.com/formsforteachers/index.php Slideshare - Educational - share and find presentations. Share publicly or privately. http://www.slideshare.net/category/education TeachingBooks - Books and authors come alive in the classrooms http://www.teachingbooks.net/ BadgerLink - Free resources for Wisconsin residents EBSCO, ProQuest, LitFinder, http://www.badgerlink.net/ Public Library - Help with homework and research can be found in some of the special sections, which include kids, teens, state information POTUS, and science fair http://www.ipl.org/ Landmarks Son of Citation Machine - Create citations the easy way with this interactive web tool http://citationmachine.net/ The Reading Lady -- http://www.readinglady.com/index.php?&MMN_position=1.1 Free plagiarism checker -- http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker Library of Congress, American Memory Project -- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/index.html National Geographic Virtual World: National Geographic has many live cams observing animals in their habitats. Just go to their website or Google the virtual world that you'd like to observe -- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

=Search Engines= Kids Click http://www.kidsclick.org/dewey.html Searchme - Visual Search engine - http://www.searchme.com/

=Educational Technology and Assessments=

http://www.simpleassessment.com/content/about-offer

Encyclopedia of Educational Technology - from SDSU - huge list of anything you would ever need to know regarding all aspects of educational technology - http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Admin/TOC/index.htm