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Archive for July, 2010


Day 4: Standards, Podcasts, and Thinkfinity

Today was another great day spent learning about the tools that are available to assist teachers and librarians in the neverending quest to make learning relevant, memorable, and lasting. We took a look at the great resources that are provided through the GADOE for the Georgia Performance Standards. One resource, Learning Village is available by [...]

Physical Education Resources

Physical Education Resources Sports Media PE Links Database http://www.sports-media.org/links/data/index.html This site provides links to lesson plans for teaching and coaching many types of sports. While the page itself is not eye-catching, the links take you to the rules for playing the games identified. Helpful for new P.E. teachers, as well as those who need to [...]

MP3 Podcast 1

Practice podcast information about the book being reviewed questions for the audience other information needed by the audience Practice Podcast

Day 3 continued…

What a great bunch of things to learn about and use!  Today we did a little more with Netvibes and then went on to Google Docs, Photostory, and Movie Maker. I liked Netvibes but really had a great time with Photostory and Movie Maker. I can see how students (and teachers) would really enjoy using [...]

Day 3 Photostory and Netvibes

Today we worked on Photostory and Netvibes. Photostory is a good resource to use as an alternative to the PPT slide show and gives students a chance to be very creative.  Netvibes is a way to provide easy access to resources (similar to an iGoogle page) and you can make some pages private for your [...]

Social Studies Resources for the classroom and library

These resources were contributed by  inservice teachers and librarians. Social Studies Resources History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ The following is a very highly regarded and often used history resource, particularly for the study of primary sources, the backbone of historical inquiry. This source is most appropriate for high school and college, but ideas can be adapted for [...]

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog.  It is through the collective and collaborative efforts of pre-service and in-service school librarians that these resources have been located, evaluated, and recommended. I hope they prove as useful to you as they were for those who provided the links and descriptions of the Internet based resources.  My thanks to students [...]