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Wade Boggs
Wade Boggs
This links will help me to teach in a meaningful way to my future students.
http://edpt200.ning.com/ Ning is a good social network to work in the classroom. Ning is safe, is effective, and it is an easy way of communication between students and teachers. If I have the opportunity to work with ning in my future classroom, I will do it. Students in elementary classes will learn more about social nerworking in a safe environment, as we are using it in our classroom.
www.inspiration/kidspiration.com This is an important link to assist students in organizing information, assist teachers in planning lessons/units/themes, illustrate school's goals or plan for Parent-Teacher Organization, illustrate instructional goal links to testing expectations, show what each grade will be teaching and how units fit into the larger picture of curriculum for the whole school, assess student learning, show integration of different topics across the curriculum for a unit, lesson, or long-range plan, present difficult material in a step by step manner, plot summaries, create cause/effect/solution diagrams to resolve social issues within the classroom, book design elements, and much more.
http://questgarden.com/ This is a good technological tool for teachers to create lessons that make good use of the web, engage learners in applying higher level thinking to authentic problems, and use everyone's time well. Working in QuestGarden students will produce their assignments in a meaningful learning way, faster, and easier way to present their results to the rest of the class. I like also the evaluation template because teachers and students will know from the beginning of the project the evaluation' grounds.
http://webquest.org/index.php Is a helpful link to prepare your students to create projects in a way to make good use of the internet while engaging in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires. Webquest is useful in elementary as well as high school classrooms, and as questgarden, the evaluation format is faire and well known from the biginning of the project.
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