Vibe tchr march 2014

Shore Regional High School

March 2014 William J. Valenti Educational Media Specialist

Teacher Edition

THE VIBE Valenti’s Information Bulletin Essentials

MARCH is National Women's History Month!

National Women's History Month

Women’s History Month Websites HISTORY.COM http://www.history.com/minisites/womenhist INFO PLEASE http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenshistory1.html ABOUT.COM http://womenshistory.about.com/od/womenshistorymonth/a/whm_history.htm GALE’S WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH RESOURCES

http://gale.cengage.com/free_resources/whm/ CNN’S WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/02/28/

FREE CLASSIC AUDIOBOOKS http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com

AUDIOBOOKS FOR FREE http://www.audiobooksforfreee.com

SHORE’S RED CROSS CLUB The Shore Regional Red Cross Club supports several different organizations that are relevant in today’s society. In October we support Antiviolence Week. This is done by creating posters pertinent to the theme & hand out red beads & stickers during lunches. Also in October, we support Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Students & faculty are encouraged to wear pink on the selected day, pins are sold, and stickers are distributed during lunches. Money raised is sent to the local American Cancer Society re: Breast Cancer. In November we have collected supplies for care packages for troops overseas. The supplies are given to the Shore-based nonprofit ARMS (American Recreational Military Services). In February, the Red Cross Club supports the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Day. Students and staff are encouraged to wear red on the selected day, “red dress pins” are sold, and stickers are given out during lunches. Money raised is sent to the American Heart Association. The Red Cross Club organizes the annual blood drive in the spring.

Also during the Spring, money raised from several bake sales is sent to the “Pennies for Patients” fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Participation in Shore Regional High School’s Red Cross club raises the students’ awareness to the needs of others in our community and increases their body of knowledge regarding wellness & social concerns in our world. By Trish Smith

WEBSITES EMAILED BY WILLIAM J. VALENTI DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION RESOURCES EDUCATIONAL MEDIA SPECIALIST

Art/Music Read and Download 250+ Art Books from the Getty Museum Six months ago I shared with you the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of nearly 400 free art history books. Now the Getty Museum has put more than 250 art books online for anyone to read online and or download. You can find all of these books in the Getty Publications Virtual Library. You can search through the collection by author, keyword, or title. Alternatively, you can simply browse the collections. All of the free books are also available on Google Books. In fact, I've used Google Books to embed one of the books below. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Business/Technology

Play Financial Football to Learn Some Money Management Skills Practical Money Skills hosts a series of eight online games designed to teach students some money management skills. One of the games that is timely considering that the Super Bowl is just a few days away is Financial Football. Financial Football has students answer questions about budgets, savings, and spending to move their football teams down the field against another team. The games use real NFL team logos. Financial Football takes at least twenty minutes to play. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

TouchDevelop Helps Students Understand Programming

TouchDevelop is a great platform through which students can learn to program simple animations and games. Miles Berry gave an entertaining presentation about it at TeachMeet BETT. On TouchDevelop students program a series of actions by entering sequences of commands such as "move forward" and "turn right" that are carried out on the screen by a chosen figure such as a turtle.

In addition to the direction commands students program the distances covered on screen, the colors, the animations, and the images to appear on screen. All commands have to be entered into correct sequences of "if, then" logic in order for everything to display as intended.

Applications for Education TouchDevelop provides a great way for students to begin to understand some essential logic behind programming applications. The visual aspect of TouchDevelop provides a fantastic format that gives students immediate feedback on their projects. Click here for a series of six tutorials that students can use to get started right away without much if any instruction required from you. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

English Word Tamer - An Interactive Journey in Creative Writing http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~www.wordtamer.co.uk/ Word Tamer is a neat site for learning the process of developing characters, settings, and plots in creative writing. Word Tamer is set up as an interactive journey through a carnival of literary devices. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Search for Vocabulary Lists and Learn New Words on Vocabulary.com http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~vocabulary.com/ Vocabulary.com is an excellent vocabulary study service offering thousands of vocabulary practice lists and activities for students in elementary school through graduate school. In addition to lists of SAT,

GRE, and other test prep words, you can find vocabulary lists that are attached to novels, historical documents, famous speeches, and current news articles. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

The Science of Nervousness and Stage Fright

We all experience nervousness in some aspect of our lives. For some people standing on stage makes them nervous and for others the thought of making small talk at a social event makes them nervous.

What makes us nervous? And what happens to our bodies when we're nervous? The following video from ASAP Science answers those questions and more. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

A Calendar of Daily Writing Prompts Toasted Cheese is a site that offers a monthly calendar of daily writing prompts. The whole month is laid out for you with a different prompt each day. Don't see anything you like on the current calendar? That's okay, click through the previous months to find old prompts. Toasted Cheese also publishes the prompts on Twitter. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Faculty Kuizza - Online Flashcards and Quizzes http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~www.kuizza.com/ Kuizza is a new entry into the online flashcard and quiz market. The free service offers a simple way to create multiple choice quizzes. The quizzes can have questions with single or multiple correct answers.

Any quiz that you create can instantly be viewed as a set of flashcards by simply clicking the "flashcards" button displayed along with each quiz. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers Three Good Tools for Creating Multimedia Books Online http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/ ~www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/12/three-good-tools-for-creating.html ~ From Free Technology for Teachers Borrow and Lend eBooks Through Open Library http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/12/borrow-and-lend-ebooks-throughopen.html ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Seven Free Online Whiteboard Tools for Teachers and Students Sketchlot is a free collaborative whiteboard service that works on any device that has a web browser. I tested it on my MacBook, my iPad, and my Android tablet. Sketchlot is designed for teacher and student use. Teachers create their own accounts and then inside that account they can create a list of students.

Each student is assigned his or her own password to use to join a drawing shared by his or her teacher.

Teachers can create as many drawings as they like and share them on an individual basis.

Aww App is a simple browser-based application for creating drawings. To get started just go to AwwApp.com and click on "start drawing." To invite people to collaborate on your drawing just send them the link assigned to your drawing board and they can join in the drawing fun PixiClip is a great new tool tool for creating, narrating, and sharing drawings. PixiClip provides a whiteboard space on which you can draw, upload images to mark-up, and type. While adding elements to your PixiClip whiteboard you can talk and or record a video of yourself talking.

Stoodle is an online whiteboard service supported in part by the CK-12 Foundation. Through Stoodle you can quickly create a collaborative whiteboard space. On your whiteboard you can type, draw, and upload images. You can connect Stoodle to your computer's microphone and talk your collaborators while drawing, typing, or sharing images. Stoodle does not require you to create an account. To create a Stoodle whiteboard space just click "launch a classroom," name your room, and share the URL assigned to your room.

Draw It Live is a nice little website that offers a free space for you to instantly create a collaborative whiteboard to use with anyone you like FlockDraw is a simple service that allows people to quickly and easily collaborate on the creation of a drawing. To use FlockDraw simply visit the site, click the "start drawing" button, and start drawing.

Realtime Board is a nice tool for hosting online, collaborative brainstorming sessions ~ From Free Technology for Teaching

Top 20 Sites/Apps for Creating Timelines American History Timeline - A excellent iPad for viewing America's history. Also, there are interactive educational games to reinforce student learning.

Capzles - Is one of the most popular sites around for creating interactive timelines. These timelines can contain all kinds of media (images, video, etc) as well as be embedded into a site/blog.

Dipity - A fun site for creating embeddable interactive timelines that include images and videos. littleBIG History - A terrific iPad app for viewing timelines from the creation of the universe to current events. This app contains over 700 images and 1300 events that can be searched through. myHistro - A great site/iOS app for creating interactive timelines w/ educational portal. Also, has the ability to embed Google Maps.

OurTimeLines - A neat site w/ templates for creating timelines through text.

Preceden - A cool site for creating layered interactive timelines. These timelines can be set to public or private and even be embedded into a site or blog.

RWT Timeline - Based on their website's (ReadWriteThink) timeline creator, RWT is one of my favorite iPad apps (free) for creating stunning timelines. Also, the app allows for multiple users which is ideal for those schools that share devices.

Tiki-Toki - A wonderful site for creating beautiful looking 3D timelines w/ images and videos. A paid account lets users embed them on a site and collaborate on them w/ multiple users.

Time Rime - A great site for creating interactive timelines w/ educational portal.

Timeglider - One of my favorite sites around for creating interactive timelines that can be embedded into a site. Also, a user can generate a legend/key to help navigate their timeline.

Timeline - A robust iPad app for creating timelines w/ the ability to generate reports.

Timelines.tv - A wonderful site for viewing timelines in 5 different historical categories.

Timestream - A nice iPad app for creating timelines w/ images, that allows a user to email them or print off as a PDF. Timetoast - A wonderful site for creating a timeline that can be embedded into a site or blog. Best of all, a user can choose to view their timeline in standard mode or in text view only.

Timeline 3D - An innovative app for creating stunning 3 Dimensional timelines w/ images and videos. Also, Timeline 3D can be exported into PPT or Keynote for other options.

Timeline Builder - A excellent iPad app for creating beautiful timelines w/ images and lots of themes to choose from.

Timeline Maker - A popular iPad app for creating timelines by stacking up tiles or events.

Timeline Maker (Soft Schools) - A simple site similar to RWT, that allows users to create a timeline through text/template.

WhenInTime - A great user-friendly site for creating embeddable timelines. ~ From Free Technology for Students

Math  Ten Helpful Resources for Middle School and High School Math Teachers http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/ ~www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/12/by-request-ten-helpful-resources-for.html ~ From Free Technology for Teachers Get the Math http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~www.thirteen.org/get-the-math/ website designed to provide teachers and students with Algebra-based mathematics challenges ~ From Free Technology for Teachers Series of six PBL geometry projects

http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~www.curriki.org/welcome/ resources-curricula/curriki-geometry-course/ could make geometry interesting and fun for high school students. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Science Biology Pop - Videos, Articles, and Apps About Biology http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~biologypop.com/ Biology Pop is a site that features videos, articles, games, and reviews of apps about topics in biology.

The site features content in seven categories; anatomy, cell biology, biotechnology, genetics, ecology, evolution, and taxonomy. You can browse through the categories in a Pinterest-like style. An option to search by media type is also available.

Applications for Education Biology Pop seems to be focused on current news and topics in biology rather than trying to be a reference site. If you're looking to bring some current news into your biology lessons, Biology Pop might be a good site to bookmark. ~ From Free Technology for Students

Elements4D - Exploring Chemistry with Augmented Reality

http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/elements-4d-by-daqri/id782713582 Augmented Reality (AR) blurs the line between the physical and digital world. Using cues or triggers, apps and websites can “augment” the physical experience with digital content such as audio, video and simulations. There are many benefits to using AR in education such as giving students opportunities to interact with items in ways that spark inquiry, experimentation, and creativity. There are a quite a few apps and sites working on AR and its application in education.

Elements4D, an AR app from Daqri, allows students explore chemical elements in a fun way while learning about real-life chemistry. To get started, download Elements4D and print the cubes.

There are 6 physical paper cubes printed with different symbols from the periodic table. It takes a while to cut out and put together the cubes, but it is well worth it. In Elements4D, the cubes then become the trigger that bring the elements to life. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

Social Studies More Than 500 Political Cartoons and 100+ Political Cartoon Lesson Plans http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/53033611/0/freetech4teachers~More-Than-Political-Cartoons-and-Political-Cartoon-Lesson-Plans.html The Library of Congress hosts an online collection of more than 500 political cartoons and caricatures from U.S. History. You can search the collection by keyword and image type. Along with the images you will find links to related resources from the Library of Congress ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

The Miller Center's Presidential Classroom is a Must-bookmark for U.S. History Teachers http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~millercenter.org/presidentialclassroom

The Miller Center's Presidential Classroom website is a fantastic resource for teachers and students of U.S. History. On the site students will find a very goodreference resource about US Presidents. The Miller Center's American President pages contain personal and political biographical information about every President of the United States. Each profile links to dozens of essays about various aspects of each President's life and work. Each profile also contains images of each President. Some profiles also include audio files and video of the President.

Teachers will find the a selection of lesson plans and course syllabi on the Presidential Classroom website. The lesson plans, appropriate for high school students, cover themes and topics post 1950. Some of

the topics are the Space Race, the Vietnam War, and the 60's.

The Presidential Classroom also includes a speech archive that contains the text of inaugural addresses, State of the Union Addresses, and some other notable speeches that Presidents have delivered to Congress and the American public. ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

A Map of US Military Bases World Wide and a Crash Course in Imperialism http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~empire.is/

Empire.is features a map of more than 700 United States military bases around the world. The map uses satellite imagery from Google Maps and Bing to display these bases. The map alone could be an interesting resource for a U.S. History and or current events course ~ From Free Technology for Teachers

World Language

Padlet Is Now Available in 14 Languages - Here's a Guide to Using It In Your Classroom http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/freetech4teachers/~padlet.com/ Padlet (formerly known as Wall Wisher) is a tool that has been used by teachers in a variety of ways for years now. I've often used as a collaborative know-want-learn chart and as an exit ticket tool. Padlet works on interactive whiteboards, on iPads and Android tablets, and in the web browser on your laptop.

Recently, Padlet announced support for three more languages which brings their total supported languages count to fourteen ~ From Free Technology for Teachers