Tools+and+Sites

Tools for Learning [|My site] toc =media type="custom" key="13804852"= Technology is not going anywhere so it's time to incorporate the ways that students learn best into the everyday classroom. It may be more work, but if it is more effective for the students then all teachers should be using it to some degree. I plan to use it to help encourage students to want to come to school and show them real world reasons we learn some skills. I hope that this will be a motivator for students to try. =Search= [|Sweet Search] a large, safe, search engine geared for educators and student of all ages. It is divided for different subject areas, librarians, and a special section for young learners. All the sites have been check. [|RefSeek] is aimed at providing academic sites without ads. The sponsor links on Google will not appear on the first page here. [|Famhoo] is aimed at family safe filtering. They don't look at each of the sites, but there's a stricter filter involved so young children can use this search engine more safely. [|Ask Kids] has three main categories: questions, movies, and games. There's an age filter and it will bring out decent resources for kids to use regardless of age. [|Wolfram] is a great place to look for steps to doing a math problem/checking a math problem. It's basically a web based calculator. [|Google Scholar]brings up scholarly journals, and there are various ways to limit the search or bring up certain parts of the article. [|KidRex] is a Google custom search engine with strong filters so that young kids can use it. If parents or teachers think a site is questionable, then it can be brought to question and possible removed. Wikipedia is included, but personal and blogs look like they've been filtered out. Sites to make blogs come up as well as educational blogs.

=Blogs=

[|Happyhooligans]
This site has come great seasonal craft for young children. =Wikis=

[|Main Page]
will return to the first page of the Moodle site. =Teacher Tools=

[|Animoto]
videos [|Convert_file_Type] Allows to convert documents into a format compatable to each computer.

[|Creative Common]
public pictures for noncommercial use.

[|Glogster]
Posters come to life.

[|Logos!]
Adds decorative words.

[|Math]
These have help for math lesson plans and worksheets for all ages. There are also some critical thinking games.

[|Prezi]
Make and study for [|QR code] make code for smart phones to take to sites, give text....

[|Reading]
Scholastic has interactive stories, games, and even some teacher lesson plans and ideas. [|onlevelreading]

[|Shorten_Links]
with this website!

[|Videos]
an array of odd and unusual topics

[|ViewPure]
is a website that transforms a YouTube link into a clutter free video!

[|UpLoad]
Documents. =Student Tools= [|Animoto] videos [|Creative Common] public pictures for noncommercial use. [|Glogster] Posters come to life. [|Pretzi]

http://www.kidrex.org/

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