The Best of the WebThe Best of the Web For Education For Education

Presented by George F. SabatoGeorge F. SabatoCalifornia Council for the Social StudiesCalifornia Council for the Social Studies

Sacramento 2011Sacramento 2011

Today you will be introduced to…

My Educational Web Portal

Example Sites

Ways to Make Your Own Site

Get Ready To Discover!Get Ready To Discover!Sites That Assist--Sites That Assist--

TeachersStudentsParents

Resources For American and World History Geography Math English Science Art and Music Research Assistance News Taking Virtual Tours Educational Games Translation Teaching Support Standards Gifted and Talented Education and ESL And more….

Mr. Sabato’s Best of the WebMr. Sabato’s Best of the WebA Resource and A Model

http://mrsabato.webs.com/

And its Google Alternative Site

An alternate site created because some school sites block the webs.com site.

http://sites.google.com/site/mrsabatosite/

SSeeaarrcchhMr. Sabato education

Or Mr. SabatoAnd the sites will beat the top of the list.

Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” usually works,

As well as Yahoo, Bing, …

Or you canOr you can it !!!!!!it !!!!!!

Search “Mr. Sabato” and get to my site.

Or use the CCSS Link

Mr. Sabato’s Site Is a featured link at

ccss.orgThe Links Page of

The California Council for the Social Studies.

Welcome!Welcome!Use the MENU to NavigateUse the MENU to Navigate

Select Select World HistoryWorld History

You arrive at this page.You have links to World History.

Favorite World History Sites

The following are just a few of my favoritehistory sites.

Selected Sample History Sites

This site has a great reviewOf world history written atThe students reading level.

Wonderful World HistoryWritten for kids.

Click on RomeRome

Or any Ancient Civilization

Mr. Donn’s Mr. Donn’s Ancient Ancient HistoryHistory

Great Links and LessonsOn the civilization you select!

BJ Pinchbeck’s at Discovery Schoolhas great links for Social Studies, Math,English, Science, Art/Music, ….

Easy Fun School has great project ideas.for example, for Egypt they have instructionson how to mummify a chicken!

American History Menu from my Google Site page

American History

Find Sites like Ms. Hotz Links

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

Mr. Kash’s Class Page

The Geography links provide you

with links that present

Maps—ancient and contemporary map quizes, black line masters political and physical by the hundreds!Aerial/Satellite imagesFacts about countriesWeatherWorld TimeGames

Sample Geography Sites

National Geographic has it all,National Geographic has it all,from political and physical maps,from political and physical maps,all about animals, history/cultureall about animals, history/cultureand it has fun and challenging games.and it has fun and challenging games.

This is National Geographic’s

Map Machine.Get Street Map to Country Profiles!

This game is likeSimon.

Drill and Thrill!

My Home!

When you type in the street address in to Google Earth it will give you an aerial view of the location.

GovernmentGovernment

Sample Government Sites

You name the subject-- MathEnglishScienceMusicArtESLFind hundreds of links!

Science, Art, Music, Theater

The four Best sites of Homework help

Find TOPICS on the

MENU

Search EnginesGuides to SearchingEncyclopediasDictionariesLibrary LinksBibliography Help

Research

There’s a link to Google, Vivissimo,And other search engings.

Get “just the facts” from Fact Monster!

One of the best teacher sites--designed for AP classes.A great resource for all!

Bibliography Help!

MLS or APA

ISBN to Citation!!

Find linksFind linksto just about everyto just about everymuseum in the world!museum in the world!

Museum Sites

Get the scoop from kid oriented sites,or from main stream sites of television networks to newspapers, from localto national!

You can now easily You can now easily use translation software,use translation software,just type in the English and just type in the English and get a translation into the get a translation into the language you choose.language you choose.

Naturally, the kids love games.having these safe, educational gamesavailable is a nice service,and a hook to the web site.

Educational Games

Find tutorials to just aboutany software, (Word, Excel…)guides to making a web site,buttons and banners for sites,and places where you can builda free web site blog, wiki…

TechnologyLinks to

tutorials, clip art, anti-spyware,

banners and buttons…

Find links to theCalifornia Assn. of the Gifted (CAG),And other great resources for parentsAnd teachers—the kids too!

Websites for Gifted and Talented Great Great sitessites

from the from the UKUKandand

Australia!Australia!

Best Sites For Organizations

Find Teacher Support from Web Find Teacher Support from Web 2.0, Smart Boards, 2.0, Smart Boards, State Standards and Blue Prints, State Standards and Blue Prints, Relased QuestionsRelased Questions

Standards

What’s New??? …is something new!

How can you create something similar?

If you can do basic word-processing,

you can create Word files with hot links,

Or create web pages, blogs and wikis.

Here are some examples

of how you can do it.

MAPS OF THE ANCIENT ROMAN WORLD The Seven Hills of Rome – Map of the Seven Hills of Rome.Basic Rome City Topography – Topographic map of Rome.Maps of the Roman Empire -  Interactive map of the Roman Empire.  Map of the Roman Empire At Its Greatest Extent – A large file map of the Roman Empire in the third century.Maps of Roman Battles and Invasions – Find detailed maps of battles

You can save a doc as a regular file. When students bring up that file on your classroom or lab computer,they can follow your selected links.

You can also save these files to your web site in HTML*.

The set of links I created for Ancient Rome (in my links)were done in this manner. Example below,

If you can use Word, you just create a regular documentwith the insertion of hyperlinks. (see a Word tutorial*)

SBC Filamentality

You create lessons with Hot Links

for each activity. Then save them at Filamentality. You create a personal file with password for

editing. Students then can access your lesson at

Filimentality and use the Hot Links!

You can easily get a free web site!

Webs.com Google Sites AngelfireAngelfire

Each of these sites provide you with templates and tutorials.

You could be up and running in minutes!

                                                                                                                                                                                        

                                 

Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities. Support is built-in along the way through Mentality Tips. In the end, you'll create a web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML or serving web pages.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

Workshop Follow-up

Visit “Mr. Sabato’s Best of the Web for Education”.Visit “Mr. Sabato’s Best of the Web for Education”. Bookmark the site.Bookmark the site. Visit the websites on Mr. Sabato’s SiteVisit the websites on Mr. Sabato’s Site     Bookmark your favorite sites.Bookmark your favorite sites.     Share the site with teachers, students and Share the site with teachers, students and

parents.parents.     Advise students to use the site for homework Advise students to use the site for homework

help.help.     Create a Word document with links for student Create a Word document with links for student

use.use. Create a Hot Link page at Filamentality.Create a Hot Link page at Filamentality.     Create you own web site with your favorite links.Create you own web site with your favorite links. Email Mr. Sabato some of your favorite links.Email Mr. Sabato some of your favorite links. Email suggestions to improve the site to Mr. Email suggestions to improve the site to Mr.

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Thank you for coming to the workshop today!

  

George Sabato