While you wait….Please come up and add a website that you

learned about at this conference to this slide.

And check out: www.google.com. Find an application you haven’t used before….be prepared to share!

Laptop Leadership Institute Presentation

Cate Sommervold ESA2June 2009

Best 21st Century Websites for Secondary Teachers

ExpectationsC – Can you talk?H - How to get help?A – What about Activities?M – can you Move?P – How will I know you are

Participating?

Essential QuestionsWhy are you using a website?

Structure of 21st Century LearningInstructional Purpose

How are you using a website?Instructional Strategy

What website should you use?Understand characteristics of good websitesExplore internet resources

How do I use social bookmarking?DeliciousPortaportal

ThemesGlobal

AwarenessFinancial, Economic, Business &

Entrepreneurial LiteracyCivic

LiteracyHealth Literacy

SkillsInfo, Media & Tech Learning & Innovation Life and Career

Finding &Evaluating

Info

ICTInfo,

Commun. and

Tech

Creating & Innovating

Critical Thinking &

ProblemSolving

Commun.&

Collaborate

Flexibility, AdaptabilityInitiative,Self-DirectedSocial & Cross-culturalProductivity AccountabilityLeadership & Responsibility

ToolsNewspapers, books, spreadsheets, graphing calculators, computers, internet resources, websites, databases, digital libraries, television, observational and measurement tools, videos, DVD’s, CD’s, telecommunication, word processing, presentation tools, smart boards, GPS, probes, manipulatives, geometry tools, digital cameras, laptops, multimedia, scanners, video equipment, digital recorders,mp3 technology, cell phones……

ThemesGlobal

AwarenessFinancial, Economic, Business &

Entrepreneurial LiteracyCivic

LiteracyHealth Literacy

SkillsInfo, Media & Tech Learning & Innovation Life and Career

Finding &Evaluating

Info

ICTInfo,

Commun. and

Tech

Creating & Innovating

Critical Thinking &

ProblemSolving

Commun.&

Collaborate

Flexibility, AdaptabilityInitiative,Self-DirectedSocial & Cross-culturalProductivity AccountabilityLeadership & Responsibility

ToolsNewspapers, books, spreadsheets, graphing calculators, computers, internet resources, websites, databases, digital libraries, television, observational and measurement tools, videos, DVD’s, CD’s, telecommunication, word processing, presentation tools, smart boards, GPS, probes, manipulatives, geometry tools, digital cameras, laptops, multimedia, scanners, video equipment, digital recorders,mp3 technology, cell phones……

INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSE

EfficiencyEnrichExtend

THINK-PAIR-SHARE

Where are you?

Where would you like to be?

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY

How are you using a website?

Matrix of the Four Planning Questions, the Nine Categories of Instructional Strategies, and the applicability to web resources

PlanningQuestions

InstructionalStrategies

Web Resources

What will students learn? Setting Objectives ●

Which strategies will provide evidence of student learning?

Providing Feedback ●

Providing Recognition ●

Which strategies will help students acquire and integrate

learning?

Cues, questions, and advance organizers

●

Nonlinguistic Representation ●

Summarizing and note taking ●

Reinforcing effort ●

Which strategies will help students practice, review, and

apply learning?

Identifying Similarities and Differences ●

Homework and Practice ●

Generating and testing hypotheses ●

Let’s get started…

Check your knowledge of Net etiquette….http://www.albion.com/netiquette/netiquiz.html Core rules to Net etiquette-http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

This is applicable to teaching your students, too.

Remember…

Information literacy:Is the information from a credible source?Is the information current?

Media literacy:What is the source?What is the bias?How is this material meant to influence you?

WHAT MAKES A GREAT WEBSITE?

Easy Websites to use next week

NewsmapWise MappingBBC Science and Health PageNational Library of Virtual ManipulativesRoadtrip NationFreely Educate

Social Bookmarking

What is Delicious?

a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Folksonomy

What is it?“Folk” + “Taxonomy”Grassroots approach to tagging and labeling Credited to Thomas VanderWaalCategorization not classification

How do you use it?However you’d like….that’s why it works!

“A folksonomy represents simultaneously some of the

best and worst in the organization of information.”

Delicious

Navigate to http://delicious.com/Search for “SDESA2”Look at what we already have marked for

you…

Find one that you have never heard of and think sounds cool.

My Portaportal

Navigate to http://guest.portaportal.com/bestsecondarywebsites

Tips to finding a missing site…

Check very carefully that you have entered the site’s address accurately.

Wait a few moments and try the site again.Use a search engine and enter the name of

the site (not the URL)Trim the URL by eliminating elements of

the address starting at the right. Use the “Wayback Machine” at

www.webdev.archive.org it can retrieve archived websites with about a 75% success rate.

Free to all schools from the State Library

These resources are found at this State Library page: http://library.sd.gov/databases/complete.htm Web Feet contains the best websites, chosen by teachers and librarians. The

sites chosen are evaluated, annotated and organized by Library of Congress subject headings. Subject areas covered include curriculum areas and selected general reference sites.

SIRS Discoverer, a resource for grades K-9, features a Web Find search on its home page. This search takes students to sites selected by SIRS editors for educational quality. Each site reference gives the site source, a summary, and reading level rating.

SIRS Researcher, for grades 6-12, specializes in "hot topics," offering an overview, pros, and cons of popular school research topics. Web site results are among those given for a search. The sites are selected by SIRS editors for educational quality, with a site source, summary, and reading level rating for each result.

World Book Online, which has versions for each grade level. World Book Online Reference Center is for grades 5-9 (soon replaced by

World Book Student) World Book Advanced is for grades 9-12+

Multipurpose 21st Century websites

ePalsVoicethreadHot ChalkWikispacesGoogle

Bibliography

ISTE National Education Technology Standards (2008). International Society for Technology in Education. http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS Retrieved January 18, 2009.

Lerman, James. (2005). 101 Best Web Sites for Secondary Teachers. ISTE Publications, Eugene OR.

Mathes, Adam. (2004). “Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata,” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html. Retrieved January 18, 2009.

Pilter, Howard, Elizabeth Hubbell and Matt Kuhn. (2007). Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works. ASCD, Alexandria, VA.

SD Technology Standards (2009). State of South Dakota. http://doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/nclb/index.asp. Retrieved January 18,2009.

Contact InformationEducation Service Agency

East Dakota Cooperative(605) 367-7680esa2@edec.org

www.edec.org/esa