Listed below are some interesting websites that we have come across in our prowls through the web just lately.
We think that some of these could really useful within classes and a couple would be great professional development tools.
Check them out and see what you think.
AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.
AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located.
http://www.greenlanediary.org/
AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take the site's users to places where those primary sources are located.
http://www.greenlanediary.org/
This curriculum linked education program helps 8-13 yr olds to become aware of the stresses our planet confronts & how sustainable living can make a difference. Learning about the environment & what part our actions play is important so that we can make wise choices & take positive action!
Australia's premier reference publisher now offers a variety of quality resources online. Our range of services includes the Macquarie Dictionary Online, the Macquarie Thesaurus Online, MacquarieNet, the Macquarie Spellchecker and the Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia.
Simply put, a Glog is a kind of poster —fully designed by you! A Glog is a unique creation made up of text, images, music, and video. It can be colorful, edgy, emo, or rock—it’s up to you to make your Glog stand out. Glogs are a perfect way to express who YOU are! Glog stands for Graphical Blog.
The Digizen website provides information for educators, parents, carers, and young people. It is used to strengthen their awareness and understanding of what digital citizenship is and encourages users of technology to be and become responsible DIGItal citiZENS. It shares specific advice and resources on issues such as social networking and cyberbullying and how these relate to and affect their own and other people's online experiences and behaviours.
LiveBinders is your 3-ring binder for the Web
· Collect your resources
· Organize them neatly and easily
· Present them with pride
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
And our favourite – for the moment at least:
Be the curator of your favourite topic. Create your topic centric media by collecting gems from relevant streams. Publish it to your favourite social media or your blog. Scoop.it lets users follow topics, not people. Scoop.it brings you content on topics you’ve decided to follow and shared with other people. People we meet are users who are willing to talk about the same subjects. What gathers people together are their passions!
Hope you enjoy checking out these sites and let us know what you think - or of any other good ones that you know.
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