Here are the five RSS feeds that I researched and found useful for educational purposes. I will be explaining why I chose each site and how it can benefit me as a teacher.1. Creative Pursuits: Integrating Technology into 21st Century Classrooms (www.neccning.org)
I chose this site because it is an online library called "Libraries Without Walls: Integrating Library Online Resources." The concept is libraries should not be restrained by the walls in which they are housed, but people from all over the world should have access to all types of resources that you would find in a library. You can sit at home and do research instead of going to the public library. Sometimes our public libraries do not have the information that we need when we may need it.
I found that this site would benefit me because there are times when I am looking for research for projects that I want to implement into my lesson plans but I can not find any. I get so frustrated when I can not find the information in either the school library or at my public library. This particular site will allow me to have another resource to use for research. It also has tools that I do not have in my school like Noodle and TRAILS, which is a tool that shows me how to use formative assessments to serve my students better.
2. Integrating Technology into the Classroom (www.edutopia.org)
This is a site ran by The George Lucas Educational Foundation. This site gives you all sorts of ways to use technology in the classroom. For those of use who are technology challenged and do not know where to start when it comes to integrating technology into your lessons, this is the site for you. You can view a 2 minute video that will introduce you to technology integration.
I chose this site because I use to be one of the technology challenged people. I am still not as good as I would like, but I am no longer afraid to use it in my lessons. I plan on giving this site's URL to my tech coach. She can use it doing professional development to help new and old teachers get over their phobias. I have viewed many of the videos to refresh my skills. I am so glad I did. I have found little tidbits of information that I can use in my classroom.
3. Interactive Whiteboard Promethean Applications (http://teachingtechnology.suite101.com)
Interactive Whiteboard Promethean Applications is a community of online resources for all content areas and lessons. There is an abundance of themes, lessons, resource packs and web-links available to teachers for embedding in lessons in support of interactive whiteboard integration.
As a new school that was supplied with whiteboards, this site is most beneficial to me. I have already downloaded several lessons, themes and resource packs. I have saved some for science, language arts and reading. My school uses Houghton Mifflin for reading. I typed Houghton Mifflin in the search engine and found oodles of this I can download and use for each story I teach. I am so excited!
4. Spelling City (www.spellingcity.com)
This site is a good site for spelling. You can enter your weekly spelling list and allow students to take pretests ( which will help them study), play spelling games, and take spelling test.
I plan to use this site in my classroom. I will be using it as a center. They will use it first to take pretests so that they can study the words they got wrong. Then they can play spelling games like hangman. At the end of the week they will take their spelling test online. I have found that this will grade your tests for you! All you have to do is enter the grades into your grade book.
5. 8 Tips for Teaching Grammar Without a Worksheet (http://theapple.monster.com)
This site simply gives you 8 tips for teaching grammar without resorting to worksheets to assess for comprehension.
These tips are most useful to me. It really opened my mind to the different ways to assess my student's comprehension besides using a worksheet. I plan to use some of these tips and compare which way is better for me. The 8 tips or worksheets. If I find that they both work then I will rotate between the 8 tips and my worksheets to assess comprehension.
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