First posted: 3/28/09
This article on Squidoo advises how to make a successful book trailer.
Bookscreening has a "smorgasbord" of book trailers.
And YouTube is being a pain, so instead of embedding a video here I'm going to have to send you to their site to check out some well done book trailers on popular teen books.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Mr. Anker Tests
First posted: 3/22/09
Mr. Anker Tests is a compilation of online basic knowledge standardized tests, both multiple choice and interactive. The subjects span from reading comprehension, language arts skills, math, and geography to American Sign Language, technology, keyboarding, and US History. All tests are based on elementary level skills spanning from kindergarten to 6th grade, however they can be great review for middle school students as well.
Mr. Anker Tests is a compilation of online basic knowledge standardized tests, both multiple choice and interactive. The subjects span from reading comprehension, language arts skills, math, and geography to American Sign Language, technology, keyboarding, and US History. All tests are based on elementary level skills spanning from kindergarten to 6th grade, however they can be great review for middle school students as well.
What can you do with these tests? Well, anything you want. You can post them on your classroom website as home practice for your students, have students who finish class assignments early and need something else to do go online and test themselves, use it as extra credit, get the whole class involved in a game of boys vs. girls and keep score of who answers correctly, etc. Or, go on and quiz yourself. I did!
Interactive Informative Posters?
First Posted: 3/15/09
Yep, your students can make them now. Glogster is a fairly new-to-me site, but the coolest thing is that they have a separate EDU account where you can add up to 200 students (they get their own profiles). All EDU profiles are private, but you can share your students work anywhere you want. I'm seeing a lot of teachers use wikis, such as pbwiki, to share students work. They can then comment and begin a discussion on the material online. How are they interactive? Well, you can insert videos, sound clips, and web links into your poster. What I like seeing even more is that students are adding credits and work citations to their posters, much like you would a researched paper.
Yep, your students can make them now. Glogster is a fairly new-to-me site, but the coolest thing is that they have a separate EDU account where you can add up to 200 students (they get their own profiles). All EDU profiles are private, but you can share your students work anywhere you want. I'm seeing a lot of teachers use wikis, such as pbwiki, to share students work. They can then comment and begin a discussion on the material online. How are they interactive? Well, you can insert videos, sound clips, and web links into your poster. What I like seeing even more is that students are adding credits and work citations to their posters, much like you would a researched paper.
You can create posters on just about anything: historical figures, characters in a story, book covers, web quests, how-tos, anything informative, students can even express their own individualities. Check it out!
Keeping Track of Your Reading
First posted: 3/14/09
These sights basically do the same thing with slight variances ... allowing you to recommend, comment on, and review books. You can create virtual bookshelves based on genres, themes, tags, favorites, whatever. These sites are also a great way to find recommendations based on books you've rated.
These sights basically do the same thing with slight variances ... allowing you to recommend, comment on, and review books. You can create virtual bookshelves based on genres, themes, tags, favorites, whatever. These sites are also a great way to find recommendations based on books you've rated.
Wordle
First Posted: 3/14/09
Upgrade your word clouds using Wordle. It's easy. You type the text. Wordle creates a colorful word cloud. You can edit the font, layout, and colors of the text. They then can be printed, added to a PowerPoint presentation, displayed on your classroom web page, and more!
Upgrade your word clouds using Wordle. It's easy. You type the text. Wordle creates a colorful word cloud. You can edit the font, layout, and colors of the text. They then can be printed, added to a PowerPoint presentation, displayed on your classroom web page, and more!
Monday, February 6, 2012
Ask-a-Librarian and ipl2
During any project/paper requiring students to do outside research, really push the idea of utilizing reference services. Have students use the virtual reference services of Ask-a-Librarian (or other state's versions of virtual reference) and/or the ipl2. It's important for students to learn how to research, but it's also important for them to know the tools they have at hand - the most important always being that of a librarian.
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