General+Education+Resources

**General Resources**
[|Hundreds of Sites for Teachers]

[|Blue Web'n] is a library of blue ribbon learning sites on the web that you can search for by content area and grade level. It also provides learning resources according to kind of education such as special education,curriculum, distance learning and counseling.

[|Webquests] is a learning resource that features webquests which are inquiry-oriented lessons in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. The model was developed by [|Bernie Dodge] at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow [|Tom March,]the [|Educational Technology] staff at San Diego Unified School District, and waves of participants each summer at the [|Teach the Teachers Consortium].

[|Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educators] is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

[|Textmapping] **Textmapping is a graphic organizer technique that can be used to teach reading comprehension and writing skills, study skills, and course content.** It is practiced on scrolls, which are an alternative environment to books. Textmapping and scrolls can be used strategically, but they are not strategies. They are enabling technologies - simple, basic tools which can be used for reading and classroom instruction. The same strategies that can be taught in books can be taught more clearly and explicitly by using scrolls and mapping.

Digital Storytelling
[|How to Create Simple Digital Stories] 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story

Media for Digital Storytelling
Photostory is on your Macbooks on the WIndows side. [|Photostory Tutorial] [|Voice Thread] [|Voice Thread Examples]

Interdisciplinary Lessons
Web English Teacher Interdisciplinary lessons in |[|Art]| |[|Family and Consumer Science]| |[|Health]| |[|Math]| |[|Music]| |[|Science]| |[|Social Studies]| |[|Technology]|

Miscellaneous Resources
[|BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper Page] [|HaveFunTeaching]