Teacher+Recommended+Resources

-Recommended by Danielle Richert from SSIS. Danielle is a Gr 8 Humanities/Writing teacher, Literacy Coordinator, and Team Leader
 * Below is a list of teacher recommended walkaways for you to share with your teachers:**

Here are my "can't live without" sites

1.www.lingro.com : Copy and Paste the URL for a website into this website and it makes every word clickable. Students can click on the word and get the definition for the word, save the word to a vocabulary list, and translate the word into other languages.

2. www.todaysmeet.com : This is a back-channel website where you can set up private rooms, give students the specialized URL, and have an on-line conversation during videos, lectures, socratic seminars.

3. [] : This is a great geography/SS website. You select a topic and the countries will resize to show the data for each country for that topic.

4. [] : This site allows you to create a speaking avatar. It is great for putting announcements on moodle.

5. [] : This is a great online brainstorming tool. Students add sticky notes with their ideas to the page, which you can set up to be in columns, venn diagram, infinite board. Then, people can vote for the best answer/idea, or categorize the sticky notes. One of my favorite tools out there.

6. [] : This site lets you make any picture interactive. You can embed links, videos, notes, or other images onto a central image. It is a great tool to use with maps and then embed links at certain points to show what happened there and when.

7. [] : Google custom search is also one of my very favorite things to use in the class. Custom search allows you to create your own google search bar that will only access the websites you choose. It is a great way to direct the resources students will use for certain projects.

8. [] : This site allows you to make customizable word clouds. You can put them in shapes, import your own shapes, words, pretty much anything. What makes this different from wordle is that it allows you to click on any word in the cloud and it will direct you to a google search of that word. 9. www.livebinder.com You can basically create a digital three-ring binder, dividing websites, videos, and pdf's into categories of your choice. Here is the one I created for our inquiry project: http://bit.ly/GG29c6

-Recommended by Brian Elshoff from SSIS. Brian is a Gr 7/8 Math teacher. 1) [] Dave Suarez, JIS: Challenge by Choice Program. Have worked for a few years building off Dave's ideas of a differentiated MS math classroom. The largest benefit noticed with the students is an increase of student confidence from making the curriculum accessible for all.