English

[|www.internet4classrooms.com] (with references to TCAP testing) [|www.newseum.com] (front pages from around the world) [|www.swivel.com] (data, bargraphs on EVERYTHING) [|www.surveymaker.com] (Stacy Edwards and Ashley Marlow have used this program, I believe, to make teacher and parent surveys.) [|www.youtube.com/adcouncil] (resource for teaching persuasive devices?) [|www.teachertube.com] (drawback: advertisements) [|www.schooltube.com] (student and teacher-made videos) [|www.graspr.com] (instructional videos) [|www.zamzar.com] (create [|www.hulu.com] (television programs) [] Teacher Tap (professional resource) [] (Students can take notes and interact with online texts.) [|www.glassgiant.com] (make pictures) [|www.bombaytv.com] (Add captions / dialogue to old Kung Fu movies. Awesome!)
 * Here are some great websites from Dr. Annette Lamb that could be useful for Middle School Language Arts:**

-to make a skimming / scanning game for reading skills -use Google maps to map out tours of literary or historical locations, settings in literature, etc. -Tobacco ads, WPA posters. etc. from Google images or the Library of Congress (better websites?) could be great teaching tools for propaganda. - DK Clip Art, Wikimedia commons for images listed by copywright availability - gliffy (a program like Inspiration?)
 * Brainstorms and ideas from today's workshop:**

-Shorpy's -The Lives They Left Behind -Dear Miss Breed
 * Ideas for Cross-Curricular Texts:**
 * Use these in the fall in conjunction with Flannary and Tipton's unit on the 5 elements of culture.

Simply making a summary of useful links and tips has helped much of today's content "sink in" for me. There's probably great educational value in having students do online summaries, ideas, reflections (much as I have here) in order to aid in retention.
 * Reflections:**

Dr. Lamb inundated us with even more cool websites in the last session of the day. Here are a few: [] (making onlilne scrapbooks... duh) [|http://goanimate.com] (Even YOU can make cool little animated cartoon movies! Just click here to see a short example with funny little cartoon bunnies: []) [] (digital images of American history) [|www.comiclife.com] (Use your own pictures and add thought bubbles, etc. to make "comics". Here is a great article on the instructional uses of comiclife: []) [|www.wordle.com] (Play with words to make cool "word pictures". Oh, and here's a link to one teacher's take on how to use the site for spelling and vocab: []) [] (Here is the teacher ideas portion of MakeBeliefsComix.)
 * Follow-Up I:**

Tonight, after the workshop, I was surfing the web and found a really great page to stimulate a research project. It's called Ashoka's Youth Venture ([|www.genv.net]) The website encourages teens to become active in their communities and even provides an opportunity of funding! I think it would be a great research outlet as students are guided step-by-step on the website about how to research their advocacy interest and present the findings as part of an action plan to the selection committee for a chance at $1000 of support funding. One concern I have is that the site requires members to be age 13-24, but my 7th graders will not be 13 at the time of the schoolyear when we would need to do this project.
 * Follow-Up II (Research Idea):**

Click on the following link to see an Wordle version of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost.**
 * Teaching Poetry:
 * [|*http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/916216/Nothing_Gold_Can_Stay_%28Robert_Frost%29**]

[|**http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/916252/Alliteration_in_%22Nothing_Gold_Can_Stay%22**]
 * I think students could insert existing poetry into Wordle and emphasize the significance of key words in a poem, or even give examples of literary terms, as in this example:**

6-8-09 I. Research A. Evaluating Internet Resources- [] 1. Mankato, MN: [] 2. Dihydrogen Monoxide: [] 