Social Bookmarking is a great way to share helpful websites with others, let me show you what I've found:
1 National Archives:
This is a great site with online museum exhibits; I viewed the The New Deal for The Arts exhibit. This primary source is an extremely useful tool that will help a student to understand art of the Great Depression Instead of merely glazing over facts in a dull textbook a teacher can show students more information and supplemental examples of what they are learning about without having to leave the classroom.
2 National Education Association:
The groups that are effected by achievement gaps are American Indians/Alaskan Native, Hispanics, Blacks, and the Asians/Pacific Islanders and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People (GLBT).
Website focuses on helping teachers become culturally competent. Some of their suggested guidelines I found most helpful include:
- "Build and use a network of "natural helpers" at school and in the community as well as "experts" who have knowledge of the culturally, linguistically, racially, and ethnically diverse groups served by your school." Who better to encourage diversity than the experts themselves? I love to delegate, and it would help ethnic students invest in their education of they are given the ability to help out.
- "Assess what your school staff perceive as their staff development needs related to providing services to each group." The best way to meet a need is to allow others to have a voice. It takes the guess work out of the issue, and prevents the disappoint from unmet expectations.
- "Determine the diverse groups served by your school. Consider cultural, linguistic, racial, and ethnic diversity. Find out the degree to which families and students in these groups are accessing available school services." It is important to determine which resources are available - and being used - and compare it to the demographics of need. Then, the system of resources can be informatively reassessed to better serve the students.
3 Stop Cyber Bullying:
Took quiz and got a -0.
I have not engage in any online activity that I would consider bullying. I think that I can attribute my score to the fact that the Internet wasn’t as widely used when I attended high school. I know plenty of people who were bullied during those years, including myself. I am sure that if I had used IM as often as pre-teens and teens do today, some of it would definitely qualified as cyberbullying.
From the page for teachers, I learned about having a lawyer draw up an acceptable use policy regarding internet and email use and have it signed by parents and students. The policy should include provisions that cover inappropriate or abusive action by students toward other students or toward faculty and staff. This document gives the school the authority to take appropriate actions against the cyberbully.
4 Kathy Shrock’s Guide for Educators:
Checked out the art and architecture topic in subject access and found ArtJunction.org
This site has many great resources for both teachers and students.
In the Teacher Helper section I found a PDF for One-Computer Classroom Survival Guide. Since budget cuts have greatly reduced funding for classrooms, I figure that when I am teaching, there will be only a few computers in the classroom if any.
5 Edutopia Website:
This site details the different ways that people learn.
From taking the quiz I have learned that I am definitely of a Naturalistic intelligence (100%), which means that I understand the patterns of living things, and then apply scientific reasoning to the world. I also am Logical-Mathematical (88%) and Interpersonal (75%).
The video Multiple Intelligences Thrive in Smartville was very interesting on how the Enola Multiple Intelligences Academy has really perfected the use of MIs in their instruction of all grades and truly gives equity of education to all their students by tailoring the curriculum to each individual students needs.
6 Teaching Tolerance:
The lesson plans that I looked up were for early grades, creative arts and conflict resolution. I found one lesson that I though would be appropriate for K-3 grades. I am Special involves discussing differences. By using the book Fish is Fish I can help students relate to the main character’s discovery of being different. In reading the book Chameleons Colors the students can use their imaginations to realize the importance of being themselves.
7 Multicultural Awareness and Equity Quiz:
Scored 6/15. Very interesting results. The 2 questions I found to be most interesting were the amount of teachers of color on staff (or lack there of) and the lack of medical treatment of children in the wealthiest countries. This is such a high percentage, but I can see how this would be possible in many schools in the mid-west which have smaller African-American populations. Also I was shocked to find out that even though we are in the top 23 wealthiest countries that the US and UK are not giving proper treatment to children. I wish this site gave more details regarding this statistic.
8 Netiquette:
I scored an 90% on the netiquette quiz. :)
I thought that this was pretty good considering I don’t use chat rooms. I sometimes use Instant Messenger programs which are pretty much the same thing. Netiquette is important to teach students, because it’s often difficult to read people or the content of what they are trying to say through email or web-based communication. It is easy to detect sarcasm in someone’s voice by hearing their tone or seeing their facial expression change. But since you are unable to see the person sarcasm can be interpreted as simply being rude if not carefully written into an email or chat. For example an emoticon such as :-P face with the tongue out may let someone know your being funny.
1 National Archives:
This is a great site with online museum exhibits; I viewed the The New Deal for The Arts exhibit. This primary source is an extremely useful tool that will help a student to understand art of the Great Depression Instead of merely glazing over facts in a dull textbook a teacher can show students more information and supplemental examples of what they are learning about without having to leave the classroom.
2 National Education Association:
The groups that are effected by achievement gaps are American Indians/Alaskan Native, Hispanics, Blacks, and the Asians/Pacific Islanders and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People (GLBT).
Website focuses on helping teachers become culturally competent. Some of their suggested guidelines I found most helpful include:
- "Build and use a network of "natural helpers" at school and in the community as well as "experts" who have knowledge of the culturally, linguistically, racially, and ethnically diverse groups served by your school." Who better to encourage diversity than the experts themselves? I love to delegate, and it would help ethnic students invest in their education of they are given the ability to help out.
- "Assess what your school staff perceive as their staff development needs related to providing services to each group." The best way to meet a need is to allow others to have a voice. It takes the guess work out of the issue, and prevents the disappoint from unmet expectations.
- "Determine the diverse groups served by your school. Consider cultural, linguistic, racial, and ethnic diversity. Find out the degree to which families and students in these groups are accessing available school services." It is important to determine which resources are available - and being used - and compare it to the demographics of need. Then, the system of resources can be informatively reassessed to better serve the students.
3 Stop Cyber Bullying:
Took quiz and got a -0.
I have not engage in any online activity that I would consider bullying. I think that I can attribute my score to the fact that the Internet wasn’t as widely used when I attended high school. I know plenty of people who were bullied during those years, including myself. I am sure that if I had used IM as often as pre-teens and teens do today, some of it would definitely qualified as cyberbullying.
From the page for teachers, I learned about having a lawyer draw up an acceptable use policy regarding internet and email use and have it signed by parents and students. The policy should include provisions that cover inappropriate or abusive action by students toward other students or toward faculty and staff. This document gives the school the authority to take appropriate actions against the cyberbully.
4 Kathy Shrock’s Guide for Educators:
Checked out the art and architecture topic in subject access and found ArtJunction.org
This site has many great resources for both teachers and students.
In the Teacher Helper section I found a PDF for One-Computer Classroom Survival Guide. Since budget cuts have greatly reduced funding for classrooms, I figure that when I am teaching, there will be only a few computers in the classroom if any.
5 Edutopia Website:
This site details the different ways that people learn.
From taking the quiz I have learned that I am definitely of a Naturalistic intelligence (100%), which means that I understand the patterns of living things, and then apply scientific reasoning to the world. I also am Logical-Mathematical (88%) and Interpersonal (75%).
The video Multiple Intelligences Thrive in Smartville was very interesting on how the Enola Multiple Intelligences Academy has really perfected the use of MIs in their instruction of all grades and truly gives equity of education to all their students by tailoring the curriculum to each individual students needs.
6 Teaching Tolerance:
The lesson plans that I looked up were for early grades, creative arts and conflict resolution. I found one lesson that I though would be appropriate for K-3 grades. I am Special involves discussing differences. By using the book Fish is Fish I can help students relate to the main character’s discovery of being different. In reading the book Chameleons Colors the students can use their imaginations to realize the importance of being themselves.
7 Multicultural Awareness and Equity Quiz:
Scored 6/15. Very interesting results. The 2 questions I found to be most interesting were the amount of teachers of color on staff (or lack there of) and the lack of medical treatment of children in the wealthiest countries. This is such a high percentage, but I can see how this would be possible in many schools in the mid-west which have smaller African-American populations. Also I was shocked to find out that even though we are in the top 23 wealthiest countries that the US and UK are not giving proper treatment to children. I wish this site gave more details regarding this statistic.
8 Netiquette:
I scored an 90% on the netiquette quiz. :)
I thought that this was pretty good considering I don’t use chat rooms. I sometimes use Instant Messenger programs which are pretty much the same thing. Netiquette is important to teach students, because it’s often difficult to read people or the content of what they are trying to say through email or web-based communication. It is easy to detect sarcasm in someone’s voice by hearing their tone or seeing their facial expression change. But since you are unable to see the person sarcasm can be interpreted as simply being rude if not carefully written into an email or chat. For example an emoticon such as :-P face with the tongue out may let someone know your being funny.
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