See the WINTER 2010 Online Issue of Gifted Education Press Quarterly - great articles!
From the Digital Education blog:
Salman Kahn was honored for the virtual learning site he developed, The Kahn Academy. The site features more than 1,200 instructional videos, on a You-Tube platform, that can explain everything from basic arithmetic to college level calculus, physics to finance. It's a popular K-12 resource in a number of countries because the lessons are offered in a variety of languages.
From the ms_teacher blog:
The many resources that are available freely on the web can make learning history and social studies a fun and engaging experience. From primary documents to interactive historical games, the resources can be utilized by students and teachers alike. Here is a list of 20 sites that are perfect for learning more about history and social studies online:
History Matters - History Matters is a gateway site to Internet resources, teaching materials, primary documents, and guides for the purpose of teaching and analyzing American history. Through this site, you will find evidence, blackboard resources, audio, syllabi, and more.
History Channel - The History Channel offers informative study guides, programs, speeches, videos, and much more. The site also links to Biographies.com so that visitors can dig deeper into famous personalities throughout history.
Library of Congress - The Library of Congress, which is the oldest cultural institution, provides historical information through primary documents. The library also features an extensive teacher's site filled with ready-to-use classroom materials, lesson plans, collection connections, and news.
Digital History - The Digital History site uses the technological advances of the Internet to make historical documents more assessable to everyone. Within this site, users can find online textbooks, primary sources, ethnic voices, teaching resources, active learning resources, visual history exhibitions, and multimedia learning resources.
BBC - The BBC, a large online provider of educational material, offers online history resources for teachers and students. This site gives you a look at British and world history through biographies, ancient history resources, archaeology, interactives, message boards, and more.
HistoryTeacher.net - This site, created by a New York History teacher, offers over 2,000 pages of information on history from around the world. Through HistoryTeacher.net, you can find information on ancient, current, American, and world history.
National Council for the Social Studies - The National Council for the Social Studies features a wide range of social studies information including classroom resources. The classroom resources offer lesson plans, maps, book lists, and information on curriculum standards.
Voice of the Shuttle - Voice of the Shuttle is a humanities research site with a large world history page. Within the history resources, you can find information on everything from African to U.S. history.
Education World - The pages of this educational site hold 26 subcategories and 369 entries all pertaining to history. The Education World entries cover associations, directories, discussions, journals, museums, teacher resources, events, documents, people, and much more.
SchoolHistory.co.uk - SchoolHistory.co.uk is a historical resource site for both teachers and students. This site features worksheets, lessons, interactives, quizzes, and a teachers' section with guidance, advice, exercises, and a forum.
eHistory - This site provides a huge collection of historical resources for researching, learning, and teaching history. On eHistory, you will find multimedia resources, origins, timelines, online books, reviews, maps, images, and history links.
FREE - FREE, or Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, provides free online resources for U.S. history topics, time periods, and world studies. The pages of these resources feature images, primary documents, facts, and teaching materials.
EDsitement - EDsitement offers lesson plans and websites perfect for all age levels for most subjects including history and social studies. The lesson plans and website can be browsed or navigated by subject and grade level.
The National Archives - The National Archives is a huge database of historical information that offers historical resources, primary sources, and activities for students and teachers. Throughout the pages of this site, users will find lessons, training, research, workshops, regional resources, raw history, and many other materials.
Ease History - This site offers an accelerated visual experience for over 400 historical events, campaign ads for 1952-2004, and core values of events and campaigns. Ease History also comes with a learning guide that offers over 20 lesson plans.
Flight to Freedom - Bowdoin provides a free interactive game called Flight to Freedom. The game makes it easy for students to understand history after making decisions for historical figures and seeing the outcomes of their decisions.
History Mystery - History Mystery is an interactive game that allows you to investigate history through studying historical items, documents, and more. This is the perfect way to engage younger children in history.
ThinkQuest - ThinkQuest provides 62 world history websites created by students from around the world. The websites offer games, interactives, and facts that can be used to learn and teach history.
MoMO - The MoMO (Museum of Online Museums) is a site that features exhibitions from online museums around the world. Just a few famous museums that can be found on MoMO are the Met, MoMA, Smithsonian, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
History Now - History Now from The Guider Lehrman Institute of American History features on online journal with lesson plans, activities, and interactives.
Guest post on the ms_teacher blog from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes about online school for OnlineSchool.net.
From NASA: The Space Place
The Space Place is an extensive, content-rich Web site for upper elementary-age kids, their teachers, parents, and anyone else who likes a simple, readable, fun presentation of a wide range of space and Earth science and technology topics. Most of the site is great for kids to explore on their own, with interactive games, hands-on projects and fun facts. A Spanish version of most of the site is also available.
The Space Place:
The bi-monthly Space Place Newsletter for educators has lots of suggestions on how to use the resources from this Web site in the classroom: See the "Teacher's Corner" at http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/educators
Rocket ahead with Cub Scout achievements and electives at The Space Place: http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/cubscouts/index.shtml
"SciJinks" is a highly interactive Web site that provides middle-school students and audiences of all ages an amazing science education opportunity. Provided by NOAA and NASA, the Web site transports visitors to the wild world of weather to learn about predicting global weather patterns.
SciJinks:
Click on the Educators link at the bottom of the page for suggestions on how to use the SciJinks resources in the classroom: http://scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov/en/educators/
UEN links:
UEN professional development calendar for December 2009 - May 2010
Become a fan of UEN on Facebook!
Set up your own Wimba classroom through UEN!
And finally, not rally gifted-related but cool nonetheless, you school can sign up to receive an NFL Play60 Wellness Kit - it looks awesome!
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