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EL12:Whispers from the Past: Look-Listen-Learn-Create

__Resources__ Wikispaces Jog the Web Voki Blabberize Prezi US National Archives DocsTeach Digital Vaults Discovery Education Creative Common images Search The MorgueFile Evaluating Digital Projects

This session was really geared towards secondary. They spent a lot of time on history and the National Archives. They had a lot of great resources that could actively engage students. The most useful tool I found was the digitales, which are rubrics for evaluating digital projects. They emphasized the fact that when it comes to projects involving technology, we often grade students on the wow factor instead of the information or knowledge base. Unless we were grading students on creating a PowerPoint, we shouldn't grade them on their slide transitions. This site is a tool that helps evaluate the material that should be evaluated.

http://www.digitales.us/evaluating/index.php

FL05: 60 Web 2.0 tools in 60 minutes, Guaranteed!

This session was exactly what it promoted itself as. It was very high paced and something that you could ponder over for hours. Brandon Lutz was the presenter and he set up a wikispace so that anyone could look at his online tools and implement them in the classroom. He implied that he has taught this session before and changes his 60 every so often, although a few of his favorites stay on his list! Some of the sites he talked about involved, online folders and drop boxes, 3-D presentations, youtube substitute that you could download onto your desktop, Cliffnotes, Spanish word plays, Social networks, video chats and blogs, voice overs, timelines, rubrics, quiz feedbacks, virtual parking lots, planners to meet with students, online quizzes, jeopardy, picture effects, bookmarks that transfer to Iphones and Kindles, gradebooks, student selection, newsletter creators. And the list goes on.

I was able to visit a few of these sites and they were helpful, but it's almost an overload. I suggest picking a handful to look at and few to implement in the classroom. I enjoyed that headstart in searching for education tools to increase the productivity in my classroom.

http://60in60.wikispaces.com