via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Tech Buzz:Elementary Resources For Research
Elementary Resources For Research
Directory Of Online Encyclopedias
Pebble Go
Kids Brittanica
http://kids.britannica.com/
Biography.com
History Channel
PBS
Read Write Think (interactives)
|
Enchanted Learning-Teacher & Student Research Resources
Symbaloo-Homepage Bookmarking For You and Your Students
More Of It
|
Videos & Class Content
Discovery Education-Log In With Your Google Account
Organization & Collaboration
Flickr: Share and store classroom images with this incredibly popular online photo storage service.
Diigo: Diigo is a great tool for highlighting and sharing the web with your students.
del.icio.us: Save your favorite sites and share them with your class using del.icio.us.
Gliffy: Create and share flow-charts, diagrams, and more with Gliffy.
Image Search
The most comprehensive compilation of NASA stills, film and video. Students may use the images for school projects as long as they credit NASA.
Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection.
| Best Search Engines for Elementary Students(click on title of search engine)Sweet Search: It offers a narrowed search by school subject, a beginner search engine for young students, a search engine for librarians, a search just for social studies subject matter, and a search just for biographies. It also provides great advice on how to teach students to search effectively.Fact Monster: An almanac, encyclopedia, dictionary and homework helper for research projects.Kids Click: Filtered web search for kids created by librarians and categorized by subject.Ivy’s Search Engines: A collection of basic and specialized search engines for students.Searchquarium: Has different search engines based upon subject area and grade level.
Kid Friendly Search Eng
Additional Options:
|
Monday, April 25, 2016
RT @edtech_rr: What Does College and Career Readiness Mean Now in the Shift to Digital Learning? https://t.co/Er17WEoOLy https://t.co/V8riNPPeMk
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @edtech_rr: What Does College and Career Readiness Mean Now in the Shift to Digital Learning? https://t.co/Er17WEoOLy https://t.co/V8riNPPeMk
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @BarbM17: DMS Students made it to the voting round. See link below to rate. Go to the 4th one under secondary list. https://t.co/Gmeo0G4Kmk
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
Sharing #worldlanguage #DigitalLearning @amystarnaud @nrschools @drallen23 @digitalhornets #Andover #northreading https://t.co/qYA63B769Y
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
Saturday, April 16, 2016
6 Ways to Increase How Accessible You Are To Your Team https://t.co/83D5F1eANH
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @danieldowns: Still time to vote @masscue board members! https://t.co/VIXo2jTOEC
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
Friday, April 15, 2016
RT @E_Sheninger: Digital leadership, social media critical for schools to reach communities https://t.co/y2qVPaqb3Y #aussieED #satchatOZ #asiaED #edchatHI
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @willrich45: “BEWARE any conferences, speeches or programs that claim to be promoting “personalized learning.”” https://t.co/sEuMPRmQ2D #edchat
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @sjgorman: The Google+ Communities You Should Know About | Shake Up Learning https://t.co/XCE1f1Hp73 via @ShakeUpLearning
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @gregkulowiec: Learning Goals are the most important part of tech integration. Learn more from @ThomasDaccord "https://t.co/YCFdafmDRX
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @LFlemingEDU: My new article focuses on principals supporting the Maker Culture https://t.co/LCDXefCahO @NAESP https://t.co/Eo5sCBnliH
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @LFlemingEDU: My new article focuses on principals supporting the Maker Culture https://t.co/LCDXefCahO @NAESP https://t.co/Eo5sCBnliH
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
Thursday, April 14, 2016
RT @TheBatchBulldog: Don't forget Open House Tonight 6:30-7:30PM... Support the #bakesale https://t.co/ttMLBYvgoh
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Tech Buzz Resources: Google Tools For Research: Middle/High School Edition
Google Tools For Research: Middle/High School Edition
This a list of tools, websites, and resources which assist students with organizing resources for research. Some of these tools can be used in the process of research or used to collect search specific statistics. Many can be used within the Google For Education platform or used within the Chrome Browser.
Google Tools:
|
Review consumer trends, marketing insights and industry research. The site includes statistics, a research library including videos and infographics, planning tools, and a section for emerging digital trends.
Based on Google Search, Google Trends shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.
Google Scholar is an online, freely accessible search engine that lets users look for both physical and digital copies of articles. It searches a wide variety of sources, including academic publishers, universities, and preprint depositories looking for: Peer-reviewed articles. Theses.
The service sends emails to the user when it finds new results—such as web pages, newspaper articles, blogs, or scientific research—that match the user's search term entered.
Google Research group explores how information visualization can make complex data accessible, useful, and even fun. Work includes public and Google-internal projects.
|
Power Tips:
|
Research Tools For Chrome Browser
|
Citation Websites: Some are available as Chrome Browser Extensions
|
The fully automatic bibliography maker that auto-fills. It's the easiest way to build a works cited page; and it's free. Search for a book, article, website, or film, or enter the information yourself. Add it to your bibliography and continue citing to build your works cited list. Download your bibliography in MLA, APA, Chicago, or Turabian format. Bibme is very easy to use, but you need to pay for a pro account to save your bibliographies.
Citation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources. However, again, if you want to save your bibliographies you need to pay for a pro account.
Cite This For Me allows you to automatically create website citations in the APA, MLA, Chicago, or Harvard referencing styles at the click of a button. Cite This For Me also comes with a Google Chrome extension.
Cite your work at APA, MLA, and Chicago without leaving the homepage in 3 easy steps. The fourth step allows you to download your bibliography; you can even save it if you create an account. Your citations will be kept as long as you keep visiting the site, but after four days of inactivity your citations will be deleted.
Creating a complete and correctly formatted citation is a challenge for many students, especially documenting sources such as art and music that aren't included in traditional citation formats. OttoBib
Creating creates citations from ISBNs (which means that your book needs to have a clearly visible ISBN), it also comes with a Google Chrome extension.
An extension for your Google Chrome browser, RefDot makes citation easy; it allows you to cite and store books or journal references, as well as add books automatically from Amazon book pages, which comes in handy.
Zotero is a veteran and completely free browser based plugin that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
Easy Bib - MLA Free
A great citation generator, EasyBib compiles your bibliographies and citations for you, saving you valuable time. You don’t need to create an account if you are using MLA.
|
Monday, April 11, 2016
RT @LollyDaskal: RT @ndeheem: 25 Excellent Pieces of Advice That Most People Ignore @LollyDaskal https://t.co/m3aFXbw9To via @Inc
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
#thinglink #pbl project at @NRMS_Library @kdasho @jcoughlin24 @NRMSchool @ThingLink #worldlanguage https://t.co/EJarETOxTV
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
https://t.co/sf5wRtqEiR @nrschools @cbrown_t #northreading #SHAPEMinneapolis
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Change team #appinventor #text @library_nrhs https://t.co/6Fu0KoluSp
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @mscheever11: Book swap 2016 is underway! Remember collection dates are Monday-Wednesday! @jthoodelemen @jthoodpa https://t.co/UQgARdpv02
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
Monday, April 4, 2016
RT @jennjudkins: Great post by @KerryHawk02 Why Our Grading System is Failing Our Kids https://t.co/dq5bgVt36l #assessment #edchat
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Friday, April 1, 2016
RT @jthoodelemen: Thanks for sharing. I just learned so much. thanks Matthew. https://t.co/84elAfCyut
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @Makerspaces_com: Modern library #makerspaces & how they fit into the future of learning. https://t.co/J1tBvCcIKo #makered #makerspace https://t.co/nTronlG2z1
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @Makerspaces_com: Read about the top 20 tools and tech found in @kjarrett's educational #makerspace https://t.co/fs23jYtpL3 #makerED https://t.co/PCtzqSKcr4
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @teachintechgal: #PBL based on creativity & solving real-world problems raises girls’ interest in STEM: https://t.co/HFgO4zVKyY https://t.co/bOTAh1iMLV
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @mrsklipfel: Gr 5 Ss @sarahoproctor Getting ready for our travels through space @DoInkTweets https://t.co/pMkFOqODUW
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @KerryHawk02: Google bikes. Just part of life in Mountain View. https://t.co/bLS9XiVyz4
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
RT @Makerspaces_com: 16 skills that every student needs in order to survive in the 21st century https://t.co/jHImPGCKS5 #makerspaces https://t.co/tvEB4dlgV5
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
https://t.co/xWoU4YjLp2 (The Global S.T.E.M. Community) Over 6 Million! https://t.co/w2gPZZnVBx
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
https://t.co/xWoU4YjLp2 (The Global S.T.E.M. Community) Over 6 Million! https://t.co/w2gPZZnVBx
via Twitter https://twitter.com/digitalhornets
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)