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Teacher Education Favorites: Tried and Proved MERLOT Teacher Education Board: Cris Guenter, Dorothy Fuller, Ron Hughes, Diane Judd, Jane Moore, David Wicks. Teacher Education Favorites: Tried and Proved. Characteristics of good learning objects: Applicability Ease of Use Multiple Uses
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Teacher Education Favorites: Tried and Proved MERLOT Teacher Education Board: Cris Guenter, Dorothy Fuller, Ron Hughes, Diane Judd, Jane Moore, David Wicks
Teacher Education Favorites:Tried and Proved • Characteristics of good learning objects: • Applicability • Ease of Use • Multiple Uses • Good Pedagogy • Engaging
Our Favorites • Each of us selected websites that we’ve recently reviewed and USED in our own classrooms • You’ll find the list of sites at http://del.icio.us/janepmoore
Pageflakes for Teachers • http://www.pageflakes.com/default.aspx • Pageflakes is a site in which educators can create their own home pages as well as have them hosted for no charge.
Jing • http://www.jingproject.com/ • Jing is an always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.
Noodle Tools • http://noodletools.com/login.php • Noodle Tools Express is a free program that allows users to input bibliographic data and receive a correct citation in either APA or MLA style • An inexpensive option allows for the creation of whole bibliographies
Enriching Social Studies Through Simulations • http://lightbridge.sonoma.edu/lightbridge/lessons/publish/76/main/introduction.html • This is part of the Lightbridge series and allows observation of social studies lessons, as well as including lesson plans and teacher commentary
Tapped In • http://tappedin.org/tappedin/ • Tapped In provides a free site for educators to have virtual offices and host text-based meetings
NASA Quilt • http://quilt.jpl.nasa.gov/ • This site, part of the CSU-NASA collaboration is an excellent way to match desired space and Earth science activities with content standards
Your favorites? • What are some great sites that you have discovered this year for use in Teacher Education? • We’ll add them to the Del.icio.us site