Best 21 st Century Websites for Secondary Teachers

1. Best 21st Century Websites for Secondary Teachers TIE Conference Presentation Cate Sommervold ESA2 April 2009

2. Expectations • C – can you talk? • H- How to get help? • A – What about Activities? • M– can you Move? • P– How will I know you are Participating?

3. Essential Questions • Why are you using a website? • Instructional Purpose • Structure of 21st Century Learning • How are you using a website? • Instructional Strategy • What website should you use? • Understand characteristics of good websites • Explore internet resources • How do I use social bookmarking? • Delicious • Portaportal

4. INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSE Efficiency Enrich Extend

5. THINK-PAIR-SHARE Where are you? Enrich Extend Efficiency Where would you like to be?

8. INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY How are you using a website?

10. WHAT MAKES A GREAT WEBSITE?

11. Remember… • Information literacy: • Is the information from a credible source? • Is the information current? • Media literacy: • What is the source? • What is the bias? • How is this material meant to influence you?

12. Let’s get started… • Check your knowledge of Net etiquette…. http://www.albion.com/netiquette/netiquiz.html Core rules to Net etiquette- http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html This is applicable to teaching your students, too.

13. Easy Websites to use next week • Newsmap • Wise Mapping • BBC Science and Health Page • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives • RoadtripNation • Freely Educate

14. Multipurpose 21st Century websites • ePals • Voicethread • Hot Chalk • Wikispaces • Google

15. Social Bookmarking Today’s class will explore/introduce: • Delicious • Portaportal

16. What is Delicious? a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

17. “A folksonomy represents simultaneously some of the best and worst in the organization of information.” Folksonomy • What is it? • “Folk” + “Taxonomy” • Grassroots approach to tagging and labeling • Credited to Thomas VanderWaal • Categorization not classification • How do you use it? • However you’d like….that’s why it works!

18. My Portaportal • Navigate to http://guest.portaportal.com/bestsecondarywebsites

19. Delicious • Navigate to http://delicious.com/ • Search for “SDESA2” • Look at what we already have marked for you… • Find one that you have never heard of and think sounds cool.

20. Tips to finding a missing site… • Check very carefully that you have entered the site’s address accurately. • Wait a few moments and try the site again. • Use a search engine and enter the name of the site (not the URL) • Trim the URL by eliminating elements of the address starting at the right. • Use the “Wayback Machine” at www.webdev.archive.org it can retrieve archived websites with about a 75% success rate.

21. Free to all schools from the State Library These resources are found at this State Library page: http://library.sd.gov/databases/complete.htm • Web Feet contains the best websites, chosen by teachers and librarians. The sites chosen are evaluated, annotated and organized by Library of Congress subject headings. Subject areas covered include curriculum areas and selected general reference sites. • SIRS Discoverer, a resource for grades K-9, features a Web Find search on its home page. This search takes students to sites selected by SIRS editors for educational quality. Each site reference gives the site source, a summary, and reading level rating. • SIRS Researcher, for grades 6-12, specializes in "hot topics," offering an overview, pros, and cons of popular school research topics. Web site results are among those given for a search. The sites are selected by SIRS editors for educational quality, with a site source, summary, and reading level rating for each result. • World Book Online, which has versions for each grade level. • World Book Online Reference Center is for grades 5-9 (soon replaced by World Book Student) • World Book Advanced is for grades 9-12+

22. Bibliography • ISTE National Education Technology Standards (2008). International Society for Technology in Education. http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS Retrieved January 18, 2009. • Lerman, James. (2005). 101 Best Web Sites for Secondary Teachers. ISTE Publications, Eugene OR. • Mathes, Adam. (2004). “Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata,” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html. Retrieved January 18, 2009. • Pilter, Howard, Elizabeth Hubbell and Matt Kuhn. (2007). Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works. ASCD, Alexandria, VA. • SD Technology Standards (2009). State of South Dakota. http://doe.sd.gov/contentstandards/nclb/index.asp. Retrieved January 18,2009.

23. Contact Information Education Service Agency East Dakota Cooperative (605) 367-7680 esa2@edec.org www.edec.org/esa