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