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21ST CENTURY RESOURCES AND TOOLS

1.LINK TO WA LL WISHER:  [] 21st Century Skill Addressed: Communication and Collaboration
 * Description: Wall Wisher is a new way, easy to communicate. You can use it as an online notice board for making announcements, wishing people, keeping notes, and anything you want to post!

2. LINK TO WORD SIFT: @http://www.wordsift.com Description: Word Sift is a creative way to learn new vocabulary words and increases literacy skills. All you need to do is highlight any text and it will sift out the important words necessary to understand the reading. You can also pick images to symbolize the words! 21st Century Skill Addressed: Literacy and Creativity

3. LINK TO SKYPE: [] Description: Skype is a global communication tool used to talk to anybody in the world. I would use this tool to communicate with other teachers in my building or other science teachers in Omaha. We can discuss current topics in science or what they are learning about in science! 21st Century Skill Addressed: Communication and Collaboration

4.  LINK TO DELICIOUS: <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [] <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Description: Delicious is an online website book marking site. I would use this tool to book mark important resource sites to help me and my students learn the concepts. 21st Century Skill Addressed: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Global Awareness (depending on the sites)

5. <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">LINK TO INTERWRITE BOARD LESSONS: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Descriptio <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">n: Interwrite Workspace community page lets teachers share and collaborate lessons designed for the Interwrite Board. I will use lessons to integrate in my classroom about science related topics. This way I can save time and stress! 21st Century Skill Addressed: Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #00fffc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">LINK TO SCIENCE LESSON PLANS: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00fffc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00fffc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Description: This is a link to the Learn NC website called Critical Thinking in Science by Daniel Difrancesca. This website provides units designed to teach the process of research, experimentation, and application. Students will increase there critical thinking skills by using the 5E Learning Model, which includes being engaged, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. The topics include inquiry, the story of pi, pH, water quality, change over time, cells, and disease! 21st Century Skill Addressed: Critical Thinking and Creativity

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==<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Requested 21st Century Tools <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> ==

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Session: November 10th & November 17

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Class Goal/Objective for Session 9 & 10:

 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">In these class sessions, class participants will explore web 2.0 tools for the 21st Century Classroom.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Links Used:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Animoto: http://www.animoto.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Quizlet: http://www.quizlet.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Edmoto: http://www.edmoto.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Voki: http://www.voki.com

>> [|Sites simliar to wordle.net]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Sample from Ralston Schools
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Today's Meet: @http://todaysmeet.com/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Sample room: @http://todaysmeet.com/doane21st
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">ietherpad: http://ietherpad.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Link to an etherpad sandbox to play around: @http://ietherpad.com/sBn2ssJ2d9
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">ustream: http://www.ustream.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Google Sites: http://sites.google.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Doodle: http://www.doodle.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Xtranormal: @http://www.xtranormal.com/
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<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Sites:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">10 X 10 Words and Happenings that Define the Times: @http://tenbyten.org/about.html
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Wordia: http://www.wordia.com
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Google Trends
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|google.com/trends]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Shows how often a search term is entered into Google
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Simple Spark
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|simplespark.com]
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Alternatives to Wall Wisher

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