My Blog

This Blog titled Peace is Elementary represents a way for student's to comment on the assignment blog in a way that benefits other students.
http://reneevarnadore.blogspot.com/

Google Model

Google offers a way to send content to students in a variety of communication formats. Students already know about Google as a powerful search engine. Once a student has Gmail she can set up an iGoogle homepage where information can be arranged in a way that is personal to her with her choice of artistic themed headers. Gadgets for calendars, calculators, dictionaries and more can have colorful headers. RSS feeds and hyperliniks to teachers blogs in blogger are are set up on the iGoogle home page.

There are more tools available with connect us to our Internet information sources. Each of these tools merly requires a click to add. Google Reader provides a way to send students the latest presentation on Google Doc that has been uploaded to the web. Word processed pages can be created by a specified group of students and shared like a wiki in this digital commons. There is no need for software. Opensource Internet tools makes this kind of collaboration possible.

Google search can now be customized per research project with a gadget on the homepage.

Google book search is like Librarything in that a librarian's favorite books can be displayed, yet Google book search will search for a book and if it is in public domain deliever to you for download. If the copywrite prohibits more than a look inside Google provides links to libraries and bookstore where books can be found.

Renee Varnadore

Parents? New Look? ?Que Paso?

Hey all,

Where did the category for "Parent's Resources" go? Also, what happened to the rest of our posts and the icon setup? I got in to move my posts around, but can't find them anymore....
~ Laura Y.

California State Education Standards

Here are the CA State Standards for use by educators:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/

Help forum

Hey,

I successfully created a couple of blogs myself to practice but the settings seem different from our collaborative one. On mine I can click edit, get a list of the posts with options to either view or edit. Then I can click edit next to the post I want and I get to the post square where I can edit. On our collaborative blog I can click the edit tab, but when the list comes up all I can choose is view; there isn't an edit option. I am listed as an author, so maybe it's a settings issue?

Can anyone help?

Cheers,

jason

Teacher Resources for Climate Change

Climate Change Education
http://climatechangeeducation.org/

Digital School Libraries

Here we can post exceptional digital school libraries to serve as an example to us, as well as our own so that we can learn from one another.
Exemplary Digital School Libraries:


Digital School Libraries from our group members:

www.wildweston.edublogs.org (Janine's DSL)

Contact Info: Elementary School Group

Janine Weston janinemweston@yahoo.com 510-299-2586

Students: Push Technology

Push Technology (RSS feeds, gadgets, classroom webpages, etc. that students can subscribe to and add resources for personal space)
iGoogle Gadget: ToDo list (Janine Weston)

Students: Resources for Personal, Collaborative, & Outer Space

Resources (for personal space, collaborative space or outer space--linking learners to databases, search engines)
http://google.scholar.com/

Students: Tools

For ideas, see Joyce Valenza's DSL: http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/
Tools (links to tools to help students be successful at school. i.e. word processors, graphics packages, tutorials, etc.)
http://www.radcab.com/ (Janine Weston) simple process for information evaluation http://www.google.com/ Google (iGoogle, notebook, bookmarks, documents, reader, scholar) great tools for collaborative learning
http://www.show.zoho.com/ (Janine Weston) Zoho show for online presentations http://www.flickr.com/ (Janine Weston) great source for royalty free photographs http://opensourceresources.wikispaces.com/ (Janine Weston) a collection of open source resources http://www.noodletools.com/ (Janine Weston) research software & support

Teachers: Enhancement of Learning Through Technology

For ideas, see Joyce Valenza's DSL: http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/
Enhancing Learning Through Technology
http://www.edublogs.org/ (Janine Weston) great blogging tool for teachers to make their blogs
http://www.feedburner.com/ (Janine Weston) create your RSS feeds here
http://www.pbwiki.com/ (Janine Weston) wonderful wiki for collaboration between teachers/students/administrators
http://knowville.org/ (Janine Weston) help children to read a billion books, write a billion books, and do a billion projects
http://www.blogger.com/ (Janine Weston) another blogging tool
http://www.noodletools.com/ (Janine Weston) research software & support
http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/video/video Joyce Valenza's Teacher Librarian
http://joycevalenzaworkshop.wikispaces.com/ Joyce Valenza's Workshop
http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/slelementaryschoollibrary/slelementaryschoollibrary The Elementary School Library of Knowville

Teachers: Reading

For ideas, see Joyce Valenza's DSL: http://www.sdst.org/shs/library/
Reading
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/ (Janine Weston) Jim Trelease's website and research on the value of reading aloud to children
http://www.sdkrashen.com/ (Janine Weston) Stephen Krashen's website and research on the power of reading
http://www.flamingnet.com/ (Janine Weston) tween and teen-reviewed books