Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Thing #5: Resources for Teaching and Learning

Welcome to Thing #5!

The point of this Thing is to help you locate new resources to help you teach and to help your students learn.

Many of you are interested in Flipped Classroom, or probably better, Blended Learning.

Rather than creating your own resources, which takes immeasurable time you don't have, how about harvesting the work of others to share with students in class, or through home viewing?

I have begun to collect resources and have added them to a Symbaloo.  Please share others you'd like me to add if I forgot anything vital!
http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/resources4teaching5


Your Task:

1.  Browse the resources in the Symbaloo.  If you click on the screenshot above, you will arrive at my Symbaloo "Resources for Teaching and Learning" page. Symbaloo is funky when embedding, so pardon any pitiful attempt below.  By clicking on any tile, you will open the page.  It essentially is a pretty bookmarking site.  Start with EduTecher (the very first tile).

2.  Collect any sites that seem useful to your subject area.   You're sure to find something!  I would of course recommend that you bookmark these with whatever tool(s) you chose for Thing 4 to keep organized. 

3.  Use and share your edu-booty as any good tech pirate would.
a.  Share on your blog (required by Tuesday, February 18 for credit towards iPad drawing)
b.  Share on Twitter (nice)
c.  Share with colleagues, department or building administrators (swell)
d.  Share by spreading the word for Digital Learning Day, February 5 (peachy)