Resources

This page provides a space to identify resources we find helpful. It is meant as a communal space. Make it grow with your experience.

Helpful Hints
Technology Tips For Teachers [|File Management 1] [|File Managemnt 2] [|Seaching the Internet]

Search Tools
Search Engines for Teachers and Students Search Engine List

Fun & Informative Videos
The Importance of Proofreading - (3.31 min) Information Revolution - (5.29 min) Did you Know - (4.56 min) [|A Vision of K-12 Students Today] - (4.09 min) Teacher's Guide to Web 2.0 at School Show Your Media Literacy - A Digital Story [|How to use Twitter] [|How to Create a Blog on Blogger]

Web 2.0
Prezi MindMeister Skype Blogger.com Wordpress.com Wikispaces [|sharing videos]

TED Talks
Danger of a Single Story (18:49 minutes) Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a sing...

Demo: Stunning Data Visualization in the Allosphere (6:25 minutes) JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements ... and detect previously unseen patterns that could lead to new discoveries.

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (19:29 minutes) Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution (17:57 minutes) In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.

What Adults Can Learn from Kids (8:13 minutes) How Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much as to teach.

Viktor Frankl: Why to Believe in Others (4:22 minutes) In this rare clip from 1972, legendary psychiatrist and Holocaust-survivor Viktor Frankl delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning -- and the most important gift we can give others.

[|Using Nature's Genius in Architecture] (13:47) Joel and Barbara found this video interesting. If we looked to nature and followed the example the world would be better off. Check it out and find out what is being done.