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= Welcome to YSSCHOOLS technology!! Through this Wiki, I will be listing information and sites I hope will be helpful. Enjoy =

This is the first of my technology updates for the year. If there is something you would like for me to specifically research for you just email me.
Vickie's thoughts: Teachers have been immersed into technology and are encouraged to use it throughout your curriculum. There is so much information, technology tools, and learning it becomes very confusing and a teacher can become discouraged. My advise is to start with one course or class. Look at the unit and ask yourself, is there something in the area of technology that would enhance the unit? Is there something that would help me present the information in a clearer way for the student? Is there something that would help the student present their knowledge? Many times just a new twist makes the unit exciting. I am finding so many sites that have free lesson plans. I look through them and develop ideas that help me rework my lessons. I would welcome the chance to help you. Good luck with the new school year.

May 13, 2011 Google for Education workshop

[|Google Presentation]

Great site to use [|Study Stack] You can make your own flash cards, hangman, word scramble, word search puzzle, crossword, matching games.

Need extra storage space at home. This might be the place for you. Drop Box

WordIQ is a dictionary and encyclopedia reference area. Try it out Wordiq

The new Bloom's Taxonomy New Bloom's with Web 2.0 Tools! The new terms are defined as: (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001, pp. 67-68)
 * **Remembering**: Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long-term memory.
 * **Understanding**: Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining.
 * **Applying**: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing, or implementing.
 * **Analyzing**: Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose through differentiating, organizing, and attributing.
 * **Evaluating**: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing.
 * **Creating**: Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing.

March 10 Workshop




 * [[file:March 10 Wiki part 1.ppt]] || [[file:March 10 Wiki part 2.ppt]] ||
 * [[file:Portaportal directions.doc]] || [[file:Wordle Directions.doc]] ||
 * [[file:Portaportal directions.doc]] || [[file:Wordle Directions.doc]] ||

[|ODE Academic Standard Site]

[]- collaborative storyboarding

Please check this out. It has short clicks to explain how things work or the facts of something. It also connects you to other sites that are in the subject areas. I encourage you to take a few minutes and review. http://www.free.ed.gov/

Educational Wikis Examples of educational Wikis, discussion, and articles.

Frustrated with Favorites disappearing? Here is the solution.
guest sign up by using [] or [|http://guest.portaportal.com/vhitchcock2]

[|21st Century Skills, Route 21]​
===A one-stop-shop for 21st century skills-related information, resources and community tools. The Partnership for 21St Century skills is a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. Incorporating the three Rs and the four Cs - critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation.===

[|Ohio Learning Communities Initiative]
A group of colleagues that come together and commit to work collaboratively; provide information, ideas, feedback, reflection, and support for their colleagues; and continuously assess and reassess community goals and activities, share expertise and resources, experience personal and collective growth, and increase the capacity to use learning technologies effectively.
 * The Ohio Learning Network Site**