Resources Shared in CTL1799 Summer 2007
Holistech2007 Resource Sub-conference
Group Discussion Resources
The resources here are in no particular order - it will be a bit like rummaging through a second hand shop to see what you can find - then you can create your own resource page or file with favorites and/or bookmarks to get you to the goodies you've selected. If you have others that came up for you in postings in other parts of the course that you think might belong in this collection, please send them to me - thanks, Selia skarsten@oise.utoronto.ca
Holistech2007
http://scholar.google.com/
It is a test or beta system to find scholarly resources. It's
good to use it in conjunction with the UofT libraries and scholar's portal.
It has many books (not all pages available) online. The search
function really great for the books. For example, I may have a book,
but sometimes the index may not help me as much as searching the text electronically.
I can also see sample chapters before purchasing a book.
I sent this video to my team but realized everyone could benefit from
seeing it. It really puts technology in the classroom into perspective.
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnh9q_cQcUE
Children of my Heart by Gabrielle Roy. It's the story of a teenage
teacher living in the 1930's and her relationship with her students.
Debbie Miller's Reading with Meaning. For those of you who are
primary teachers this book is the key to helping our students comprehend
what they are reading.
This article from the Toronto Sun was another stark reminder of how much work we need to do as parents and teachers to protect ourselves and our loved ones. There is no doubt that children do not tell their families everything, so reading that 50% of children have email addresses their parents do not know of did not shock me. Good article to read. http://www.torontosun.com/Comment/2007/08/04/4393054-sun.html
http://www.kinsa.net/. As both a parent and an educator, it seems to be a good site to spend some time on, and to use at school, especially the section under Resources, Links, Internet 101 - a teenager tells his story of how his blog was used against him. It has Canadian information for teenagers and younger age groups, plus for parents as well.
http://www.teachertube.com - like youtube but for use with kids and teachers
http://www.wikimindmap.org/ - this presents a visual mind map of wikipedia references. See an example at Joan' blog that I follow. http://eduspaces.net/vinall/weblog/182318.html
http://www.visuwords.com/ is another visual tool... A visual dictionary that would be great on the Smartboard. You just type in a word and a concept map pops up with related words.
http://www.instructionalintelligence.ca/ is a great site to look at for general information about what Instructional Intelligence is and all the components that make it up - check it out! Its a real friendly site.
I found this site for free graphics that some folks might like. They are all kind of a 'cute-sy' variety of country-style pictures, so they certainly won't fit for the purposes of all...but for the elementary teachers in the crowd they may be suitable someday, or for other purposes. http://www.countryclipart.com/home.htm
Are you truly up to date to learning technologies? The following site
gives you a good overview of what are the 23 things to do for using Web
2.0 tools. This activity is very interactive and easy to follow. I have
to admit that i haven't tried the Flicker yet, but will soon. I think this
activity can generate some thoughts of the potential of using technology
for future teaching. Enjoy!
http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/
If you are using blogger, this step is needed after you have added the
tag code in the body of your postings:
http://www.technorati.com/developers/ping/blogger.html
https://www.utorid.utoronto.ca/
When I was setting up my UTORid, and actually trying to figure out
what a UTORid is, I found this link really helpful. From here you
can get basic information, activate your account, verify that your account
exists, change your password, and get links to help if you need it.
Maybe this is basic information but until I spent time searching for it
I didn't know.
The resource that I am sharing is geared towards Math teachers. It is from Utah State University, but their expectations are similar to the Ontario curriculum. The site catagorizes online Math activities by strand and by grade level. Check it out!! http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.htm
Two really interesting education sites. A Bronx teacher has an
interesting site at: http://madtedious.blogspot.com/
(if you scroll down, she's added some great information on autism!)
http://www.rethinkingschools.org
There's lots of compelling stats and information about kids falling
behind, the limits of state-wide testing, etc.
Ideas in literacy. It is called Choice Literacy and provides innovative
high quality resources for K - 12 literacy leaders/teachers. It also has
teacher study groups and information on teaching reading, Writing, ELL
and much more. Check it out.
http://www.choiceliteracy.com
Also this site provides 50 Writing Tools and podcasts on elements of writing. Cool! http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=78&aid=103943
If anyone is interested in setting up a guestbook, survey or feedback section to their web sites, you may want to check out http://surveymonkey.com/. This tool allows you to set up a simple or complex questionnaire or survey without having to house it on your local server. You can add it as a link from your web site. You can join for free for a basic, although fairly good service. I use the pay option at work, but for the purposes of this course, the free version is more than adequate.
Kids Click! It is an annotated searchable directory of websites created for kids by librarians. You can search by subject, reading level and degree of picture content. It is important to note that the site states "KidsClick! is not an Internet filter. It does not prevent client web browsers from being used to surf any URL address that the user inputs. It is intended to guide users to good sites; not block them from "bad" sites. However, it could be used in conjunction with a filter product where law allows filters to be used". In addition, the site does not accept advertising as they do not believe that children should be targeted with marketing. It's a great start for the students who were learning how to search on the internet. Check it out! http://www.kidsclick.org/
A website that's very popular with ESL teachers, especially internationally. Find ideas for games or activities to do with students: http://www.eslcafe.com/
An other survey tool is also cool. It allows survey, assessment, course based, password protected, one student one access -- for free. And it is a project of MERLOT Classics! Have fun with it. http://www.getfast.ca/
I really find this site fun and very interesting. There is a link to each country in the world and when you select a country you are provided with a variety of search engines which can be read in the language associated with that country. http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
Math teachers will surely enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLuhPBuy6-0
Originally created for students for study week - you may find a few of these work for you as well. http://astralsite.com/learn/learningfun.html
Dewitt Jones and his article "Seeing the Ordinary as Extraordinary"
is a true winner!
http://www.dewittjones.com/html/seeing_the_ordinary.shtml
http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/Resources/schools.htm
This site links to lots of articles (also videos) that relate
to the use of technology in classrooms.
For Information Management and Curriculum Design
*Website design: Google: setup a g-mail account, then Google page Creator
*Book: Curriculum Perspectives and Practice by Jack Miller and
Wayne Seller (recommended as providing some insight into what holistic
education is)
"Sabbath" by Wayne Muller (tips on how to find rhythm in busy lives)
Learning & Leading with Technology; http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/ec/~nozawa/LLWT.html
Orbit Magazine http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/orbit/
ENCOUNTER:Education for meaning and Social Justice @http://great-ideas.org/enc_contents.htm
"nothing is perfect" site (Winnie Hunsburger's Individual project)
http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~whunsburger/NothingisPerfect/
Holistic Approaches to Second Language Education (though the contrast in the text colours is not wonderful) http://leo.oise.utoronto.ca/~vanessa/Earth/
Community and Collaboration
Communities and the Internet - http://www.astralsite.com/Community/index.html
· Savery, J. R., & Duffy, T. M. (1995). Problem based learning:
An instructional model and its constructivist framework. Educational Technology,
35(5), 31-37.
· Rau, W., & Heyl, B. S. (1990). Humanizing the college
classroom; Collaborative learning and social organization among students.
Teaching Sociology, 18(2), 141-55
· Nelson, C. E. (1994). Critical thinking and collaborative
learning. New-Directions-for-Teaching-and-Learning, 59(Fall), 45-58.
· Bosworth, K. (1994). Developing collaborative skills in college
students. New Directions in Teaching and Learning(59), 25-31.
· Miller, J. P. (1994). The contemplative practitioner. Toronto:
OISE Press.
· Gates, B. (1995). The road ahead (Myhrvold, N. Rinearson,
P., Trans.). New York: Viking Penguin.
· Brooks, J. G., & Brooks, M. G. (1993). In search of understanding:
The case for constructivist classrooms. Alexandria, VA: Association for
Supervision and Curriculum Development.
Barab: Designing and building and on-line Community
http://online.oise.utoronto.ca/webkf/Holistic%20Approaches%20to%20Technology%20%28Sum%2007%29/PersonalFolder/bsherry/Barab
The Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat has a ton of information on their website about DI. Also, Google Carol Ann Tomlinson who is the guru of DI. http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/moreinfo.html
The ebook, authors are Gay Fawcett and Margarete Juliana, Kent State
University, 2002
Title: Chapter 4: Teaching in the Digital Age: "Teaching as You Were
Taught" Won't Work.
In Designing Instruction for Technology-Enhanced Learning by
Patricia L. Rogers (ed)
http://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html
Howard Gardner into the mix. http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm
Gardner again: the title is The Ethical Mind:
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0703B&referral=2342
Carl Bereiter's theory of knowledge building from Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age a lot. For more information please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Bereiter
http://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html
http://dini.org/
http://www.outwardbound.ca/results.asp?Category=31&gclid=CK6p26CWsY0CFQyIPgodyh480g
http://www.ru.org/artwomho.html
http://www.takingitglobal.org/
http://www.alphasmart.com/k12/K12_Products/dana-w_K12.html
Reflection and Evaluation
http://astralsite.com/1799/assessment.html - assessment resources
· Cameron, J. (1996). Vein of gold: A journey to your creative
heart. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
· Glickman, W. (1995). The physics of higher education. Holistic
Education Review, 8(3), 23-37.
· Jacobson, J. M. (1989, April 6-8, 1989). Writing a conversation;
Journals in the college classroom. Paper presented at the Conference of
the National Council of Teachers of English, Charleston, SC.
· Kerka, S. (1996). Journal writing and adult learning (071;073
EDO-CE-96-174). Columbus, OH: Eric Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and
Vocational Education.
· Lin, X., Bransford, J. D., Himelo, C. E., Kantor, R. J., Hickey,
D. T., Secules, T., Petrosino, A. J., Goldman, S. R., & Vanderbilt),
T. C. a. T. G. a. (1995). Instructional design and development of learning
communities: An invitation to a dialogue. Educational Technology, 35(5),
53-63.
· Marshall, H. H. (1990). Metaphor as an instructional tool
in encouraging student teacher reflection. Theory in to Practice, 29(2),
128-32.
· Miller, J. P. (1993). The holistic teacher. Toronto: OISE
Press.
· Munby, H., & Russell, T. (1990). Metaphor in the study
of teachers' professional knowledge. Theory into Practice, 29(2), 116-121.
· Simpson, J. (1996). Constructivism and connection making in
art education. Art Education(January).
Baird, J. (2004). Interpreting the what, why and how of self-study in teaching and teacher education. In J. Loughran, M. L. Hamilton, V. K. LaBoskey & T. Russell (Eds.), International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices (pp. 1443-1481). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Dewey, J. (1933). How we think. A restatement of the relations of reflective thinking to the educative process. Boston: D.C. Heath.
Loughran, J. (2007). Researching teacher education practices: responding to the challenges, demands, and expectations of self-study. Journal of Teacher Education,, 58(1), 12-20. Loughran2007.pdf
Osterman, K.F. & Kottamp, R.B. (2004). Reflective practice for educators. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Sense, J. C. (2004). Teach to learn. Studying Teacher Education, 1(1), 43-54. Senese2005-teach-to-learn.pdf
Schon, D. (1987). Educating the reflective practitioner. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Hatton1995.pdf
Courseware and Learning Management Systems
"OnLine Conferencing as Learner and Teacher - a Reflective Experience" http://www.astralsite.com/learn/1602play.html
BlackBoard http://www.blackboard.com - the courseware used throughout the University of Toronto
WebCT - http://www.webct.com/ - now owned by BlackBoard - used by many institutions of higher learning
Edventure (freeware) - http://edventure.brynmawr.edu/docs/
Academic Information Systems (AcIS) and
Columbia University - new system launched Spring 2002 -
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/news/courseworks-10-2001.html?print
Web Knowledge Forum http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/ec/disted/webkf_help/index.html - used at OISE/UT
American Distance Education Consortium's list of courseware - http://www.adec.edu/courseware.html
Web Courseware Comparisons - http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/courseware/compare.html
Comparison of Online Course Delivery Software Products http://www.marshall.edu/it/cit/webct/compare/comparison.html
Course managment Systems - Edutools - http://www.edutools.info/index.jsp?pj=1
Resource Centre for Academic Technology at the University of Toronto - http://content.library.utoronto.ca/rcat/ - offers workshops and resources
Example of an 8 Lesson Course for Teachers in Unit Studies at the Suite 101 site for free online courses - http://www.suite101.com/course.cfm/17333/seminar
Designing Web-Based Training - http://www.designingwbt.com/
MIT Open Courseware Site - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
http://www.astralsite.com/teach/happyhybrid.html
http://www.astralsite.com/astralsiteprojects.html
About hybrid teaching.
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/
An overview of existing educational technologies.
http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub
A site to see new tools for teaching and communicating.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnectpro/
Breeze: a macromedia web conferencing tool for synchronous class interaction.
http://www.elluminate.com/
Software for e-learning and teaching, allowing live conferencing.
http://www.squeak.org/
Open source object-oriented programming.
http://moodle.org/
http://www.atutor.ca/
Various LMS's.
http://scratch.mit.edu/
A LMS for young learners. A programming language that works like "lego
blocks" allowing users to snap music, art, audio and video together. Also
allows for file sharing and networking.
http://www.yackpack.com
A program for recording and sending audio messages. ("Yackpack").
http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337
An example of teachers who used a "yackpack".
Guest Speaker (Head and Heart) - Seeta Nyary's links - http://home.oise.utoronto.ca/~snyary/HeartHolism.htm
Discussion Links
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6233429.stm
Article about Peuplade, an online community that connects people in
Paris
http://www.meetup.com/
A site where people can join special interest groups and then the groups
meet f2f
http://www.teachertube.com
Information media resource specifically for teachers
3 social networks for teachers:
http://eduspaces.net/
http://classroom20.ning.com/
http://tappedin.org/tappedin/
http://www.albumoftheday.com/facebook/
A short presentation that brings to light some of the security risks/concerns
of using facebook
The 6 Myths of Creativity http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/89/creativity.html
The Way back Machine http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
(You put in a web address and it shows all the different versions of
the site in years gone by)
Alan November http://www.novemberlearning.com
Throat singing http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/inuit.htm
Book: The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School by Rachel Kessler (2000) available through ASCD
Storybook by artist and author Peter Reynolds called 'The Dot'. It's part of a trilogy he's written about creativity- http://www.peterhreynolds.com/dot/index.html
Book: Computers as Theatre by Brenda Laurel
Ken Robinson - Out of Our Minds
Created August 18, 2007