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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
The Best Websites for Teaching and Learning honors websites, tools, and resources of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the American Association of School Librarians' Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.
New for 2012, the Top 25 Websites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
The Landmark Websites are honored due to their exemplary histories of authoritative, dynamic content and curricular relevance. They are free, web-based sites that are user-friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover and provide a foundation to support 21st-century teaching and learning.
Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning NEW FOR 2012!
Past Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning Lists
Landmark Websites for Teaching and Learning
Tools and Resources for School Librarians
Press Kitl
Nominate a Website
Best Websites for Teaching and Learning Committee 2012-2013
Donna Baratta, Chair Elizabeth Dumas
Kyle Harmon Susan Hess
Jessica Hinman Melissa Jacobs-Israel
Debra Kay Logan Catherine Nelson
Floyd Pentlin John Schumacher
Jennifer Habley, Staff Liaison
Source: AASL
Monday, January 14, 2013
Reading Rockets: www.readingrockets.org
Reviewed by Erik Miller
Features: Reading Rockets is possibly the most comprehensive reading strategies website available. It offers a multitude of research, strategies, and multimedia learning tools. It includes resources for parents, such as booklists, tips on creating a home library, tips on finding books at the right reading level for your child, and tips for reading with your child. Most importantly, it includes booklists, watch and learn videos, author study toolkits, and author interviews.
In particular, the author interviews can be useful in the classroom. The video interviews are the cheapest and fastest way for students to connect with authors before the write or read. It would be excellent to show the Marylin Singer before a poetry unit and have the students analyze what she said poetry can be. Likewise, it would be fun for students to listen to Lois Lowry’s interview about “The Giver” before or after reading it, and discuss her point of view regarding how controversial it is. Students can then decide for themselves after reading it if it controversial and should be removed from a school reading list.
To go directly to the author interview sit of Reading Rockets copy and past the following link into your URL bar: http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/
Features: Reading Rockets is possibly the most comprehensive reading strategies website available. It offers a multitude of research, strategies, and multimedia learning tools. It includes resources for parents, such as booklists, tips on creating a home library, tips on finding books at the right reading level for your child, and tips for reading with your child. Most importantly, it includes booklists, watch and learn videos, author study toolkits, and author interviews.
In particular, the author interviews can be useful in the classroom. The video interviews are the cheapest and fastest way for students to connect with authors before the write or read. It would be excellent to show the Marylin Singer before a poetry unit and have the students analyze what she said poetry can be. Likewise, it would be fun for students to listen to Lois Lowry’s interview about “The Giver” before or after reading it, and discuss her point of view regarding how controversial it is. Students can then decide for themselves after reading it if it controversial and should be removed from a school reading list.
To go directly to the author interview sit of Reading Rockets copy and past the following link into your URL bar: http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/
EarlyMoments.com
Reviewed by Johnavan Tamayo
This website and organization is dedicated to giving children the gift of reading. Earlymoments.com was founded by a group of editors and publishers, to include Julie Stan, that are educators and parents. Early Moments has been around for 45 years publishing popular titles and series such as Baby Einstein, Dr. Seuss, and Disney. It is their firm belief that reading to your children at a very young age will prove most beneficial to a lifetime of learning.
Early Moments provides 10 strategies that parents can incorporate into their routine. With each strategy it requires that the parent be enthusiastic about reading and model ideal practices. The strategies included are quite easy to incorporate. Words are everywhere, thus at every corner have children read the text in sight. Taking regular trips to the library is another way to keep children interested. This website also details games and activities parents can simply do at home with their children.
Lastly, they provide booklists of all those published under Disney, Baby Einstein, and Dr.Seuss. When you click the title it gives a detail description of the books origins, a summary, then an activity that can be performed in the home. Early Moments effectively promotes literacy, while focusing on reading at the early stages of a child’s life.
This website and organization is dedicated to giving children the gift of reading. Earlymoments.com was founded by a group of editors and publishers, to include Julie Stan, that are educators and parents. Early Moments has been around for 45 years publishing popular titles and series such as Baby Einstein, Dr. Seuss, and Disney. It is their firm belief that reading to your children at a very young age will prove most beneficial to a lifetime of learning.
Early Moments provides 10 strategies that parents can incorporate into their routine. With each strategy it requires that the parent be enthusiastic about reading and model ideal practices. The strategies included are quite easy to incorporate. Words are everywhere, thus at every corner have children read the text in sight. Taking regular trips to the library is another way to keep children interested. This website also details games and activities parents can simply do at home with their children.
Lastly, they provide booklists of all those published under Disney, Baby Einstein, and Dr.Seuss. When you click the title it gives a detail description of the books origins, a summary, then an activity that can be performed in the home. Early Moments effectively promotes literacy, while focusing on reading at the early stages of a child’s life.
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