NECC+Resources

__Some ideas and gems from NECC__
 * Sessions:**

[center_uoregon_edu]
 * "Never Lecture Again"** - Landmark teaching methods using Vodcasting. Students watch vodcasts containing direct instruction at home, while class time is spent in hands-on activities and directed problem solving. http://snipurl.com/2s71f


 * "Online tools for Reading Comprehension Instruction"** Wonderful website to help students learn more about 8 key comprehension strategies: visualizing, summarizing, synthesizing, inferring, evaluating, questioning, prior knowledge & making connections. [|click here to visit the site.] more tools and ideas: http://www.ecb.org/

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 * "21st Century poetry slam"** - learning about and writing poetry online: http://snipurl.com/2s72p

http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/
 * "Wonderful world of Wikis"** - Lots of ideas for education/classroom use of wikis

[|From Comics to Trading Cards: Teaching New Literacies Using ReadWriteThink.org]

using the MAC OS server to provide templates for students to use to create projects using Keynote then blogging about each classmates ideas. [|ali.apple.com]: Apple Learning Interchange
 * Apple - "Thriving in a Digital learning Environment"**

Republic R-3 School District, Republic MO lot of examples of how these teachers, 3rd-6th grade bring the content alive e-mail: kwelch@mail.republic.k12.mo.us
 * "Making Kidspiration and Inspiration work for YOU"**

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 * CREST project**: Teaching Cognitive Reading Strategies through WebQuests:

**Food for thought:** "Policies 2.0: Rules for the Social Web"
http://www.doug-johnson.com/dougwri/rules.html

Netrekker D.I. - adding a new feature called Hot Math; Hot math is a middle school through high school resorces that links to most of the current textbooks so that students can practice problems that link to a page form the text book - all the odd numbered problems are posted.
 * Resources:**

PROFESSOR GARFIELD: [|www.SparkTop.org] Interactive K-8 resources

Excel in Math: [|IXL.com] reasonably priced (199.00 per year for 30 students) gives in school and home access to interactive activities to remediate or enhance math skills. standards based & comprehensive reports