On November 4, a day that will long be hailed as historic in the United States, another sort of history-making event was happening at my school. We were fortunate enough at Herricks UFSD to be visited by Will Richardson, author of the book: Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. During his talk, Mr. Richardson inspired us to think about ways in which web technologies can transform what we are already doing in our classrooms. He shared many sites and tools that will prove useful in our daily teaching. Among these "gems" are:- Will's article "Footprints in the Digital Age" from Educational Leadership.
- The "21st Century Frameworks" (what students should be learning in the 21st century)
- A blog by a young girl doing extraordinary things! twentyfivedays.wordpress.com
- Thinking about how to "get your big red dots"? Try: http://www.clustrmaps.com/
- Will's blogs: willrichardson.wikispaces.com; weblogg-ed.com
- A place to chat with other educators around the world: http://www.classroom20.com/
- Follow Will on Twitter: willrich45
- An amazing video that shows how project-based learning connected to technology can achieve amazing results - after watching this 10 minute video, you might want to think about ways in which a world language component would make the project THAT MUCH BETTER!:
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