September 25 – Top 10
Friday, September 25th, 2009 | Author:

I hope you enjoy the great resources and videos I discovered and bookmarked this week. In no particular order, I have listed my favorite top 10 sites, blog posts, and videos of the week below. Feel free to share your favorite finds of the week using the comment link found at the bottom of this post.

  1. The Differentiator – educator Ian Byrd designed this neat little online tool to help educators write learning objectives using the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. This tool has content that is similar to the Bloom’s reference tool I created, however you can click on the terms for your objective and have them become part of your statement.
  2. Spell with Flickr – this neat little generator creates fun-tastic graphic text images in a snap. Check out my sample below….
    Capital Letter F (Takoma Park, MD) letter A Educational Brick Letter R letter R
    o42 U is for Public Gardens T
    letter L i letter N letter K S
  3. Don’t Laugh at Me Video – a thought-provoking, though sad, little video I discovered on TeacherTube…
  4. It Made My Day – learn what happenings in life have made someone’s day; then, submit something that made your day, so you can make someone else’s day.
  5. Logic Problems – solve a monthly interactive logic puzzle. You can also download a .pdf version of the monthly puzzle.
  6. 100 Banned Books – Banned book week is September 26-October 3, 2009. Some of the books included on this banned book list/video may surprise you…

  7. Tag Yourself as a Twitter Teacher – Rod Lucier posted an excellent video tutorial that will help you leverage Twitter, Delicious, and Google Reader (or any other RSS reader) as you identify yourself as a teacher on Twitter and in turn make it easier to find other TwitterTeachers online.
  8. Find Sounds – search the web for sounds using this simple search engine
  9. Top Ten Google Products You Forgot All About – …or is it possible you didn’t know about them to begin with? Gina Trapanini wrote this great LifeHacker article that helps remind us that Google isn’t just for searching! :)
  10. 100 Ways to Save the Environment – (SEQL) Sustainable Environment for Quality of Life has posted excellent information relevant to teaching students all ages.

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