Google News

Google News Timeline - Check it Out
Today, Google unveiled the Google News Timeline. The Google News Timeline could become a fantastic resource for anyone that teaches current events and or 20th - 21st Century history. The Google News Timeline allows you to search for news stories by event, a person's name, or by date. In the example below I searched for "John F. Kennedy, 11/22/63."Search results include links to stories, images, and videos. In some cases your search will yield results from archived magazines and newspapers. In my testing of the service, I found that searches for more recent events yielded more results than searches for older events.As a research tool, the best feature of the Google News Timeline is the ease with which you can find related results by dragging the timeline forward or backward with your mouse.The Google News Timeline is still in development in the Google Lab, but what they've made available thus far is a very promising tool for history teachers and students.Applications for EducationThe Google News Timeline could be a very useful research tool for history and current events students. Through the use of the timeline, students will be able to choose an event then read about the lead-up and aftermath of that event. For example, if a student picked "fall of the Berlin wall" they could use the Google News Timeline to read news accounts of the days prior to the fall of the wall and the days following the fall. The timeline will also display links to current writing on the student's chosen topic.

PD Session

What are 3 ways you might use a blog?

Audacity-Make your own sound clips!

Head to this website to make your own sound clips. Audacity® is a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. You can then import these into movie maker, powerpoint, etc. Once you record your sound clip, go to "file" and export it to save it as a WAV file. You could also record students reading from the beginning of the year and end of the year to show their growth. Any other ideas? Add them here under the comments. Have fun!
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Diigo

www.diigo.com
Check this site out to use for social bookmarking. You can share websites with others and design lists to have specific websites for students to use. Collaboration at its best!

Training Modules

Want to learn more about blogging? Wikis? GoogleDocs? VoiceThread? Head to this wiki to learn more. This is a work in progress so please feel to comment or make any suggestions.
http://flyerspd.pbwiki.com/

Classroom 2.0

Check out this website!
http://www.classroom20.com/

I am telling you now...this is dangerous! You can easily get lost here with learning about all of the cool things people are trying as they bring Web 2.0 to the classroom. Thanks Teaching Heart for recommending it to us. Feel free to share anything you learn!

From the site: "Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies in education. We especially hope that those who are 'beginners' will find this a supportive community and a comfortable place to start being part of the digital dialog."

Virtual Knee Replacement

http://www.edheads.org/activities/knee/index.htm
Check out this website to perform a virtual knee replacement.