Emily+Book

These are some helpful Wiki sites I have found for teachers and how I can use them in my classroom:

[|Twitter4TeachersWiki] This wiki was created to easily help educators find other educators on Twitter that have the same interests as them (that teach in the same content area). I can use this website to interact with other educators that teach the same grade level I do and share resources very easily.

[|ABC Learning Resources] This website has many resources to use in the classroom (many printable resources). It gives recommendations for books to read in the classroom. It also has book blurb forms that students can fill out and reflect on the book they just read to share with other students. I would like to use the book blurb forms throughout the school year, so students get familiar with recognizing genres of books, summarizing, and writing a their opinion on various books.

Cool Cat Teacher This website was developed by a teacher who teaches computer science in Georgia.She provides samplings of online webinars, keynote sessions, spotlight sessions, and other workshops she has done throughout the year. I can use this as a resource for myself. She also provides inofrmation on how to differentiate instruction using a variety of online toos (podcasts, youtube, blogs, wikis, digital movie making, etc. In addition, the teacher also has a link for great Web 2.0 websites. I think this is a great website I can come back to and get excellent ideas of how to use the different online tools in my classroom.

I would like to create a wiki for science. This wiki would focus on the various lab activities we do througout the year. Students will be able to post what they concluded about the science experiment. I will allow students to have time to do this in small groups at the end of science class. All of the students will be able to see eachother's opinion of the lab and what they liked/disliked about the activity.