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Happy Thanksgiving!
On behalf of everyone here at the Jefferson County Educational Service
Center, we would like to send our best wishes for a joyous Thanksgiving
with your loved ones and friends.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
The Teacher's Corner
Monday, October 3, 2016
Five apps to help educators incorporate augmented reality
At the Augmented Reality Development Lab (ARDL),
from virtual reality developer Digital Tech Frontier, lets users
display relevant information at the appropriate time and location during
an AR experience, which results in virtual 3-D objects appearing in the
real world.
Students
and teachers look through a viewing device or at a monitor to see
virtual objects such as planets, volcanoes, the human heart, or
dinosaurs embedded within their real-world environment—and they can
interact with and manipulate those objects to receive associated
information.
Five apps to help educators incorporate augmented reality:
1. GeoGuesser:
Using a phone, tablet or computer, a player is placed in a spot
anywhere in the world using Google Maps. Exploring and looking for clues
such as geographic signs, landmarks, and climate, the player has to
guess where they are.
2. Elements 4D:
Elements 4D uses augmented reality to help students explore elements
and chemical reactions. To use the app, first print special element
blocks on standard letter-size paper in your classroom. Cut the shapes
out, follow the instructions to fold them into cubes, and glue them
together to hold them in place. Once the blocks are ready, you can hold
them in front of your device camera so the elements they represent can
be viewed in augmented reality.
3. Quiver Apps:
Students color on printed pages, then view their drawing through a
phone via the app. Drawings will come to life and can be paired with
creative writing assignments or other approaches to engage students.
4. Fetch! Lunch Rush:
In this Augmented Reality, multi-player game, you need to keep up with
lunch orders from Ruff’s movie crew. The challenge is keeping track of
how many pieces of sushi everyone wants.
5. ZooBurst: ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone create an augmented reality 3D pop-up book.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children - Article
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Article: The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children
An article describing the characteristics that differentiate gifted individuals and discussing how those characteristics affect children’s educational needs. By Linda Silverman, an expert on giftedness and testing, and speaker at Helios’ Fall 2011 event, “The Unique Inner Lives of Gifted Children: What Educators, Parents, and Therapists Should Know. Download this article.
Author Bio: Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist. She directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, and its subsidiary, the Gifted Development Center (www.gifteddevelopment.com) in Denver, Colorado. Over 6,000 children have been assessed at the Gifted Development Center in the last 32 years. She also founded Visual-Spatial Resource (www.visualspatial.org). Her Ph.D. is in educational psychology and special education from the University of Southern California. For nine years, she served on the faculty of the University of Denver in counseling psychology and gifted education. She co-chaired the NAGC Task Force on IQ Interpretation, during which research was conducted leading to extended norms on the WISC-IV. She has been studying the psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and has written over 300 articles, chapters and books, including Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner and Advanced Development: A Collection of Works on Gifted Adults.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Good Resources
20 Educational Resources for new teachers:
1. Teachers Pay
Teachers: This site offers free resources along with paid content–in
fact, sellers are required to offer free materials alongside their
fee-based materials. “There are tons of free materials,” Holden said.
2. Really Good Stuff: This
includes educational materials as well as supplies like furniture, filing
cabinets, and sticky notes.
3. Amazon, eBay, and other sites for
paid content: These sites offer fee-based educational resources and materials.
Materials can be shipped directly and these sites often work best for “physical
products” for the classroom, Holden said.
4. Google: A simple Google
search is great, Holden said, because educators can search through all the
various categories–images, videos, books, and apps. A Google image search can
lead searchers directly to resources and are often linked to Pinterest
accounts. “The great thing about the [Google] ‘videos’ search is that ALL of
the videos are free,” Holden said. Copying the embed code for a video lets
educators paste the video into their websites, blogs, or LMS.
5. Share My Lesson: Free
lesson plans for teachers, organized by grade, subject, and standard. The site
also offers professional learning resources.
6. Scholastic:
Offers resources, tools, teaching strategies, and student activities.
7. Discovery:
Resources organized by grade level and topic, with a “Teacher Picks” resource
category, too.
8. Laura Candler Educational Resources:
The creator is an educator who offers her own resources on the site, but also
curates other content for use.
9. Indiana
University – Bloomington: Resources organized by topics such as
active learning, assessments, and collaboration.
10. TES:
A research page for all grade levels, including whole-school and students with
special needs, organized by topic.
11. Web Anywhere: Teacher resources split into primary and
secondary categories, searchable by subject. This site offers some resources
from the UK.
12. SMART Exchange:
Offers searchable and editable SMART Board activities created by teachers.
13. Read Write Think: Not only
does the site have activities for educators to use with students, but the site
also offers professional development topics
14. National Geographic: This site offers lots of videos, which
often come with companion documents such as writing prompts.
15. ArtsEdge:
This site from The Kennedy Center offers a “lesson finder” to help align
resources to different art topics.
16. Education.com: Searchable
site organized by resource and age/grade.
17. We Are Teachers: This site
offers lessons and materials, tips for grant writing, a blog list, and popular
education topics.
18. Kids.gov: A federal site
for free educational resources.
19. Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence: Another federal site. Though
it retired in 2015, it offers links to other federal resources.
20. Education World: This site
offers news, blogs, teacher materials, and more.
Author: Laura Devaney is
the Director of News for eSchool Media
Thursday, May 26, 2016
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