One of the benefits of my job is that I occasionally (okay, often) get sucked into the Internet and usually end up discovering something worthwhile. This is a common scenario: Mike sends me an email with a link to something cool he read or found online (yes, many of my best ideas are really courtesy of Mike Maryanski--thanks, Mike!). I check it out when I find a window of time. From there anything can happen. Today, it started with a interactive site where news is hosted by ants. (Yes, you read that right: ants.) I played around with it for a bit, then I forwarded it to some of our primary teachers for their review and possible use. Then, I revistited the blog where Mike had found the reference to the ant anchors, and that's when I found this little gem (actually it's a pretty big gem, I think) for you:
Interactives, produced by Annenberg Media (they are bigwigs).
To quote Kelly Tenkely's review at the
iLearn Technology blog: "Interactives is a truly amazing website for teachers and students. Interactives provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students’ skills in a variety of curricular areas including math, literature and language, science, history, and the arts. The site has great webquest/interactive activities on a variety of subjects for first through twelfth grades." Interactives is part of the
Annenberg Media Learner.org site which offers "Teacher professional development and teacher resources across the curriculum" (to quote them). After spending just a few minutes clicking around, I realized there's a wealth of high quality resources here for teachers and students.
So check it* out and add your two cents' worth below. Did you find something you can use? What?
*By "it" you can choose
Interactives, the
iLearn Technology blog, or the
Learner.org site.
For those of you who won't be able to resist emailing me to get the link to the news-reporting ants:
http://www.whatsyournews.com/index.html
How about that? An entire post with no reference to Google. :) Have a good week!
