Arielle

[|Arielle's Blog]

This is my first "wiki" entry. My blog exists through wordpress.com. Wordpress is a blogging community in which users can share their thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Through wordpress, the user can create a blog for free, choose a theme, adjust the settings, and begin making entries. This site would be helpful to encourage students to write because it also gives goals for a number of posts. It offers inspirational quotes concerning writing as well.

Arielle and Kalli's Podcast

__My Second Wordle (Psalm 25:12)__ __Word Cloud (Some of My Favorite Things)__ []
 * Why study history? Here are a few answers to your question!**
 * My first I-Movie:**

[|Arielle's Blog] This is my first "wiki" entry. My blog exists through wordpress.com. Wordpress is a blogging community in which users can share their thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Through wordpress, the user can create a blog for free, choose a theme, adjust the settings, and begin making entries. This site would be helpful to encourage students to write because it also gives goals for a number of posts. It offers inspirational quotes concerning writing as well.

[|Pinterest] This is a website on which one can share just about anything. Users can share pictures that are linked to recipes, quotes, or creative projects. They can “pin” these pictures onto their own “boards” or others’ “boards.” When the user logs onto Pinterest, the homepage contains various projects, recipes, clothing ideas, and so forth that his/her “friends” have posted. This website is so helpful for sharing creative ideas with one “click” of a button!

[|All About Explorers (Teaching Internet Validity)] This website is a tool for teaching internet validity to students. It appears to be a regular website containing helpful information on all famous explorers, such as Balboa, Columbus, Cabot, and da Gama. However, as one reads the description for each explorer, the text contains some very inaccurate information. If the student is not paying attention and reading everything, the website appears to be credible. It is not. This would be a great tool to use as an anticipatory set to a lesson on internet validity.

[|Use the Internet to Spread the Gospel] This website is a great resource for inspirational Christian thought videos, music videos, short interviews on topics, and so forth. It is a site that was formed to counter Youtube.com, providing a resource for Christians to share faith encouragement with each other and with the outside world. I would use this site for a morning opening if I taught in a Christian school.

[|Bulletin Boards, Lesson Plans, Etc.] This website is a resource for starter ideas with lesson plans, bulletin boards, worksheets, and projects that teachers all over the United States. Teachers can also participate in free showcases by entering their students’ work. The only two apparent disadvantages to this website are the advertisements for various websites that are inserted between teacher entries and the fact that teachers describe their lesson plans and projects but don’t usually display an example.

[|Animoto.com] This is a website that creates a video/slide-show of your pictures and text. It offers various backgrounds and song selections, but you may also upload your own. Animoto then takes everything you have uploaded and works to produce a quality video that is ‘unbranded.’ In other words, Animoto does not require its own logo on the video for copyright purposes.

[|Smilebox.com] This website seems similar to Animoto.com. The user can create anything from a picture video with music, calendars, and recipe cards to newsletters, scrapbooks, and invitations. It is free to download the program. This would also be great to create videos of pictures involving the subject area being studied.

[|Hope in the Lord!] This website is an encouraging site for Christian women. It offers a free daily verse and devotional. There are also personal testimonies, recommendations for Bible studies, and book reviews. The unique aspect of this site is that it is kept by Christian women who live in the Omaha area and have families of their own. They are easier to relate to because they share their struggles, their triumphs, and their hearts for the Christian faith.

[|Geographical Adventures]

This is a good resource to add some materials to a geography or world history lesson. It gives the outline of lesson plans for the following countries/places: Arctic, Australia and New Zealand, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador and the Galapagos, England and France, the Grand Canyon, Italy and Greece, London and Paris, South Africa, Washington D.C. and Yellowstone. It also offers clips concerning history, culture, and interesting sights for each place.

[|Turn It In!]

This website is a place where both teachers and students can turn in student work to be reviewed. The site will conduct a search for plagiarized material and will indicate how much and what material appears to be plagiarized. Another benefit of the site is that students can turn in their work to be peer-reviewed by other students.

[|My Web 2.0 project- Animoto Video]

[|My Web 2.0 project- Voki]