Build Your Own Curriculum - this site is beneficial for students, parents, administrators and teachers. For students, this site helps them view the standards they’re expected to learn and master, see class activities, and access the resources they'll need to complete their work. For parents, they can view curriculum, assignments, and standards from home, work, or your community library. For administrators, they can have access to the information they need to help shape curriculum, to fulfill their role as instructional leader. For teachers, it makes resources readily accessible and it makes it easy for teachers to update and customize their lesson plans in alignment with your district's standards and expectations.
Wise Mapping - this site allows students to build concept maps in every subject that can be used as study aids and it helps the teacher be able to provide a visual for students which is especially helpful for difficult content.
Targeted Learning Assessments - this web based resource identifies gaps and then guides students through award-winning differentiated instruction, interactive activities and practice in order to fill in these skill gaps and bring students back to grade level.
Word/Tag Clouds
Using word or tag clouds allow students to analyze their own writing. By using a word or tag cloud, a student can easily see if the main points displayed in the cloud match the main points they hoped to cover or convey in their writing. Word or tag clouds are really helpful as a tool that gets students to break their work down and see aspects that they could change. It’s also visually more interesting, which really helps make it a useful exercise for perceiving new things about what you’ve written. Putting a draft into a tag cloud means that you can see if the actual composition of your text matches what you want it to say. Word or tag clouds can be used to help all learning styles gain a better understanding of text by emphasizing the main points in an easy to understand graphic.
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking has opened the door to new ways of organizing information and categorizing resources. Tagging information resources with keywords has the potential to change how information is stored and found. It is my belief that remembering how to retrieve information using a framework created by and shared with peers and colleagues will become the wave of the future. Social bookmarking makes the process of distributing reference lists, papers and other resources to students, peers and colleagues more simplified.
