Western Maine
Tools for Learning
Workshop


Essential Question: How can we integrate tools into the classroom to improve student learning?

"We desperately need . . . we may not survive without . . . a generation of young people who are imaginative, inventive, fearless learners, and compassionate leaders. Yet, what can we say, as educators, about the students we are producing? We can prove that they can read, do basic math on paper, and they are able to sit for hours filling in bubble sheets.  No generation in history has ever been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age."

http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/02/16/happy-birthday-jude/



Literacy


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Sign-in, Connectivity, Icebreaker, KWL



•  Processing
Icebreaker Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/icebreaker.html
Trust Building Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/trustbuilding.html
Community Building Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/communitybuilding.html
Team Building Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/teambuilding.html
Listening Skills Resources   http://region6.mainelearns.org/listeningskills.html
Active Listening Resources   http://region6.mainelearns.org/activelistening.html
Diversity Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/Diversity.html
Learning Styles Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/LearningStyles.html


•  Creating and Consuming Text

•  Introducing the Book  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

•   Reading Tools

Starfall Reading  http://www.starfall.com/       
Phonics Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/phonics.html
Book Report Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/bookreport.html
Reading Fluency Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/readingfluency.html
Children's Literature Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/childrenlit.html
Readers' Theater Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/readerstheater.html

•  Writing Tools

Writing Prompts  http://region6.mainelearns.org/writingprompts.html
Descriptive Writing Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/descriptivewriting.html
Persuasive Writing Resources  http://rehttp://region6.mainelearns.org/persuasivewriting.html
Writing Transitions Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/writingtransitions.html
Resources for Publishing Student Writing  http://region6.mainelearns.org/publishingstudentwriting.html
Sharing Writing Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/sharingwriting.html
Resources for Writing Biographies  http://region6.mainelearns.org/writingbiographies.html
Who Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/who.html
Idea Generators  http://region6.mainelearns.org/ideagenerators.html
Grammar Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/grammar.html
Newspaper in the Classroom Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/newspapersclassroom.html
Friendly Letter Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/friendlyletter.html
eText Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/etext.html


• Collaborative Tools (Web 2.0) (Read/Write Web)

Web-Based Collaborative Word Processors  http://region6.mainelearns.org/collaboratewp.html
Blogging Resources   http://region6.mainelearns.org/blogging.html


Online Learning Environments    http://region6.mainelearns.org/onlineclassenviron.html

•   Literacy Across the Curriculum  http://region6.mainelearns.org/literacyacrosscurriculum.html

•   Creating and Consuming Visuals

•  Desktop Publishing

Appleworks Drawing and Painting
Pages

•  Creating Slideshows


Slideshow Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/slideshow.html
Presentation Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/presentation.html
Appleworks Presentation Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/applepresentation.html
Keynote Presentation Resources  
Powerpointlessness  http://region6.mainelearns.org/powerpointlessness.html
Clip Art Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/clipart.html
Photo Resources   http://region6.mainelearns.org/photoresources.html

Creating and Consuming Audio

•  Sound Studio & Audacity

Sound Studio Resources
Audacity Resources

•  Readers' Theater http://region6.mainelearns.org/readerstheater.html 

•  Podcasting

Podcasting Resources  http://region6.mainelearns.org/podcasting.html
Podcasting Examples


• Skype  http://www.skype.com/download/
• Free and Inexpensive Software  http://region6.mainelearns.org/software.html


•  Creativity & Education

Kids & Creativity -  Sir Ken Robinson  http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66


•  Review, KWL & Closing


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MLTI/eMINTS in the Western Maine Region
Send feedback to Jim Burke, MLTI/eMINTS Trainer/Mentor
JBurke@MaineLearns.org

Last updated: July 1, 2007