Upper+School+Interests

Please contribute something of interest for teaching upper school students here. [|Great Powerpoint Collection] Don't be put off by the elementary-looking portal here. I just found some great ppt's for AP here. Lots of ELA choices. KHJ

[|Ms. Effie (33 years in the classroom)] This woman has posted gobs of assignments, links, etc. for use in any English class. Love it. KHJ

[|NNDB - Tracking the Entire World]: According to their website, " NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.). But it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been associating with. Eventually, we will have synopses and analyses of creative works by the people in the database, including their books, films, and recordings." It's sort of like "7 Degrees of Kevin Bacon," only more profound and better for research. You can make Flash-based maps that trace facts about one author, organization, etc., or link several together by their backgrounds, works, etc. // **Watch the intro film, and do their Start activities. They will help.** // [|VG: Voices from the Gaps. Women Artists and Writers of Color, An International Website] - This website provides multiple resources (recordings, images, interviews, blogs, etc.) about artists and writers put together by a group of scholars and accessed by students and teachers across the web and the world. CDV

100 Essential Web 2.0 tools for Teachers - though a few of these I know many are already familiar with, there are some good ones I thought some might like to check out! CLB

100 Twitter Feeds to Make You a Better Teacher - a list of many resources tied into Twitter. CLB