Technology Resources

Three great new technology resources you can use:

1. Open Educational Resources Commons
Their blurb says: "OERs are teaching and learning materials that are freely available online for use by everyone, including instructors, students, or self-learners. The site's mission is to provide a single point of access through which educators, students, and all other types of learners can search for, browse, evaluate, and discuss these resources."

Look at the resources at: http://www.oercommons.org/

On the site, you can search bycategories or collections, subject area or grade level. You can create your personal portfolio where you can easily access materials you specify.

2. School Web Lockers are web-based storage “lockers” for users to store school related files that can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection. Each student is given 100MB of storage while teachers and administrators get 1GB. Many schools are now finding these lockers an excellent solution. Students are constantly struggling with a place to store file for a length of time. A teacher can simply upload one document and post it in every student’s locker instead of making some 30 copies of the same assignment. In turn, students can complete the assignment on the computer and upload the document into the homework due folder, which is then sent directly to the teacher. Files never override each other, so if 20 students turn in an assignment called homework1, all 20 files will appear in the teacher’s locker as homework1. Each document has the user’s name next to it and the date it was uploaded. It’s a paperless work of art.

http://www.schoolweblockers.com/

3. Curriculum Wikipedia - Curriki

Another open curriculum resource. Teachers from all over the world is using it to post curriculum units. It takes time to delve through, and sometimes the lessons are not appropriate for US students if itis written in other countries, but grear source of ideas.

http://www.curriki.org/