Thinkfinity Tools for the 21st Century Classroom

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1 Introductions
2 Wow
3 Thinkfinity Overview
4 Managing the Big Gulp from the Firehose
5 Types of Educational Resources Available
6 Partner Site Navigation
- 6.1 Thinkfinity Partner Sites
7 Search
8 Integration
9 Closure
- 9.1 Registration and Post Session Survey

[edit] Introductions

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10 Minutes

Who are you?
What do you teach?
What "standard focus" do you have in mind?
- Use the Venn Diagram to collect the teachers' standard focus

Venn Diagram Creator

[edit] Wow

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10 Minutes

[edit] Social Studies

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National Geographic Xpeditions Atlas

[edit] Language Arts Teachers

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Venn Diagram Creator

[edit] Science Teachers

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Google

[edit] Math Teachers

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Google

[edit] Elementary Teachers

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Homophones with PBS Kids.

[edit] High School Teachers

National Geographic Xpeditions Atlas

Thinkfinity resources can enhance teaching and learning by:

Promoting discovery learning
Increasing student engagement
Making content relevant by providing primary source material
Providing additional resources not available in textbooks
Providing opportunities for students to practice skills independently
Providing opportunities for teacher and studnets to interact with technology while focusing on content and resources
Promoting 21st Century Skills in the classroom

[edit] Thinkfinity Overview

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10 Minutes

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[edit] Introduce Thinkfinity

[edit] Review the Thinkfinity Content Partners

ArtsEdge - The Kennedy Center for the Fine Arts
EconEdlink - National Council on Economic Education
EdSitement - National Endowment for the Humanities
Illuminations - National Council on Teaching Mathematics
National Geographic Xpeditions - National Geographic
Read Write Think - International Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English
Science Netlinks - American Association for the Advancement of Science
National Museum of American History - Smithsonian

[edit] Learn Different Navigation Strategies

[edit] Create and Integration Plan

[edit] Managing the Big Gulp from the Firehose

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30 Minutes

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Activity: Registering for Bookmarking With Del.icio.us
Register accounts with http://del.icio.us.

[edit] Types of Educational Resources Available

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20 Minutes

[edit] Learning Objects <tag: learningobjects>

Content developed directly by Thinkfinity content partners.

Printable Maps from National Geographic Xpeditions (Offline Resources)
Example 2

[edit] Weblinks <tag: weblinks>

Stuff linked from partner sites outside on the Internet.

Homophones

[edit] Lesson Plans <tag: lessonplans>

Example 1
Example 2

[edit] Partner Site Navigation

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90 Minutes

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Activity: Exploring Partner Sites
Explore the partner sites listed below. As you explore, use del.icio.us to bookmark and tag favorite resources. Follow the tagging of <learningobjects>, <weblinks>, and <lessonplans> along with however else you choose to tag what you find.

[edit] Thinkfinity Partner Sites

ArtsEdge - The Kennedy Center for the Fine Arts
EconEdlink - National Council on Economic Education
EdSitement - National Endowment for the Humanities
Illuminations - National Council on Teaching Mathematics
National Geographic Xpeditions - National Geographic
Read Write Think - International Reading Association, National Council of Teachers of English
Science Netlinks - American Association for the Advancement of Science
National Museum of American History - Smithsonian

[edit] Search

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30 Minutes

[edit] Thinkfinity.org Overview

[edit] Basic & Advanced Search

[edit] Browse by Topic Area

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[edit] Hands On Search

[edit] Integration

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30 Minutes

[edit] The Plan

[edit] Independent Work on the Plan

[edit] Report Out

[edit] Closure

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20 Minutes

Put some cool webbing tool to diagram what people learned today.

[edit] Registration and Post Session Survey

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Activity: Registration and Survey
We need to register you with Thinkfinity and complete the session followup survey.

Click here to register yourself for free as having taken a Thinkfinity workshop.
Click here to complete the Thinkfinity post-session survey.

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Thinkfinity Tools for the 21st Century Classroom

From Shifted Learning

Contents

[edit] Introductions

[edit] Wow

[edit] Social Studies

[edit] Language Arts Teachers

[edit] Science Teachers

[edit] Math Teachers

[edit] Elementary Teachers

[edit] High School Teachers

[edit] Thinkfinity Overview

[edit] Introduce Thinkfinity

[edit] Review the Thinkfinity Content Partners

[edit] Learn Different Navigation Strategies

[edit] Create and Integration Plan

[edit] Managing the Big Gulp from the Firehose

[edit] Types of Educational Resources Available

[edit] Learning Objects <tag: learningobjects>

[edit] Weblinks <tag: weblinks>

[edit] Lesson Plans <tag: lessonplans>

[edit] Partner Site Navigation

[edit] Thinkfinity Partner Sites

[edit] Search

[edit] Thinkfinity.org Overview

[edit] Basic & Advanced Search

[edit] Browse by Topic Area

[edit] Hands On Search

[edit] Integration

[edit] The Plan

[edit] Independent Work on the Plan

[edit] Report Out

[edit] Closure

[edit] Registration and Post Session Survey

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