Primary Sources from World Digital Library

 

A couple of Septembers ago I posted about this great site for primary sources.  To see the post click here.

There is a search box in the middle of the page but at the top left hand corner there is a drop down menu titled "Explore".  You will then have the choice to search by Place, Time Period, Topic, Type of Item, Language, Institution.  The other icons at the top are Timelines (which has a WWI timeline), Interactive Maps and lastly Themes.  

Factitious - Fake News or Alternate Facts

 

I posted about this site back in October 2018 (click here).  They now have a pandemic version of their site.  The website gives a news-story with its source and your job is to decide whether it is real or fake news.  I believe with what is happening south of the border this is very topical.  To see the website click here. 

Newspaper Map

 

Similar to last weeks Novels On Location, Newspaper Map shows you the map of the world.  You can zoom into a location and then click on the purple button to get the name of the newspaper there.  You can then click on that newspaper to read it.  You can also click up in the top left hand corner and put in the location you are interested in.  To see the website click here.

Metaphorically Speaking

 Good Friday morning.  Here is a little something for your English class.

Have a great weekend.

Novels On Location

 

Novels On Location is a website that allows you  to search the world map for novels that are located in a location that you are interested about.  You can click on the feather that is located on the location you are interested in and a text box will pop up to describe the book.  You can also query in the search box at the top.  To see the website click here.

Word Clouds

 

Yesterday I posted about "3 participation strategies for live video instruction".  One of the ideas is using Word Clouds.  I strongly suggest using Word Art.  I have posted in the past about Word Clouds.  Click here to see the previous posts.   To use Word Art click here.

3 Participation Strategies for Live Video Instruction

 

The following article from Edutopia has 3 strategies to help you with your online classroom and student engagement.  To see the article by Monica Burns click here.

image by elizabethpyle / Twenty20

Convert a PDF to a Fillable PDF by PDFescape

Last week I posted about Teacher Made to edit a pdf.  To see that post click here.  It works fine but if your students are not in a Google Classroom or do not have a Google account you  might be able to get what you need from this site.  I found a site that is free and your students don't need a Google account.  To see the site click here.  Watch my video below.

Phet - Online Science and Math Simulations

 

I have previously blogged about Phet in the past.  To see the posts click here.  I thought that with the school year starting off virtually in many places this might be a great site for you to look at if you have not before.   To see the website click here.

Moviesonmap - videos from around the world

 

This is a new site that has videos about a location that you can click on that are on a map.    See the image below.

To see the website click here.

Whiteboard Chat - Virtual Collaboration

 

If you need to do some online collaboration with your students you might want to try this website by clicking here.  Whiteboard Chat might be something you can use in a virtual math class where you want students to show you or the class their work or if you want to sketch or draw something for your class. 

Teacher Made - Make your documents digital and editable

 

When we first went into lockdown during the global pandemic I know many teachers were having a hard time converting their hard copies into something that could easily be used by their students to work with and submit.  With Teacher Made you can easily convert pdfs or jpegs into something that students can type over.  

From their website, "quickly remake and assign your favorite classroom papers as online, digital activities for your students. Load a PDF or picture, mark it up with places for students to type their answers."

This site works best if your students have a google account or you are in google classrooms.

Check out the following videos and then go to their site by clicking here.

Video Editing with Kapwing

Welcome back to school.  This will be my first post of the 2020-21 school year.  My teaching librarian position is going to be a little different this year with our library being repurposed, Our students at Kennedy will not be able to come into the library.  I figured that I could bring the library to them.   I wanted our students to message me through our digital learning platform, Edsby with book requests.  They will need to learn how to search our catalog virtually.  To do this I made a video and posted it on youtube and was going to post it on Edsby.  I noticed I forgot a couple of points in the video and needed to add a couple captions to the video.  I found an awesome free online editor called Kapwing.  No downloading software!  If you don't sign up they put a small watermark in the bottom right hand corner that says Kapwing.  No biggie.  If you sign in using facebook or google you will not have this watermark.  It is also free as long as your videos are less than 7 minutes long and you do not publish more that 3 hours of content a month.  You get all their editing tools too.

The editor looks like this.

To go to their website click here.