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9) Sign Up for your Webinar Time! You May Sign Up for ANYTIME between Dec 7th.-Dec 16th. Topic/ScreenCast link/Blurb Time Date makebeliefscomix.com - Students often have trouble breaking down complex works into basic themes and plots. One way to aid this is to have students create a short summary or visual representation of a key scene or moment in the text. This Katie R. & Alison H. 2:00pm Dec. 9 online interactive tool is an interesting and engaging way to have students to create their own short comic strips to help with their understanding of the text. Join us to see how this tool works and can be integrated into your classroom! Quizlet: Both in Biology and Math, vocabulary is necessary for communication about the content. We Lauren Paul will be demonstrating how to use Quizlet in order to & Lorraine 3:00 Dec. 9 provide an opportunity for students to participate in a Siebold collaborative process of creating and defining words and learning from each other. Scribblar.com - an online collaborative white board that includes various drawing applications, and chat room Drew Z, Mike J., Tiffany L. 4:15 pm Dec. 9 applications. Join us for an inquiry lesson that can be both visually and aurally engaging! Thinking Blocks - Students always seem to struggle with understanding ratios and solving word problems Ryan A. involving ratios. Please join us as we & demonstrate Thinking Blocks, an 4:30pm Dec. 9 Lauren online tool designed to help students W. sharpen their understanding of ratios and ratio problems and to give them strategies for solving such problems. Museum Box - Sick of traditional assessments? Want to help students learn to work with source materials and to develop historical arguments? Museum Box provides a creative forum in which students and teachers can Stella, Jenny and Jen 2pm Dec. 11 use a variety of multimedia artifacts to build an argument or describe an historical period, person or event. Join us as we walk you through an interactive lesson plan using Museum Box. XtraNormal.com Text-to-Movie, Let's students type in text and create a movie script. This lesson plan from Biology will Meghan & Michael have students create a movie that sells their cell organelle 4:00pm Dec. 10 based on function and importance within the cell. Fun with biology Names

We are going to explore the use of social networking sites, such as facebook, as a tool in English and History lessons. Lindsay, Megan, & Vanessa Students can use these sites to create fictional characters from 4:30p Dec. 10 novels or non-fictional characters from history, and interact with other "characters" from class. letterpop.com Newspapers have always been used by historians to construct meanings of the past. Newspapers contain so much information and insight into the lives, thoughts and actions of people in the past. Join us as Chris & Zina 11 Dec. 11 we explore the way that students can create newspapers that contain information from the past. This webnair will show how, through the creation of a newspaper, students will engage in a direct conversation with history. Museum Box: I am going to show how a chemistry class can use Museum Box to study a group (column) of elements on the periodic table. Each student in the Friday Bob Ause class will select an element and students whose 1 pm Dec. 11 elements are in the same group will build a Museum Box together. The six sides of each box will contain important information on the element in that box. Algebra tiles are blocks that math teachers use to help students understand operations on polynomials. However, they are expensive for teachers to purchase and often those who do have Algebra tiles do not have enough for each Kerri & student to explore. A free online version of Algebra Tiles is Dec. 2:30pm Amy provided by Mathsnet at 11 http://mathsnet.net/algebra/tiles2.html which allows students with online access to work with algebra tiles. Please join us as we explore Mathsnet's Algebra Tiles and discuss ways to incorporate the tool into an algebra lesson. Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to help students create their own stories in a round robin manner, inspired by the visual works of contributing artists. It's a Sara & Lara 2:30 Dec.11 simple publishing platform that allows writers and artists (and our students!) to experiment, connect with art, and publish their stories. Rinaldi and Lent dipity.com 4 p.m. Dec. 11

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Wordle.net is a tool that graphically represents the most common words used in a piece of writing. Students can use it to analyze text hat Noon they are reading, pieces that they have written, or manipulate it to create a project. It can be used in any subject area.

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Persuade Star: In both our English and History classrooms, we are already realizing the less-than-positive response students have to the prospect of writing any type of paper, especially a persuasive Dec. Rachel & Caitlin 1:00 pm essay. Hopefully Persuade Star will present the process of 12 constructing an argument, designing a thesis, and providing support in an accessible, and who knows maybe even fun, way! ning.com Stacey and Brittany 3:00 pm Dec. 14 A safe social network for your classroom! EtherPad Collaborating on a paper or project can be a pain in the youknow-what, with the contributors constantly updating and emailing the most current version. This makes it difficult to track changes and practically impossible to keep track of what's what. EtherPad is the only web-based word processor Melanie and Kendra 4:00 pm Dec. 15 that allows multiple users to create, update, and edit in "really real-time." Track changes with a unique color for each user, and watch it appear on everyone's screen immediately, no refreshing required. Join us as we explore the wealth of doors this application will open in the classroom, from note-taking to group projects and beyond! Ryan M. & J.P. videoconverter.com 11 am Dec 16 Writeboard.com - Collaborative writing can pose problems for even the most advanced students. Since students have different writing abilities and styles, it is a major task to unify their writing into a single representative document. Students edit each Sam & Stefan others sentences, eliminate incorrect ideas and rearrange whole 12pm Dec. 16 sections before an essay is submitted. Writeboard allows the teacher to view this process. Writeboard is a completely free tool that helps students share their writing, edit each others work and track their changes. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) has many cool math tools for math students in every grade. We will explore Transformations-Reflections (a geometry tool) and Brown & Heuser 1 pm Dec 16 Right Triangle Solver (a trigonometry tool). These tools are an exciting way to teach basic trigonometry and introduce isometries. We hope that you will join us! Novlet, a web application designed to support collaborative writing of non-linear stories in any Sarah P., Carol & Bets language. Users can read stories written by other 2 p.m. users, create their own ones, and choose the plot one likes most from several alternatives.

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GeoGebra - GeoGebra is free and multiplatform (i.e. Mac or PC) dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins arithmetic, geometry, algebra and calculus. It 4 pm offers multiple representations of objects in its graphics, algebra, and spreadsheet views that are all dynamically linked. Evernote.com Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe. Worried about

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loosing your notebook? Tired of writing your ideas on little pieces of paper? Evernote allows you to compile, organize, and keep your your essential notes, photos, websites, or to-do lists all in one space at the click of a button! Cramster.com: When going through the book work is just too tough or isn't enough, students need more. This Web 2.0 tool provides that help for math and science students. With aid on homework solutions from the leading content textbooks, study guides, practice tests, and open forums for discussion and questions, students are able tap into outside resources. As the Wallstreet Journal exclaims, "Web sites such as Cramster aim to revolutionize the way students study!" Hot Potatoes :D This is an EXTREMELY cool way to assess your students progress through "adaptive" online quizzes and games that given immediate feedback. CHECK IT OUT! Piclets - Let's face it... many of our students don't exactly love writing. With this fact so prevalent it only seems natural that little in the classroom is as frightening as the blank page. Leah and I want to quell that fear and spark the creative processes without even looking at the page. We will be using piclets to get students connecting words to images. From here, the possibilities are endless. Attend our virtual presenation if you want to get your students' creative juices flowing!