I think I found part of the problem …
This tutorial uses screenshots and a video to show you how to follow blogs on an RSS feed. Note that you can also follow certain topics on news sites in your RSS feed as well.
Most of how I find articles and resources for Things for Teachers is via my RSS feed. I read blogs & news stories using it, and it’s been a convenient way to read information I’m interested in one place. If you aren’t using an RSS feed yet, consider using Google Reader… if you don’t have blogs to follow, you can start with my Teaching Blogs to Check Out page!
The First List of Many: Graphic Novels
As an early childhood educator, creating a diverse and appropriate classroom library has been one of my main professional goals. I think it is essential to have books that will spark different children’s interests, are at the appropriate reading levels, and books that have characters that my students can identify with. As a reading specialist, working with grades K-8 I think it is necessary to be familiar with children’s books and young adult literature in order to be able to recommend books to students. Many times on my personal Tumblr, I have been asked to make book recommendations for a certain kind of student, student with a certain interest or fear, or ability level. It is my hope that the lists I present on Team Teachers will be beneficial to teachers, parents, and students alike.
Graphic novels have become more widely produced and are very popular with students in intermediate grades and high school. They are a wonderful way to help visual learners, struggling readers, and reluctant readers invest in the act of reading for enjoyment and, with the right books, content area knowledge.
After the jump, you will find my Top 8 Graphic Novels You Probably Did Not Know About:
The First List of Many: Graphic Novels
As an early childhood educator, creating a diverse and appropriate classroom library has been one of my main professional goals. I think it is essential to have books that will spark different children’s interests, are at the appropriate reading levels, and books that have characters that my students can identify with. As a reading specialist, working with grades K-8 I think it is necessary to be familiar with children’s books and young adult literature in order to be able to recommend books to students. Many times on my personal Tumblr, I have been asked to make book recommendations for a certain kind of student, student with a certain interest or fear, or ability level. It is my hope that the lists I present on Team Teachers will be beneficial to teachers, parents, and students alike.
Graphic novels have become more widely produced and are very popular with students in intermediate grades and high school. They are a wonderful way to help visual learners, struggling readers, and reluctant readers invest in the act of reading for enjoyment and, with the right books, content area knowledge.
After the jump, you will find my Top 8 Graphic Novels You Probably Did Not Know About:
Team Teachers shared a list of some lesser-known graphic novels here.
As promised, we wanted to provide you with some resources on using graphic novels and comics in the classroom. Here you go:
Sidekicks: A Website Reviewing Graphic Novels
On Teaching the Graphic Novel
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This is a great application of ed tech, in a way that makes sense to students.
Created by the people at ClassTools, Fakebook is similar to My Fake Wall. It’s a quick and easy way for you and your kids to generate historical Facebook profiles and walls. You start with a profile and add other Facebook elements step by step. Kids can complete their profiles and than send you the finished URL.
ClassTools also has a nice portfolio of examples that you and your kids could use as inspiration or discussion starters.
ClassTools wants you to create a premium account so there are ads on the completed profile. If that bugs you, just have kids take a screenshot of their finished work and send it to you as an image or pdf file. They could also print it out and turn in as a hard copy.
Some nice stuff here. Give a try and let me know what works!
I’ve shared similar blog posts before. This post also gives advice on what to do with your Facebook/how to handle it as an educator. I especially like this post because it has instructions with screenshots on how to change your privacy settings on Facebook, which can get a little trick.
Click through to read Free Tech for Teacher’s description of Present.me, a service that allows you to create narrations to your Powerpoint presentations. If you like the idea of a “flipped classroom,” an alternative to screencasts, or providing your notes outside of class, this might be a good option fory ou.
