Friday 5: Back to School 2007
Lucy Gray
Hi All -
Here are a few sites to jump start your school year.
Enjoy,
Lucy Gray
elem...@gmail.com
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A few reminders about the Friday 5 list:
A) I try to publish a thematic list of useful web sites each week.
Sometimes I annotate entries, but this depends on how busy I am. To
subscribe to the list, visit http://groups.google.com/group/friday5.
Archives are browsable, too.
B) You can also read the Friday 5 in my blog: http://lucygray.org.
C) If you have an idea for a theme, email your suggestions to me.
D) If you'd like to be a special mystery guest and submit a list for
the group's perusal, also email me and we'll discuss a potential topic
and date. Last year, we enjoyed lists on everything from Google
Sketchup and Architecture (Fred Bartels) to digital scrapbooking (Rae
Niles and Marianne Handler). Thanks to everyone who joined in!
On to this week's list.....
1) Beloit College's Annual Mindset List
http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php
When I was a student at Beloit, this annual tradition was nonexistent.
The list is now 10 years old, and is designed to give faculty of a
cultural sense of the incoming freshman class. You can look at
del.icio.us's history of who has bookmarked this site, and the user
notes crack me up. Nearly all the comments are on how this list makes
people feel old. Do you remember when car windows used to roll down?
( ADEs who were on the global awareness trip last summer should note
#1 on the list!)
2) Chalkboard Message Generator
http://generatorblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/chalkboard-message-generator.html
This is an entry from the Generator blog, which lists a gazillion
types of fun generators. Here, you can put a custom message on a
chalkboard graphic to use in a blog, web site, or presentation.
3) Classroom Organization and Set Up - Tips for Classroom Organization
http://k6educators.about.com/od/classroomorganization/Classroom_Organization_and_SetUp_Tips_for_Classroom_Organization.htm
4) Librarians' Picks: Back to School
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/publib/school.html
Here's a good bibliography of school related titles from the Ann Arbor
public library.
5) Free Stuff for Teachers
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/freestuff.htm
This site is a little heavy on worksheets for my taste, but there's a
ton of practical stuff to be found here.
6) Proteachers Ideas Back to School Ideas
http://www.proteacher.com/030005.shtml