2013+-+2014+STC+Resources

=STC Resources=

Below is a list of the resource that were emailed to the instructors during the 2013 - 2014 school year.

(Mailed March 7, 2014) @http://www.pics4learning.com/ Pics4Learning is a copyright friendly resource to utilize for classroom lessons, multimedia projects, websites, videos and/or portfolios and a safe image library for education. This useful site contains thousands of free pictures - all of which are approved for classroom use. The images are indexed in a variety of categories including animals, food, education, space and countries to name a few. To locate the perfect picture(s) for your project, click the "Browse" button located next to the desired collection. Doing so will provide access to all photos available in the selected category. When you find one that works for you, just right click on it and select the "Save Image As..." option to download it to your computer. As an added bonus: the Pics4Learning site also contains a Creative Educator Lesson section which includes high-level ideas for engaging students in the curriculum with images while building creativity.
 * Pics4Learning**

(Mailed March 7, 2014) http://iteach-careertech.wikispaces.com/ This wiki provides a collection of resources and best practices for K-12 Career and Technology Education. In additional to the program of study resources, there are also categories in the left navigation area for Web 2.0, Soft Skills, testing and tech for teachers.
 * i_Teach-CareerTech**

(Mailed January 31, 2014) http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/cur/teched/home_ec/rationales.pdf This is a .pdf of web references and rationales for teaching industrial arts. It is a middle school reference but websites section may be useful in providing additional resource for you classroom.
 * Home Economics/Industrial Arts Rationales**

(Mailed January 31, 2014) @http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/secondary/technology/safety/student_activities/index.htm This collection of 45 learning to work safely worksheets was designed to assist teachers in addressing safety. In addition, you will find a glossary of terms that also may be useful.
 * Learn to work safely worksheets**

(Mailed January 24, 2014) http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/topic-group/private-sector Why are English and math skills important in the trades? This site includes a 2 minute video and links to worksheets and quizzes. This is a British site so they use the term "Maths" for math and money worksheets are in pounds but you can adapt them to American currency.
 * Skillwise**

(Mailed January 24, 2014) http://www.careeronestop.org/Videos/default.aspx Use this video collection to learn about careers, industries, skills and abilities or work options and education levels. Get started by selecting a link from the left navigation area. These videos can also be downloaded into several formats. Most videos are also available in Spanish.
 * Career One Stop Videos**

(Mailed January 17, 2014) http://bubbl.us/ Bubbl.us is a Web 2.0 tool that enables users to create mind mapping and brainstorming diagrams online. To begin, the mail topic/concept is entered in to the parent bubble. Then ideas and thoughts are recorded in colorful text bubbles linked to the parent bubble. Users continue to add text bubbles which are color coded according to hierarchy. This site does not require you to create a username and password unless you want to save your maps. Students can use this to create a mind map to show what they know at the beginning of a lesson and again as a review to see what they have learned. Some Examples can be found at https://bubbl.us/examples
 * Bubbl.us**

(Mailed January 17, 2014) http://dauphincountytechlibrary.wikispaces.com/ Dauphin County Technical School Library is committed to helping students achieve success in school by assisting students in becoming effective users of information and lifelong learners. Through collection development, teacher collaboration and student instruction, the library staff works to support the curriculum, teach information literacy skills, foster literature appreciation and promote social responsibility. New websites and resources are added continually. Look at the different shops on the left for websites specific for discipline.
 * Dauphin County Tech Library Wiki**

(Mailed January 10, 2014) @http://edu.flipsnack.com/ FlipSnack is a page flip software program that enables you to create stylish digital flipping books out of your PDF and PowerPoint documents. You can share these books or embed them on websites. These can even be included in various social media sites do the user can access the content without having to follow external links. Creating a FlipSnack is easy, simply add your documents, customize the cover, size and color and then publish. This is an ideal program for instructors who want to bring something fresh and engaging into the classroom. It is also useful for catalogs, recipe books and tutorials. Example of FlipSnack Books - Geography Lesson - http://www.flipsnack.com/flip-book-template/school-flipping-book-example#2 - Tutorial - http://www.flipsnack.com/flip-book-template/tutorials-flipping-book-example#3 - Recipe - http://www.flipsnack.com/flip-book-template/recipes-flipping-book-example#4 Instructors can sign up for a free account which provides unlimited creation of FlipBooks and the capability of adding 10 student accounts. Additional information and training guides for the program can be found at http://edu.flipsnack.com/guides.html
 * Flipsnack**

(Mailed January 10, 2014) @http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/index.html Searching can be a remarkable research tool for students and a bit of instruction will help them become critical thinkers and independent learners. This site contains lesson plans and activities to help student become skilled searchers. These lesson plans help meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise (Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced). Included is a Google A Day challenge that helps students put their search skills to the test.
 * Google Search**

(Mailed January 10, 2014) @http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2004/tallbuildings/index_f.html Take your students inside skyscrapers around the world. Tall Buildings, an interactive website from the Museum of Modern Art, provides access to floor plans and sketches from several skyscrapers. Among the designs you will find details of solutions to design issues, such as aerodynamics, circulation, green technologies, public spaces, skins and structural technologies.
 * MOMA – Tall Buildings**

(Mailed December 20, 2013) [] Popplet is a tool that allows users to visualize ideas Teachers and students can create graphic organizers, timelines and many other forms of visual organization. Registering for Popplet takes a few moments and provides a tutorial on how to use the program. Users can also embed items from other applications such as Google Maps.
 * Popplet**

(Mailed December 20, 2013) [] Get students and their parents using their mobile devices by creating treasure hunts using QR codes. This program allows you to input a series of questions and answers and then generates a QR code for each question that you can print out and display. This can be used as an interactive activity for parents as part of Open house or as a way of introducing students to the layout of the buildings.
 * QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator**

(Mailed December 6, 2013) http://www.thinglink.com/ ThingLink allows users to add interactive links to any image, which transforms them into dynamic web experiences that drive engagement. You and your students can give photos new life by transforming them into impressive multimedia presentations featuring links, music, art, video and more! It helps you create and discover rich images. Be creative! Make your images come alive with music, video, text, images, shops and more! Every image contains a story and ThingLink helps you tell your stories. Here is an example: [] The company is now offering free EDU Premium Accounts for teachers, a value of $250! All new teacher accounts that are created before the end of December will have access to Thinglink Premium features including custom icons, image carousels and stats, the ability to create classroom groups and much more! To register for an account go to []. Once you have a Thinglink account be sure to email #premium to education@thinglink.com. Write ThingLink EDU Campaign in the subject line to get the premium account.
 * Thinklink**

(Mailed December 6, 2013) @http://www.opendoorschallenge.com/resources The Western Union Foundation, Discovery Education and the Association of Education Publishers (AEP) partnered together to launch Open Doors: Unlock Your Future, a new online destination providing high school students, educations and families with high-quality tools and resources to help students prepare for their future through in-depth career exploration. Designed to encourage high school students to explore and prepare for their future, the program's expansive, bilingual digital resource center feature an interactive widget that helps students match personal interests with complementary career options, career profiles of real professionals, and family discussions stats to foster family dialogue around career opportunities.
 * Open Doors: Unlock Your Future**

//(Mailed November 22, 2013)// https://testmoz.com/#home Testmoz is a test generator that contains four (4) question types, automatic grading and a very simple interface. This program is free and does not require you or your students to register. The free version of the program allows you to create tests with up to 50 questions per test. An unlimited number of people can take the test with the free version but you will only be able to see the first 100 scores. To create a test click on the build link and then enter the test name and a password.
 * Testmoz Test Generator **

//(Mailed November 22, 2013)// @http://answergarden.ch Answer Garden is a minimalistic feedback tool that can be used in the classroom as an educational or creative brainstorming tool. To use Answer Garden, you first need to create an Answer Garden by entering a topic. You will then be directed to your newly created Answer Garden. Since no one has posted anything the tool will be empty. Once shared, the Answer Garden will begin to populate as students answer your question. Answer Garden is an easy way to get feedback from a group, to establish the knowledge of a class on a specific topic or to break the ice at a meeting or workshop. To see what an Answer Garden looks like go to @http://answergarden.ch/view/75560 A Quick Start Guide for Answer Garden can be found at []
 * Answer Garden**

//(Mailed November 15, 2013)// [] Green Energy TV is an Online Television Channel dedicated to airing green videos. Videos in topics such as Solar Energy, Wind Power, Hydro Power, Hydrogen, Fuels, Geothermal, Wave/Tidel Energy, Conservation, Hybrid Vehicles, Green Building and more. Users can also search for “Green” jobs from across the country.
 * Green Energy TV**

//(Mailed November 15, 2013)// [] This website allows you to generate you own newspaper clips to share with students. Once you enter the date, newspaper title, headline and story, you click on generate to create an image of your article. This article can then be used to on you website or embedded into one of your lessons.
 * Newspaper Clipping Geneator**

//(Mailed November 8, 2013)// @http://www.writingfix.com/wac/RAFT.htm This is a great resource for writing prompts. If you use the math [] there are many roles that fill the STC curricula. Ex. computer programmer, engineer; There is also a site for social studies teachers [] is a free service that allows users to create audio recordings without the need to install any software. You don't even have to create an account to use Vocaroo. Tutorial (video or text)
 * RAFT Website**

(Mailed November 8, 2013) [] Need a blank graphic organizer for one of your lessons? This site contains Venn Diagrams, Four-Column Charts and other worksheets that you can use to help your students classify ideas as communicate more effectively.
 * Graphic Organizers**

(Mailed November 1, 2013) [] A free service that allows users to create audio recordings without the need to install any software. You don't even have to create an account to use Vocaroo. Tutorial (video or text)
 * Vocaroo**


 * 1) Go to@http://vocaroo.com/.
 * 2) Click to //Record//.
 * 3) //Allow// access to your microphone.
 * 4) Start talking.
 * 5) Click to //Stop//.
 * 6) Listen to your recording.
 * 7) If you don’t like it, click //Retry//.
 * 8) If you like it, //Click here to save >>//
 * 9) Copy the link that is displayed. (//Use CTRL+C or Command +C//)

Students can upload their results to a wikipage or google doc so they can hear others’ posts. Evelyn Wassel is available to help get the wiki or google doc set up.

This can be used for students to describe a procedure they use in class or to summarize a safety lesson or to create a short ad for the radio (marketing).

(Mailed November 1, 2013) [] Do you need a Certificate of Attendance or an Achievement Award? This website provides thousands of free printable certificates and certificate templates for schools, businesses and clubs.
 * Printable Certificates **

(Mailed October 18, 2013) [] Kathryn Hake is a retired vocational educator who has created a website with nearly 100 categories of CTE Web Resources including academics, agriculture, electronics, health, masonry, plumbing, safety, transportation and welding. A site map makes it easy to find information about Career Exploration, Skills, Schools, Job Market, Educators, Reference, Search Engines, Clip Art and more.
 * Vocational Information Center**

(Mailed October 18, 2013) [] The Watch Know Learn website includes an index of approximately 50,000 educational videos. These videos are displayed in categories making it easier to locate items. Included are over 640 videos tagged for Vocational, Career Development and Business.
 * Watch Know Learn **

(Mailed October 4, 2013) [] Edmodo is a free and safe way for students and teachers to connect and collaborate. Instructors can continue classroom discussions, give polls to check for student understanding and award badges based on performance or behavior.
 * Edmodo **

To get started all you need to do is register for a free account.

Guides and other information about this program can be found at [|https://support.edmodo.com/home#teacher]

(Mailed October 4, 2013) [] History Explorer's resources focus on learning history by "reading" objects for the stories they hold about the nation and its many peoples. Learning activities feature artifacts selected from over 3 million items in the Museum's collections, and draw on the expertise of the Museum's renowned curatorial staff.
 * History explorer**

This is a great site for incorporating outside resources into your classroom, linking to other areas and making the learning relevant to students.

The site offers many types of resources: Sample searches: Automobile - [|__http://historyexplorer.si.edu/search/?session=ef7fc968b4474d6abe19bf97fe20f43a&query=automobile__] Food - [|__http://historyexplorer.si.edu/search/?query=food%20&search_origin=search&grade=9-12%253b&session=3953b9c3326147729fee42fe89c6d4b9__]
 * [ ]Artifacts ||
 * [ ]Interactives/Media ||
 * [ ]Lessons/Activities ||
 * [ ]Primary Sources ||
 * [ ]Reviewed Websites ||
 * [ ]Reference Materials ||
 * [ ]Worksheets ||

(Mailed September 20, 2013) [] Socrative is a smart student response system that allows an instructor to engage their classroom through educational exercises and games. This resource can be used from smartphone, laptops and tablets.
 * Socrative **

The Student responses are visually represented for multiple choice, true/false and short answer questions. In addition, this program can be used for exit tickets to gather responses on the students’ understanding and comfort of the material that was covered in class.

Instructors can create a free account by clicking on the Teacher Sign Up button at the top of the web page. Once your free account is set up you can access the resource by clicking on the Teacher Log-In button on the web page or by going to [|http://m.socrative.com/lecturer/#lecturerLogin]

Your students can use the program without registering, they simply go to [|http://m.socrative.com/student/#joinRoom] and enter the room number that was generated when you created your account. You can have up to 50 students logged into your classroom at any time.

User Guide - []

(Mailed September 20, 2013) http://edu.glogster.com/ Glogster provides educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS (online multimedia posters) which incorporate text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and so much more.
 * Glogster **

The interface on this program is very easy to use since it contains a drag and drop interface. It can be used for:
 * Book Reports
 * Class Projects
 * Presentations
 * Developing student creativity
 * Expanding student presentation skills
 * Lesson Preparation
 * Assignments
 * Tours of a building or location

Glogster Resources Handout - http://wassel.wikispaces.com/file/view/12985643-Glogster-Handout.pdf/129165163/12985643-Glogster-Handout.pdf Instructions - To view the online library of already created GLOGS go to []. You will find premade GLOGS for the Electronic, Computer, Automotive and Construction trades. The free version of this program allows an instructor to log in and create 10 students accounts.

(Mailed September 13, 2013) [] Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures voice and handwriting to produce video lessons that can be shared. These lessons can be replayed in any web browser or from an iPad. If you make your videos public, they can be shared with other instructors on the site and you can embed them in your blogs, wikis and webpages. Images can also be imported into the whiteboard for annotating. Ideas for the classroom 1. Use this whiteboard to show process/flow of a project 2. Import an Images (i.e. engine, machine, etc) and annotate over it to introduce the parts. 3. Have the students demonstrate something that they learned and record what they created for their files.
 * Educreations**

(Mailed September 13, 2013) http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/home
 * Copyright Friendly Wiki **

This resource is not a web tool but a resource to can be used to help students and teachers determine what is legal to use in presentations. Included in this resource is a vast amount of resources and websites that can be used for images.

(Mailed September 6, 2013) __ www.wordle.net __ Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
 * Wordle**

Applied Arts Social Studies
 * 1) Students create a word cloud of different architectural and engineering terms.
 * 2) Make word cloud of technical directions and have students discuss what seems to stand out.
 * 3) Have students create a word cloud of a famous piece of engineering.
 * 4) Have students find ways to create word clouds that show units of measure including the use of the advanced edit features allowing for color and scale of words.
 * 5) Share word clouds of the upcoming chapter or reading and have a class discussion previewing what will be learned.
 * 6) Students study famous inventors and inventions and create a word clouds.
 * 7) Search for a patent at __http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html__ and copy description and students make a word cloud. Students publish a one sheet publication showing their own picture of patent item, a paragraph on what it is, and their own reflection on usefulness and success.
 * 8) Make a word cloud of terms used in a software program students must learn.
 * 9) Using a timeline, have students create word clouds of a significant event or discovery.
 * 10) Ask students to come up with terms that might lead to a new product or innovation and put the terms in a word cloud in order to brainstorm a new idea.
 * 11) Have students name a physical or math/ scientific principal found in engineering and design. They must then come up with words that are both possibilities and constraints related to the principle. Have them rank the possibilities and constraints and scale them. This should all be put in a word cloud. Also have students color code between possibility and constraint in the word cloud. Make sure the scientific principle is in the word cloud in larger letters and a different color.
 * 12) Have students research and make word clouds of the different occupations found in the applied arts.
 * 1) Use a word cloud to compare, contrast, discuss, and analyze two presidential speeches. Remember that you can use a word count to analyze and even graph use of popular words.
 * 2) Use a word cloud to compare, contrast, discuss, and analyze two state or country constitutions. Remember that you can use a word count to analyze and even graph use of popular words.
 * 3) Use a word cloud to compare, contrast, discuss, and analyze persuasive speeches in history. Remember that you can use a word count to analyze and even graph use of popular words.
 * 4) Using statistical information from a place such as CIA World Fact Book create word clouds that illustrate country statistics such as resources, ethnic groups, religions, languages, etc. You may wish to use advanced number feature to illustrate prominence of each.
 * 5) Create a word cloud to illustrate how countries of the world (or states in a country) rank with related themes such as oil production, GDP, industries, languages, etc. The heading would be the resource and countries would be in the word cloud showing their rank by size. There could be other variations. Use advanced number feature.
 * 6) Have students create a word cloud that represents geographic ideas such as: oceans of the world or continents of the world.
 * 7) Show a word cloud of different geographic features in their size relationship. Example: Famous Volcanoes.
 * 8) Create a word cloud of famous documents and treaties in history. Have students analyze and discuss.
 * 9) Have students create a word cloud of biographies of famous people in history.
 * 10) Remember that you can use a word count to analyze and even graph use of popular words.
 * 11) Create word clouds to illustrate a period of time or events on a timeline.
 * 12) Make word clouds of a newspaper or magazine article for a current event. A transcript from a radio, television, internet interview, podcast, etc, could also be useful for a class discussion or individual analysis.
 * 13) Make a word cloud for different sections of a document such as the Constitution or Bill of Rights. Can students identify the segment from a given word cloud?
 * 14) Make a word cloud of two famous contrasting speeches or writings. Compare/contract the two. Next, put both into one word cloud. Does the combined new word cloud give a new message?
 * 15) Find readings from two different countries on the same subject. Example: “American Revolution”… UK/US, “space race” … RU/US, “stature of liberty FR/US. Make a word cloud of each and compare/contrast.

(Mailed September 6, 2013) @http://animoto.com/education/classroom Videos are a great way to bring vibrancy into the classroom!. Animoto is web tool that allows users to incorporate images, text and music into web based videos. Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus Account for use in their classroom. Each educational account will allow you to create up to 50 student accounts.
 * Animoto **

Ideas for the Classroom


 * 1) Have students create a 30 second commercial about their shop.
 * 2) Create video flashcards for vocabulary
 * 3) Document a project from start to finish in a video
 * 4) Use to introduce a new learning concept
 * 5) Have students create 30 second news briefs about historical events, natural disaster or any event that ties into your curriculum
 * 6) This is a great tool that students can use to summarize their learning or present information in a livelier way.
 * 7) Use at the beginning of the day as a “teaser” for what the students can look forward to.