TED.com (Ideas Worth Spreading)

Thanks goes out to Angela for sharing this website with me. TED is an acronym that stands for Technology, Education, and Design. TED is a national conference that started back in 1984 as a way to bring together "the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers" in all three of those areas. This website provides free access to videos of all the talks and presentations that take place each year at the conference. This is a great site to find video content for your classroom on topics such as: Technology, Global Issues, Business, Science, Design, and Entertainment. It's easy to find what you are looking for by using either the search window at the top, or by clicking on one of the topic links located on the left side of the homepage. The website works like most video sharing sites such as YouTube and SchoolTube. Once you find one video, links to videos on related topics or themes are listed on the right for easy reference. Users can download either the entire video or or just the audio. Below is an example of the video content you can stream or download from TED entilted: Paul Sereno: What Can Fossils Teach Us. Check it out!!

Poetry Month Picks

Since April is the month for verse,
I hope my focus you will not curse,

I went ahead and picked some sites,
That I hope will aid in your poetry plights,

Links for games and haiku reads,
Interactive forms and video feeds.

Click on the links to take a look,
If you don't find it here...get a poetry book!!

Magnetic Poetry: Just like the set on your fridge, this fun interactive website allows students to arrange words to make their own poems (enforces language and writing skills). http://www.magneticpoetry.com/magnet/

Poetry4Kids: This site is just chocked full of resources. They have it all: Poetry Games, Podcasts, Lesson Ideas, School Author Visits, Contests, and more.
http://www.poetry4kids.com/

TeacherTube (Video Examples): Looking for video? Don't forget TeacherTube...great collection of poetry recitation by students and lessons presented by teachers.
http://www.teachertube.com/search_result.php?search_id=poetry

Instant Poetry Forms: Students choose from of list of available poetry forms and then fill in the blanks using their own words to create a poem that they can print from the web. http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

poetryvlog.com: A weekly video of original poetry read by the poet. Poems read are available in text format. http://poetryvlog.com/

TeenSpace: Teen Poetry Wiki: If you know student's who love poetry...show them this site. Like all wikis, this site provides students a location to write, read, share, and discuss their poems with other teens from around the world! Other features include Poet of the Week and WordPlay (poetry exercises designed to strengthen lexile skills). http://www.ipl.org/div/teenpoet/

Thinkfinity: Read.Write.Think: Poetry Search Results: 29 different resources including online poetry forms, poetry collection charts, poetry webquests, lesson plans, magnetic poetry, plus much much, more: http://thinkfinity.org/PartnerSearch.aspx?Search=True&orgn_id=9&subject=all&partner=ReadWriteThink&resource_type=interactives&q=poetry&grade=all

VoiceThread.com: A poetry search provides a large selection of threads ranging from poetry analysis, poetry reads, art & poetry, original poetry pieces, and much more. http://voicethread.com/#q+poetry

Enjoy!!