Grade+7+&+8

Two pieces of advice to teachers

 * 1) Create a wiki like Wikispaces, PB Wiki, Google Sites.
 * 2) Get a Google Account

Personal Learning Network

 * 1) Why have your own Google account? A link to a Prezi show.
 * 2) Wikispaces help.
 * 3) Best Educational Wikis of 2011.
 * 4) Top 5 Websites for Teachers to Use in their Classrooms
 * 5) Nine articles about 21st century education.
 * 6) YouTube Teachers. Create your own YouTube channel. See sample here.
 * 7) YouTube Education. Search for content to add to your channel.
 * 8) Google in Education
 * 9) iGoogle - Bring PD to your desktop using this Mashup.
 * 10) The Flipped Classroom
 * 11) 50 plus ways to tell a story- popular wiki by Alan Levine
 * 12) Cool Tools for Schools
 * 13) [|Playing with Media]
 * 14) The link below is an RSS feed from http://www.emergingedtech.com/
 * 15) rss url="http://www.emergingedtech.com/" link="true" number="10"

Ethics and Responsibility
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 * Safety**
 * 1) Teens Guide
 * 2) The Door that's Not Locked (Safety)
 * 3) Think Before you Post (Safety)
 * 4) Don't Let other's decide video


 * Finding Images**
 * 1) Creative Commons Image Search
 * 2) Finding Creative Commons Media (Find Images and other media)>
 * 3) Wikimedia.org
 * 4) Behold - A visual image search engine for high quality creative commons images
 * 5) Flickr Advanced Search - at the bottom check off the box that reads "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content.
 * 6) Stock Xchng - must have an account to download images
 * 7) Pics for Learning - Copyright friendly images for education
 * 8) PB World Database - mostly copyright friendly images
 * 9) Open Photo Project - Copyright information on each photo
 * 10) Free Pixels


 * Finding Music and Sound Effects**
 * 1) Royalty Free music
 * 2) Freeplay music
 * 3) Make your own music with Aviary tools - Try Roc the Music Creator and the Myna the Audio Editor
 * 4) Loop Laps Music creator - Need an account to save and share your creations
 * 5) JamStudio - Create your own music
 * 6) [|Soundzabounds] - Royalty free music for schools
 * 7) Soundsnap - Free sound effects and loops
 * 8) [|Jamendo].com - Creative Commons music tracks
 * 9) [|ccmixter] - Creative Commons music for film & video


 * Copyright Law**
 * 1) Concordia University's Copyright Guide - How are teachers allowed to use music, recorded TV programs, etc. in the classroom.
 * 2) Canadian Copyright Laws - easy to read and understand.
 * 3) FairShare - Watch how your work spreads. Understand how it is used.
 * 4) Classroom Provisions of the Canadian Copyright Act
 * 5) Creative Commons Explained


 * Digital Literacy**
 * 1) Digital Literacy for Grade 6-8 (Links to other grades on this page as well.)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internet Literacy Handbook – for parents, teachers, and students


 * Finding images and other content**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Copyright Friendly Wiki
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finding Copyright Free Material - Alan Levine's CogDogRoo wiki page on finding copyright free media


 * ===Social Justice Projects===
 * Free Poverty
 * Free Rice
 * Nike and Child Labour in Pakistan
 * Child Labour in India - Cigarette Production
 * Kathy Lee Gifford Clothing Line and Sweat Shops
 * Child Labour and Rug Making in IndiaEnvironmental Projects
 * [|Youth for Human Rights]

Child Labour in the Chocolate Industry

 * Chocolate and Slavery
 * Cocoa Campaign
 * CTV Video
 * BBC News Article || ===Environmental Projects===
 * Down the Drain
 * Global Water Sampling Project
 * The Global Sun Temperature Project
 * The Noon Day Project
 * International Boiling Point Project || ===Global Citizenship Projects===
 * Global Grocery List Program
 * A Week in the Life
 * Landmark Project
 * One Day on Earth
 * Flat Classroom Project ||

Places to connect with classrooms around the world:

 * Class2Class -- a clearinghouse designed to facilitate student and class participation in Internet projects, including collaborative projects, data-collecting experiments, peer tutoring, and keypal exchanges designed to enhance the mathematics in your math, science and interdisciplinary curricula.
 * Epals Classroom Exchange -- join over 6.5 million students and educators around the world for discussions, projects, learning and more in the world's largest online classroom community.
 * Global Schoolhouse -- search over 100 current and future projects along with over 2000 completed projects or list your own project.
 * Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections (IECC) -- helps teachers and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom project exchanges.
 * Kidlink Projects
 * iEARN Canada>

English Language Arts

 * Tagxedo
 * Wordle

Science and Social Studies

 * 1) Discovery Channell Videos
 * 2) NBC Learn Videos
 * 3) Middle School Science Lesson Plans
 * 4) The Science Spot
 * 5) National Geographic Xpeditions
 * 6) Flash Earth
 * 7) Google Maps
 * 8) Panoramio
 * 9) BJ's Science Resources
 * 10) [|Simple Machines from Alberta]
 * 11) Weather Links
 * 12) Diversity of Living Things
 * 13) The Animal Kingdom
 * 14) Flight Links
 * 15) Electricity Links
 * 16) Solar System

Math

 * 1) Math Games from Mangahigh.com

Really Great Games (Critical Thinking?)

 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Games for the Brain – Great brain gym stuff.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ElectroCity - Make your own city and see the consequences.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SIM SWEATSHOP - Make shoes in a third world country.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Survival Activities
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Survive the Jungle - Discovery Survival Game
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Survival Games
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">National Geographic Channel’s Games Site (Grades 3 and up):
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Underground Railroad
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">National Geographic Site Index

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