Bill Sheskey Blog

Great Imaging Tool

Bill Sheskey — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:40:36 +0000

Need help finding images to use in your presentations? Do your students need a way to find images in an organized and logical way? Google Image Swirl organizes image searches into categories based on content and similarity. Images are presented in a “swirl” and can be explored further through additional sub-groups within each cluster. This is also a great tool to use on an Interactive Whiteboard! Click here to get started.

Fort Greely Middle School

Bill Sheskey — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:03:18 +0000

It is great to be with you today at the Fort Greely Middle School. I am using my blog today as a simple way to host the resources and materials that we are going to share today. Think of this as my classroom web page. How do you use your classroom web page to connect with your students?

An opening “Hello to Fort Greely Middle School. Click here…

I am going to ask you a question using the back channel conversation tool called Today’s Meet. Click to begin our discussion…

Another great discussion tool is called Type With Me… Click here to join the Greely group

Review sample projects in the Drop.io drop box. Click here…

Shawnee School District

Bill Sheskey — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:16:39 +0000

It is great to kick off the 2010 – 2011 school year in the Shawnee School District in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Today we are getting to know each other and how we can integrate 21st Century skills into the classroom.

Describe a good teacher…

Shawnee web sites….

Safe search engines for students…

Homeland Park Elementary

Bill Sheskey — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:08:35 +0000

It is great to kick off the 2010 – 2011 school year at Homeland Park Elementary School in Anderson, South Carolina. Today we are getting to know each other and how we can integrate 21st Century skills into the classroom.

Click here to connect to our back channel conversation…

Safe search engines for students…

HPE web sites…

Real-Time Collaboration

Bill Sheskey — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:26:33 +0000

TypeWith.me is a great tool to create relevant, online conversations between up to 15 authors at the same time through one URL. The text is synchronized in real time so that everyone that is working together sees all of text simultaneously. Each author is assigned a different color so that you can see who is contributing what. Use TypeWith.me for pre-assessment, book discussions, reflections, and more! There is no logging in, no registration, and best of it, it it totally free! Click here to get started!

Organize Your Web Searches

Bill Sheskey — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:58:15 +0000

Need an easier way to organize and present web-based information? LiveBinders allows you to collect, organize, and present information in ONE location. No more clicking back and forth between documents, PowerPoint presentations, white board lessons, and websites. Like an actual notebook, LiveBinders, organizes your information in tabs (much like dividers) and makes it easy to switch back and forth between all of your presentation resources. Best of all, it is a FREE tool! Click here to get started today…

CMI 2010 – Connecting with Tech Savvy Students

Bill Sheskey — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:02:54 +0000

This has been a wonderful week at the CMI Conference in Saratoga Springs, New York. In the Saturday session we will be exploring the use of digital tools to engage and motivate your tech savvy students.

Curriculum 21 Clearinghouse

Popular Web 2.0 Resources

Digital Tool Evaluation Sites

Share your web 2.0 tool here…

Building your virtual classroom

New site of the day: Veezzle

Assistive Technology

Bill Sheskey — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:59:01 +0000

There are tremendous assistive technology applications available for the iPod touch and iPad. I have been sharing these applications with special education administrators the past few weeks. There are applications available for free or at a low cost that connect with students with disabilities.
Click here for the complete list and you can download it as a .pdf file.

Arts @ the Core of 21st Century Learning

Bill Sheskey — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:30:08 +0000

Today will be fun working and learning with the educators attending the Arts & Education Forum hosted by the Southeastern Center for Education in the Arts. It is always a pleasure to work with art educators because they have the greatest opportunity of all the content areas to allow students to express themselves. We will be exploring numerous ways to provide students with tools to demonstrate their skills and talent in the arts.

There are so many new web based applications to support performance arts and one of my favorites is the Art Edge. We will be exploring this site and many others today.

“Artist are for disclosing the extraordinary in the ordinary” Maxine Greene, 1989

How many people are members of your personal learning community? Click here to post the number…

I hope that you enjoyed the day today. It would be great if you could leave a comment. Click here for the brief evaluation…

20 Great Web 2.0 Tools

Bill Sheskey — Wed, 05 May 2010 12:07:07 +0000

I hope that all is well with all my friends and colleagues as the school year comes to a close. We are facing serious budget challenges in South Carolina but it just makes us work smarter. You will be getting new announcements about the June conference in Charleston and new opportunities being built around the Curriculum 21 book.

As always, I like to share something I have found. Thank you to Simon Ward for creating 20 Easy Web 2.0 Tools. Some of our all time favorites are there and I found some new ones as well. Let us know how you are doing!

Easy Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers

View more presentations from pingable.

Journey of a school web site…

BCSD Media Specialist Cohort Evaluation