Savvy Sites 2

I am continuously amazed at the resources on the web.  What did we do before we had information at our fingertips?!?  Here are practical, useful sites I stumbled upon this week – both for educational and personal use!

Sites Helpful In and Out of the Classroom

Outta Ray’s Head English Lesson Plans – this is an oldie but a goodie.  If you are an English, reading or Language Arts teacher and you haven’t already discovered this, click on this NOW – a plethora of literature and writing assignments:

http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/`

American Rhetoric – this is a comprehensive collection of famous speeches by political figures and entertainment icons.  You can read and/or hear them:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

Neuroscience for Kids – Experiments and Activities . . . Very unique experiments and activities.  I’m using some for my communications class and some for my reading classes:

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/experi.html

This slightly scaringly illustrates how easily accessible our personal information is in this computerized society . . . I’ve used it when studying 1984:

http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf

These are great visualizations of what is ironic.  Take a peek at these for your enjoyment as well:

http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2009/09/signs_of_contra.html

A visual dictionary!  Watch the short clips that narrate the definition of words accompanied by still cartoons illustrating the meaning.  Great for visual and auditory learners who can’t grasp meaning just by reading it.  A more fun approach to SAT practice:

http://www.wordahead.com/Home/tabid/37/Default.aspx

A smattering of graphic organizers teachers can use in any content area and business leaders can use to plan meetings, to-do’s, etc:

http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm

JUST FOR FUN!

This will drive you nuts!!  The object of the game is to move the red block around without getting hit by the blue blocks or touching the black walls.  If you can go longer than 18 seconds you are phenomenal. It’s been said that the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots.  Be careful . . . it’s addictive:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html

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