Thing 30: DIY – You Pick

 
For this "Thing" I decided to look at Amazon Inspire which is according to their website:
"Your destination for K-12 educational resources" and
"Amazon Inspire is an open collaboration service that helps teachers to easily discover, gather, and share quality educational content with their community."

 
It had some interesting links when I looked at some searches to create new lessons but I thought compared to what I have used in the past it was not all that inclusive.

 
I decided to compile a list of other resources and then I decided to use symbaloo to put all the choices together in a single area.

 
I will first list the initial websites that I looked at and then point out how one of them edshelf has pages of other choices to look at.
 
Lesson Sites I looked at to compare to Amazon Inspire. The main site is bulleted and the links below each one are some of the examples that I looked at to check them out.

              http://www.teacher.org/lesson-plan/chinese-new-year-lion-dance/   - Chinese NY

 

 
                  https://edshelf.com/search/?f=category:lesson+plans – sub group lesson plans
**Under EDSHELF this is a sample of 1 of 5 pages of lesson sites and links to each one
 

I decided to set up a symbaloo page to put out all of the choices to make it easier to access the different choices. I already have a home page with all of the regular links I use everyday but I am going to make a separate page for these.





Conclusion - There are a lot of choices. I will add Amazon Inspire as one of many to my page. It is in Beta test right now. I will be anxious to see how it develops.



Comments

  1. pollyalidaJanuary 21, 2019 at 6:38 PM

    There are tons of lesson sites aren't there. Good idea to curate your choices, Symbaloo is a good choice. I haven't looked at Amazon's Inspire service recently. thanks for reminding me to take another look at it.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Thing 28 - Anything Goes Google

Image
I looked at Google Sites , Google Tour and 360 , Google slides and Google free image sites . Sites, Slides and free image sites were in relation to a project that we were putting together for a school expo. Google Sites   I decided to use it for my book club to see what tools were available and how difficult it was to work with. Like many Google programs, it was simple to set up and easy to add basics but limited as far as I could see for anything more complex.   For example, I wanted to add a table for books read that I could update and I had a heck of a time. I did some work arounds but I may try to investigate more later.   I then created a Google Site for the School Expo with pages for Grade levels and Programs. Same issues and I decided to use some other programs to accomplish the same things. I think this was useful for the book club and I could use it for student work because of the easy learning curve. Below is the s
Read more

Thing 24- Google Drawings

Image
Thing 24 – Google Drawings. My only past experience with this program was to try to use it in google docs to add word art or picture but I wasn’t very impressed. I decided to explore the features it offers in the cool tools and I was very pleasantly surprised. Three things that I explored was using Google drawings to: 1-           Make an interactive image, the author calls it a Googlink – similar to Thinglink- (this is the program that RCSD supports but I was afraid that they would not continue in the future.) You start the Google drawing with a background on the topic, I used the Rainforest as an example, (see below) and then add links to images websites and videos. It is pretty easy to learn and utilizes Google functions to search right in the program.   It gives students the opportunity to do the research and then create a great visual representation.      2-  Is a neat little trick to make post it notes with writing on them.   I did two types – one for fun lu
Read more