21st+Resouces+and+Tools


 * 1) **21st Century Resources & Tools**
 * 2) []- wallwisher is a website that an online notice board maker that acts like sticky notes that can be rearrange over and over. The 21st century skills this sites has are: creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, information literacy, flexibility and adaptability, and initiative and self-direction
 * 3) []- wordsift is a website that help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. It instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and explore the richness and wonders of language! the 21 century skills this sites have are: creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, information literacy, media literacy, ICT Literacy
 * 4) [] delicious is a website that allows you to keep bookmarks in a central location that can be accessed from anywhere and by any computer with internet access. The 21st century skills this site might address would include: collaboration (sharing the sites), communication, and information literacy.
 * 5) http://www.skype.com Skype is a communication tool that allows you to have both video and audio conversation with people from around the world for free

Smartboards are a great tool for classroom teachers. They enable students take a hands on approach to presentations. During reviews students can show what they know infront of the rest of the class. With the smartboard capablities teachers can capture work they have done on the board and save it and put the notes and work on the internet so students can refer back to if they have problems on home work or at night reviewing for test. With the help of smartboards teachers and students have the abilities to do so many things that no other technology tool can provide. The major 21st century skill in deal with smartboards is information, media and technology skills. Another skill that using a smartboard has to be learning and innovation skills of creativity and innovation.
 * Smartboards**

[|Smartboard in the Classroom] this site gives how tips and lessons on how to use smartboards in the classroom

[|Smart Board Lessons] gives teachers already prepared lessons for their smart boards

[|Smart Lessons 2 from eduscapes] This site gives lessons in specifc areas of study also tips to how to improve your lessons

Skype is a tool to let people communicate to each other using the internet. Skype is a free account so anyone can use it. A lot of my students have a parent in the millitary and they use skype to talk with their parent when they are deployed overseas. I have also heard of teachers having parent teacher confroncesses with parents using skype when the parent is overseas. There will many uses that teachers can come up with using skype and this will happen as teachers get more familar with skype. 21st century skills For me Skype uses the 21st skills of: global awareness, creativity, innovation, communication adn collaboration, and media literacy.
 * Skype**

[|Skype in the Classroom] This site gives 50 ideas and tips to use Skype in the classrooms

[|Tips for Skype in the Classroom] This site has tips and ideas to help teachers incorperate skype into their daily classroom routine