This page will give you insight into the anxiety that our 9th graders might be feeling. The project would be a great one for middle school teachers, and also for Chris Corey’s class to look at. His class is preparing a “handbook” for the upcoming class, full of advice from the kids who have “been there and done that”.
Some (most?) of the web tools used in the above link are blocked by BESS. But there are other tools that can be used. The other tools are not as good or as collaborative – but perhaps our district policy will become less retrictive in the future. Meanwhile – we are all pretty good at adapting ideas to our circumstances.
Hope you find some useful ideas.
We have a free trial right now from Gale – a company that produces very high quality databases. College professors will require students to use scholarly resources from databases, and not depend so heavily on websites from the free web. If you want to know more about scholarly resources, check out this video.
I am not sure how long the trial lasts – but it will be at least a month.
This particular trial covers several subject areas.
ENGLISH – LITERARY RESEARCH
For Students Online
Literature Resource Center
Literature eBooks
OTHER SUBJECT AREAS – BOOK CENTRAL
- Arts
- Biography
- Business
- Dorling Kindersley Collections
- Education/Careers
- History
- Law
- Medicine
- Religion
- Science
- Technology
- Nation and World
From Joyce Valenza’s blog post – How do you get to Carnegie Hall? (practice, practice, upload!) :
“The YouTube Symphony Orchestra opened for auditions on December 1st. This is the first-ever such international, collaborative project.”
eJamming
A way for musicians to jam online. Requires software to be downloaded and needs a very fast internet connection. This might work at school – or it might not. In any case – it might be a site to keep and eye on.
