Be sure to visit the Myspace page for Words of Wisdom Educational Consulting at www.myspace.com/wowedu.
Here you will be able to see Keith Pruitt's educational blog, download videos from the BBC and National Geographic as well as do all kinds of fun things. Visit it often.
Examples of videos include the Zapruder Film of the Kennedy Assassination, the Challenger Explosion, and various National Geographic clips.
Students need access to as many experiences as possible. As Marzano suggests in his book Building Background Knowledge, it is crucial that students are exposed to the world around them. This is how valuable experiences are gained that add to their frames of reference and build vocabulary that is essential for academic success. Here are some suggested websites that will help in that cause. Many of these allow various degrees of interaction from video feeds to teacher pages. If you find other web links, please let me know. I will continue to add more to this. Return often. Explore and benefit.
Here are other websites that will prove useful in teaching lessons or in finding research.
http://www.earth.google.com/
This is a tremendous site for being able to show students different parts of the world using satelite photography. There is a free version.
http://www.ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
The What Works Clearinghouse reports research findings on major programs on the market. Here you can find out what is really research based!
http://www.fcrr.org/
Florida Center for Reading Research has free resources involving all five elements of reading as well as research done on popular programs.
