Teacher+Wiki

This Wiki is set up to provide a list of helpful links to add to your already growing professional needs!

Fort Worth ISD Links:

Dunbar High School Research Databases- This link will take you to the Student Databases as well as United Streaming and other Faculty only links. For passwords, please consult the bookmarks placed in your box, or see Ms. Pilcher.

College/Careers: [|Open Culture]- Currently blocked in the district, but working on getting this one unblocked! Some of the United States most prestigious universities have begun Open Sourcing their college classes. This website has a list of different classes that are available to listen to or even watch. You and your students may enjoy watching a college lecture on a topic you are currently covering in class. Instead of just telling your students what college will be like, show them.

Graphic Novels: Graphic Novels, very similar to comic books, are one of the most popular types of reading materials checked out of the Library these days. One way you may be able to grab your students’ attentions would be to either create lessons using online graphic novel/comic tools, or even better, test your students’ knowledge of your subject by having them create their own graphic novel with the information they have learned. Here are a few websites to help get you started:

[|Comic Master]- A free to use website that lets you create a graphic novel online by giving you the ability to select a layout scheme or even add your own images for backgrounds. It will let you also reposition your images within the boxes. You will be able to add characters, props, dialogue, captions, and special effects as well. Once you have finished, you can save and print it, or keep it available to show on your Promethean Board.

[|Pixton]- The individual sign in under “Pixton for Fun!” is free. They do offer an educator account, but you would have to pay for all of your students to sign up. See me for ideas to make this work for you if you decide to use it.

[|Strip Generator]- This is a free comic strip creator where you can create as many strips as you like. It allows you to add unique human characters, beings, objects, shapes, and speech bubbles with text. You can print your strips, publish them online, or even share your strip by forwarding a link or embedding it into a blog or website. You do not have to register, but you get extra features if you do.

[|Toondoo]- Free to sign up. This also allows you to create and share comic strips. It gives you the ability to embed your favorite comic strips into your blog or website.

[|Chogger]- free comic creator that allows you to make comics similar to those found in the newspaper!

Online Dictonary- [|Memidex]- A free online dictionary that pulls from many other online dictionaries. Gives audio pronunciation, origin of word, and definition. Newspaper Archives- [|Free Green Library Newspaper Archives]- Use the archive to gain a local perspective on historical news, to research your family history, or to simply read about a person or event of interest. We invite you to visit the archive often, as additional pages will be added as they become available. This archive is hosted by NewspaperARCHIVE.com largest historical newspaper database online.

Science: [|Dynamic Periodic Table-] This website can draw from Wikipedia, Web Elements, podcasts from the Royal Society of Chemists, and the Periodic table of videos by using the tabs at the top. There is also a tab for properties, orbitals, and isotopes.

[|Learn Genetics]- a website from the University of Utah that lets you discover genetics from “What is DNA?” to Transgenic Technology.

[|Smithsonian Wild]- It put a motion activated camera in remote areas across the globe and took pictures of animals. It may look like there are only like 20 pictures, but click on the animal’s name or the region and you can see up to 200,000 images.

Social Studies: [|Civil War Traveler]- Your headquarters for 150th anniversary information. Civil War battlefields & sites in 30 states plus maps, events, reenactment schedules, podcasts, books, a travel-blog, e-newsletter and more — everything you need to plan your Civil War travel — it's all here.

[|Easter History]- From History.com, the background for the history of Easter.

[|National Geographic Education]- This website has current event info as well as activities and projects. They just launched this new site and it looks like it will be great. One of the parts I liked the best is the [|Interactive Map Maker]. This is really cool. Don’t settle for maps that are given to you, make your own.

Writing/Essays: [|Plagiarisma.net]- A free plagiarism website. It isn’t the full version, but may work if you are looking to check out one (or all) of your student’s work.

[|Son of Citation Machine]- Want your students to use proper citations, but don't have the time to completely fit it into a lesson? This site will do all the citation for them, they will just have to "cut and paste" the final citation in place after they fill out all the information!

And Now For Something Completely Different… [|Befunky.com]- An online photo editor that allows you to upload and manipulate pictures. Pretty cool.

[|Stretch Your Face]- To use this website, all you have to do is upload a picture of yourself and it allows you to distort the image by “stretching out” certain sections of your face.