Hi,
Hope this is readable. If you were one of those people for whom my message of Nov
20th -- TECH: Tools for Libraries and Classrooms -- was garbled, please look in
the searchable archives at LM_Net at http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ . As
well, the following link should get you there directly at least 'til the end of
November/08. http://bit.ly/4Wb4
The short list of winter sites below comes with three tips. The "tricks" that were
used to construct the list are described at the bottom of the message.
---Some Winter Resources---
Thinkfinity: Winter Search
http://bit.ly/15pnl
Analyzing poetic devices using Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays", Lesson
based on "Snowflake Bentley, a multigenre mapping project about snow, winter animal
e-postcards, reproducibles
Google Search: Winter Lesson Plans
http://bit.ly/u2AC
A search for winter resources. You will be able to see the search string used to
create this set of hits.
Teacher Planet : Winter Theme
http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/winter.php [Winter]
http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/snowice.php [Ice and snow]
Links to winter fun, printables, winter vocabulary, GPS Schools winter theme page
Winter Sites
http://www.fvsd.ab.ca/stm/winter_sites.htm
Topics include - snow and ice, polar bears, penguins, winter arts & crafts, poetry
and stories, activity and colouring pages, clip art, gingerbread, snow, olympics
Winter Links: k-3 learning pages
http://www.k-3learningpages.net/web%20winter.htm
Topics include: winter poems, Dave's snowflake page, animals in winter, snowflake
instructions, winter weather, online games
Ethemes Winter
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001371.shtml
Includes activities, interactive games, winter sports, animal adaptations,
snowflakes and frost, seasons, and various winter holidays.
Winter Book List
http://bit.ly/Nf2H
Previous schlib message from the schlib archives
-------Tips--------
Tip 1. Do a Google search. Copy the very long url of the search results page that
you see in the address line at the top of your browser screen. Go to a url
shortener like http://bit.ly . Paste your very long search-hits url into the submit
box. Click the shorten button for a shorter url that you can then copy and share in
a message or post on a blog/wiki/Twitter Give the manageable shortened url to
your friend, student or colleague. There are two examples of searches with short
urls on the list of sites above, one that came from using Bit.ly with Thinkfinity
and one that used Bit.ly with Google.
Tip 2. Open your internet browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. Shrink it
to cover half of your screen. Open a new blank MS Word document. Minimize it to fit
in the other half of your computer screen. Now you have two windows open, one is
your browser and one is your word processor, side-by-side. Do your search on the
browser side. If you love a site you find and wish to share it, click and drag the
small icon right in front of the url in the address bar to your new Word document.
C'est tout! The link is recorded on the document for sharing later in a handout,
blog or newsletter. Maybe even better, you can also highlight any text or link on
a web page and drag it to your Word document in the same way. Try it. I used this
technique to capture the urls you see above.
Tip 3. Combine tips 1 and 2. Open two separate browser windows. Shrink them to sit
side-by-side on your computer screen. In one window, open Google. Do your search.
In the neighboring window, open http://bit.ly Drag the icon in front of the url
for your Google search results to the submit box at Bit.ly. Click the shorten
button. That's it. Now you have another quick way of making a short url. There are
many url shorteners. Some are listed at the Schlib/Tools page
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Cheers,
Margaret S
Margaret Stimson
Retired School Library Consultant
[Pembina Trails School Division]
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
mstimson@shaw.ca
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