Career Exploration Resources

When it becomes time to discuss careers in your classroom, there are many resources that can help students begin their exploration of different careers.  Below are a few I use in my classroom! Drive of Your Life http://www.driveofyourlife.org/ is an awesome interactive website that enables students to create a car, trick it out, then drive and explore different careers based on a students interests.  The site was created by The Indiana Youth Institute and is used by counselors in my school when they talk about careers in our Technology Classes.  My students have done this for several years now but I always find them going back...

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Reduce your footprint: Ecological Footprint Quiz by Center for Sustainable Economy

Reduce your footprint: Ecological Footprint Quiz by Center for Sustainable Economy Ecological Footprint is an awesome site that allows you to find what your ecological footprint is (or as the site describes "how much 'nature' your lifestyle requires."  It is a great site to use when you are beginning to talk about the Ecosystem/Environment and how our lifestyles can effect them! The quiz is approximately 30 questions and some may be a bit tough to understand.  However, each question does have a link explaining what the question mean/what it is asking.  So I would recommend walking through this with your students. The site says...

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What the Tech? Technology Definitions for Kids!

     In my class, we do a couple of projects where we define and discuss various technology terms.  My students will research the definitions of various Computer Hardware Vocabulary, Internet Safety Vocabulary and Internet Browsing Vocabulary Terms.  One of the struggles for me has been finding websites that have definitions for technology terms that are easier for 6th Grade or Elementary Students to understand.  Below are a couple of sites we are using now, Techdictionary.com and Techterms.com.  I also posted a couple of more sites for younger and older students.  Do you have any great suggestions...

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"Who's a Cyberbully?" by Mr. Dean & Little L

This is a Glog that I created as an example for my classroom during an Internet Safety Glogs Project we were doing in class.  I really really wanted a music connection, or some type of song about my subject Cyberbullying.  I scoured the Internet, and found a 40 second rap song that was part of a contest.  I included the short animated video of that song in my glog, but still wanted more.  I decided to write my own Cyberbullying Rap Song that would explain the subject, give tips to prevent it, and tell what should happen if you are cyberbullied.  I had Nebula produce the beat, my 6 year old daughter record the chorus,...

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Soundcloud - Easy Podcast and Original Music Sharing!

     Soundcloud is a site that lets you share your copyright free music or podcasts easily on your blog or website.  In my Rap It Up Project, I always wanted to have a neat way to share my students' original Rap Songs.  This is the answer.       A Free account allows you the ability to upload 2 total hours of your own music files.  You can then create sets out of these files such as "Podcasts" or "Historical Interviews" and share only these specific files on your blog or website (worked great on my Moodle Site).  You can even see an example of one of my SoundClouds uploaded...

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SumDog Contests and Competitions now available for FREE accounts!

SumDog is a site that allows students to practice their numeracy skills in competitions versus other classmates or against students around the world.   Back in December, I recieved an email from Sumdog notifying me that all Competitions and Games are now available for FREE ACCOUNTS. I setup a class on Sumdog and had a 2 week competition amongst my students.  You can even edit the "Leaderboard" to show only the top 10 student scores or your whole class.  What I thought was pretty cool was you could even have competitions against students outside of your classroom.  Some of the games even let you compete against other...

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GlogsterEDU in the Classroom! "Whatchu Glogging About? "

GlogsterEDU is a site that allows students/teachers to create interactive multimedia collages & posters to share with their school community or to simply show understanding. If you are reading this blog, then I know you have already heard about Glogster. Hopefully if you haven't used Glogster in your daily curriculum, you are planning to in the near future. Here are some ideas of how you could use Glogster in the classroom:  Examples of 5 Glogs my students made are in the picture!! Biography of Famous People (We do a Biography of people who have overcome adversity to achieve great things. Here is an example of mine about Curtis...

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