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SUMMER 2008
Summer
wouldn’t be complete without stories about the sun!
Solar Folklore - I
shared this in 2002 but it bears repeated.
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/folklore/
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/folklore/
Sun Folklore - Activities, lesson plans and stories.
http://tinyurl.com/34blrj
Windows to the Universe - A site as vast as the galaxies
beyond.
http://tinyurl.com/4b5cb5
In Hawaii, people share stories while others add to it as it
is being told; this is called “talk story.” Here are tales from their culture
so you can talk story too!
Hawaiian Legends
http://tinyurl.com/5fb7dt
Hawaiian Legends of Old Honolulu
http://tinyurl.com/3nmcc8http://apdl.kcc.hawaii.edu/oahu/
Lights! Camera! Action! Interested
in taking stories to the screen? Here are some links to help you digitalize
your tales.
DigiTales - Information
and resources, everything you need to help students craft a digital story.
http://www.digitales.us/
Educational Uses of
Digital Storytelling - Examples, tools, evaluations and more.
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
Lesson Plans for Digital Storytelling -A step by step guide, rubrics and additional resources.
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli08167b.pdf
Robert Clow
Elementary School - Storyteller Sue Black and librarian Bev Frett offer
resources and digital stories created by their students.
http://tinyurl.com/6bjk6z
Miscellaneous sites
Google Scholar - Type key word(s) in the
search box and scholarly articles are at your fingertips; a helpful tool
to locate research materials to support your work.
http://tinyurl.com/6bthe3
Manybooks.net - What better way to spend part of your
summer than by downloading free books for your PDA, IPod or EBook Reader.
http://manybooks.net/
http://manybooks.net/
Russian Fairy Tales -
The site shares twenty-one fairytales. Most offer both a short and long
version, for those who want more details.
http://tinyurl.com/6blpls
Voice Thread - This
tool allows you to collect the voices of an entire group on a single
page"; it truly is easy, fun, can be password protected and has many of
educational uses!
http://voicethread.com/
We are just into the sizzling days
of summer but September will be quickly upon us. Here are some sites that will help you kick
start the new school year with stories!
Folktales of Cooperation for your Kindergarten – Grade 3 - From Education world, a curriculum guide that includes
stories, related activities, discussion questions and additional resources.
http://tinyurl.com/47m4t6
Dramatizing Folktales, Myths and Legends - This lesson guide celebrates the Native American culture
offering suggestions, resources and links them to the national standards.
http://tinyurl.com/5zh6n3
Fairy Tale Writing
Unit – Elementary Level - From Teachers.net a two to three week unit offering
suggestions for whole, small and independent work.
http://tinyurl.com/6duz6v
2007
January February 2007
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/06/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e.html
March April 2007
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/06/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e_30.html
May June 2007
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/07/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e.html
July August 2007
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/07/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e_15.html
September October 2007
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/07/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e_20.html
November December 2007
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/07/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e_29.html
2008
January
February 2008
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/08/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e.html March April 2008
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/08/slow-and-steady-wins-race-stor-e_11.html
May June 2008
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/08/slow-and-steady-wins-race-may-june-2008.html
Karen Chace 2013 ©
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