http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:19:29 PDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:19:29 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=302277 The Rubric Machine helps you build and use instructional rubrics in support of broader performance-based approaches to assessing student learning. Just log-on and begin developing your own tailor-made rubrics. Besides supporting the rubric design process, The Rubric Machine also enables you to save and archive your rubrics, modify them as needed, and format them for printing. You can read published articles, tips, and other resources to help you put rubrics into practice as part of your regular curriculum and instruction. Like all ThinkingGear tools, registration is free. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=302275 iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and collaboration tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of usage in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=250563 Art Education 2.0 is for art educators at all levels who are interested in using digital technologies to enhance and transform teaching and learning in their classrooms. The aim of Art Education 2.0 is to provide a safe and comfortable environment in which its members can pursue shared artistic and educational goals. Through the technology tools, forums, projects, and resources offered through Art Education 2.0, the intent is to promote effective art education practices, encourage cultural exchanges and joint creative work, and support technology-enhanced projects and activities deemed important by our members. Sign up is required but free. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=322872 This unique interactive website works with maps and globes to transform pupils understanding of the world. Winner of a Geographical Association Gold award and a BAFTA award for primary learning, Mapping Our World allows pupils to flatten a globe, turn a map into a globe, and merge different map projections. The nine structured activities come with teachers notes and are designed for whole class learning on an interactive whiteboard or PC. The website supports the Geography curriculum and is also ideal for bringing a global approach to Citizenship, PSE and ICT http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=315312 This page is our collection of Native American folktales and traditional stories that can be read online. We have indexed these stories tribe by tribe to make them easier to locate; however, variants on the same legend are often told by American Indians from different tribes, especially if those tribes are kinfolk or neighbors to each other. As well as our collections of tribal legends and legend archives, we also have three pages of comparative legends, first for the stories of the Wabanaki tribes (including the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abenaki tribes,) second for the stories of the Iroquois tribes (including the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes,) and third for the stories of the Anishinabe tribes (including the Chippewa, Ottawa, Algonquin, and Potawatomi tribes.) Since this page features primarily the myths and legends of North American Indian tribes, we have also begun a separate collection of Central and South American Indian legends which may be interesting for purposes of comparison. Note that since many children use this site, we have tried to avoid linking to any legends or stories which deal explicitly with sex or contain bad language, including slur words for Native Americans. However, like the folklore of any culture -- including European fairy tales -- there is often violence and bad behavior in American Indian folklore, so please use discretion about sharing them with younger children. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=315511 This web site, which offers many excellent examples of assignments and podcasts, explores various uses of podcasting that effectively engage different audiences in three major sites of composition: the classroom, the writing center, and the professional composition conference. Podcasts give students a new way to receive and present information and can engage students in the material by allowing them to be active composers in an emerging technology. Assignments that require students to produce their own class podcasts not only actively engages them in synthesizing course content and exposes them to a new mode of composing but also provides a critical opportunity for them to reflect upon the needs and expectations of their audience and how to reach that audience via the rhetorical elements specific to the medium. Writing centers can use podcasts to disseminate information about writing to current and potential clients and to reach a wide audience of instructors and practitioners of writing. Finally, podcasts can expand our professional community in composition studies beyond the temporal and spatial constraints inherent in the age-old academic conference model. In each of these examples, podcasts are most effective only when they are instructionally sound and when they provide content that adequately addresses the intended audience. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=316571 A resource guide for learning about structured conceptual mapping. It includes links to general introductory materials, research and case studies illustrating the use of the method, and information about software. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=278880 This educational web site provides over 100 free online tutorials on critical thinking, logic, scientific reasoning, creativity, and other aspects of thinking skills. Our online tutorials have been used by universities, community colleges, and high schools across the world. The online tutorials are organized into over 10 modules. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=322878 These lesson plans celebrate music from across the globe. Choose from 20 stand-alone lessons, offering opportunities for singing, performing, composing, improvising, listening, and appraising. You can also explore rhythm, timbre, texture, structure, and pitch by using music from many cultures and countries. The lessons have been created for ages 57, 711, 1114, and 1416. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=250566 This video is featured in the Next Vista For Learning video collection, free 1-5 minute clips you can also download. In a short 3 minutes it introduces the very basics of Japanese Buddhism and Shinto.