Widgets

**WIDGETS: //Snippets, Gadgets, and Applications// **
Widget SURVEY  In this professional development session, you will be introduced to widgets, a tool that can help you integrate technology and enhance instructional strategies in a naturalistic manner.

My objectives for this session are to define, describe and delineate widgets in education. In this session I will explain: > >  The focus of discussion will refer to widgets that can be used by teachers for their own benefit and for those that can be used in the elementary grades, namely K-8.
 * what widgets are,
 * where you can find them,
 *  how they are made, and
 * examine their instructional possibilities.

When discussing various types of instructional strategies during this workshop, I refer to the meta-analysis from Marzano, et al. They detail their investigations of research based successful intruction al strategies in their book, [|Classroom Instruction that Works]. and I will refer to various instructional strategies when recommending widgets  for educational use.

Let's start:   Widget Hotlist  [|Make your own widget.] = =
 *  How to make widgets
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> How to use widgets
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Where to find widgets
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Some recommended widgets.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Voki
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Weather Pixie
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Animoto
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Flickr
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Feedjit
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Pi Day
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Clipmarks
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Coloring Picture of the Day