Lisa+Brush

Lisa Brush Technology resources **#1) Supercook**: [|http://www.supercook.com] Using Supercook, you can enter any ingredients that you have in your kitchen and it will search recipes with those ingredients. For example, if you enter shrimp, eggs, and coconut it will pull up recipes that use some of all of those ingredients. It’s a great way to find recipes to use all leftovers or whatever you have without making a trip to the store. I think that this site will help in the classroom because being on a budget; sometimes you have to use what is available. There is also an exclusion section that lets you exclude all foods with nuts, gluten, shellfish, etc. This is a great feature when looking for recipes for those who are allergic. Once the recipes begin to show up, it will list what other ingredients you need under each recipe or tell you that you have all of the ingredients. Check it out; it’s a great, easy way to get the most out of what you already have without going to the store or spending extra money! **#2) Igoogle**: [|www.Igoogle.com] Igoogle is a great website that lets you create your own homepage. Using Igoogle, you can customize your homepage with several different features. Some examples include daily healthy eating tips; create your own to-do list, top youtube videos, breaking news, etc. Igoogle tracks the weather in your area and allows you to easily check your email. Using Igoogle it is very easy to send clips, tips, etc with other by just clicking on a share with friend link. Using Igoogle is an easy way to see everything that you are interested in with one click.  Allrecipes is a user-friendly recipe database. I use this website all the time and its probably the one that I could not go without. Allrecipes is so easy to use and the recipe selection is amazing. Home cooks add recipes constantly so it’s easy to find recipes from different family traditions, and a million versions of each. Allrecipes is free to use and once you sign up, you can add recipes to your recipe box, make modifications to the recipes, etc. All recipes will even create a shopping list for you. Seriously, you can’t go wrong with this site. Users of this site are very active. Recipe reviews are added all the time, so if you find a good recipe, I suggest reading the reviews of others to see any trial and error that may have occurred. If you ever want to make something and don’t want to chance using a bad recipe, this is the site to go to. To start, view the top recipes and always remember to “sort by rating.” Amazingly delicious food and great for the classroom. Kidshealth.org are very useful sites for Family and Consumer Science topics. Once you are on kidshealth.org there is a parent site, a kid’s site, and a teen site. Some of the topics on the Teen site include: your body and mind, food and fitness, sexual health, and drugs and alcohol. I like this site because it has some really great information and ideas. Also included on the site are hot topics so that you can keep up with some of the latest issues. On the teen page there is also a goal-reaching tool called “Making a Change.” This tool is used as a personal plan. Incorporating information for both parents and teens makes this site different than some others. Hulu.com has high quality videos and you don’t have to deal with searching through a bunch of homemade videos to find something good. Hulu has great clips from the Food Network on anything and everything. You can search Hulu by looking through the channels. Some of the channels on Hulu are Food and Leisure, Family, Home and Garden, etc. Hulu is also a great site to watch any missed TV episodes. This site is pretty easy to navigate and you can find a lot of good videos and shows. Nextsteps.org is an employment, career development, and job finding website for youth. Next Steps provides straightforward information about careers for students. Students can search jobs through career profiles, keyword searches, etc. All of the steps for finding a career are outlined on this site. Instead of just being a job search site, Next Steps aims at teaching youth about the career development process. The site shows students that finding a career is a process that can be completed step by step. One of the steps included is writing resumes and cover letters. I love the way that this site gives the option of how to search for jobs and simplifies a type of search that can sometimes be very overwhelming. Bing.com is another search engine like Google, but I love the way the information is so organized and simple. Just like most search engines you can search images, videos, etc., but the way that Bing gives the information is very easy to use. I often find that the search results are more accurate. Bing also has great tools such as news, maps, and travel. I also like using Bing to search images, once you click on an image the rest are still in a toolbar to the left, so that you can continue searching. Mypyramid.gov is a credible source for nutrition information. Using Mypyramid, students can look up a specific food’s calorie content and view all other accurate nutrition information. Mypyramid also has a visual glossary, which is very helpful for students that may not have knowledge of certain foods. The Site also has a tracker, where one can set nutrition goals and track their daily intakes. Some of the printable resources on Mypyramid are also available in Spanish. I find that this is another good feature of government websites and is very helpful if you have Spanish-speaking students in your class. It’s hard to find people who don’t enjoy using youtube. I think that you can find anything and everything on this site. The only problem is sometimes it is difficult to find high quality videos, especially if you don’t know how to search for them properly. A lot of people post youtube videos, but not all of them are worth watching, so it can be hard to find the good ones. This blog is a great technology-learning tool. For people who do not understand a lot of the new technology, this site shows you how to use most of it. On this tech blog there is learning 2.0 site that takes visitors on a 6-week journey about creating blogs, wikis, podcasts, etc. I think that using this blog, as a tool is very helpful, especially for people like me who only know the basics!
 * #3) Allrecipes.com **
 * #4) Kidshealth.org **
 * #5) Hulu.com **
 * #6) Nextsteps.org **
 * #7) Bing.com **
 * #8) Mypyramid.gov **
 * #9) Youtube.com **
 * #10) Plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com **