TL2014 – Resources you may find useful… 01/01/2012
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ICDL – International Children’s Digital Library
International Children’s Library includes many ebooks that you can download onto your Kindle. The books are organized by grade level and there are over 10,000 of them.
TL2014 – Resources you may find useful… 12/30/2011
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Gooru is a free platform for both students and teachers that offers access to standards-based online resources in organized playlists
TL2014 – Resources you may find useful… 12/29/2011
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The Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators contains the process and methods of design, adapted specifically for the context of education.
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Highlight web with Marker.to – best marker, highlighter, annotator!
“You can highlight text on the webpages with the mouse. Point out important information and share the highlighted pages with others in Twitter and Facebook with the special link.”
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Yummy Math | We provide teachers and students with mathematics relevant to our world today …
“We provide teachers and students with mathematics relevant to our world today …”
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In this glossary you will find animated, narrated videos explaining the use of punctuation. You can also find the same type of video explaining the parts of speech and mechanics of writing.
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Grammar Ninja is a fun game for students to play as they develop a working knowledge of the parts of speech.
1st Grade Literacy and Technology
Mrs. Dana Sugra, 1st Grade teacher at Harry S. Truman Elementary School, shared this recent project from her 1st graders.
In our first Storytown theme, we read a Big Book titled Go, Go, Go! Kids on the Move. This book discussed different ways children can move. We decided to make a personal connection with the book and create a Keynote Presentation of the ways we can move. Each child had to think of a way he/she could move. Using the software program Photo Booth on the laptop computers, students took pictures of each other moving in different ways. Each student created his/her slide changing the background color, font, typing the sentence and doing a voice over. This project is the students’ own work and is unedited by me. We continue to work on keyboard functions, as well as on correct punctuation, mechanics, and spelling. I hope you enjoy it!
View the students’ work at these links.
- Keynote file, including student voice over narration – 26 MB
- PowerPoint file, not including student voice over narration – 2.8 MB
TL2014 – Resources you may find useful… 12/27/2011
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Search-ebooks.eu – Free ebook search engine
a service dedicated to helping you find free ebooks. When you find an ebook on Search EBooks you can view a preview of it, download, or grab an embed code without ever leaving the search results page.
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Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
Interactive visual thesaurus tool
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5 Best Practices For Educators On Facebook
Suggestions for using Facebook in the classroom. Also includes links to alternatives.
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Shelfster – The best online platform for writers
The purpose of Shelfster is to help you bookmark and annotate websites and documents that you find while researching a topic.
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Internet Essentials from COMCAST
“Learning about the Internet can be informative and fun with these short and simple animated videos. Be sure to play the interactive games that let you practice what you’ve just learned. Let the whole family watch and play together, so everyone is up to speed on Internet dos and don’ts.”
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“Online games and simulations for use in the geography classroom.”
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CiteThisForMe – The Harvard Referencing Generator
The Harvard referencing generator
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32 Ways to Use Google Apps in the Classroom
The title of this presentation says it all.
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The European Virtual Museum makes artifacts of European history available in interactive 3D form. Through the use of QuickTime technology the artifacts in the European Virtual Museum can be rotated for optimum viewing. Visitors to the European Virtual Museum can browse through the collections by chronology, geographic area, object type, contributing museum, routes, and tour itineraries.
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The tour allows visitors to zoom in on small areas and details of the interior of the Sistine Chapel. Visitors to the virtual tour can turn 360 degrees to view the interior of the Sistine Chapel from various angles.
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40 New Education Blogs Recommended By Teachers | Edudemic
“From blogs about education technology to ones answering questions from parents… there are lots to add to your preferred RSS reader. Each of these blogs was nominated for an Edublogs award for being the best new blog of the year. “
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Virtual fetal Pig Dissection (VPD)
“This site is designed as a supplement to laboratory dissections exploring introductory mammalian anatomy and physiology — it is basic and many details have been omitted for clarity. We hope that it is suitable for AP Biology students or for students of introductory anatomy and physiology at the college level.”
Teaching and Learning 2014 