These are my links for March 30th through March 31st:
- Absolute Michigan - Michigan News, Links - Absolute Michigan has thousands of Michigan-only links, news, photos, video and features - we are Michigan’s most dynamic resource.
- ArtisanCam - Activities - Super Action Comic Maker - The website is divided into the Artists Zone, which contains classroom-based activities and the Activity Zone, which is full of games and fun interactive activities, designed to encourage children to continue their learning at home.
- For Teachers (Library of Congress) - Library of Congress resources for teachers. The Library’s mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Office of the Librarian is tasked to set policy and to direct and support programs and activities to accomplish the Library’s mission.
- 50 Excellent Image Galleries You Can Use Today - Nettuts - Here are 50 of our favorite free image galleries that you can quickly plug into a design. They’ve been built with everything from CakePHP to jQuery to Ruby on Rails. A shout-out to all the developers involved in sharing their work with the community!
- Behold | Search High Quality Flickr Images - BeholdTM is a search engine for high-quality Flickr images. It aims to answer your queries based on what is inside the images — at the pixel level. It offers a completely new way to search for images, using techniques of computer vision. It is different to standard image search engines, such as Flickr or Google, because those search through images using only image tags and filenames.
- Yodio - Add voice to photos - Your voice is unique and personal?just like your stories. Use Yodio to add your stories to your photos or presentations, and share these narrated photos with your friends and colleagues.
- WTT - We The Teachers - WetheTeachers sprung out of a hypothetical idea that Nate and Amy Chambers had in the fall of 2005. After getting frustrated from fruitless searches for lesson plans and ideas, Amy wondered why there were so few websites that effectively catered to teachers. There is a lot of information, but little is organized. Even worse, many times the resources you need are only available with a yearly fee.
Posted on March 31, 2009 in
Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
Special Interest Group (SIG) Elementary Education
It’s been a busy week leading up to Spring Break. Getting back to my experiences at the 33rd annual MACUL conference.
I enjoyed meeting up with many teachers I have been following on Twitter/Plurk. (@mrlosik, @glo, @bcgeek). It was a great way to network and share face to face new technologies people have been using in the classroom. I learned about a few new web goodies there, too. Xtranormal is a great site to make text to video clips. It is a great way to introduce story telling to students. Secret Builders is a unique virtual world, geared towards Kindergarten through Eighth grade crowd. The Utah Education Network - UEN interactives was also mentioned. Michigan is working on it’s own version of organizing curicular websites through MeL and MORE.
How to create lessons that require higher-order thinking from students using Google Tools, Moodle (Blackboard), Wikis and Blogs. Check out the Google Site for Goomoodleikiog.
more about “Goomoodleikiog“, posted with vodpod
Posted on March 31, 2009 in
Video by James Stewart
These are my links for March 25th through March 29th:
- Planets - This interactive visualization of the solar system is a great resource for elementary and middle school science classes. Students can see the differences in rate of orbit from planet to planet.
- NewBlue Cartoonr: Free Video Plugin for Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Avid Liquid, Pinnacle Studio, Avid Media Composer, Canopus EDIUS, Corel VideoStudio, Apple Motion, and Apple Final Cut. - Give your video a cartoon look
- Retweetist - If you find yourself copying other people’s Twitter messages and reposting them with such codes as “retweet” or “RT”, you may be a Retweetist. Don’t worry, you are not alone. In fact, so many people are RT’ing that we can use this to see what are some of the most valued topics out there
- Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary shake-up | Education | The Guardian - children to leave primary school familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia and Twitter as sources of information and forms of communication. They must gain “fluency” in handwriting and keyboard skills, and learn how to use a spellchecker alongside how to spell.
- Seek ?n Spell - A Real-Time GPS-Based Word Building Competition | Apple iPhone School - Seek ?n Spell is a, ?a real-time GPS-based word building competition.? The object of the game is to create words by collecting letters. The catch is the letters are located outdoors. You collect letters by finding the letters based on GPS location. Your iPhone?s screen displays where each letter is located and then you must run (or walk) to that location in order to obtain the letter. You want to collect letters that will create the longest word?think real life Scrabble. To get a true feel of the application you will want to check out the demo video below.
- Dweeber - Welcome to Dweeber, a social website that connects youth and helps them get homework done faster by working with their school friends online.
- Ms. Jasztal?s Teaching Resource Index - Some of these links are incredible ?finds?, but several are also my own! They have been found and developed over the course of my five years of teaching fourth grade.
- 101 Undiscovered Freebies: The List - PC World - PC World - 101 Undiscovered Freebies: The Software List
Posted on March 29, 2009 in
Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
Research Without Copying: Using Technology to Increase Higher Level Thinking
This session focused on reasons students copy, ranging from getting better grades to not fully understanding what it is the teacher wants them to do. The activities presented involved students being able to choose how they wanted to present their information.
The Tech4Learning software, Pixie and Frames were used in the sample projects. The handout provided sample templates to use across the curriculum and provides great idea starters for teachers. Also, be sure to check out Elizabeth Allen’s links on Carkenord Elementary’s Media Center webpage.
Posted on March 28, 2009 in
Session by James Stewart
These are my links for March 22nd through March 23rd:
Posted on March 23, 2009 in
Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
These are my links for March 18th:
- American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century by Rank - Full text and audio database of Top 100 American Speeches by Rank Order
- Free Online text to speech (TTS) converter SpokenText - SpokenText.net is a free text to speech converter, it allows you to record (English, French, Spanish or German) PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, RSS feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech automatically.
- Pencil - Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.
- EclipseCrossword - the fast, easy, and FREE way to create crossword puzzles in minutes - Use crosswords to review vocabulary and lessons for all subjects. Students may actually even enjoy doing the assignment! Crossword puzzles encourage logical thinking and correct spelling. Crosswords can be printed or uploaded to your website.
- Ideas to Inspire - Ideas for interactive and engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas. Contributed by teachers from all around the world.
- Free Online Flashcards with Spaced Repetition: FlashcardDB - FlashcardDB is the smarter, faster and more elegant way to create, study and share flash-cards online.
Posted on March 18, 2009 in
Bookmarks by Steve Dembo
Photos from the Read Like a Rock Star assembly.
Posted on March 18, 2009 in
Video by James Stewart
