TechKnowledgey inTechgration

These are my links for September 25th through September 27th:

• Home (Google-ize Your Staff Development) - Google has a number of great applications that can assist you with the technology staff development efforts in your school and the best part about it, is that they are all free and easy to use.
• Teacher Tap: Public Domain, Copyright Free, Open Source, and Student Use Images and Media - This page provides links to some of the better copyright-free and public domain resources. The advice on this page is not a legal opinion. The ideas are intended for educators and librarians who wish to locate quality, copyright-friendly materials for educational, noncommercial, and nonprofit projects.
• iPod Literacy - While introduced as a hard drive based music player in 2001, the iPod has evolved into an essential tool for literacy in the 21st century. The availability of educational content is staggering. There are podcasts on everything from math to history to science to learning a foreign language.
• Domo Animate - Create animations - Domo Animate, Powered by GoAnimate, is a way to easily create Domo animations and slideshows.
• Reading Logs : Reading, Vocabulary - Reading Logs gives students a better way to track reading, create vocabulary cards and practice spelling. Learning material is uploaded by
  teachers and is accessed online by students in their class.

Read more on the blog, “Learn 4 Life“

These are my links for September 18th through September 23rd:

• MP CHANGE - MpChance is a fun Japanese utility which lets you upload portrait-style photo and have it converted into 3D face. Converted image looks just like real face and reacts to your mouse movements and clicks. There is also an option to apply funny masks, hairstyles, beards and mustaches. Moreover it lets you take a snapshot of the face and save it onto your computer.
• Introduction to Copyright Law - This course is an introduction to copyright law and American law in general. Topics covered include: structure of federal law
• Excel Templates - Ways to use Excel with your students…
• Tagul - Gorgeous tag clouds - Tagul is a web service that enables you to create beautiful looking tag clouds and embed it on your web page
• JacketFlap.com - Children’s books, Teen books, Writers, Authors, Illustrators, Librarians, Agents, Editors, Publicists, Publishers, and Blogs - JacketFlap is the world’s most comprehensive children’s book resource and social networking web site for people in the children’s book industry. Over 4,200 published authors and illustrators are members, as well as many librarians, agents, editors, publicists, booksellers and publishers.
• 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner | College@Home - Web 2.o tools to use with different learning styles

These are my links for September 13th through September 17th:

• Educational Games, Worksheets - Game Classroom is a one-stop destination for accessing educational games and homework help for Kindergarten through 6th grade students
• uquery.com - The Appstore Search Engine - uquery.com is a new search engine focused on the emerging market of iPhone
• Create text-to-speech (TTS) podcast from RSS feed for iPod, iPhone, MP3 player and mobile phone - Odiogo’s media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.
• WebMath - Solve Your Math Problem - WebMath is designed to help you solve your math problems. Composed of forms to fill-in and then returns analysis of a problem and, when possible, provides a step-by-step solution. Covers arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus and statistics.
• Free Math Games, Free Online Math Games, Maths Games, Math Games for Free, Printable Math Games, Free Kids Math Games - Find math skill building and reinforcing games and exercises for fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra, geometry and just about any math related topic. These FREE online math games and worksheets make learning math fun!
• The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham - Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one.

Click to open Constitution Day Resources

Read the US Constitution – September 17, 1787 was when thirty-nine brave men changed the course of history.

Constitution Day is a website devoted to assisting teachers with over 200 activities, lessons, books, DVDs from more from over 30 different providers. You may use their Resource Wizard to locate materials.

In addition to this site, check out some more ideas at the Colorado State Library’s Constitution Day section.

You can also refer to the Constitution Day handout from last year under the Forms tab.

More resources

• More sites on the US Constitution K-3
• More sites on the US Constitution 4-7
• These next sites come from this great site, Mrs. Cannon’s Computer Lab

• Enchanted Learning US Timeline Constitution

• Save the Bill of Rights

• Celebrate Constitution Day with three activities

• Constitution Quiz -

• Constitution Q & A
• Interactive Constitution
• Another Constitutional Timeline -

• Clickable map of Philadelphia Hall
• Read the Constitution from Congress for Kids
• Facts about the Constitution -

• Write your name with a Quill Pen

These are my links for September 2nd through September 12th:

• Ideas to Inspire - ‘Ideas to Inspire’ is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.
• KickLight.com - Video with a Kick - KickLight is an online service that allows video producers to add synchronized visual elements (?Kicks?) to their online videos. Wherever that video is ultimately sent or embedded, the Kicks go with it.
• Mini-Movies for Your SmartBoard - A SmartBoard mini-movie is a simple (most involve only a click of the mouse), interactive animation that teachers can download and add to their galleries. From there, the movies can be inserted into their SMART Notebook presentations. Each mini-movie is a dynamic Flash file, similar to the same files that are already included in SMART Notebook’s resources.
• Microsoft Education Labs - Think of Education Labs as your personal playground. It?s a place where you can tinker with all sorts of toys and gadgets, explore new possibilities, and chat with others about new ideas for the education sector.
• Flickr: Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP)’s Photostream - These unique videos could be the most addicting thing on the internet right now. By mounting cameras on a variety of animals — from armadilos to goats — video artist Sam Easterson gives us a unique view of the world from the animals’ perspectives.

These are my links for August 28th through September 1st:

• SparkleBox - 1000s FREE printable Early Years and KS1 teaching resources - phonics, posters, labels, signs, activities and more! - Pver 1000 signs and posters to hang in the classroom
• Teachable Moment - free lesson plans and topical activities for k - 12 - The classroom lessons on TeachableMoment.Org foster critical thinking on issues of the day and a positive classroom environment. Teachers are free to use these lessons in their classrooms.
• FRONTLINE: digital nation: learning: schools | PBS - How to educate children for the digital age.
• Lesson Plans: Journal Writing Ideas (Elementary, Reading/Writing) - Journal Writing Ideas for Elementary students
• 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching - Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They?re often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.