Thursday, March 31, 2011
Harry's Big Adventure | Scholastic.com
Harry's Big Adventure | Scholastic.com: "Make the world of insects come to life for your students - either in your classroom or at our traveling exhibit"
Schoolbinder | About
Schoolbinder | About: "Schoolbinder is a free powerful online organizer for teachers and students to keep track of their courses; from managing grades, assignments, and events to sharing files, class notes, and class discussions. Communicate more effectively with your students, and keep track of your assignments, events, and grades!"
Fakebook: Create a fake profile!
Fakebook: Create a fake profile!: "'Fakebook' allows teachers and students to create imaginary profile pages for study purposes."
Search by Sight with Google Goggles | The Teacher's Hub
Search by Sight with Google Goggles | The Teacher's Hub: "In short, the application uses the camera function in the phone to scan a real life scene, words, addresses, books, anything in order to search for the results on Google. "
Turning Photos into Street View – Google Maps with Street View
Turning Photos into Street View – Google Maps with Street View: "To share Street View imagery with you in Google Maps, the Street View engineering team is hard at work behind the scenes. Here’s a glimpse into what the team is doing to bring Street View to you."
Gallery – Google Maps with Street View
Gallery – Google Maps with Street View: "Visit historic and architecturally significant landmarks in Italy. You can now explore inside the Colosseum, see ancient wellness centers, and walk along the Appian Way."
Music Tech Teacher
Music Tech Teacher: "The site is also used to provide music technology links, quizzes, resources and information to all music teachers interested in using technology to enhance music instruction."
Take Virtual Field Trips With Google Street View | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
Take Virtual Field Trips With Google Street View | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...: "Google has just created a gallery where you can visit historic areas around the world using its Street View feature."
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Free Technology for Teachers: Zendo - Take Notes and Create Flashcards at the Same Time
Free Technology for Teachers: Zendo - Take Notes and Create Flashcards at the Same Time: "The basic idea behind Zen.do is this; students take notes in the word processor in Zen.do then highlight terms or sentences in their notes to have them converted into flashcards. Students take notes as they normally would in any word processing application. Highlighted text becomes flashcards."
Issuu - You Publish
Issuu - You Publish: "Publish by millions.
Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best."
Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best."
Top Embeds of the Week
Top Embeds of the Week: "In addition to sharing links, as we reviewed last week, educators are using Edmodo to share curriculum related content. This morning we took a look at the types of content that is being shared the most – thought you might be interested in our findings:"
4 Easy Ways to Connect with Parents on Edmodo
4 Easy Ways to Connect with Parents on Edmodo: "Creating a strong school-home connection is critical — even more so with the blended learning environment Edmodo enables. But teachers often struggle to find meaningful ways to engage parents in their child’s classroom activities. Here are a few easy ways to get parents involved:"
Monday, March 28, 2011
Visualizing the Pakistan Flood
Visualizing the Pakistan Flood
What if the flood in Pakistan had happened here in Lake Havasu City, AZ? How much land would be destroyed? Follow the link and find out.
IfItWereMyHome.com
IfItWereMyHome.com: "IfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another."
Friday, March 25, 2011
Beware the Facebook "Dislike" Button Scam - PCWorld Business Center
Beware the Facebook "Dislike" Button Scam - PCWorld Business Center: "Facebook recently expanded the 'Like' feature, allowing users of the social networking site to 'like' individual comments to a given post, and expanding the application of the voting system to other sites. Now, a malware scam is circulating that exploits the demand from Facebook users for its antithesis--the 'Dislike' button."
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
What Kids Can Do
What Kids Can Do: "Based in Providence, R.I., What Kids Can Do (WKCD) is a national nonprofit founded in January 2001 by an educator and journalist with more than 40 years' combined experience supporting adolescent learning in and out of school. Together, they felt an urgent need to promote perceptions of young people as valued resources, not problems, and to advocate for learning that engages students as knowledge creators and not simply test takers. Just as urgent, they believed, was the need to bring youth voices to policy debates about school, society, and world affairs"
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Woodland Games - Play Free Games Online for kids of all ages
Woodland Games - Play Free Games Online for kids of all ages Some really cool little games.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Dr. Breece's Blog: D.A.R.E. Graduation
Dr. Breece's Blog: D.A.R.E. Graduation: "Telesis Second-Year Intermediate students (traditional 5th graders) were beaming as they ascended the stage at the Aquatic Center upon their graduation on Friday from the city-wide D.A.R.E. program. LHC Police Officers proudly shook their hands and provided them with cake and a pool party afterwards.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Classroom 2.0
Classroom 2.0: "Welcome to Classroom20.com, the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education. We encourage you to sign up to participate in the great discussions here, to receive event notifications, and to find and connect with colleagues."
Innovative ways to raise funds online — TechChi
Innovative ways to raise funds online — TechChi: "In just 26 hours, Jesse Desjardins raised $2,275 to finance his trip to South by Southwest Interactive, the annual technology, music and film conference in Austin.
How did he do it?
He posted a presentation to Slideshare.net titled “The World’s Greatest Opportunity.” He promised to give all his donors credit on five Slideshare presentations that he plans to create during the five days of the show.
That’s a pretty enterprising approach to get conference expenses paid. And he gave his donors something of a value in return."
How did he do it?
He posted a presentation to Slideshare.net titled “The World’s Greatest Opportunity.” He promised to give all his donors credit on five Slideshare presentations that he plans to create during the five days of the show.
That’s a pretty enterprising approach to get conference expenses paid. And he gave his donors something of a value in return."
Log in to SlideShare
Log in to SlideShare: "SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. You can…
upload & share your presentations (ppt, pptx, odp, pdf, keynote)
embed on blogs & websites
use Leadshare & AdShare to generate customer leads
create branded channels for your company/product
create a webinar by linking slides with audio
embed YouTube videos into presentations
And now SlideShare also supports all documents formats (doc, docx, odt, Apple iWork). And it's completely free."
upload & share your presentations (ppt, pptx, odp, pdf, keynote)
embed on blogs & websites
use Leadshare & AdShare to generate customer leads
create branded channels for your company/product
create a webinar by linking slides with audio
embed YouTube videos into presentations
And now SlideShare also supports all documents formats (doc, docx, odt, Apple iWork). And it's completely free."
Space | Thinkfinity
Space | Thinkfinity: "Explore the universe with your students. Launch rockets, explore planets and test gravity with lessons and interactive tools. Launch off today!"
Homepage - Uploadingit
Homepage - Uploadingit: "It's more than just a ordinary file hosting site, Uploadingit.com has the features you need to upload, download, manage, and share your images, videos, documents and more with ease. It's the way all file hosting sites should be..."
The Authentic History Center
The Authentic History Center: "The Authentic History Center is comprised of artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. It was created to teach that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical value and reflect the social consciousness of the era that produced them. Authentic also means conforming to fact, and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief. To meet this definition by presenting an authentic interpretation of American history is our ultimate goal. When a collection is whole enough to be considered an authentic representation of the sources produced about an historical event, they are presented via interpretive essay. Until then, incomplete collections are presented as digital archives without comment for individual study. Additionally, a large audio archive of speeches and news broadcasts are presented for students to experience a level of historical authenticity distinct from written sources."
Saturday, March 5, 2011
HubbleSite - Out of the ordinary...out of this world.
HubbleSite - Out of the ordinary...out of this world. Just a reminder to visit an old friend every once in awhile!
Thursday, March 3, 2011
EdTech Action Network
EdTech Action Network: "Join a growing number of educators across the nation who are “Making Their Voice Heard” in support of education technology. ETAN provides a forum for educators and others to engage in the political process and project a unified voice in support of a common cause – improving teaching and learning through the systemic use of technology. ETAN’s mission is to influence public policy-makers at the federal, state and local levels and to increase public investment in the competitiveness of America’s classrooms and students."
Welcome to Tweetcongress
Welcome to Tweetcongress: "We the Tweeple of the United States, in order to form a more perfect government, establish communication, and promote transparency do hereby tweet the Congress of the United States of America."
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