one of the finest collections of author/illustrator videos I've ever seen. It's a staggering - interviews of pretty much every key figure in modern children's literature. What you see below is just a fraction of their author video library. You can access the videos two ways:
draws from nearly a thousand photos on flickr tagged with "5cardflickr"You are dealt 5 random photos from Flickr and you choose one to add to your story. You then repeat this 4 more times until you have 5 photos that you can then use to tell a story.
Fun facts and interesting history of languages.
The Technology Development Group (TDG) is proud to present a one-stop information website dedicated to the world's most important and populous languages.
Flickr is a fantastic site for sharing photographs with others, and as such it's also a brilliant resource for finding and using photographs to use in a lesson.
asks you to type a phrase and the site will pull in words from Flickr to match each word and then animates them in sequence. You can save them, and link to old ones via the archive. Here's an example.
is from the same people who produced Phrasr. It lets you use flickr photos to make picture books which you can publish or share. A nice tool for literacy.
"Tools for Educators offers
free printable worksheets, printables classroom materials, lesson plan resources, and a host of programs for teachers
to use in their classes.
The
free printable dice maker
is a worksheet wizard that allows you to create dice with pictures, dice with text or printable dice with both images and text. "
Marita Thomson 14 Oct 11 11:00:24
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