Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
My favourite book creating app by far. links to downloads and blog with ideas for usingFree app on iTunes. Ideal for children's picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and more.
Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers. A variety of free, easy to use IWB resources, for teaching a variety of subjects. New resources added weekly. These are great resources, mainly in math but there are a few language arts and one geography resource.
UDL-Designed Math Lessons. Interesting lesson plan with space for goals, I can statements, student considerations, tech/materials needed, UDL guidelines written on right hand side opposite lesson elements.
Such innovations - and a number of smart acquisitions - have led to hits like Google Earth, Gmail, Picasa, Google Docs, Blogger, YouTube, Google Calendar and others.
But they have also cultivated a vast jungle of lesser-known features. Unfortunately, it's so vast, you'd need a professional tour guide to help you find the gems.
Shidonni is an innovative startup, developing the next generation of creative 'virtual' worlds for kids.
Shidonni is providing a safe environment where kids and their parents can create imaginary worlds and animals, play games and interact with friends.
Shidonni is based on unique proprietary patented algorithms and using Microsoft Silverlight.
SET-BC consultant Maureen LaFleche has put together a wiki about a UDL approach to To Kill a Mockingbird. This is a great template to use for any UDL novel study. Maureen will be presenting at our January 8, 2009 Breeze meeting.
This is a narrated tour of the main Web2.0 writing tools currently available. I bookmarked for the excellent content but also as a great example of how to use Flowgram to do a narrated web tour.
Dade County's Project WebSIGHT is based on Reciprocal Teaching which uses the five strategies prediction, clarification, visualization, questioning, and summarizing in teaching reading. This site gives you the lesson plans and resources to implement this
Tikatok is a digital story telling tool. Children can create their own books and upload illustrations. They can select who can see their books online. Teacher Tools include a special dashboard and notifications about their students' activities on the site.
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