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Tips and websites for use in your classroom

The BBC has excellent educational games, activities, and resources.  The BBC Science Clips are a collection of science related activities and games for students who are 5 to 11 years old.  Students can grow virtual plants, experiment with pushes and pulls, hearing and sound, forces and movement, electricity, rocks and soils, simple machines, light, solids and liquids, friction, habitats, life cycles, changing states of matter, reversible and irreversible changes, forces, and much more. 

Not sure about the above comment, but this is a GREAT site with lots of USEFUL ideas for incorporating digital storytelling into a classroom.

This looks good, but after I type the text it disappears. Maybe I need to create an account.

Free Creative Commons images the Wylio way:

Thanks, Dan. I put in several searches and received hundreds of pictures. Great resource for digital storytellers!

Maybe I'll move beyond copyright-free clip-art!

Fairview School is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We are a full inclusion school of 630 students from K4 through 8th Grade. The students here at Fairview receive Physical Education once a week for 45 minutes. They receive 35 Physical Education lessons a year. Please check out what your child's learning in his/her Physical Education class. If you have any questions or concerns about your child don't hesitate to call or email. Phone #:546-7700 Email: beringmx@mail.milwaukee.k12.wi.us

Every Child has a story. Write and publish your own hardcover book. 

A little tricky to use. Maybe better for older kids. Also expensive.

Issuu is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, catalogs, and newspapers. Millions of people have uploaded their best publications to create beautiful digital editions. When will we see yours?

Clicked to check this out and was confronted by a fairly naked lady picture. Be forewarned.

This page contains multiple "how to" video tutorials to show you how to leave a comment on a blog, write a new post, adding links and embedding photos or videos.  These will be useful when you start blogging.

This is a great way to share students comic lifes, as well as their ideas.

scifi science 

Against Homework, Scientific American: A child who has been boxed up six hours in school might spend the next four hours in study, but it is impossible to develop the child's intellect in this way. The laws of nature are inexorable. By dint of great and painful labor, the child may succeed in repeating a lot of words, like a parrot, but, with the power of 

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the best-known speeches in history: The Gettysburg Address. To pay homage to it, designer Adam Gault and illustrator Stefanie Augustine have rendered the immortal words in beautiful black-and-white typographic animation that visually captures the essence of Lincoln's words as they are spoken.

Letterpop is a service that allows you to easily create online newsletters with text and images and several pages. It offers a free plan with which you can publish up to 10 newsletters. You do need to create an account. You can take a screen shot of the newsletter so that you do not have to publish it. We were also able to have 18 people logged into one account at the same time. There is a feature that allows you to send out the newsletters to an email list. (if you publish them).