"Where's the fun in that?
I have a confession to make. A few years ago I banned fun in my school.
Let me give you a little context. I was speaking to all of our teachers, teaching assistants and support staff at the very start of the first INSET session of the new school year. My reasoning was straightforward: I wanted
I wanted fun to be superseded by joy."
Prongo.com is an educational website for Kids. We offer fun, interactive, and educational
games for kids. For teachers, Prongo.com also offers Quizstation. Quizstation allows teachers
to create online quizzes for their students. Prongo.com also offers kids clip art, e-cards for kids,
wallpaper, kids jokes, screensavers, and more. Prongo.com provides hours of learning
fun for kids and resources teachers need to have a fun and productive classroom.
All games here were made by Exuberant Games. Each game goes through important information for a certain subject matter for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. The math games are great if you need to review your math facts for addition, subtraction , or division. Be sure to check out our new games for other subjects.
* English games to review parts of speech
* Reading games to help learn sight words
* Science tutorials and games are coming soon!
via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/04/fun-4-brain-great-educational-games.html
After four tiring-exciting-stressful-fun days, we'd like to introduce you to our new little buddy, HelloApp.
The idea is simple: When you arrive at a conference, you just say where you're sitting, via Twitter. Once you do that, you can …
1. Search for people with a certain skill-set (ie PHP, jQuery, CSS3, marketing, etc) and see where they're sitting
2. View the seating diagram colored based on Twitter follower count
3. Search for a specific person in the audience and find out where they're sitting
4. View the seating diagram colored based on whether people are Designers, Developers or Businessmen
5. Earn badges and points by meeting people and completing tasks. If you earn a high enough rank, you'll be able to post public messages to the entire audience and win prizes.
After four tiring-exciting-stressful-fun days, we'd like to introduce you to our new little buddy, HelloApp.
The idea is simple: When you arrive at a conference, you just say where you're sitting, via Twitter. Once you do that, you can …
1. Search for people with a certain skill-set (ie PHP, jQuery, CSS3, marketing, etc) and see where they're sitting
2. View the seating diagram colored based on Twitter follower count
3. Search for a specific person in the audience and find out where they're sitting
4. View the seating diagram colored based on whether people are Designers, Developers or Businessmen
5. Earn badges and points by meeting people and completing tasks. If you earn a high enough rank, you'll be able to post public messages to the entire audience and win prizes.
Julie and I spent some time with Silvia Tolisano talking about global collaboration, telling the story of how the flat classroom started and why we kept it going and the reason for the book. Also we snuck into the things shared in the book that we hope will help those involved in global education make it scalable and consistent. Probably the most fun was our discussion near the end about how Silvia and I "met" online and how we covered ISTE2006 from afar on our computers (pre twitter.) it was a fun talk.
Fun! A Milk Carton Construction Contest! This is something you can do with all students (and win $5,000 in the process.) This is a fun one to share with elementary teachers.
Evergreen Packaging is challenging school age children to become more eco-friendly with their nationwide Made By Milk Carton Construction Contest. For the past 3 semesters, students have been using their creativity to build art creations from recycled school milk cartons based on specific themes. Schools have the chance to win up to $5,000 for their creations.
The Spring 2014 contest theme is "Stories," and entries are being accepted now until April 16, 2014.
Just got this in my email. I could see some really fun, funny public service announcements -- cross curricular project for science and technology. This is what they sent me:
"The contest challenges students in grades 4 through 8 to use their biology and entomology knowledge, as well as their creativity, to create educational public service announcements (PSAs) that discuss the health and property risks posed by household pests. The grand prize winning entry will receive $3,000 for their school's science department! We know that this award could mean a lot to one of the many schools in the country that are being forced to cut budgets and programs in this difficult economy.
As a non-profit organization, NPMA is committed to science education, and never promotes specific products or services. I know that Cool Cat Teachers covers a wide range of topics, but we are hoping that the many science teachers who read your content would be interested in the contest for their schools. We would deeply appreciate your help in spreading the word about this fun and educational contest. The press release below has more information on the contest rules and details. Additional information, including sample PSAs and lesson plans for creating PSAs, are available at www.PestWorldForKids.org."
We Make Learning Fun!
Our educational video games offer an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills by incorporating features of arcade games and educational practices into fun online games that will motivate, intrigue, and teach your students.
Over 35,000 spelling words and eight spelling games!- A REAL person who says each word and sentence- Thousands of free spelling lists. Or save your own!- A free forum and newsletter with more resources!
This is an INCREDIBLE website that NSharoff (http://twitter.com/nsharoff) from New York has shared with me!
It lets you as a parent or teacher create spelling lists, then the kids can have the program "teach" them the words. Then, they can play games like hangmouse and a lot of others to learn the words. I am using this with my son and was so happy when nsharoff forwarded it, I could have just flipped!
Teaching spelling is easy with SpellingCity.com. Input spelling lists for your students to use for free spelling help. Students can learn spelling words, practice spelling tests, and play fun spelling games. Keep track of your spelling list curriculum, sh
This site has millions of users. It's invaluable assistance for the weekly word study transforming this previously boring exercise into something fresh and fun. Great games, sweet user interface, free teacher training, a vocabulary of 45,000 words...It's worth using!
Help make spelling time a fun time! SpellingCity.com can be an invaluable part of every child's spelling and vocabulary education with over 42,000 spelling words and customizable sentences.
Elf yourself is a very viral jib-jab style Christmas animation that lets you put 5 faces into the program and turn them into dancing elves. It is hilarious and would be great to create for that office christmas party -- it lets you download it and you could burn to dvd. (also fun addition to that family dvd you made in photostory or picasa)
What fun! (And a BIG win for Office Max)
Changes photos like Big Huge Labs but has Photo to Sketch, Jigsaw puzzle, Museumer, Rubik's Cube, Amazing Goo, Easter Egg Decorator, paparazzi and more. Loads of fun!
Fun and easy place to create a fake magazine page with your picture on it. It can then be embedded to many different sites including Google free websites and many blogging sites.
Fun and easy place to create a fake magazine page with your picture on it. It can then be embedded to many different sites including Google free websites and many blogging sites.
Hi! I'm Chuck Brown...and that's my face over there to the right (well, it's not exactly my face... but people think it looks a lot like me!). I'm your host for this site.
Light Up Your Brain is about inspiration, creativity, and the fun of being a kid.
I've assembled some great audio stories, games and links to outside resources.
This is really so much fun and one of the highlights of last season. Join in the PLN madness and sign up on the Third Annual Holiday gift exchange - you sign up on this page and elfster "draws names" the end of this week - you send something to your person - usually things local to your area. It is a lot of fun. Thanks to Steve Dembo for doing this!