Your landing page design doesn't have to be complicated. All marketers should use these 4 neuroscience principles to maximize conversions. Super helpful too if you design online content for students!
Math Machine Archive: Math Games
The Math Machine brings you a great collection of math games that you can share with your students. Here in The Math Machine you will find links to more than 50 online games that will help you teach and reinforce important math skills. Search the list below for games you might use with your whole class in your schools computer lab, or you might schedule students to use these games on computers in your classroom computer center. These games make great reward time activities too.
Helping keep the digital world civil . . . This blog post lays it all out: the rationale for teaching digital citizenship; how to start teaching it in elementary grades, and some follow up ideas for middle and high school. It's never too late to start working with students on digital citizenship, though! :-)
Google Labs is shutting down. Some sites, like Google Docs, have graduated into the Google mainstream, others converted to Android Apps, and others will be moved or shut down completely. View and bookmark many of these little known sites before it's too late.
In The National Geographic Kids Blog, a group of kids selected by the National Geographic staff share their thoughts and experiences. This is a great blog for kids to follow and be able to read about things that interest them and what other kids think. Teachers can use this as a resource to introduce kids to safe and educational places on the internet that are interesting to them as well. I found this in the "Online Safety" section of Kids.gov, accessed via the publisher companion site of our textbook.
Sometimes we may think that our young students are too young for technology, but given the world that we live in it is still important to integrate it into our classes. Here are some tips for integrating technology in PK-Kindergarten (and probably other primary grades as well).
With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install.A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Those who lean to the Right politically probably won't be interested in this article, but it fits the Left's narrative that big business has too much influence on public policy, particularly on education policy ... particularly on educational technology policy.
A great post that reminds readers about the transcendence of narrative writing across genres (and across subjects!) The teacher uses historical and science fiction as inspiration for her ELA students' writing projects, but ideas, such as the "What if . . ." digital presentation project she mentions from Larry Ferlazzo could be used in almost any subject. The author's ideas for having students prove their informational research are also very helpful. I loved reading the post, too. Her, "Nobody puts baby in a corner," quote made me laugh out loud.