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Amy Christian

Free Technology for Teachers: Teach Your Monster to Read Helps Kids Learn to Read - 1 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...onster-to-read-helps-kids.html

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  • Amy Christian on 22 Oct 12
     
    This is an interesting free game to help young children to read. I am going to try this with my son who just turned 6 and is starting to learn to read. Claims to be the only site like this available but I haven't verified that. Great for teachers or parents. Adults sign up and add kids; kids are issued on password and parent/teacher can view progress.
  • Sandra Steinfadt on 06 Nov 12
     
    I have signed up for this site but have not had a chance to use it with my 5 year old yet. Looks like it has some great possibilities. I love the Free Technology for Teachers Blog as well, I have found many great things on there such as the StoryKit App for the iPad.
  • Mel Carnahan on 14 Nov 12
     
    This site has a lot of resources...including the Teach Your Monsters to read. Great resource for ways to include technology in your curriculum.
kirstinthompson

E.gg Timer - simple online countdown timer - 0 views

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  • kirstinthompson on 12 Nov 12
     
    Teachers need structure, kids need structure, everyone needs a virtual egg timer!  This is a simple timer that works great with an interactive white board.  Type in any amount of time in the box and click 'start.'  Kids can easily look up and see how much time they have left and/or wait for the buzzer.  Works great for playing games like charades, etc.  Also worked well with high school students and timing speeches.
Amy Christian

Three Great Sites for Hands-On, DIY Students - 2 views

www.fractuslearning.com/...sites-for-diy-students

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  • Amy Christian on 13 Nov 12
     
    "As much as we all love online learning and utilizing technology in the classroom for the benefit of our students, there comes a time when the best way to teach a subject is to get your hands dirty and just make something." The first paragraph says it all. Three sites that have great ideas for hands on activities for kids. Appropriate for an age level. My kids love "How Stuff Works."
Amy Christian

Storybird - Artful storytelling - 1 views

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  • Amy Christian on 08 Oct 12
     
    Storybird is a great way to promote storytelling in a collaborative way. It is fun, easy to use, and very colorful. A great way for kids to connect with each other, with family, and with teachers. A great way to help spark imagination! K-12.
  • Amy Christian on 08 Oct 12
     
    Storybird is a great way to promote storytelling in a collaborative way. It is fun, easy to use, and very colorful. A great way for kids to connect with each other, with family, and with teachers. A great way to help spark imagination! K-12.
Kelsey Lage

Wordle: Word Clouds - 0 views

www.wordle.net

School Reading web2.0

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  • Kelsey Lage on 13 Nov 12
     
    This website creates word clouds and is often used to begin concept mapping or brainstorming. Students can list words that connect with each other and create a visual. Word clouds can be altered by size of the words, color, and shape.
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  • kirstinthompson on 13 Nov 12
     
    I've always liked this site, but often forget about it. I think kids enjoy brainstorming and creating these. I think for World Languages it has great potential as kids often just need fun ways to practice and recall words! These are also fun to save and post on class blogs, wikis, etc.
  • Randon Ruggles on 13 Nov 12
     
    This is a great site for creating truly beautiful word clouds. It has some amazing implications for classroom use with both a traditional word cloud and some crazy uses I have seen on blogs and at conferences. It is specifically helpful in the classroom to help students see commonalities with text. I really believe that this resource is mostly for student use. They can create their own word clouds, screen shot them, and save them for projects in the future. It provides a simple, but elegant, workflow and space for students to create. The FAQ section also provides some nice work arounds and ideas as well. There are a few similar sites out there that have cropped up, but this one is really the granddaddy of them all and probably the best one too. When was the last time you made a word cloud?
  • Ashley Ulin on 13 Nov 12
     
    I really love this cite. It's a great way to create a project, poem, presentation, etc. in a unique way. This is a great resource for both students and teachers. Students can use it as an alternate way to complete an assignment and teachers as an alternate way to present instruction. I myself use it often for my words wall words of the week. Thanks for sharing Kelsey.
  • Ann Hansen on 13 Nov 12
     
    Thank you Kelsey for posting this, I've seen these word clouds on websites and other places but didn't know how to make them. Now I don't have to look any further. I think this resource will be something that I could use in my classroom. It may be a tool used so students can see what words they use most in their writing or for a poetry unit. It is definitely something that I can see myself using for graphic works, either on a blog, yearbook page, or poster. This is something that I feel both students and teachers can use, but mostly students. I know there are similar sites out there, but not sure what they are.
  • Mindy Foelske on 13 Nov 12
     
    I love this cite to do word wall words and other things. I used it a great deal last year but had forgotten about it. It is not only a good resource for the teacher but the kids love it to. Thanks for refreshing my memory on this site.
Kelsey Lage

Kid Blog - 0 views

kidblog.org/home.php

School

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  • Kelsey Lage on 03 Oct 12
     
    This site allows students to privately blog with the protection from the internet. Students are given usernames and passwords and only those with access to the classroom can view the blogs. This site is a safe way for kids to get involved in blogging.
kirstinthompson

FACEinHOLE.com - Who do you want to be today? - 0 views

www.faceinhole.com

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  • kirstinthompson on 09 Oct 12
     
    While much of this site is just plain silly, or even inappropriate, this is still a fun site.  The art section is great and can get kids looking at famous paintings and talking about them - a good resource for language teachers.
Ashley Ulin

Top 10 back-to-school teaching resources | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...schools-secondary-schools

5131Fall2012 tools teaching back to school article Differentiation

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  • Ashley Ulin on 13 Nov 12
     
    A great list of resources to get your kids and you in the back to school mindset.
Andrea Poe

StudyJams - 0 views

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Math science videos

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  • Andrea Poe on 14 Nov 12
     
    Study Jams is a great site to visit for find fun, informative videos for your kids. I often have the student watch a "study jam" as one of their stations. It is a quick way to reinforce skills were are learning.
  • Tyler Hellmann on 14 Nov 12
     
    wow, this is a great resource! I like how you had the idea of having this as one of your stations. This seems like it may be rather motivating for students.
Shane Paige

Doug Johnson Mind/Shift BYOD - 1 views

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  • Shane Paige on 14 Nov 12
     
    This article again features some discussion with Doug Johnson from Mankato Schools in Minnesota on BYOD strategies in his district.
  • Brian McGurk on 14 Nov 12
     
    Hi, Shane, cool blog. I especially like the article that you linked to about the BYOB program. I have a BYOD program in my own classroom. Kids still aren't supposed to have their devices in school, but my room is a technology haven. I've been somewhat forced into it since my district isn't 1:1 so I have students supplement our school technology with their own devices. It seems to work fairly well, and once you establish expectations, it probably lessens the disruptions to class time form technology.
Kelsey Lage

Merrill on Instructional Design - 1 views

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School Instruction

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  • Kelsey Lage on 12 Sep 12
     
    Dr. Merrill explains his research on how to design instruction to get kids motivated.
Nicole Schroeder

Mrs. Nessman's Grade Ones - 1 views

enessman.edublogs.org

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  • Nicole Schroeder on 10 Oct 12
     
    This blog has a lot of cute and creative ideas to use in a first grade classroom.  I plan to use this site to generate some ideas for my future classroom.
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  • Jessica Heidemann on 12 Nov 12
     
    I really enjoyed looking more into Mrs. Nessman's blog. I am a huge fan of blogs and love to get new ideas. I feel some of the best ideas are ones in which we find from other teachers. She provides a lot of creative ideas in which I could modify to use within my own future classroom. Thanks for sharing!
  • Amber Sandoval on 13 Nov 12
     
    This is a really neat blog! I always enjoy reading about new and creative ideas that I could possibly use in my future classroom. Mrs. Nessman's blog is very impressive and creative! I could definitely see myself using this blog as a reference when I am a teacher. I have not encountered any other blog that is this innovative. I can see many teachers learning much from Mrs. Nessman. Good find, Nicole!
  • Samir Amin on 13 Nov 12
     
    This blog is awesome, i really liked it and enjoyed it. this will be very useful for kids. this blog have been designed to meet specific reading aspects for grade 1 students. well done work.
  • Ashley Ulin on 13 Nov 12
     
    Thanks for sharing this blog. Although I am a Special Education teacher I still felt like their were a lot of ideas I could apply to my classroom. It's always fun to see what other educators out their are doing. This blog would be used primarily for teachers as its all about ideas in the classroom for instruction and projects. However you could use it to create a project choice list for you students to choose to complete so many by the end of the year.
Ann Hansen

Apps in Education - 1 views

www.appsineducation.blogspot.com

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  • Ann Hansen on 08 Oct 12
     
    Great blog for ideas about different apps to use in different subject areas or different tasks.
  • Andrea Poe on 14 Nov 12
     
    I have been collecting good app sites. We just got 10 ipads for the grade level and I am still exploring what to do with them. We are getting more and more tools to use and I need to find things that really are helpful for my kids.
Jane Becker

Apache OpenOffice - The Free and Open Productivity Suite - 1 views

www.openoffice.org

software technology

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  • Jane Becker on 14 Nov 12
     
    Free software that is comparable to Microsoft Office. Works well on Macs
  • Shane Paige on 14 Nov 12
     
    Hi Jane, Thanks for sharing. This is a great resource for schools who cannot afford Microsoft Office or just want something more uniform in a multi platform environment. I have actually found that some things (excel type functions) work better in OpenOffice than Excel itself. Plus since it is free, kids can download at home as well.
Jessica Heidemann

FunBrain.com - The Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8 Kids and Teachers - Funbrain.com - 0 views

www.funbrain.com

5131fall2012 interactive math reading

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  • Jessica Heidemann on 12 Nov 12
     
    Fun Brain is a website that I have seen used within my level 1 course work. It is targeted at lower level education classes. It is a great interactive learning website.
Robert Nelson

ABCya.com | Kids Educational Computer Games & Activities - 0 views

www.abcya.com

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  • Robert Nelson on 12 Nov 12
     
    This is a really cool website with a lot games for students to practice reading and writing skills.  My level two class used this resource a lot in class. 
tjyoungers

What Is This App Doing To My Kid's Brain? | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation - 0 views

www.fastcoexist.com/...his-app-doing-to-my-kids-brain

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  • tjyoungers on 03 Oct 12
     
    Interesting read and relevant to our classroom dialogue. 
Andrea Poe

Google World Wonders Project - 3 views

www.google.com/...worldwonders

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  • Marija Musselman on 14 Nov 12
     
    This would be a great resource for teachers to use with students. So many possibilities! It would be a perfect fit when learning about landforms in social studies.
  • Shane Paige on 14 Nov 12
     
    Andi, Way cool site! I hadn't heard of this before. I can see where it would be of good use in the classroom. Lots of multimedia activity going on. Thanks for sharing.
  • Brian McGurk on 14 Nov 12
     
    Hello, Andi, and thanks for sharing. This is a great website, and I'm somewhat ashamed as a geography teacher that I didn't already know about it. I use Google Earth all of the time, and this website will supplement that well. I'll present this as well to our world history teachers in 6th grade as a potential resources as well. Thanks again.
Randon Ruggles

A is for app: iPads change landscape of learning - 0 views

www.startribune.com/...169917476.html

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  • But after seeing how easy the iPads are to use -- kids become their own experts by getting answers to their questions through YouTube videos or educational apps -- Pole changed her tune. Now she plans to get schooled on the iPad herself.
    • Randon Ruggles
      Randon Ruggles on 16 Sep 12
       
      This makes me wonder what they are really finding out answers to.  Also, is that the only thing they are using the iPads for?  Really!
  • lot more fun
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    • Randon Ruggles
      Randon Ruggles on 16 Sep 12
       
      "More fun" that sounds like the iPads are being used for educational purposes for sure!  They must be a tool that connects directly to the curriculum.  Either the student does not get this or the reporter failed to understand why they are using iPads.
  • most rapidly emerging school technologies
    • Randon Ruggles
      Randon Ruggles on 16 Sep 12
       
      No surprise there with the designation, but really - most are purchasing these devices without the proper pieces in place. Sad that it has taken the ed world by storm, but there is no idea how to actually include this in instruction...read on!
  • Randon Ruggles on 16 Sep 12
     
    This is a great article looking over the iPad craze and the Flipped Education idea in Minnesota schools.  It still makes me wonder what we are trying to teach out students by using these devices - What is the educational goal?  This article also points out the need for an investment in teacher training as an essential part of a technology program.  Check out the sticky notes and highlighting for more information.
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