LPS Tech Mentors

Blooms Taxonomy for iPad

"The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity."

This is a superb blog with fascinating child-friendly videos on a range of topics.

From Beth: abcya.com is another fabulous website for elementary students. Found it on pinterest. =) One of the parkhill schools has it on their website too. Tons of great games! The link I'm sending is for math fact practice….you get to decorate your house with Christmas lights based on how you do on the speed test. =)

"It literally takes seconds to make a high-quality puzzle using these premade lists, or just continue below and enter your own words. It couldn't be easier!"

I asked about a good crossword puzzle creator and the Tech Mentors come up with some great options! On this site, you can make crosswords, word searches, and many other puzzles. Teachers created and then printed for students.

Courtney just gave me a great integration idea...she said, "I'm using it today with my 5 laptops to play hangman with spelling words." Please share more via 'comments' as you think of ways to use this tool!

Here is a way to create an electronic snowflake and then post and send.

A neat game that helps student decide if they should change the ending of a word to lengthen. This is not blocked by the student filter. Check it out and see what you think!

"Interactive resources in Science"

This product will help organize your thoughts. If you are on an iPad, just type in workflowy.com and send the link to your homepage. I placed a link on my desktop to workflowy so I can stay connected with my current projects.

A fun little game that helps you work on keyboarding skills as you 'race' others to the finish line. As you continue the game you increase in difficulty.

Lots of Free Graphic Organizers for Primary Teachers. These Graphic Organizers are great for teaching free lessons to elementary children.

Easier than Google Docs (does not require everyone to sign in -- only needs a link), and puts each user's comments in a different color. 

Creative Commons is a new system, built upon current copyright law, that allows you to legally use "some rights reserved" music, movies, images, and other content. This content will open on the student browser - it is not blocked.

Really interesting video on this page regarding what could text books look like digitally - how can we create information that serves to engage students.

Remember, these concepts can be applied with a variety of social networking tools. It is an interesting read.

This is a very interesting discussion of tools that could be used with new (and veteran) teachers. I found several of these points/ideas very interesting.

Here are some stats about the Internet that would be interesting to share with faculty during a quick tech session.