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In this post I thought I would share some tutorials for the program done by my son, along with some of the projects he created with it. I hope this will give you some ideas for your own students on how to incorporate Animation-ish in your classroom. Kestrel had just turned 13 when I had him come teach my college class: Math For Elementary Teachers, how to use Animation-ish. He did an amazing job and my future teachers had their eyes opened to the fact that the students they will be teaching will have more computer skills than most of them!

Download VisualBee plugin onto your Microsoft PowerPoint VisualBee Enhance is an plug-in for Microsoft PowerPoint. VisualBee takes a plain PowerPoint™ presentation and automatically enhances it, creating an exciting and powerful showcase. VisualBee masters your content and selects appropriate graphics to enrich your PowerPoint™ presentation from the extensive VisualBee design bank or your own library.

Looks good.

Tabblo PhotoCubes Fun with Your Photos at Home Create a photo cube that you can print at home. Put the cube on your desk, or on the kitchen table. Send the link to a friend so they can print their own cube. You don't need any glue or tape! You just need a printer and some scissors.

Like Museum Box but using primary sources.

"Isn't it great when students write and read because they love to? Or, when a child or young adult values his or her library card as much as the latest electronic game? At Pine Tree Poetry, we believe fine writing nourishes everyone's soul. It exercises brains with creative thinking and adds a palette of words and colors to life. We've created Pine Tree Poetry to interlace students, their peers, parents, teachers and school librarians in a quest for poetry writing excellence. Rarely do students earn kudos or trophies for their writing, but at Pine Tree Poetry, we are dedicated to rewarding the fine writing achievements of students who are 5 - 18."

A place for students to publish poetry (and possibly win prizes!)

Colorado middle school teacher Alison Saylor "went viral" last month after a local TV station highlighted her use of Google Apps for Education to create a virtual workplace for her students.

Could be good! Looks very easy to use, create a booklet that can be shared/embeded online etc.will play around with it further.

Revision is a critical piece of the writing process-and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader's Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way. The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You'll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing. On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher's guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.

Welcome to The Mahara Demo site. Mahara is a fully featured open source electronic portfolio, weblog, Resumé builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online communities. Mahara provides you with the tools to set up a personal learning and development environment.

cool app that lets kids create a cloud shape

ach block below represents a sound. Drag the blocks to the blue tray to create a soundscape. Then click the play button to listen to your creation.

Very Cute

Hard to explain To be clear, Qwiki isn't a piece of hardware. Instead, it's a piece of software meant to run on the web and as an app on mobile devices. What it does is present to you data about millions of topics in an extremely interesting and visual way. Imagine if someone created a movie highlight reel of Wikipedia pages - that's sort of what Qwiki is like. You search for something - a topic, a person, etc - and Qwiki talks to you, telling you all you need to know about what you searched for, while also showing you key things about the subject or person. You can also click on sub-topics or related topics to access more Qwikis with vast amounts of other information. It's a fairly incredible way to consume information. And the data isn't just from Wikipedia. Say you do a search for a person, Qwiki can look at their social connections and tell you about their LinkedIn profile, for example. It is very, very impressive.

Very cool book for finding out how to use web 2.0 in the class

There are teachers around the world whowant to use technology in their classrooms,but they're just not sure where to start.That's why eleven prominent bloggers,teachers, and school administrators gottogether to create this free ebook

We used Story Jumper for our computer/writing time yesterday afternoon. The kids loved it, and were REALLY quiet. When I asked them why, they said they were having so much fun that they didn't want to annoy me lest I end the computer time!"