http://www.e-learningforkids.org is a great site that provides free e-courses for kids all around the world. This site has engaging and interactive courses for kids in online safety, computer skills such as using Google, typing, and core subjects like language arts, math, and science. Most of the courses are for elementary school-aged children, and involve dynamic avatars, and are highly interactive.
USMapExplorer lets you build your own maps with different features like mountain ranges, earthquake data, tall buildings and MUCH more!
Try our State Rankings. Data for reports is available on every State in the US, as well as for every Country in the world ! Maps4Kids.com is a great resource for fast facts about places in our world.
Hi Randy,
Great to have a chance to talk to you earlier this month. As promised here is the Wave information:
- A paper written by Educause Learning Initiative about Wave and its potential for Education to help get you started: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7055.pdf
- I've enabled your Google Apps domain (ocde.us ) to use Wave, so now anyone who has an account can access Wave at http://wave.google.com/a/ocde.us/
- CCed are a few additional folks from the Google Education team who can answer additional questions you might have about the OCDE using Google Apps and Wave.
I hope that's a good start. After you've had a chance to get started with Wave, let me know and we can set up additional time to talk if that would be useful.
Thanks!
Greg
Point Counter Point: How to Use (and Avoid Misusing) PowerPoint
Great for classes at OCDE. How to use powerpoint correctly. Can be taken back to the classroom.
"Saywire provides a unique and engaging online learning platform in which people can create private, secure communities to collaborate and communicate with one another. Each Saywire community provides its members with a wide set of tools to quickly and easily build their own autonomous communities or "Spaces" as we call them, within the confines of their organization's parent community. These Spaces are great for learning, sharing, working together, or just connecting with other members of a defined organization/business/educational institution. Each Space can have its own member base, blogs, wikis, discussion boards or any combination of over 12 different features or tools depending on the needs of the Space. Sound interesting? Learn more."
I run a 100% free social web resource for teachers and students called eduTecher. (www.eduTecher.net) We have free iPhone/iPad/Android apps available. They are a great place to learn about new free web tools each and every day. Again, just sharing this to be helpful. It is my labor of love and I want to share it with as many educators and students as possible.
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We're putting everything you need to know about learning to use iPad at your fingertips. So now is a great time to get started exploring the possibilities. See how iPad gives you and your students the best way to view videos, engage with content, create projects, and turn learning into a hands-on experience."
"Google Forms is a great tool and I hope to use it more throughout this year. Take a look here for a more detailed introduction and guide to using and creating a Google Form - this was written prior to Google bringing forms into the NEW menu.
I have created example forms for each of the different topics, follow the links in each of the ten sections. With help from a Googler I have included a link so that you can get your own copy of the form - click on the appropriate link and it should open in your docs home."
Educator in North Carolina affiliated with Discovery that has great examples of simple project to incorporate video, music, and performance across the curriculum.