Sixth Grade Team Resources

MoodTurn.com is a website that plays calming sounds and shows relaxing pictures. This could work well when a class needs some settling down time. It could even be used within creative writing sessions as a stimulus.

Growth vs. Fixed Mindset: their role in learning and motivation

This online communication tool requires no log-in or password for students, but you may choose to set up a class account to collect student projects. With Voki, students create a person, animal, fantasy character or any number of selections from the gallery, add audio via mic, text or call-in, a background from Voki's selections or one uploaded by the student (say, one that corresponds to a story being read in class), and whatever bling makes this Voki unique to the student. Once the Voki avatar is completed, it can be added to blogs, wikis, websites via a static image or an embed to keep it's interactive characteristics. The website also offers lesson plans to spark your imagination. Here are some I've used: have a Voki be a character in a book to discuss the story. Each student can create a Voki until all characters are covered. Then, add them to an online class page on that book. have a Voki introduce the student's web page or blog. have the Voki reinforce a unit on online privacy

"Create page flip Brochures, Flyers, and Product Guides you can email, post, and share across the web and mobile devices."

"Diagrams done right. We have rethought and redesigned the entire diagramming process to make it as easy as possible. Draw flow charts, wireframes, mind maps, org charts, UML diagrams, and more with just a few clicks."

"Remind 101 has released a free iPhone app. Remind 101 is a service for sending text messages to groups of students and their parents. The service is an opt-in service which means that students and parents have to enter a confirmation code to state that they do want to be contacted by you through the service. Remind 101 keeps phone numbers hidden so that the parties cannot see each other's numbers."

"Since Notebook requires "mp3″ audio files, it's also helpful if these resources provide "mp3″ formatted audio files so teachers don't have to convert the file to use in their Notebook lessons. Finding Audio on the Internet:"

"Google Docs, which is now a part of Google Drive, now has more than 450 fonts available to all users. To access all of these new fonts select "add fonts" from the bottom of the font selection menu that you've always used. Selecting "add fonts" will open up a new menu in which you can mix and match fonts to your heart's content."

Live Binder of Interactive Sites - all content areas

814 free PowerPoint templates and themes. We have made available a wide range of these professional designs for you to download for free. You can browse all of our PowerPoint templates or select them by category or colour or by tag.

"What To Do When A Student Refuses To Go To Time-Out"

TED has a brand new education site that I am excited about.  TED-ed is a collection of educational video lessons that have been animated.  These lessons can be used as a supplement in any classroom.  Each video on the TED-ed site has an associated lesson, a Quick Quiz with multiple choice comprehension questions, Think which asks questions to help students think more critically about what they have watched, and Dig Deeper which helps students to explore the topic further.  In addition to the videos, TED-ed gives educators the ability to "flip" videos.  You can use, tweak, or completely re-do any lesson that is featured on TED-Ed, or even create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube. 

"16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest"

SoundCli.ps is a gallery of free sounds that just learned about from Stephen Ransom. SoundCli.ps is a community-powered site on which you can upload sounds to share and download sounds shared by others.

Embedit.In (part of Box.net) is a nifty online tool to convert most file formats to embeddable code for wikis, websites, blogs and more. Once embedded, you can write on them with an onscreen pen or highlight. When you upload the document and push 'embed', it provides a code to be copied and shows what the file will look like when it's embedded. I have 5th graders use it to embed their projects into their wiki pages. I teach them how to save MS Office files to pdfs (through the 'save as' button) and then convert the file to an embeddable format for their digital portfolios. Here's all you do: Log in using your Google, Twitter, Open ID, Yahoo, WordPress or AOL identity. I like that. One less log-in to remember. Upload the file Wait a moment while it processes and copy the embed code to the clipboard Paste the html code into the widget or embed code (or the html format for blogs) button and save.

chart at end is interesting.

Icon Bug is a collection of more than 10,000 icons and pieces of clip art that can be downloaded and re-used for free. The Icon Bug search engine allows you to search by keyword, browse popular icon categories, and refine searches according to icon size. Registered users can upload their own icons to contribute to the gallery.

"S-Sit up T- Track the Speaker A- Ask and Answer Questions Like a Scholar R-Respect Those Around You"

Free technology toolkit

Search and view youtube videos without the adds and etc.