Our Wonders of the Day will help you find learning moments in everyday life, ones that fit in with dinner preparations, carpool responsibilities, a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus, or within school curriculum and education programs.
Weebly is a San Francisco, Californiabased company that was founded in 2006with the mission to help people put theirinformation online quickly and easily. Wenow enable 3 million people to easily createpersonal sites and blogs or establishweb presences for businesses, weddings,classrooms, churches, artistic portfolios,and more.Several teachers in Warren are using weebly for a class website.
Archive of a great webinar from 12-10-11 dealing with Livescribe/Smartpens. The webinar included primary, secondary, and college educators who gave many examples. The livebinder that accompanies this is filled with resources and examples.
tool that allows for quickly and easily designing posters, signs, fliers and more, allowing for a variety of customizations with backgrounds, clipart, and text, while also allowing users to upload and use their own pictures. My own high school kids have used it to complete one page posters referred to as visual book reports. Their end products were printed for display purposes in the library, and used for visuals for book-talks done by both the librarians and the students. We even use them in digital frames that loop through pictures at our circulation desk, and students have responded to the "book-reports" created in Poster My Wall by checking out those titles.
The site does not require an account though that is an option, and those opting to use the free version can create professional looking posters and download for printing in minutes. My school secretary was so impressed with the site she has even used it to create fliers for events and activities at school. The site is easy enough for even elementary school students. Like Wordle, my collaborating teachers are finding some very interesting uses for Poster My Wall. Cons? It is not a replacement to Glogster by any means, but a poster app none the less. (Rec by Cathy Jo Nelson)
Create a personalized video from Santa Claus for your loved ones (or anyone) in just a few easy steps. New Portable North Pole 2011: the elves' machine will help Santa decide if you behaved or not!
You can register, it is free, read books online and view them through your projector. They are colorful and current. The best part is, this website will give one free book to children in need for EACH book you read with your class. You can do this as a teacher or as a parent.
Kathy Schrock has an extensive guide to the best websites. This particular page summarizes the sites she has recommended in the past. (It started more as daily, and is more like weekly now.) Her entire site is very organized, and has something for every discipline.
Oswego City School District has put together this site that provides practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. Rec by the Two Sisters
Retired Middle/Intermediate Media Specialist and Science Teacher for MSD Warren Township in Indianapolis. I am now the Director of Operations for the Indiana Middle Level Education Association.