Brain Pop for Promethean Planet
BrainPOP has shared resources for you to create complementary flipcharts using many of their fantastic graphics, sounds and other resources to support online BrainPOP lessons. This Resource Pack includes BrainPOP characters such as Moby and Tim, a comic strip to complete with ‘Belly-up’,graphic organizers for brainstorming, Moby’s beep, and other fun and useful graphics.
BrainPop Educators Blog The new notebook explores art and art practice, music, and technology, with more to come.
Wild Music.Org is a new site where students can learn how animals make sounds, how sound works, current world influences of sounds on music, and even build your own soundscape.
Math Snacks.Org Math Snacks are short animations and mini–games designed to help learners “get it”. Each snack presents a mathematical concept, particularly those addressed in grades 6, 7 and 8. Ideal for use in a classroom or on your own, they can even be placed on mobile devices for “homework”. The accompanying print materials can assist learners in applying their conceptual understanding to math problems.
Math Two Fact Practice Site is a fun way for student to practice math facts by skill or age.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Educational Resources, Games | Posted on January 18, 2010
Wiglington and Wenks.com
The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World is an exciting new massive online virtual world for kids where players can travel to places around the world, through time and space, meet famous historical people, play fun enriching games, make new friends own exotic islands, build culture-inspired houses, wear all kinds of cool clothing and costumes, explore secret locations, solve ancient mysteries and become a legendary traveler!
NASA Space Place for Kids check out the games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Seasonal/Holidays | Posted on January 18, 2010
2010 Winter Olympics – Vancouver has a multitude of resources for including the Olympics in classroom instruction.
Stock Photo Resources has 12 sites you can use to download free photos to use in presentations.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Keyboarding, Technology | Posted on January 17, 2010
Dance Mat Typing is a BBC site for primary students to learn keyboarding skills. The format is entertaining and allows students to move through the levels at their own pace.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Blogs, Writing | Posted on January 4, 2010
Kidblog Web Site
Kidblog is different. Kidblog.org is built by teachers, for teachers, so students can get the most out of the blogging process.
Kidblog was built out of the need for a safe and simple blogging platform suitable for elementary and middle school students. Most importantly, Kidblog allows teachers to monitor and control all blog activity within the classroom blogging community.
Kidblog’s advanced privacy features put safety first:
- Teachers have administrative control over all student blogs and student accounts.
- Visitors’ access can be resitricted to class members or guests with a password.
- Spam filters block unsolicited comments from outside sources.
Ways to Bring Experts into Your Classroom (Other than Skype) from Free Technology for Teachers Blog
Many of you have used Skype to videoconference with colleagues and experts, by Richard Byrne highlights three more easy ways on his blog. Check it out.
10 Ways to Learn in 2010 — The Learning Coach Blog has ten ways educators can go online to learn and improve.
Learn It – Teach It web site has several resources for teachers including searchable lesson plans by grade and subject area, technology video tutorials, a professional networking component, and a best practices link.
Posted by jenmalonetn | Posted in Odds and Ends | Posted on January 3, 2010
Monoprice iPhone Accessories is an excellent resource for inexpensive iPhone accessories including cases and back-up batteries.
Free Presentation Backgrounds/Templates for Educators/Students has hundreds of backgrounds and Power Point templates that teachers and students can use for free. Excellent desktop publishing resource.
Sprixi Image Finder is a beta site that works very well for finding images to use in presentations and Promethean flip charts. It’s easy and yields many choices for most search topics.
Smart Measurement is a web site with interactive resources for white boards.
