Essential Guide to Digital Photography is a great guide if you are a beginner or even an expert. Everything from helping you select a camera to helping you become a more proficient user.
Roy: A Tale of the Singing Zebra
Fun Interactive Reading Games that can be used on your interactive whiteboard or computers. The games focus on all aspects of teaching early literacy.
Children\’s Storybooks is another site where books are online to read together with students.
Speakaboos Online Stories has read aloud stories great for Promethean Boards. Genres include favorites, fables, folk tales, fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and songs. There is a teacher section with other resources such as story guides, worksheets, and even related arts/crafts projects.
Multiplication.Com has numerous games and activities for students based on multiplication. One warning – most of the games have music and sound, so headphones are a good idea.
Ambleside Primary School\’s Collection of Numeracy Tools and Games has too many cool resources to mention. There are dozens of math graphics and interactives you can use with the Promethean board.
The Table Trees is a free online math facts game where students can practice their multiplication. It requires students to not only find the answer but also the missing multiplier.
Good Advice for New Teachers is a great article posted on the Poughkeepsie Day School web site. Read and see if you agree.
Literacy Head.Com is a wonderful site with frequent updates. There are professional development articles on teaching literacy, art that illustrates the theme of a featured picture book, ten book recommendations, writing prompts, reproducable graphic organizers and visual aids, visual vocabulary (my favorite) you can use in flip chart presentations, and teaching comics. There is a lot of content on this site, so take some time to check it out.
Champion Creatively Alive Children Grant from Crayola is offered only to members of NAESP (National Association for Elementary School Principals). Since I am a member of this organization, our school can take advantage of this grant. You will need to hurry if interested as the deadline is August 15, 2010.
Doodle Buzz DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories.
MiddleSpot.Com Search and bookmark the web with screenshots captured in real time. Pan, zoom, group, and organize what you’ve bookmarked in a borderless mashtab. Create as many mashtabs as you want, keep them private or share them with friends and colleagues.
Print What You Like.Com PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing in seconds!
Capzles.com is a social networking site that allows users to tell a story using pictures, video clips, audio tracks and text. Users are given the ability to place this media, called “moments”, together chronologically in a timeline. The result is called a “capzle”. Any of the moments can be viewed individually, or all of the moments can be viewed in progression. Users can share their capzles or individual moments with their friends by sending an email link or by inviting them to join the site. The site has the usual social networking features of being able to search and view user’s profiles and to send messages between users.
Vidinotes is the bridge from video to learning, allowing users to create their own notes of a video, including images taken directly from the video, then print or save their new document. Great for students to create a study guide.
Tech Tips for Teachers – Free, Easy, and Useful Creation Tools is an article with links from the New York Times. Got a minute for PD – check this out.
Learn it in 5 is a powerful library of how-to videos, produced by technology teachers, for the purpose of helping teachers and students create classroom strategies for today’s 21st century’s digital classroom. These step-by-step how-to videos walk teachers through Web 2.0 technology, demonstrating how to use Web 2.0 applications like blogs, social networks, podcasts, interactive videos, wikis, slidesharing and much more.
So what does museumbox do?
It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view the museum boxes submitted by other people and comment on the contents.
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life.
The Magic Key Literacy Activities from BBC
The Magic Key website is aimed at children aged 5-6 years and covers sentence and text level work in a new and imaginative way.
From Add-on Technology to Essential Technology: Constructing 1-to-1 Aware Curriculum is an excellent blog post from iLearn Technology.
