Seven Whiteboard Tools for Teachers and Students is a post on Richard Byrne’s Free Technology for Teachers blog. This is a concise, helpful list of some of the best tools to enhance instruction with IWBs.
ASCD has a well-developed Pinterest Board with links to many of their great resources. Easy to navigate and find useful information.
What a great idea for an end of year photo collage. Create at several photo sites including JosPhotoMojo.
Sound Gator has free sound effects for presentations and web sites.
60 Educational Apps in 60 Minutes is a slide presentation highlighting apps for everything from productivity to play.
The 3 Fastest Ways to Get Photos from an iPad to a Computer is an article from iPad Insights blog with easy ways to manage collections of photos from iPhone or iPad.
Pulp-O-Mizer The Pulp-O-Mizer allows its lucky operator to select from menus of backgrounds, foregrounds, and magazine titles and to add new and exciting text to them for use as web graphic memes, blog illustrations, Facebook posts, forum messages, or for any other non-commercial purpose.
Common Core EdCanvas by Jessica Brooks has links to the latest implementation updates in TN including web sites, presentations, videos, and documents.
Character Scrapbook is a site from Scholastic where students can go to analyze characters from literature. When finished, students can print their scrapbook pages.
School Fuel provides customized app and resource libraries aligned to Common Core Standards helping schools deliver the right apps to the right students at the right time – on any device. At launch, School Fuel provides nearly 1,000 free curated iOS and Android applications. Participating schools have immediate access to this quality app library and can easily add additional apps and digital learning resources to share with students.
Schools using the popular Google Apps for Education solution can install a free version of School Fuel from the Google Apps Marketplace.
Math with Mr. V is a You Tube Channel with math tutorial videos including algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
Brightstorm Math Videos is another site with high school math tutorial videos.
Yay Math is an online collection of math video lessons for Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Geometry. For the most part, the videos show teachers explaining concepts on a whiteboard, but there is also interaction with students in the class.
Ookaboo has free public domain photos that students and teachers can use in presentations, blogs, web site, and more.
Image Base – Free Stock Photos has dozens of images that can be used in presentations and web sites. They even have a collection of PowerPoint backgrounds students can use.
Welcome to Dance Mat Typing, an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 – 11 years.
Each of the 4 levels are divided into 3 stages. Begin at Level 1 and build up your skills gradually through to Level 4.
Teach Hub Video Writing Prompts has videos students can watch followed by writing prompts developed by grade level strands.
5 You Tube Tips for Busy Teachers is a series of videos from Edgalaxy blog that guide educators step-by-step how to set up a You Tube Channel, download and save videos, etc..
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used, through its three main elements:
1. A portal that delivers students, teachers, scholars, and the public to incredible resources, wherever they may be in America. Far more than a search engine, the portal provides innovative ways to search and scan through the united collection of millions of items, including by timeline, map, format, and topic.
2. A platform that enables new and transformative uses of our digitized cultural heritage. With an application programming interface (API) and maximally open data, the DPLA can be used by software developers, researchers, and others to create novel environments for learning, tools for discovery, and engaging apps.
3. An advocate for a strong public option in the twenty-first century. For most of American history, the ability to access materials for free through public libraries has been a central part of our culture, producing generations of avid readers and a knowledgeable, engaged citizenry. The DPLA will work, along with like-minded organizations and individuals, to ensure that this critical, open intellectual landscape remains vibrant and broad in the face of increasingly restrictive digital options. The DPLA will seek to multiply openly accessible materials to strengthen the public option that libraries represent in their communities.
Gregory Shaver/Journal Times, via Associated PressThe phrase “summer reading” tends to conjure two opposing mental images: there’s the stack of relaxingly trashy beach books … but there’s also that list of classics your teacher gave you in June that you ignored until the last week of August.
Our contest, we hope, offers something in the middle.
Here’s how it works: Each week from June 14 to Aug. 16, teenagers 13 to 19 years old are invited to choose any piece in The New York Times they like and write to tell us why it interested them. We will then choose a weekly favorite to feature, just as we have done every summer since 2010.
Sure, it’s an easy way to add more nonfiction (or “informational text”) to a school’s summer reading list, but because contestants can choose any article they want, on any topic from North Korea to Justin Bieber, we hope it also offers a bit of fun.
For more information click: NYT Summer Reading Contest
The Importance of Mobile Learning – In and Out of the Classroom is and Edudemic article and infograph explaining the pervasiveness of mobile technology and why it should be leveraged for student learning.
Use Flipboard to Create Custom Magazines for your Class is an article from Cool Cat Teacher blogger Vicki Davis. There is also a link on 15 other ways to use Flipboard in the classroom.
Bring Your Own Device – Policy Livebinder has some fabulous resources for school districts wanting to make the move to BYOD.
Poetry Idea Engine is a site from Scholastic where students can get ideas and help with poetry structure and compose poems online.
