Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Happy Popcorn day!
Popcorn day is always celebrated on January 9thbelow are some fun and interactive ways to celebrate popcorn day!
- Popcorn day PowerPoint presentations - This site links to several teacher and kid related PowerPoint presentations.
- Popcorn story by Frank Ash - Here is a link to the animated popcorn story written by Frank Ash.
- History of popcorn - Learn all about the history of popcorn
- Popcorn related lesson plans - This links to a list of lesson plans all about popcorn
- Popcorn videos - learn how to make the perfect popcorn snack
- List of popcorn games and crafts
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Sam's Super Diigo Finds! 01/18/2012
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Social Skills and Life Skills Apps | Special Education & IEP Advisor
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BBC News - Are apps the key to revolutionising autism learning?
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Aurasma - The world's first Visual Browser, bringing the physical and virtual worlds together
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Amazing Facts about Students Learning via Smartphones ( infographic )
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Lesson plans and resources for your SMART Board - SMART Exchange
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Wonderful Weather websites
Hi there blog readers, today I wanted to post some resources, sites, and tools about the weather - because here the weather can be so unpredictable!
Cloud inventor - Use your power of imagination to create a cloud of your very own.
Weather e book- Learn about weather related vocabulary, match words adn pictures, and do a interactive crossword!
Weather transformer - Have a weather adventure with thing 1 and thing 2, use the thermometer to make a weather paradise!
For more fun and interactive weather sites click here
Cloud inventor - Use your power of imagination to create a cloud of your very own.
Weather e book- Learn about weather related vocabulary, match words adn pictures, and do a interactive crossword!
interactive weather word search - interactive word search game. Eight words are randomly chosen from this vocabulary word list associated with weather.
For more fun and interactive weather sites click here
Monday, January 16, 2012
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Sam's Super Diigo Finds! 01/13/2012
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The Accidental Instructional Designer by Cammy Bean : Learning Solutions Magazine
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LitCharts.com | LitCharts Study Guides | The faster, downloadable alternative to SparkNotes
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Reflecting on Video Games, Learning and Nutrition | Edutopia
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A List of Awesome YouTube Tools to Crop, subtitle, download, convert and save videos
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Marvelous MLK Jr. resources
Below are some great MLK Jr. resources to check out in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
For more MLK Jr sites, tools, and resources click here. |
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Terrific Timeline tools
This blog post is focusing upon some fun, interactive, and creative online timeline tools.
- Read write think - This online site is an interactive timeline creation tool.
- Our timelines - Create a personalized timeline
- Interactive websites - Houses a list of many interactive timeline resources.
- Class Tools - Interactive timeline brought to you by class tools!
- Powerpoint timeline - Find these fun timeline downloadable PowerPoint presentations.
Have some to share? Comment below! To check out more timeline interactive tools click here
Monday, January 9, 2012
Diggin' Dinosaurs
This blog post is about dinosaur interactive activities, tools, and sites to use when teaching about dinosaurs.
- Dig those dinosaurs - Match the pictures on the cards Found on Smartboard Goodies
- Dino Data - Learn about many different dinosaurs with this dino-base.
- Match and hatch - match the the dinosaur eggs to the right dinosaur.
- Make a dinosaur This dinosaur games lets you change the way your dinosaur looks.
- Dino match - Match dinosaurs with their shadows. Learn the names of a few of the most popular dinosaurs.
- Digging for Dinosaurs! - Play this dino cyberhunt.
- Is it real or is it make-believe? Show us that you know the difference!
To dig into more dino games and sites check this out.
Friday, January 6, 2012
John Lawrence - a message for teen drivers
For this blog post I wanted to shed some light and bring awareness to teen driving. No one else can do this better than John Lawrence. John was in a serious car accident and suffered a traumatic brain injury. He wants to share his story with the world and give advice to other teen drivers. John created the script for his video and I edited the video. When the video was complete John traveled to several high schools where he presented his video to students, answered questions, and gave his life story in person.
Below is his video:
John is in need of an all terrain wheelchair to get around. To read more about these efforts to raise funds for John visit here
To learn more about John visit the following sites:
Pens' Cooke gives Unity teen boost in struggle to walk
Avid archer before crash stole 10 months, Unity man fights to recover
Below is his video:
John is in need of an all terrain wheelchair to get around. To read more about these efforts to raise funds for John visit here
To learn more about John visit the following sites:
Pens' Cooke gives Unity teen boost in struggle to walk
Avid archer before crash stole 10 months, Unity man fights to recover
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Purdue OWL: APA Formatting and Style Guide
Purdue OWL: APA Formatting and Style Guide:
'via Blog this'
'via Blog this'
Want to learn more about APA citation? Check out this great tutorial and guide from Purdue! It offers information about intext citations, reference lists, footnotes, tables, figures, and more.
Jigsaw Planet
What's better than cuddling up with a blanket, hot chocolate, and a good puzzle? This post will discuss how to make this cozy and fun experience an interactive and virtual one!
- Jigzone - The puzzle on the side of this blog was created using Jigzone. Jigzone offers a puzzle of the day, ability to embed your own photos into a puzzle and then put onto your blog or website, upload your own photos as puzzles, send a puzzle postcard, and a competition option.
- Dotty's virtual jigsaw - offers many different online puzzles to play on the computer or offline with the use of a CD. This site has many jigsaw review, daily and weekly jigsaw puzzles, online jigsaw puzzles, and puzzle downloads.
- Apples for the teacher - This link will take you to the winter jigsaw puzzles - snowman, snowballs, and a surprised snowman.
- Art puzzles - Here are some great art related puzzles.
- Jigsaw planet - Has many different online interactive jigsaw puzzles to complete. You can also create your own puzzle!
- Atlas puzzles - Offers many fun National Geographic Atlas puzzles to complete. Simply choose a puzzle and complete it! Good luck!
- Weather channel puzzles - Here are fun jigsaw all related to weather and weather preparedness.
- Little Cesar fun times - Little Cesar offers four puzzles to play.
Sit back, relax and enjoy a day building puzzles!
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Virtual Fieldtrips
Do you feel like traveling this year or semester with your students? Want to get out of house? Have cabin fever? Why not check out some of these great virtual fieldtrips to take with your class or kids on the computer or interactive whiteboard.
Simple k12 virtual field trips - Many different virtual field trips on different topics: health, consumer science, business, history, language arts, math, science, and more!
Field Trip — Visit Awesome Places. It provides animated tours of a park, library, and city hall.
Picturing the Thirties is another great virtual web activity from the Smithsonian.Students learn about the American People in the 1930’s.
Mr. Rogers- Explore the world with Mr. Rogers
Google Earth 5. To create a tour of your own: Before you begin, come up with an itinerary of places you would like to visit. Great for students to create their own field trip of their dreams!
Smithsonian Museum Students can ‘step’ into the exhibits and take a tour through the entire museum in a 360 degree environment.
AR Sights Travel to the pyramids or the Eiffel Tower for a field trip.
Moon in Google Earth Students can visit the moon virtually using Moon view in Google Earth.
Planet in Action - Take a guided tour of the Grand Canyon, Mount St. Helens, Manhattan, and other great locations.
UPM Forest Life A field trip to a forest is a wonderful way to learn about tree species, ecosystems, habitats, and animals. UPM Forest Life aims to teach about forest.
Olympic museum -The multi-sensory, multimedia experience enables visitors to experience interactively various sports and challenges faced by Olympic athletes.
Take your class to the Lincoln Memorial Interactive The site features an assortment of panoramic photos from all over the monument.Tyrell museum- Exhibits range from sea dwellers to the Tyrrell's BIG attraction, the dinosaurs.
Take a virtual tour of The White House Museum - Tour the white house museum
Simple k12 virtual field trips - Many different virtual field trips on different topics: health, consumer science, business, history, language arts, math, science, and more!
Field Trip — Visit Awesome Places. It provides animated tours of a park, library, and city hall.
Picturing the Thirties is another great virtual web activity from the Smithsonian.Students learn about the American People in the 1930’s.
Mr. Rogers- Explore the world with Mr. Rogers
Google Earth 5. To create a tour of your own: Before you begin, come up with an itinerary of places you would like to visit. Great for students to create their own field trip of their dreams!
Smithsonian Museum Students can ‘step’ into the exhibits and take a tour through the entire museum in a 360 degree environment.
AR Sights Travel to the pyramids or the Eiffel Tower for a field trip.
Moon in Google Earth Students can visit the moon virtually using Moon view in Google Earth.
Planet in Action - Take a guided tour of the Grand Canyon, Mount St. Helens, Manhattan, and other great locations.
UPM Forest Life A field trip to a forest is a wonderful way to learn about tree species, ecosystems, habitats, and animals. UPM Forest Life aims to teach about forest.
Olympic museum -The multi-sensory, multimedia experience enables visitors to experience interactively various sports and challenges faced by Olympic athletes.
Take your class to the Lincoln Memorial Interactive The site features an assortment of panoramic photos from all over the monument.Tyrell museum- Exhibits range from sea dwellers to the Tyrrell's BIG attraction, the dinosaurs.
Take a virtual tour of The White House Museum - Tour the white house museum
Sunday, January 1, 2012
National Thank You Month
January is national thank you month. Why not take some time to thank someone close to you, or thank someone for a job well done. Everyone loves to receive a thank you note or just a thank you at the end of the day.
Take it from Hoops and Yoyo...
- How to say thank you - Here is a pdf giving you the 411 on how to say thank you or send a thank you note.
- When to write a thank you note - Here are some tips about when to write a thank you note.
Why not send a free e-card saying thanks
Lesson Plans all about thanks, thank you, and giving thanks:
- Make a wordle with that depicts thank you in different languages
- Thank you Mr. Falkner story read aloud on storyline online
- Make a wordle that lists people who should be thanked
- Thank you lesson plan 1
- Thank you lesson plan 2
- Thank you lesson plan 3
So go out and thank someone today!
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