Closing Time

Time to close this blog until next school year!  See you in the fall!

Jim

Video Site

If you're looking for more online educational videos to use with your students, then try Neo K12.

From the "Super Book of Web Tools":

Neo K12 has cataloged the best free online education videos from the Internet and brings them together in one place. Each video is watched and reviewed by k-12 educators to ensure their accuracy and appropriateness for students. Subjects include physical science, life science, human body, earth and space, social studies, math, English (including phonics, stories, and grammar), and fun videos such as time lapse, slow motion, arts and crafts, learn magic, music lessons, and sports lessons.

Smartboard and Virtual Manipulatives

I used this website yesterday with a smartboard.  It has all the basic math manipulatives and much more!  I projected the site to the smartboard and then "manipulated" the manipulatives.  It was very useful!  Take a look! Thanks to Laura for the site!


http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html
or
http://goo.gl/15Fkp

Make your own comic!

This is an easy to use an online program where children choose from a wide selection of characters (including various moods), backgrounds, thought and talking balloons, panel prompts, objects, and senses and can make their own comics!
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

This Website will allow students to create their own graphs.


http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/ 

Dan Mulligan Sites

Here are the links that Sue Jenkins send out from the Dan Mulligan workshop.

http://mathlearnnc.sharpschool.com/cms/One.aspx?portalId=4507283&pageId=4993281

http://mathlearnnc.sharpschool.com/cms/One.aspx?portalId=4507283&pageId=5144630

20 Ways to Model Tech Use Everyday

Here is an article on twenty everyday ways to model technology in your classrooms.  I especially like #3.  
Some of you already have a "tech crew" that pushes labs, sets up laptops, etc.  If you don't, there's something easy you can do!  


http://www.edutopia.org/blog/20-ways-model-technology-students-heather-wolpert-gawron

What to do with photos

This website gives you ideas of things to do with your photos.  This doesn't have to be an iphone, etc way to do it.  You can have your students do this with pictures in class, or photos you give to them.


What to do with photos

Incredible Things that Happen on the Internet every Minute

Just found this interesting.

http://www.businessinsider.com/incredible-things-that-happen-every-60-seconds-on-the-internet-2011-12

103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading | Reading Topics A-Z | Reading Rockets

This article/site gives very good ideas of things to do while teaching reading.  Karen liked looking at it and I think that it just reminds teachers of little things that you can do to help students understand.  Take a look!
103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading

Educational ClipArt

A website with clipart for education!

Clipart ETC

Civil War Sites

A list of websites about the Civil War.

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/04/09/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-american-civil-war/

President's Day Song

Here is a song/video to celebrate George Washington and Abe Lincoln.  Thanks to Laura for sharing!

Weebly

This is an online, easy to use website, that allows you (or students) to create their own website.  Like I said, it looks very easy and the kids would enjoy it.  The main site is listed below, but here's a site that explains it and also an example of a 5th grade classroom's site.
http://thinkshareteach.blogspot.com/2012/02/tech-tools-weebly.html
http://education.weebly.com/

Jim

Make a book!

This website allows you to take PDF files and make them into flip books!

http://www.flipsnack.com/flip-book-template/

Tech Skills students need to know

http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=3776

Internet Search

Office Suite Skills

Self learning of tech and where to go for help

Typing

Social Media

Netiquette

Security and Safety

Hardware basics and troubleshooting

Backing up data

Finding Apps and software

Bonus: Copyright and citing sources.

It gives examples of websites to help teach and learn more about each.

Typing Portaportal

Typing Portaportal

Lots of great typing sites for the SOL's!!!

http://guest.portaportal.com/fcpskey

Jim

Digital Bloom's-- on a tree!

This website lists different digital resources that you can use to teach students.  There is a list of the websites below the picture on the website.

http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=3087

PBS KIDS Lab

From eschoolnews.com:  "PBS has expanded its KIDS Lab website, which helps children ages 2-8 develop their math skills, to include more resources for parents and educators. And this week's Newslines feature advice on preparing for online assessments and using Quick Response codes for school communications."


I saw many games that the students could play as well as apps that are available for any ipads/ipod touches that we may be getting.  


Link to the article:  http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/01/18/pbs-kids-lab-website-offers-new-resources-to-help-children-build-math-skills/

Link to the games themselves:  http://pbskids.org/lab

Jim

Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore

You can now take a virtual tour of Mt. Rushmore in this new site!  I've linked to both the explanation of the site and also the site itself so that you can see this monument.  Some of the site shows the faces in 3D animation as well.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/01/11/new-site-gives-students-a-3d-glimpse-of-mount-rushmore/

http://archive.cyark.org/mount-rushmore-national-memorial-intro

Typing Portaportal

Lots of great typing sites for the SOL's!!!

http://guest.portaportal.com/fcpskey

Jim

Martin Luther King, Jr

 This website gives examples of new ways/ideas to teach and celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday.

http://www.racebridgesforschools.com/wp/?p=2376