Pho.to

http://pho.to Here is yet another fun site that will let you do things with your digital pictures. Whether they are images from a class trip, day to day class activities or items that you have found on the web, you can make 3-D photo albums, caricatures and other fun stuff with them. I found the [...]

Fun SS Review Game

http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/ An enjoyable review of Social Studies concepts and vocabulary.  Add it to your favorites and revisit throughout the year. I enjoy the way it is divided up into the different themes of Social Studies and think it would be one of those items that would be handy to have up your sleeve for the [...]

Wordle For Community Building

http://wordle.net While catching up on some old Tech and Learning editorials one of them mentioned how they were surprised that Wordle hadn’t gained more popularity. I know I have mentioned the site in Tablet Talk a few times, but I think that at the begining of the year it bears a little more attention in [...]

S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G

htttp://www.spellingcity.com I briefly mentioned Spelling City in my ‘Things To Do With Your Class List‘ post, but I think it is worth another mention. I had two of my kids come home from school yesterday with the first spelling list of the year, and we had a great time on Spelling City. They enjoyed the [...]

What About The Little Guys?

I saw a question on the STC mailing list the other day about recommended sites for young FMD students, and I thought some of the recommended sites were quite good. I think most of these would be beneficial for Pre-K, K, young first graders, non-readers and in some cases young ESL students. I looked into [...]

The Other JCPS

http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/ Did you know there is a Jefferson County school system in Tennessee? I don’t know much about them, but they have a great web presence. If you would like a good starting point for PowerPoint games, Jeopardy games and templates and Guess The Covered Word games, you might see what they have to offer. [...]

Word Magnets

Word Magnets In three steps you will have word magnets that you can move across the screen of your Tablet PC or SMART Board. First, type or paste the words you want to manipulate. Second choose your background (ie: Venn Diagram, T-Chart, Alphabet. Finally, start dragging the words around. I can imagine this being handy [...]

Really Big Calculator

http://www.triptico.co.uk/flashFiles/calculator/calculator.html What can I say, some blog posts are more exciting than others. There isn’t much to say about this really big calculator other than, well, it’s a really big calculator. Handy for teaching the functions and doing problems using your projector.

We’re All In The Mood For A Melody

http://www.kisstunes.com/ Check out this online piano keyboard. Your computer keyboard will allow you to play notes and songs, and you can even record them, play them back and download them. Expose your students to the very basics of notes and chords and let them come to the SMART Board or class computers and bang out [...]

Tablet Talk Moving

Why: Weebly was sometimes difficult to edit within JCPS Net. WordPress will give me more detailed user statistics and the ability to update blog via email. Hopefully, it won’t be so difficult to edit. Where: The new address will be http://tablettalk.info How: I set up a WordPress account at http://wordpress.com. Very easy, very free. I [...]

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