What I’m Reading
Awesome Stories via kwout (This is the last of my auto-posts) I have been meaning to take the time to look at “Awesome Stories” since I heard about it several months ago. I enjoyed the intuitive way that the different video and audio clips were arranged and were searchable. I found the original historical documents [...]
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http://bighugelabs.com/ BigHugeLabs: Do fun stuff with your photos via kwout Looking for something fun to do with your holiday images? Check out Big Huge Labs to do cool tings with your pictures. I just added Big Huge Labs to the list of fun things to do with your class pictures. Look at the other items [...]
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I have notice in the usage stats that there are a lot more readers of TabletTalk than there were when I finished the A-Z Cool Tools List, so I thought I would point this out to you. If you look on the right side of the TabletTalk main page, I have some additional collections of [...]
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Etherpad EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing via kwout If you have ever wanted to collaborate on a document with one or more people in real time, EtherPad is your quick simple solution. I enjoy the fact that there is no log in required, you can see what your partner is editing while they work and [...]
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I hope you are enjoying your well deserved break. I am headed south for a week, but I have set up a few items to auto-post over break, starting with this item. If you are looking for the best of the education type blogs, look no further. The Edublog Award Winners were recently announced. Take [...]
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http://www.google.com/ Google via kwout Navigate to Google’s home page. Leave the search box empty and select “I’m Feeling Lucky.” You’ll see a large number counting down. What can you do with this number? Have your students predict in their journals what they predict this number might represent. Depending on the level of interest, repeat the [...]
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One More Cool Light Show Snowflake Workshop Story Line Online “Polar Express” Okay, this really is my last Holiday Post. The light show linked up top and the Polar Express reading came from the awesome teachers at RP. The story (and other stories too) are read by celebrities and many have activities to go with [...]
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Unless something really amazing comes my way this will be the last of the holiday posts. It is actually a recap of the most clicked on links over the last month. Here goes: Holiday Music At Pandora Decorate Your Computer Silly Puppets Sing Christmas Carols Send A Free Holiday Card “Websites Of The Day” Best [...]
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1. Decorate your computer desktop with these screen savers, add-ons and desktop images. 2. Recently updated list “The Best Of…” sites for Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. This list is intended for ELL students, many will be great for young readers as well. 3. Check out the YouTube Christmas Carol Christmas Carol Contest. Better yet, film [...]
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http://coolmath-games.com/ Isn’t it great when your kids teach you something? My girls taught me all about this block game they have been learning about at school, and then proceeded to beat me at it time and time again. It is called Bloxorz and you essentially have to rotate a block in such a way that [...]
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