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If you want to streamline and improve your school-to-home communication, consider using the free Google Voice service. Google Voice offers many features that appeal to teachers, and taking advantage of even a few of them might increase the contact between you and the parents of your students. Use Google Voice to give a [...]
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Do you love Pandora, but wish you could play entire albums and specific songs? Consider Rdio (pronounced ar-dio, like audio and radio) for this purpose. This new social music service has some sharing and discussion features, but the best part in my opinion is the ability to search for and play a specific album. Once [...]
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I still think that Pandora Internet Radio is the best choice for classroom music, but it never hurts to have a few alternatives up your sleeve. You never know if someone will make the decision to block Pandora or if the site will be having problems one day. For one of my earlier posts about [...]
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http://obama-weather.com/ What more could you ask for when you talk about the weather at Morning Meeting? How about the President modeling what to wear for each day? At Obama-Weather you get a five day forecast with the high, low and degree of sunshine or cloudiness. Just for fun you can also see what Bruce Lee, [...]
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Pandora Internet Radio For Your Classroom By Jeremy D. Renner Victor Hugo stated that “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” The acclaimed French novelist and poet must have held music in high regard, and many teachers feel the same way. Music can help create a caring community in [...]
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For a previous post on the idea of using Skype in your classroom click here. Skype Classroom Directory Consider registering for the Skype classroom directory. It is a new service that will help you to connect to other teachers from around the world. Your students will enjoy getting to know other kids from new places. [...]
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http://drips.nalindesign.com/ “Drips” is a an interesting painting application. It gives you random colors of paint and you drip them around the canvas. It states that you can use your webcam, but I chose to use the mouse option. I found the painting to be fun and whimsical, and I imagine it would be an interesting [...]
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“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.” -Maya Angelou There is a certain quality of the human voice that simply can’t be expressed in text. You can use sideways smiley faces, underline words and add abbreviations like LOL all [...]
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I had a one hour session at Foster yesterday afternoon. They were interested in creating posters for the classrooms. Among the tools we explored: Poster Street http://www.poster-street.com/ Download and print fun posters from a variety of categories. Posters are free and there is no log in needed for the site. Posters are colorful and they [...]
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Those of you who know me personally or who have been reading this blog for 15 minutes or longer know that I can’t spell to save my life. Having said that, I still get a kick out of things like this. This picture came across twitter, but if you like funny signs that are either [...]
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