What I’m Reading
I’m happy to report that JCPS and CES are experimenting with opening up certain previously blocked web sites and services for teacher use. The micro-blogging platform twitter is one site you have probably heard a lot about and likely not known how it could help you as a teacher. 1. Check out this blog post [...]
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I did not used to recommend that people use Google Sites for their class website. I found the templates to be on the boring side, it was more difficult to use than other tools such as Weebly and I didn’t like how the URL was so long once the site was published. Two of the [...]
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I just read on ‘Free Technology For Teachers‘ that Weebly now has a service called ‘Weebly For Education.’ Weebly was already a very good choice for teacher web pages, so what is the big deal? For starters, if you register on the education site, you can build (and manage) student accounts as well. So now [...]
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http://www.says-it.com/ Fun graphics and art you design yourself. Great for classroom posters, handouts, bulletin boards and webpages. Put your class or school name on a truck, on Jeopardy! slide or a host of other options. Enjoy!
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My Top Ten Things You Didn’t Know You Couldn’t Teach Without 1. Pandora. Stream different styles and genres of music for your students. Build an (optional) account and Pandora will learn your preferences. Play music to match your learning units (ie Bluegrass for Kentucky history, Big Band while reading about the 30s and 40s). Expose [...]
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Here is (yet another) fun way to embellish your digital pictures. I added http://www.tuxpi.com/ to the ‘Class Pictures’ page, and thought the ‘Motivational Poster’ ‘Newscast Picture’ and ‘Speech Bubble Picture’ would be especially fun in the classroom.
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http://metaatem.net/words/ This is a fun one for learning about anything from the alphabet to architecture. You simply type a word and this handy utility will find the letters in different flickr photos to create a banner. The banner can be downloaded or embedded in a class site or blog. (I used a screen capture tool [...]
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WallWisherCreate a quick webpage which people can post sticky notes to. Use it to post HW assignments, swap ideas with other teachers or have your students post short items to share. Want to practice? Click below on ‘Post a Sticky’ and share your favorite thing about your TabletPC. The Tablet Talk wall can be viewed as [...]
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http://www.imagechef.com Image Chef is (yet another) fun little place where you can add your name or class name to different items. Use it for creating signs and banners or for catchy graphics for your class sight or blog. You do not need an account, but building one will allow you to save items on their [...]
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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 [...]
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