Check out this great new resource! Museum Box

Remember when you were a student and you were told you had to do a report but it was just a lot of writing and you didn't think it was very interesting well we know of course writing can be interesting and so can research actually the better you get at it the more interesting it is!

Well here is a website where student's can put together their own museum box!  Click here to visit the site!

Let me know what you think!

Google Teacher Resources

This is a fantastic link!  All about Google Teacher Resources - it  is so interesting and broken down into steps that can easily be understood!  This gets 4 Stars from me for sure!   I was particularly interested in creating a Virtual Bookshelf in Google and the fact that I can embed books into my blog.  I will be working on that soon!  Check it out and let me know what you think!

Free Power Point Activities to use in your classroom!

     There are free power point activities at this site already created for you!   Our AIG teacher Ms. Cartwright shared with me this wonderful resource and they are power point activities that are very easy to use with a Smart Board if you have one or just projecting on a screen if you don't have one in your classroom. 

Go to Pete's Power Point Station Free Materials

There is also free clip art and free tutorials as well!

Have Students Create Reports With "Real Newspaper Clippings"

     Don't you think your students would have more fun writing a book report or doing a special class project if they could see it show up in a "real newspaper clipping" as shown below.  The only request this site has is that students' do not use a real newspaper name or the names of real reporter/news people.  You can understand why since this newspaper looks just like the real deal!  Let me know what your students think!

Click here to go to the site:

"This looks like a real newspaper!"

Have I got a new website for you! - Tagxedo

Check out Tagxedo!  turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even school projects-- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.

http://www.tagxedo.com/



This will be a fun way for you and your students to incorporate any topic you are studying by using Technology to enhance it!

You have to check out Sumdog!

A new math game to improve numeracy skills!  Your students can play in a world championship or participate in a talent show or even have a penalty shoot out!

There is also a game called "Canal Clean Out" so they can be thinking about the environment as well!



http://www.sumdog.com/

Certificate Street

This is a new site a lot of the tech blogs are buzzing about.....its great and its free!  What could be better?  It is a free service that has 80 education award templates that you can fill out and print....

Check it out!  Certificate Street

Kidzui is for lil' kids too!

Kidzui is a new search engine for ages 3 to 12.  They have a pay version and free version.  This is so exciting that we have a search engine that is User friendly for Pre-K students and Kindergarteners finally!

Check it out!  This site looks like so much fun and the visuals are great!

Newseum - Teachers You are gonna' love this!

Newseum, the world’s most interactive museum, released a cool new web app several months ago that displays the front pages of daily newspapers throughout the world in their original, unedited form.

I have never heard of this site but it advertises an easy to use interface, which allows users to be able to browse through a gallery of available papers or scroll over an interactive map to view snapshots of current front pages for each paper. Though the count varies daily, Newseum records on average more than 700 different newspapers from nearly 70 different countries.

In the classroom: you can use Newseum to track current events around the country for a U.S. History class or get an up-to-date look at the issues affecting different countries for World History or Geography.  I think it would be really neat if we could find a way to use bothe Newseum with Clustr Maps.  I do not know whether this is blocked or not by Websense at our school.