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!