Mar 29 2010
Scholastic Interactive Whiteboard Activities
Educational games for your SmartBoard from Scholastic sorted by subject and grade level.
Mar 29 2010
PBS Interactive Whiteboard Activities
The best educational games for your SmartBoard from PBS Kids sorted by subject and grade level.
Mar 21 2010
Open Wide Look Inside
A blog about teaching elementary math, science and socials studies, with heavy emphasis on the integration of children’s literature across the curriculum.
Mar 21 2010
Read.Gov
“These reading resources for kids will inspire you to discover new authors, rediscover classic books and even read a story created just for you, called “The Exquisite Corpse Adventure.” Site has resources from the Library of Congress including interactive books for SmartBoard.
Mar 21 2010
Interactive Whiteboard Research
“The study results indicated that, in general, using interactive whiteboards was associated with a 16 percentile point gain in student achievement. This means that we can expect a student at the 50th percentile in a classroom without the technology to increase to the 66th percentile in a classroom using whiteboards.”
May 14 2009
Story of Stuff
I could not resist posting this. The Story of Stuff is an awesome story. Make sure you watch the whole video before showing it to your class.
May 14 2009
Edmodo
“Traditional web 2.0 tools in a k-12 classroom environment create concerns over privacy. Edmodo has been built with the privacy of students in mind. Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers have the ability to send alerts, events, and assignments to students. Edmodo also has a public component which allows teachers to post any privately shared item to a public timeline and RSS feed.” One blogger titled his review of Edmodo “If a Teacher had Designed Twitter”
May 14 2009
Maps In The Classroom
How accurate and up-to-date is that pull down map in your room? If you don’t have Google Earth installed on your computer or want to find a map and/or location quickly on a current map, check out the links below.
May 14 2009
Making Teachers Nerdy
Making Teachers Nerdy is an incredible blog that is all about “Tech Integration Tips and Web Links to Increase Your Teacher Nerdiness Levels” Here are some recent posts to give you an idea of the usefulness of this blog.
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