Online Posters!

A glog is an online poster that allows students to add images, video files, sound files, text, and hyperlinks. Glogs address multiple learning styles and easily incorporate student research and educational content into a web publication. They are free, use no ink, and are fun!"Jan McGee

I've written about Glogster before in the Amschool Web 2.0 Blog. I found this Web 2.0 application to be so amazing and fun for students and teachers.

Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:

• I found this wiki with information about using Glogster in education. Toolkit4Blog Walker Wiki
• Traci Blazosky has already put together an excellent Glogster tutorial
• Glog On!

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Math Learning Fun

Educational software company DreamBox Learning is offering free digital math resources for kindergarten through second-grade teachers to use in their classrooms. These “DreamBox Teacher Tools” include a variety of lessons using virtual manipulatives, ideas for incorporating these lessons into the elementary curriculum, and resources to support teacher’s professional development as they use the online toolkit. The virtual manipulatives are web-based tools that help students more easily grasp math concepts in visual terms, and research shows they are effective, DreamBox says. -eschool News, Site of the Week-

A great writing site

Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents.

A variety of templates, tutorials, and graphic organizers introduce and explain the major forms of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository,research, response to literature) and help students develop practical writing skills – from coming up with a topic idea to publishing a polished work. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft for Learning Essentials, these tools offer solid instruction from the popular, research-based Write Source series of writing programs.

Ideas to Inspire

Shared by iLearn Technology Blog

'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.

Providing ideas and resources, linked to specific curriculum areas.

These presentations focus on one particular ICT tool and suggest ways of using that tool in your classroom.

If you know any non-techy teachers (or you are one yourself), this presentation has some great ideas for using technology quickly, easily and effectively.

Free Videos For Learning

Shared by Free Technology For Teachers Blog

Next Vista for Learning is an online library of free videos for learners everywhere.

With teachers and students from all over the world contributing content, it will get easier and easier to find the presentation a student needs to say, “I get it.”

With the resources of the library available for free to anyone at any time, students will be in a good position to learn when they are most ready to do so. For teachers, the available videos can be used in the classroom to generate discussion, or even when planning lessons to generate ideas. Having a simple system for watching others’ work will strengthen professional development, which is one of NextVista.org’s goals.

All Next Vista videos can be embedded into your blog or website. The videos can also be downloaded directly from Next Vista.

Googley with Google Tools

Jennifer Dorman from the Cliotech blog has been publishing a weekly series called "Googley with Google Tools" where she writes about the use of google tools in education.

The way she describes the tools and its uses in education are just great. Here are the titles of each week since she started:

Week 1 - The Google site
Week 2 - Google Apps
Week 3 - Google Docs
Week 4 - Picasa for Mac
Week 5 - Google News
Week 6 - Google Earth
Week 7 - Google Reader
Week 8 - Google Custom Search Engines
Week 9 - Google Maps

iLearn Technology

iLearn Technology is an edublog written by Kelly Tenkely, a K-5 Technology Specialist/ Teacher, that has so many amazing resources teachers can use to integrate technology into their classrooms.

I will be posting some of her wonderful stuff to share with you all.

Cyberbee Copyright : is an online flash application to teach students about copyright laws.

Primary Access :This incredible site has a web-based tool that offers students and teachers simple access to digital images and materials that provides them the opportunity to create personal narratives. For teachers to sign for an account you need to register here.



Math Arcade is part of the fun brain website. Is a game for kids to practise their math skills. The game is an intercative board game kids enjoy playing.

Crick Web Literacy Resource is an excellent collection of interactive games for language development and practice in students.

Mrs. P’s Magic Library is a free website for kids that celebrates reading and books. Ideal for beginning readers, ESL and even home-schooling. Mrs. P is a virtual librarian who brings the stories alive in an interactive way. Since its a in flash it may take a while to dowload, but please be patient is worth it.

Middle Spot is a search engine for teachers, librarians, and students performing research. Middle Spot lets you see your results, you can pan and zoom individual website results.



Tools for Educators is a site that gives teachers templates to create their own board games, word searches, dice, cross word maker, bingo cards, domino maker, spelling and reading worksheets, handwriting worksheets, certificate maker, vocabulary handouts, listening test worksheets, and word bank worksheet.

Pocket Manila is a site that provides online notebooks that can be used as a journal, blog, idea bank, photo album, portfolio, group blog, ezine, story book, and more. Pocket Manila keeps the notebook metaphor alive with some cool and unique features like Smart-page and Color-swap. Smart-page automatically splits your entries into several pages instead of one long post. It also resizes your pictures to fit the page without distortion. Color-swap, when enabled, allows you and your visitors to interchange the colors you have selected by simple drag n' drop.



Movavi is a free, online video converter. You just enter a URL of a video or upload a file, choose your preferred output format, and enter your email address.

Thinkport

Thinkport is the product of an on-going partnership between Maryland Public Television (MPT) and Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education (CTE).

Thinkport is a all-in-one educational resource for students, teachers and parents. It offers rich online educational resources, valued professional development, and innovative multimedia learning tools. You can browse Thinkport through any of their four channels, Think Classroom, Think Career, Think Technology, Think Family & Community.

1. Through Think Classroom you'll be able to find activity kits, instructional TV, Internet links, lessons, reading strategies and more.
2. Through Think Career you'll be able to expand your experience through professional development programs and interaction with your peers online.
3. In Think Technology you'll be able to experience educational games, simulations, blogs, podcasting.
4. The Think Family & Community is addressed to parents and their sharing with their kids education.
   

You may search thinkport without subscribing, but I recommend you do so because as a user

you get entitled to use some other tools like lesson builder, project builder, student activity builder, calendar, website creator, etc. The subscription is free.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008

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Anciet Rome in 3D

Google Earth was the first tool I worked with in technology integration. It just gets better and better that you can explore more than 6000 3-D drawings of buildings in Ancient Rome.

If you want to review on how Google Earth works go back to my post.

Googlize Your Lessons

http://googlizealesson.wikispaces.com/
shared by Jennifer Dorman

More Presentations

Getting Started “What Did You Do in School Yesterday, Today, and Three Years Ago?”

Prove It “Using Online Argument Role-Play to Foster Learning to Argue and Arguing to Learn in a High School Composition Class”

Getting Started “Web 2.0 Tools to Amplify Elementary Students’ Creativity and Initiative”

Day 5 Presentations: 24 October 2008

Leading the ChangeBeyond the Stacks: Using Emerging Technologies to Strengthen Teacher-librarian Leadership

Day 6 Presentations: 27 October 2008

Leading the ChangeCurrent leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations

Kicking it up a NotchChanging Disabilities

Kicking it up a Notch Oh the Possibilities

Day 7 Presentations: 28 October 2008

K-12 Online Conference Following Presentations

Day 3 Presentations: 22 October 2008

Getting Started “Video-Conferencing It’s Easy, Free and Powerful”

Prove It “Throwing the Box Away”

Getting Started “Reading Revolution: New Texts and New Technologies”

Prove It “Promise into Practice”

Getting Started “Never Too Young”

Day 4 Presentations: 23 October 2008

K-12 Online Conference 2008 BEGINS!

I have been following the K-12 Conference since last year. All of the presentations that I have listen and read about in this conference have been so helpful in the technology integration process of our school.
The best part of all is that they are ALL FREE!

Day 1 Presentations: 20 October 2008

Getting Started “The Google Gamut: Everything you need to get started”

Getting Started “I Like Delicious Things: An Introduction to Tagging and Folksonomies”

Getting Started “I Like Delicious Things: An Introduction to Tagging and Folksonomies”

Day 2 Presentations: 21 October 2008

Imagination Prompt Generator

From the Free Technology For Teachers Blog

Sometimes the hardest part of teaching creative writing or starting a
creative writing assignment, is generating a story idea. This is where the Imagination Prompt Generator comes to your aid.

The Imagination Prompt Generator randomly generates prompts for starting a
fictional story.Imagination Prompt Generator is part of the Creativity Portal which offers
ideas for free creative projects. Most of the project ideas in the kids section
of the Creativity Portal are appropriate for elementary school and possibly
middle school age students.

If you're looking for more writing prompt resources, consider The Story Starter and Writing Fix.

Applications for Education
The Imagination Prompt Generator and the Creativity Portal are good
resources for teachers looking for fictional writing ideas or classroom
projects. The only drawback to the Creativity Portal is the poorly placed
advertising might be a distraction for some students.

Networked Possibilities by Alec Couros

From: courosa, 43 minutes ago

Presentation on the implications of networking tools in educational design.

Audio Music Tool

Try JamStudio to make your Music Classes even more fun!

Immune Attack

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) presents Immune Attack™, an educational video game that introduces basic concepts of human immunology to high school and entry-level college students. Designed as a supplemental learning tool, Immune Attack aims to excite students about the subject, while also illuminating general principles and detailed concepts of immunology.

The Story Starter

Selected as one of the top 101sites for writers by Writer's Digest Magazine for 2008.
The Story Starter provides 345,935,040 creative ideas for writers of all ages. All of the story starters are randomly generated. The story starters can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun.

Now, your students have no reason to say that they can’t think of something to write about!

Shared site by the theteacherlist.ca

pLb Free Tool Bar

Download this FREE Teacher Toolbar to keep the latest teaching and learning information at your fingertips. Updated automatically when you go to the Internet.