Addressing Plagiarism

Thanks to Nathan Grimm, SR Education Group ∙ Program Manager for sharing this great article about how teachers need to address plagiarism in their classroom.

Creating Your Own Certificates For FREE!

Certificate Street is a website that offers free templates to create certificates so you can print them out. You can browse through all the categories templates. For school, sports, special occasions, blank certificates etc.

A Maths Dictionary For kids!

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/ 

Thanks to Lauren Grossberg for writing about this math site.

A Maths Dictionary for Kids, an online resource for math terms and visual aides, has been updated for the 2010 year. Started by an Australian K-6 teacher, it now includes more terms, definitions, and visual aids than it has previously had. This site is great because it provides straightforward and understandable definitions of the sometimes complicated math terms. Along with over 400 definitions there is a small diagram or some sort of interactive activity or game to help students visually see the term's definition. Just like any other dictionary, all the math terms are arranged alphabetically.

 A Maths Dictionary for Kids is a great resource to help students when they are working on homework assignments, individual in-class assignments or larger group projects. The visual clues that go along with each definition are helpful for students who find it more difficult to visualize the actual meaning of a math term.

Using PREZI on the classroom

I've written about Prezi before on the Amschool Web 2.0 Resource Blog.

Prezi is a zooming digital presentation editor. I’ts simply cooler than powerpoints.

This amazing tool has offered FREE license to educators who are willing to use it actively in their classrooms. This license includes a 500 MB of space storage which is a lot. Still you can use the 100 MB they offer to anyone for free.

If you want to see how Prezi works check this "7 Wonders of the World" Presentation:

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World on Prezi

If you liked it just sign in to have your own account. If you want to know what to do with it in the classroom just follow this simple 8 ways:

Refseek

Currently in public beta, RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

Here are two of the collections I think you might enjoy:

RefSeek's guide to the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos. With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and without registration.




Teacher Resources

PBS Activity Packs

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Shared by Free Technology for Teachers Blog

An activity pack is a set of educational resources focused on a theme and packaged in a widget-format that you can embed in your own blog or social media web page. Each pack includes links to PBS websites and a set of activities by grade level. Each one focuses on a curricular theme and includes links to great PBS resources and supplemental activities.

I've embedded the music one for you to see:

10,000 Online Learning Websites

While reading this months digital edition of Learning and Leading with Technology from ISTE, I found out that TeachersFirst Website is offering free access to 10,000 online learning websites containing a wide variety of content for all subjects for grades K-12. About two dozen new resources are added each week.

Learn from ilearn

Always following the amazing resources found on ilearn Technology Blog.

StoryPlace Elementary Library has great printout activities, topsy turvy tales (interactive stories), and a suggested reading list. These interactive stories help making reading fun. The reading list provides students with great off-line reads.



Kideos is a collection of kid friendly videos. Each video featured on Kideos has been carefully screened by the Kideos Video Advisory Council (made up of a select group of parents and educators). The videos are categorized by age range (from 2 to 10) and by category. Categories include Baby Einstein, Barney, Book Characters, Cartoon Characters, Cute Animals, Disney Channel Programs, Disney Movies, Dr. Seuss, Educational Videos, Fairy Tales, Kids, Mickey Mouse and Friends, Muppets, Nursery Rhymes, Sesame Street, Songs, Teletubbies, Trains and Machines, and Wiggles. If you register with Kideos, you can set it up to only view your own selection of ages and characters. The videos are streamed from You Tube and placed inside a Kideo player .



Sign App Now is an amazing, simple way to create online sign up sheets. This website is SO simple to use, you don’t even have to register to use it! Create a sign up sheet by filling in the name of the sign up sheet, your email address, and your name. Sign App Now creates a unique link (URL) that can be emailed to everyone that you would like to sign up. Those who sign up just enter their name (no need for them to register either). An email adding them to your sign up sheet is sent back to you.

Cool Math Page for Teachers and Students

Johnnie's Math Page is the site to find fun math for kids, math games, and even a little math homework help.

Interactive math activities from across the web have been organized by topic to make math learning enjoyable and interesting.

For parents and teachers, you will find math lessons and math worksheets as well as links to other math teaching resources.

For those who like a challenge, you will find free math games in the math puzzles section.

Using Google Docs in the Classroom

Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processing, presentations and spreadsheets program.

Unlike desktop software, Google Docs lets people create web-based documents, presentations and spreadsheets that anyone in the group can update from his/her own computer, even at the same time.

Instead of emailing around files and having to deal with the confusion and extra work involved in managing different file versions and manually aggregating input from others, anyone in the group can edit the document online from anywhere -- all you need is a Web browser.

And, since your docs are all stored safely in Google's servers, you don't have to worry about losing data from a hard drive crash or nasty virus.

Read the entire article.

Other Resources:

20 Interesting ways to use Google Docs