Review Documents

Thanks to ilearn Technology Blog for writing this post!

What it is: Crocodoc is a new online tool that is quickly becoming a go-to application in my technology toolbox. Crocodoc lets you easily share and review documents online including pdfs, Word documents, and PowerPoint slides.

It is as easy as 1-2-3

1. Upload the document from your computer or a URL (no registration required!).

2. Mark up the document using the built in highlighter, sticky notes, strike out, and text.

3. Share the unique URL of your Crocodoc with others.

This is an easy way to collaborate on projects, edit student work, and critique written works. Since Crocodoc was released last week, I have used it to share numerous documents with my students, edit a technology grant, send a lesson plans to teachers with notes about how to use them, and added my suggestions to a PowerPoint presentation. It is SO easy to use, and since it doesn’t require registration, it is perfect for the classroom.

Educating Students About Online Behavior

I ran into an interesting You Tube Channel for students to learn about online safety.

The channel is called Safety Center Videos

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!

  View more presentations from West Monroe High School.
• Glogster Presentation

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Virtual School Day

We have a Virtual School Day tomorrow Wednesday, January 27, 2010. These are some great links for students, teachers to use while working at home.

For Students:

Arcademic Skillbuilders*
Research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students.

StudyTag
Is a learning community that helps you Ace every single quiz and test you take.

Homework Spot
Is a free homework information portal that features the very best K-12 homework-related sites together with engaging editorial in one high-utility, educational spot.

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
"B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper has grown into one of the most comprehensive research sites maintained by a kid..."Family PC Magazine

High School Ace
The Academic home Page for High school Students

Middle School websites
Learning websites for Middle School Students

Middle School Web
Middle School resources

Preschool and Kindergarten Games
Games for Kids

Starfall
Free public service to motivate children to read with phonics

Top 100 Preschool Sites
List of 100 preschoo sites for you do dive in.

AudioOwl
is a great resource for free high quality audio books. Audio books, like the ones found on this site, can serve as a great free resource for all teachers and students

For Teachers

East Side Middle School Library
Middle School teaching resources

Classhelper.org
Is an educational resources site dedicated to providing useful tools and materials to the teaching community. Our resources include math worksheets, crossword puzzles, word search puzzles, class project "HOW-TO" articles, classroom teaching aids, discussion forums, and other educational materials.

Scholastic
Teaching resources for all subjects.

Larry Ferlazzo's Top Tools for Teachers
"These “The Best…” lists highlight what I think are the best educational websites". Larry Ferlazzo

Virtual Learning Links

The Amschool Curriculum Wiki has a page on Virtual Leaning Sites.

Webquests
The Amschool Curriculum Wiki web quests sites.

Discovery School Lesson Plan Library
Free lesson plans written by teachers for teachers. Like you. Classroom Resources has hundreds of original lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school students. Borrow them as-is or use them to spark your own lesson plans.

Catching Up with the 21 st Century Trends

TODAY is our Virtual Half Day here at AST.

I found this great presentation to share with all of you to see the importance of understanding the 2.0 Learning.

Ten Trends

View more documents from Rodd Lucier.

Brain Flips

Shared on Diigo by Don Shegog.



BrainFlips.com is your free one-stop source for flashcards on any subject. We offer tools and features unavailable anywhere else. Features include:

• Full multimedia flashcards: text, images, audio, and video
• Fun, easy to use interface
• Outstanding community features like study groups and wiki flashcard decks
• Multiple modes of study
• Artificial intelligence that targets learning and makes study time more efficient
• And much, much more!

Story Bird

Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print.

Tell your stories without a middleman. Create teaching tools for students. Experiment and goof around.

Storybird Quick Tour from Storybird on Vimeo.

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.

Learn from ILearn

This are some of the great resources and sites shared by Kelly Tenkley, author of the I Learn Technology Blog.

Creaza offers you an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time. You use the toolbox along with various fully developed thematic universes: historical periods, fairy-tales, fantasy worlds, and current challenges, such as climate/environment.

Creaza integrates professional and user-generated content, creative tools and a social network in a new and innovative way.

Math Collection of Flash Games

You are free to download them to use offline or to put them on your own web site.

NASA Images is a website where you can find amazing images of the universe, solar system, earth, aeronautics and astronauts. In addition to images, you will find video and audio collections in this easily searchable digital library.

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.

Super Thinkers

SuperThinkers is a fun and challenging site targeted for learners in grades 5 through 8, but also fun for learners of all levels. Their mission is to inspire creative problem solving, critical thinking,
deductive reasoning, and logic. They call this kind of deeper thinking - "SuperThinking."

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper

B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper is a website created by BJ Pinchbeck a 21 year old senior at Drexel University who started working on this site since he was 9 years old together with his dad. The website focuses on more than 800 fantastic educational links for students (and parents) to use to help with their homework.

According to the U.S. Kids Magazine "This site is the best homework helper ever." -- Besides, it’s just inspiring what he has accomplished at such young age. Kids on the digital age are just getting closer to the world and to think what was once unreachable is not any more.

E-Learning For Kids

Established in late 2004, e-Learning for Kids is a global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on the Internet for children ages 5 - 12.

"Children from 5-12 build and improve basic skills with the best quality e-learning courseware"

"Parents and educators have a pre-screened source of articles, research, and related links"