Archive for October, 2008

When I was a kid

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Today is Halloween.  My favorite holiday of the year.  When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait until after supper so we could hit up all the neighborhood houses to get our loot.  As an adult, I live vicariously through all the little costumed gremlins that come to our house.  Luckily, hubby loves Halloween as [...]

Sites I bookmarked 10/31/2008

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Writing Fun by Jenny Eather – Annotated
helping kids write using text organizers.
tags: writing, literacy, english, language, tools, languagearts, languageartslessonplans, languageartslesson

TheFreeSite.com
Free WAV sound files, free sounds, music, MP3 files, music search engine, sound effects, MIDI
tags: sounds, wav, music, audio, sound, soundeffects

Grade 7 Science Bookmarks
Science Directions 7 Chapters:
General
7.1 Living [...]

Sites I bookmarked 10/30/2008

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Piedmont Triad Education Consortium
tags: consortium

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Sites I bookmarked 10/29/2008

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Danita Russell
tags: danita, website, teachersite, teacherwebsite, teacherwebpage, webpage

- Animoto For Education -
tags: web2.0, animoto, tools, digitalstorytelling, slideshow, education, digital_storytelling

CatchYouTube.com
the Free Online YouTube Video Converter – Download and Save YouTube Videos Online direct to PC, iPod, PSP, iPhone, mp3, mp4 and Mobile. Convertor catchvideo.net
tags: youtube, video, videos, convert, conversion, converter

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Sites I bookmarked 10/28/2008

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

imageTovideo.com
Convert online Image To video – convert online photo to video
tags: video, videos, image, conversion, converter, convert

studentlinc
Train Your Students Tonight With This Worksheet!
tags: counseling, counselor, charactereducation, charactered, leadership, character

How to Link Multiple GMail Accounts Together in 4 Easy Steps
tags: gmail, email

Tech Fortress Teacher Technology Blog
Super Easy Teacher Websites
tags: website, teacherwebsite, teacher, classroomupdate

EDU Glogs Explained
Setting [...]

Sites I bookmarked 10/27/2008

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Flash Jeopardy Review Game
The Flash Jeopardy Review Game is a 100% free and customizable flash based review game.
tags: game, games, flash, jeopardy

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Sites I bookmarked 10/24/2008

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Show Document
Live and Free document sharing session
tags: collaboration, tools, sharing, session, document, filesharing, files

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Sites I bookmarked 10/22/2008

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College
tags: election, socialstudies, history, government, maps, Politics

Instructify
Grab students’ attention before class with PowerPoint. Yeah, that’s right, with PowerPoint.
tags: powerpoint, powerpoints

Grammar Ninja
Great game – good to play on the SmartBoard
tags: grammar, smartboard, languagearts, languageartslessonplans, languageartsgames

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Sites I bookmarked 10/20/2008

Monday, October 20th, 2008

The Writing Teacher
Tips, Techniques, and Advice on Teaching Writing
tags: writing, blog, Blogs, languagearts, grammar

grammar games
tags: grammar, english, languagearts, languageartsgames, games

Science News
tags: magazine, science, news

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Sites I bookmarked 10/18/2008

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

American Heritage Education Foundation, Inc.
Free lesson plans
tags: socialstudies, SocialStudiesLessons, socialstudieslessonsplans, americancivilwar, americanhistory

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Sites I bookmarked 10/17/2008

Friday, October 17th, 2008

3-6 Student Interactives – Science
The Utah Education Network has a built a nice collection of 30 educational games and online activities for use with students in grades three through six. There are games based on life science (biology) and physical (Earth) science topics.
tags: science, sciencegames, sciencelessonplan, sciencelessonplans, sciencelessons, sciencevideos

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Sites I bookmarked 10/15/2008

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time
tags: China, virtualworlds, history, simulation, forbiddencity

Worldmapper
The world as you’ve never seen it before
tags: maps, geography, map, mapping, reference, worldmapper, worldmap

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Sites I bookmarked 10/14/2008

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Welcome to ThePirateCity.org
Watch Movies online for Free
tags: video, videos, movies

International Reading Association : Podcasts
tags: podcast, podcasting, podcasts

Any Video/DVD Converter
The versatile video converter for iPod, PSP, Zune, cell phones and more
tags: converter, video, videos

Sites I bookmarked 10/13/2008

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Top 10 Printable Paper Productivity Tools
tags: paper, printable, graphpaper, graph, rulers, calendar, cdcase, cornellnotes, cornell

Cost To Drive
Want to know how much it costs to drive somewhere? Find out at CostToDrive.com, the easiest way to discover how much it costs to drive anywhere in the US.
tags: driving, travel, cost, estimate, web2.0, tool, mileage, drive

Sites I bookmarked 10/12/2008

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Teaching English with Technology
books, grammar and writing, blogs, wikis, and lesson plans
tags: languagearts, languageartslesson, languageartslessonplans, writing, grammar, poems, poetry

FastStone Photo Resizer
Powerful Image Converter/Resizer
tags: resizer, freeware, graphics, software, photography, image, converter, photo

21 Free Language Arts Tools
tags: languagearts, languageartslesson, languageartslessonplans, web2.0, tools

Sites I bookmarked 10/11/2008

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Free Technology for Teachers: Free Podcasting Solutions
tags: podcast, podcasting, podcasts

Sites I bookmarked 10/10/2008

Friday, October 10th, 2008

I Want to Teach Forever
A project for students who ask: “When will we ever use this in the real world?”
tags: math, mathblogs, mathematics, mathlessonplans, mathlessons

How to mail merge in word
tags: excel, word, mail, merge, mailmerge, mailinglabels, labels, address

Game Templates
The Price is Right, 100,000 Pyramid, The Hollywood Squares, The Weakest Link, Who Wants to be a [...]

Sites I bookmarked 10/02/2008

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

TestToob
A Community For Every Day Scientist
tags: testtoob, science, experiments, sciencelessonplans, sciencevideos, scientificmethod

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
The Best Websites For Teaching & Learning About U.S. History
tags: ushistory, americanhistory, americancivilwar, socialstudieslessonsplans, SocialStudiesLessons