Check this out! 07/12/2011

• 7 Steps to Get a Big Picture Plan for Your School Year

  tags: tidbits

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Check this out! 07/03/2011

• Skyline CPI

  tags: tidbits portfolios googleapps

• YouTube - 2aFlubaroo - Grading Made Easy 2c 0f

  Want google to help with grading formative assessments?  Give flubaroo a try.

  tags: grading tidbits googleapps

• AnAPPforTHAT

  tags: tidbits

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Check this out! 06/29/2011

• The Kids Open Dictionary Builder

  Don't like the definitions in standard dictionaries?  Write your own.  Or have your kids help.

  tags: tidbits dictionary wiki

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Check this out! 06/28/2011

• My Fake Wall - MyFakeWall.com

  For those of you who have students create a fake facebook page for assignments, check this out. 

  tags: tidbits facebook template

  • We have a huge collection of designer clothes like Sarees, Salwar Kameez and Lehenga Cholis visit - http://www.sareez.com/ - post by Indian Sarees
  • World Yellow Pages for Higher Studies. Find University, Institute, Colleges world wide & talk business. Free Listing www.kezkostudy.com
    
    - post by Shona Agarwal
  • I like what your students have done with their fake walls. - post by Dodie Ballard
  • World Yellow Pages for Higher studies.Find University, Institute, Colleges World wide & talk business.Free Listing www.kezkostudy.com
    - post by globodyne technology
  • I contacted the administrator for myfakewall.com since there was information on it today that would be inappropriate for students. I think it is easily solvable by simply keeping the web-producers examples on the front page and the individual creations somewhere else. - post by Dodie Ballard
  • I was very encouraged to find this site. I wanted to thank you for this special read. I definitely savored every little bit of it.
    
    http://www.healthmantra.co.uk/lemon_detox_diet
    - post by mike hardy
  • Very clever. Some are real names with fake pictures or vice versa. - post by Darcie Davis

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Check this out! 06/22/2011

• British Library makes Google search deal

  What a resource for primary source materials!

  tags: tidbits

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Check this out! 06/17/2011

• Edheads - Activate Your Mind!

  Edheads provides free, educational online games focused on science, math, and critical thinking.

  tags: science interactive tidbits

  • Terrific, engaging examples of e-learning simulations with lots of interactivity. Free lesson plans for teachers available.
    - post by Christy Tucker
  • Activities and games to learn about science and logic
    - post by miz mercer
  • Ini adalah salah satu situs pendidikan yang berisi ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi untuk meningkatkan kecerdasan otak. Sangat cocok untuk dijadikan sumber belajar bagi siswa, serta dapat meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir ke tingkat yang lebih tinggi. - post by Fitria Hima Mahligai

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Check this out! 06/16/2011

• Home : Succeeding With Science

  Science games to support learning.

  tags: tidbits science interactive resources

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Check this out! 06/15/2011

• Book-A-Day Almanac

  Daily book recommendations and events from Anita Silvey.  Discover classics, new books on their way to becoming classics and events from the world of children's lit

  tags: tidbits books reading children

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77 Web resources to try this summer

Thanks to Richard Byrne for this list. Give some of them a try. You will be happy you did.

77 Web Resources for Teachers to Try This Summer

Check this out! 06/13/2011

• The Week in Rap

  Check out the last 18 years in rap.

  tags: tidbits

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Check this out! 06/12/2011

• Interactive: U.S. flag: its meaning, design and history - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

  Flag day is June 14th.  Here is a good website that you can use to teach about our flag.

  tags: flag socialstudies tidbits

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Check this out! 06/11/2011

• Google For Educators

  Google posters that show various tips.

  tags: tidbits google posters

• Stop Bullying

  tags: tidbits bullying

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Check this out! 6/3/2011

Screencast-o-matic: Screencast-O-Matic is the original free and easy way to make a screen capture video recording with audio (aka screencast) and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install!

Check this out! 6/1/2011

https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets Scrubs web pages of distractions and provides a clean, comfortable view. Handy for reading longer articles

Check this out! 5/25/11

http://snipsnip.it/ Want to show just part of a youtube video? Snip it here.

Check this out! 5/24/11

Livebinders Livebinder offers an easy way to repackage information for student use. SeeResearch Question binder

Check this out! 5/14/2011

Storybird This is a really neat collaborative storytelling website where the user chooses the artwork and then writes a story to go along with it.

Check this out! 5/11/2011

Flixtime Flixtime turns your photos and videos into stunning and unique videos in just minutes! My students prefer it to animoto. And it makes 60 second videos!

Check this out! 5/10/11

Skype an author. There are many authors who are willing to visit your students via Skype. They offer a free 15 minute visit. Longer visits can be negotiated.

Check this out! 5/8/2011

xtranormal: This is a cartoon generator. You can even make your characters talk!

Check this out! 5/4/11

Bighugelabs.com: Make a motivational poster with your own photograph and wording - no sign in necessary!

Check this out! 5/2/2011

60second Recap: Their mission is to make great literature accessible to teens; examples of titles: Hamlet, Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, The Great Gatsby, and more. There are several 60second videos for each title, covering topics like the protaganists, the plot, themes, symbols, etc.

Hi/lo web pages

Are you looking for webpages of varying reading levels? Did you know that our old friend google now gives you that ability? Yep, it's true. Click on Advanced search and you can choose basic, intermediate or advanced reading level as part of your search. How does google know? Levels are based on two criteria: vocabulary and sentence structure. Give it a try.

This is just one of the new features of google. They just keep getting better.

How do I ... ?

Do you want to use Skype but don't know how? Or format an Excel spreadsheet? Or wonder what you can do with your new smartphone? Check out Think.

Think Tutorial is a database of simple, easy to follow tutorials covering all aspects of popular computing. Technology is fantastic, but it can be difficult to keep up with at times. Think Tutorial's strength and success resides in its very intuitive approach and design that keeps everything simple and organized.

Tax day cometh

What We Pay For uses publicly available tax data to show you how your tax money is appropriated. On the left side of the screen you will see the total revenue and appropriations for the entire United States. On the right side of the screen you can enter your filing status and pre-tax earnings for the year to see the approximate amount you will pay toward US budget items. You can enter your pre-tax earnings as an annual figure, monthly figure, weekly, daily, or hourly wage.

Happy Pi day

Happy PI day everyone. I have put together a page of web resources if you are looking for the PI Rap!!

http://rundlett.concord.nh.libguides.com/pi

Grammar fun

Grammaropolis is website designed to help elementary school students learn the parts of speech. Grammaropolis features cartoon characters that represent nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech. Students can click on any of the characters to read that character's story. After going through the character stories students can watch videos about the parts of speech and play games about the parts of speech.

Check out google docs

For teachers and students who want to work both at home and school, google docs is a great resource. It now supports all Office files types.

"The Google Docs Viewer is used by millions of people every day to quickly view PDFs, Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations online. Not only is viewing files in your browser far more secure than downloading and opening them locally, but it also saves time and doesn’t clutter up your hard-drive with unwanted files.

Today we’re excited to launch support for 12 new file types:

• Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX)
  
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX)
  
• Apple Pages (.PAGES)
  
• Adobe Illustrator (.AI)
  
• Adobe Photoshop (.PSD)
  
• Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF)
  
• Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG)
  
• PostScript (.EPS, .PS)
  
• TrueType (.TTF)
  
• XML Paper Specification (.XPS)

Not only does this round out support for the major Microsoft Office file types (we now support DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS and XLSX), but it also adds quick viewing capabilities for many of the most popular and highly-requested document and image types.

In Gmail, these types of attachments will now show a “View” link, and clicking on this link will bring up the Google Docs Viewer."

maps, maps, maps, maps!

Maps Compare is a site that allows you to compare Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Bing Maps, and Google Earth browser plug-in on one page. To use the service just enter the name of the place you're searching for and Maps Compare will display that place on all four maps at once. Zoom in or zoom out on one of the maps and you're doing the same on the other three.

http://geshout.com/mapscompare/all.php

vocab game

Looking for a new vocab game to play? Check out http://vocabgenii.com/

Jigsaw puzzles

Like jigsaw puzzles? Check out National Geographic puzzles: http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/atlas/puzzles.html

Watch youtube without the ads

"quietube: Video without the distractions

To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser's bookmarks bar. On any of the supported video pages, click the bookmark button to watch in peace"

http://quietube.com/

Knotebooks

"Knotebooks are a new way to learn science online. Want to learn about gravity? We'll show you clear, concise and correct knotebooks so you can understand the concepts." http://knotebooks.com/