Friday, September 4, 2009
Post Graphic Software to Blogger via Image Embedding
This is a sample student home-school communication entry written in PixWriter.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Go Global with ePals
Within five minutes, I found a project appropriate for our first and second graders for their internationally-minded maps unit. They will host a stuffed bear that will travel around the world. We will mark its journey on Google Earth.
Summary of key features:
- teacher-moderated e-mail and blogs
- collaborative projects
- pen pals around the world
- provides home-school communication
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Seeking a Way to Insert Video into Google Site
Help Needed! Anyone know of a way to insert video into a Google site? I'd like to place videos on my class site so my students can review at home. I prefer not to upload to YouTube or similar sites. Thanks.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Relax, Play, and Create with E-Sand Art
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Teach Vocabulary Relationships through Wordle
This image, and others like it, can be created at http://www.wordle.net/. Simply type in words you wish your students to link to a theme and click "go." It's that simple.
Need a phrase to appear? To have the words "papyrus paper" appear together, connect them with ~. For example, enter the text below:
papyrus~paper
Want to make a word appear larger for emphasis (perhaps the theme of your unit?) Just type the word multiple times. It will only appear once, but larger than your other text.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Grab Your Students' Attention-Fast and Easy to Use
What can you do for free? Simply upload your own photos or download creative commons licensed photos from sites such as Flickr, add a soundtrack, and Animoto will automatically create an amazing show that lasts up to 30 seconds. Are you an educator? Sign up for an educator account and create full-length presentations for free.
Click on the heading above for a better version of the video below.
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Home-School Communication
Students can type a sentence or two about their day in a graphic word processing program such as PixWriter. Just copy and paste the text into your blog. Then parents can read what their child did in school today.
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
Portaportal
Here's a great site for keeping all of your links together on the web. Students can access the websites they use in class from links on your portaportal site.
The link above is a sample.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Digital Storytelling
Check out this story, thanks to Joy Campagna. Available at www.istevision.org
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Early Literacy Skills at NECC
http://earlyliteracyskills.wikispaces.com/
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Link of the Day from NECC
www.tammyworcester.com
Terrific lists of web sites for educators!
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