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21st Century Technology Teams Fabulous Finds
Which web site scored for you? Post your favorite find of the week here and get ready for a Smackdown!
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Found a cool item by mistake - Google Image Swirl - finds like photos and puts them in a graphic organizer.
Found this link to use with my European Travel/Geography Unit. Photos, information and maps.
Found this simple algebra website of concepts.
If you like "Imagination Cubed" and Sketchcast try goanimate.com: Cool custom characters cartoon style to choose from!
Resources for teachers of students with special needs
"Filamentality" is a great tool to author web pages like web quests.
After reading a blog post about Google.docs I read many comments about wufoo.com. A nice alternative to the 800lb gorilla.
Hope we have this. Smartboard math tools software!
Freerice.com is a wonderful interactive site for vocabulary, art, English, geography, math and foreign languages.
Another cool, free, survey tool is Kwiksurvey
This is a great science project for any elementary grade level. Your students will work collaboratively on gathering data in the habitat and share it globally.
CAST - Center for Applied Special Technology
UDL - Universal Design for Learning
UDL BookBuilder
Meegenius
Personalize fairy tales to read with young kids
I have used this site before with a lot of success. It provides students the independence needed to become strong readers and you can track thier progress.
Found fabulous site for audio books for early elem. through high school students. Has so much more than just audio. A must see. 30 day free trial.
Quia.com is a great website to both author all sorts of activies and use their library of ready-made activities.
BrowseAloud - reads web pages aloud for students who have difficulty with print or are visually impaired
Free download -
Air mouse Elite--one touch wireless cursor control for presentation/smartboard. Programmable gestures to control functions and commands. Ck it out!
TES Connect - UK site which includes a bunch of resources for interactive white boards - all content areas including special education -
QT Code- Use your camera phone to take a picture of the bar code and it uploads info.
This site contains great media resources mainly from PBS in science, math, and literacy.
If you do anything with human body, this site has virtual bodies and games you can explore and re-build...
upload your photos and turn them into magazine covers, posters, trading cards ... Digital images can be used for free.
Just adding the url's for my two finds:
I used glogster to make a creative introduction to our team webpage that is interactive, informative and fun!
Cool site for virtual cell models
Great site that supports global awareness. When you correctly identify the location, cups of water are donated to impoverished countries.
Julie and I found that ePals provides safe, free, teacher-monitored student emails useful for logging into web 2.0 sites
Having been introduced to PBL through Edutopia, I have been seeking new ways to integrate and use this in my curriculum. A good checklist site.
Tizmos is a great place to bookmark all the wonderful links we have found this week. You can see what the page looks like and tag them as you wish.