Kids! Learning to read can be fun!
Photo credit: ppdigital from morguefile.com
There is a Web site that makes learning how to read fun for kids! Starfall is a learning based Web site for kids with an array of different games and activities for learning how to read.
There are also other games featured on Starfull which have other learning-based games for learning colors, [...]
A Virtual Dictionary/Thesaurus
The newest way to use a dictionary and thesaurus is the virtual way!
Visuwords uses a spiderweb-like technology to show the meaning of a word, synonyms, nouns, verbs, etc. Anything and everything you need to know about any word in the English language, Visuwords can find it for you.
Just go to the top of the page, [...]
“Picniking your photos!”
Picnik.com is a Web site dedicated to help you edit your photos. Picnik has endless ways to change the way a photo looks.
You can:
Crop,resize, and rotate photos
Add cartoons/words/extra colors to photos
Add themes to your photos (ie. holidays, special events, etc.)
Add effects to photos such as black and white, vignettes, infrared film, inverted [...]
Travel the World
So you want to travel the world with your students to show them the Coliseum in Rome, the pyramids in Egypt, or simply all of the Erie Canal. Obviously trips like that would not fit into the field trip budget, but what if you could use an alternative to show your students an up close [...]
Youtube Video
Using video as a classroom resource can be a powerful tool, but can sometimes be risky if you are looking at a YouTube video. YouTube videos can be dangerous because you never know what offensive comments might be featured below the video or what related videos might be suggested to the right of the video. [...]
Doodle 4 Google
Have you heard of the Doodle 4 Google contest? The contest is for K-12 students to redesign the Google logo. Each school can submit up to six entries for this year’s theme “If I could do anything, I Would . . .”
How could you work this contest in to your curriculum and lessons?
This [...]
EduCon 2.2
It is hard enough for teachers to be absent from their classroom when they are sick or have a family emergency, let alone leave the classroom for a conference. But conferences are great way to network, collect ideas for your own classroom, and most imporantly learn. But how do you balance your classroom time and [...]
TLT Conference
I know many of you have seen the emails your administrators have passed on requesting proposals for the 2010 TLT (Teaching, Learning, and Technology) Conference at Nazareth College, but many of you are probably wondering what the TLT conference actually is. The TLT conference is three days filled with sessions about literacy, technology, etc and [...]
Network Operation Center (NOC) almost completed
The air conditioner is in, and tomorrow they are going to fire it up. The old multi-mode fiber lines to the village schools are being upgraded to single-mode fiber. Today these new lines were terminated in the NOC and will be run out to the village schools by week’s end. This picture shows the new [...]
Star Trek’s “Number One”…IRL?!?!
My good friend and colleague from Monroe #1 BOCES, Brian Smith, shared with our TVT group a recent posting from The Fischbowl which discussed the new Wolfram|Alpha release. Check out this illustrative screencast.…very cool…our paradigms are shifting!
To me this illustrates another example of how our kids have to be taught how drill through [...]