New iPad App Lets Any Teacher Be Like Sal Khan | Edudemic:
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Need to calm your class with music?
Have this great site to create a relaxing time for you or your class.
http://www.soundsleeping.com/soundboard2.swf
http://www.soundsleeping.com/soundboard2.swf
Enjoy!
Laura
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Our Alaska Stories in iPads
A 5th grade class in Alaska is using their iPads for teaching and learning. Check their blog!
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
iPads at AES - a snapshot of iPads in school - YouTube
Great video!
The American Embassy School in New Delhi acquired 60 iPads and are deploying them across the school divisions to study their effectiveness as student and professional tools. This is a 15 minute portrait of that program.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
WebTools4u2use - Finding the Right Tool
Please, please, please!! Read this article. It will help you select your best tools for your classroom and it will also teach you something new...
Enjoy,
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Vimeo Music Store
Vimeo Music Store:
http://vimeo.com/musicstore
Great place to find music for your videos. Over 45,000 tracks available... many GRATIS... yes FREE!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Super easy! Create your own stories...
...or make your students create one:
http://myths.e2bn.org/index.php
Read here a teacher's blog about her first digital story
Laura
http://myths.e2bn.org/index.php
Read here a teacher's blog about her first digital story
Laura
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Build layers on top of Google Maps with BuildAMap.
Build A Map is a new service that allows you to build layers on top of Google Maps. This is different than creating maps in the "My Places" feature of Google Maps.
Enjoy!
http://www.buildamap.com/
Enjoy!
http://www.buildamap.com/
Friday, August 19, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Top 20 Teacher Blogs
Best Teacher Blogs
20 blogs that have taught us a few things, made us laugh, made us cry, and reminded us that we are not alone in this sometimes stress-inducing, always awe-inspiring profession.
20 blogs that have taught us a few things, made us laugh, made us cry, and reminded us that we are not alone in this sometimes stress-inducing, always awe-inspiring profession.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Kideos.com Watch vetted age appropiate videos
Watch safe videos for children in your class. A good selection of topics and age based material.
http://www.kideos.com/
Better be safe than sorry... :)
Laura
http://www.kideos.com/
Better be safe than sorry... :)
Laura
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Customized Quizzes for teachers!
Very easy to make. They are free; but, with much better gadgets if the school pays $9 for all teachers. Take the Quiz I made and tell me what do you think. Enjoy!
Laura
Laura
Friday, July 15, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Diigo - Perfect Web 2.0 tool for the classroom
I've just learned about Diigo's new service exclusively for teachers:http://www.diigo.com/education. The new Diigo Educator Accounts are special upgrades provided specifically to K-12 & higher-ed educators so they can easily make use of Diigo in class and with their students.
Diigo provides a powerful online research tool and learning environment that allows teachers and their students or colleagues to:
add highlights and sticky notes on any web page, anywhere, and access them anywhere.
utilize group online annotations for instruction or discussions.
share and interact online findings through group bookmarks, highlights, sticky notes, and forum discussions.
and a lot more!
CNet ranks Diigo in its "Get Smart: Top 10 Research Tools" among Google, Wikepedia, etc. Please join me and many other educators who have already discovered Diigo to make use of its powerful features to prepare for classes, collaborate with colleagues, and guide students in developing solid research and learning skills!
I will post more ideas and tutorials. I will use it to keep all the youtube videos I show during the year. This way, regardless what computer you are using, you can have always your bookmarks with you and you can share them with your students and/or parents.
More to come... have a great summer!
Laura
Diigo provides a powerful online research tool and learning environment that allows teachers and their students or colleagues to:
add highlights and sticky notes on any web page, anywhere, and access them anywhere.
utilize group online annotations for instruction or discussions.
share and interact online findings through group bookmarks, highlights, sticky notes, and forum discussions.
and a lot more!
CNet ranks Diigo in its "Get Smart: Top 10 Research Tools" among Google, Wikepedia, etc. Please join me and many other educators who have already discovered Diigo to make use of its powerful features to prepare for classes, collaborate with colleagues, and guide students in developing solid research and learning skills!
I will post more ideas and tutorials. I will use it to keep all the youtube videos I show during the year. This way, regardless what computer you are using, you can have always your bookmarks with you and you can share them with your students and/or parents.
More to come... have a great summer!
Laura
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Another free application for iPads! iBrainstorm
iBrainstorm is a free application for iPad and iPhone. It is an app that allows you to record brainstorming sessions using a combination of free hand drawings and sticky notes. You can share and collaborate with other users of iBrainstorm.
Whatch the video below to see this app in action:
Whatch the video below to see this app in action:
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Show Me - Create and Share Lessons on an iPad
This short article is worth to read! ShowMe is still in its primary stages, but as the author sais, it is very promising.
Enjoy,
Show Me - Create and Share Lessons on an iPad
Enjoy,
Show Me - Create and Share Lessons on an iPad
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
This is a video I made in less than 2 minutes!
Super fun video you or/and your students can make in a few minutes. A creative way to learn and have fun at the same time. Tu create your own search-on video go to http://youtube.com/searchon
Monday, April 11, 2011
Primarywall.com - Share notes with your students
Share web based sticky notes with your students! Does not require registration or email address.
If you want to make your own go to http://primarywall.com Try it here:
Ideas for Classroom Use
How many facts can you find out about a topic?
How many ways to calculate a number can you find?
How many words can you make from a selection of letters?
If you want to make your own go to http://primarywall.com Try it here:
iPad: App Starter Kit
I am head over heels for this new device! The iPad is obviously an amazing tool, but the endless possibilities can be a bit overwhelming at first. I read somewhere that if you plan to download and try at least 10 new apps a day - just for iPad, it would take you around 18 years to get through every app, assuming no new apps are every created during that time.
Luckily there is another way to browse apps. There are plenty of guides to help you narrow in on the apps that best fit your needs, my favorite is #1 on the list below, along with the official apple guide (link below). Before getting into the educational apps, I would highly suggest downloading a few "starter" apps, just to get an idea of what this groundbreaking technology is really capable of doing.
Here are my suggestions for the basic free apps to download first, along with a few fun and notable apps that any iPad owner should know about (if you are viewing this from your iPad, just click the link to download the app):
1. AppStart for iPad - an app to guide you through the apps. Also comes with a handy iPad 101 lesson.
2. Dropbox - 16G may seem like a lot, but once you load apps, and start actually using this device, you'll want to move your bigger files to a home computer.
3. Google Earth - this app is even more amazing on the iPad!
4. Any of the news apps are a must - NY Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, WSJ, Bloomberg, etc. ABC News is definitely worth looking at just because of the interface. The news is displayed on an interactive globe, and you can play any video story by clicking on the globe.
5. Pandora - the perfect radio. Tanya and I use this all of the time to play music for the kids, its easy to use, and with iPad the commercials are very sparse.
6. Amazon/Kindle Bookstore - iBooks (which comes on your iPad) is wonderfully interactive, but Amazon is way cheaper on some books, and has a much wider selection right now. Both are free.
7. Wunderlist - Free planner app.
8. Evernote - interactive notebad, record audio while typing, add pics/video to notes, sync with any type of computer.
9. Adobe Ideas or Procreate - create digital art, paint/draw/sketch on blank canvas, or on a photo. Procreate is amazing on iPad! And it is only free for a limited time, definitely worth it.
10. Epi - Epicurious interactive cookbook, endless recipes, beautiful photos.
11. Virtuoso - an iPad "piano" with options for sustain, true velocity, touch glow, and even key labels for practicing music. Newer version has ads at the top, old version has no adds but less features.
12. Fotopedia - explore a foreign place via this beautiful photo encyclopedia, you can even bookmark places and "plan a trip." Fotopedia Paris is lovely.
13. Find my iPhone - locates your iPad if lost/stolen. You can also clear all data remotely with this app, and make your iPad/iPhone beep loudly when reported lost/stolen.
14. PS Express - photoshop for iPad. Really neat tool for editing photos.
15. TED - if you haven't downloaded this already, go now!
16. iMovie - $4.99 to edit your videos, and make movies.
All of the apps I've listed are currently FREE (with the exception of iMovie) so dive in! Don't be afraid to download too many apps, you can always delete later. FYI: touch any icon and hold your finger down for two seconds to move/delete/re-arrange apps.
iPad User Guide Here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ipad-user-guide-for-ios-4-3/id423853345?mt=11&v0=CDM-US-DM-P0009217-160176&cp=em-P0009300-160599&sr=em
Post on educational apps coming soon! Get a head start by going here: http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/education.html
Oregon Trail Game & Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
http://oregontrail.com/hmh/site/oregontrail/home
The other day, Jill reminded me of what a fun game Oregon Trail was for learning about the California Gold Rush. Click on the link to visit the official Oregon Trail website by The Learning Company. There is a brief history, and an arcade with Oregon Trail games.
http://carmensandiego.com/hmh/site/carmen/home/links <----- Another fun game by The Learning Company. There is the basic geography-based Carmen San Diego, and several other variations for math, science, etc.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Check out Ted Talks Videos
Some of you might already know about this site, but I just found it yesterday. There are incredible videos on a wide range of topics. I viewed 6 videos from the Education topic list, and was amazed and excited about what I found. Many interesting people sharing incredible stories. On your iPad, download the free app, TED, or on the internet go to ted.com.
I think you will enjoy it. Let me know what you think.
Marci
Glogsters in 5th Grade
Erica has opened a virtual class with eduglogster for her students to make online posters. She said that they loved it, and even the less creative children could do it. Sroll down to see some of them. Let me know if you would like to use Glogster and I would be more than happy to help you.
Enjoy,
Enjoy,
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Chase Winship's iTech Project
Here is a link to Chase Winship's iTech website and iMovie project: https://sites.google.com/site/mountainbmxbikes/
Chase created this website from a blank template. He made his own background, added all of the photos, videos, and information links about BMX parks. He also did all of the filming and editing for his own video.
The password for his music video is itech1011.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Decimal Sort - Sharendipity
Sharendipity is a fun web 2.0 activity to enjoy with your students. They can make their own games or you can use the ones that are already made like the example here:
Enjoy,
Laura
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Detailed Tutorial on Glogster EDU - Online teaching and learning tool
You might want to watch the next post also. It shows uses of glogsters in the classroom. Possibilities are endless!! Have fun with your students while they learn in a creative way.
Enjoy... and make comments!
Laura
Glogster: creative learning tool in classroom
Glogster is just a poster; a virtual poster. This generation of tech-savvy kids like to explore with graphics and media. This is an excellent resource for them to research, be creative and learn any subject.
I will be creating a class for Erica this Monday at 3:30. Let me know if you are interested in coming. Creating a class makes the students share the glogsters withing the classroom and allows them to sign in without an email account.
Enjoy,
Laura
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
iTech - Music Video Projects
iTech is our after school computer class where students get to learn touch typing techniques, and explore multimedia software for Macs. Each session has a different theme, from video production in iMovie to digital imaging in Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator and web design in Dreamweaver/Google Sites.
Last summer we focused on video production. Students learned to import film using Disk Utility and then they edited their projects with title pages, transitions, and special effects in iMovie. Lastly they synced their music to video using iTunes. Here is the finished product for Team Yellow:
PASSWORD: itechsummer1
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Google Tutorials
This page contains all information you can get for using Google in the classroom. If you are interesting in ideas or you need help applying this in your classroom, just let me know.
Enjoy!
PS: Comments are welcome and needed!!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Four Ways to Give Short Presentations Online
Four Ways to Give Short Presentations Online
Excellent Web 2.0 tool to improve classroom presentations.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
HUGitForward - Guatemala, Give 10 Free Hugs. Abrazos Gratis. Se El Cam...
This is a song written by my niece Maria de la Paz that talks about changes we need to change in the world. HUGitForward used it to show their hugs in Guatemala. I love the song and the fundation.
Enjoy,
Friday, February 18, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Authentic uses of technology article
After reading the article and examples presented, I must conclude that at the first grade level, we are going to be helping our students become acquainted with the use of technology as an aid to research, etc. rather than having students create their own projects because they do not have keyboarding skills. In that light, I demonstrate my research efforts to answer questions via google, etc. I also have used and created powerpoint demonstrations utilizing the Epson projector to enhance the presentations. We have begun editing their creative writing stories directly on the computer with students giving input, sitting right with the teacher and seeing their published results immediately.
I am also currently developing an idea about having students work with a background and create a weather report that they can do with a voice-over format as we study weather forms and patterns in science. I am excited to see how this turns out.
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