Hello to each and everyone of you.
It was nice to be with you today.
I hope you have a great and rest summer.
Tina
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Resources
ORACLE THINKQUEST
http://www.thinkquest.org/en/
What is ThinkQuest?
Protected and Free
The Oracle Education Foundation offers K-12 schools a safe environment at no cost. ThinkQuest is password protected, teacher monitored, and includes no advertising.
THINKFINITY http://thinkfinity.org/EducatorHome.aspx
http://thinkfinityresources.blogspot.com/
Elementary Blogs
5th grade blog: http://mcmath5.blogspot.com/
4th grade blog: http://mcmath4.blogspot.com/
3rd grade blog: http://mc3rdgrade.blogspot.com/
2nd grade blog: http://mc2math.blogspot.com/
1st grade blog: http://mc1st.blogspot.com/
Kindergarten blog: http://mckteacher.blogspot.com/
4th grade blog: http://mcmath4.blogspot.com/
3rd grade blog: http://mc3rdgrade.blogspot.com/
2nd grade blog: http://mc2math.blogspot.com/
1st grade blog: http://mc1st.blogspot.com/
Kindergarten blog: http://mckteacher.blogspot.com/
Middle School
6th Grade Math
7th Grade Math
8th Grade Math
Free and Open Sources Sites
Free and Open Source: The genesis of web 2.0 tools is the open-source movement, this is the movement with the idea that the4 source code for programs should be available for anyone else to study, use, enhance, and distribute. This is why we hear so often about 21st century skills and collaboration. Our students are already there….collaborating on line daily.
Social Bookmarking and Storage
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet
Del.icio.us – Internet based favourites http://del.icio.us.com
Diigo combines social bookmarking, clippings, in situ annotation, tagging, full-text search of everything, easy sharing and interactions, Diigo provides a powerful personal tool and a rich social platform.
Box.net Gather your ideas, to-dos, notes, photos, and files online. Online file storage. 1GB free
DropSend DropSend enables you to send files of up to 1GB
openomy Openomy is an online file system. You can store files on Openomy and access them from any computer.
Dropbox is an easy way to share and store your files online. No complicated interfaces to learn. https://www.getdropbox.com/
Music and Audio
Pandora radio is a personalized internet radio service that helps you find new music based on your old and current favorites.
Tuner2 - Music for Your Classroom (and you!) (http://www.tuner2.com/ )
Looking for a little music to enhance your classroom? Tuner2 says that it features the latest in Internet radio technology and all stations are hand-picked for quality, reliability, and variety. But the best part, many of the stations are commercial free.
VoiceThread students can collect oral histories,or reflect on historicalarchival material interdisciplinary with english/language arts students can also be prompted to write narrative material to accompany personal images or artwork
Audacity – sound recording & editing http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Blogs and Wikis
Blogs: writing process or communicating
Gaggle blogs (www.gaggle.net)
Ning: create a social network (www.ning.com)
PBWiki: (http://pbwiki.com/)
Blogmeister ( http://classblogmeister.com/)
JotSpot (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/jotspot)
Wikispaces for Teachers (www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers)
Photos
More and more teachers today are using digital images in their classrooms. They are being used in newsletters on bulletin boards and in PowerPoint presentations.
GNU Image Manipulation Program FOSS equivalent to Adobe Photoshop
PowerPoint – Photo Album – (http://tinyurl.com/224eg2)
Have you ever tried to create a PowerPoint slide show using lots of pictures? If you did you know that it takes forever to resize your images to fit the PowerPoint slide. What most people do not know is that PowerPoint has a great tool built right into it that allows to quickly and seamlessly add a whole folder full of images to your presentation. Use the tutorial the title links to for a refresher on how to use this wonderful option.
Share your photos and watch the world www.flickr.com
photo bubbles to photos www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/
Google for Educators
(Google) More…Even More
http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
Gmail : Fast Searchable Email
Calendar: Organize and Share Events
Docs &Spreadsheets -View your documents' revision history and roll back to any
version.
Earth & Maps – Earth – new students show old school; around the world in 30 minutes
Translate: View Google and web in other Languages
ONLINE RESOURCES
letterpop desktop publishing, templates http://letterpop.com/
Online surveying tools
Zoho polls //zohopolls.com
I love mind mapping. This is helpful for personal use like journaling, school projects and work stuff. Have fun!
Cmaps – concept mapping http://cmap.ihmc.us/
xtimeline timeline editor http://xtimeline.com/index.aspx