BING - "Our School Needs..." Contest

Win up to $100,000 for your school.  Let Bing know what your school needs.  Learn more  

United Streaming Archived Streamathon 2010

Watch the Archived presentations:

Back-to-School with DE streaming
Porter Palmer View / Download
Brad Fountain View / Download
Whitney Mihoulides View / Download

25 Free things in 45 minutes or less
Lance Rougeux View / Download
Matt Monjan View / Download
Kyle Schutt View / Download

DE streaming Spotlight: Teacher Center and the Builders
Jennifer Dorman View / Download
Steve Dembo View / Download

The Student Experience with DE streaming
Michael Bryant View / Download
Karen Goldman View / Download

STEM

Imagebase - FREE stock pictures for projects

Professional photographer David Niblack has created a website, Imagebase, full of high quality photos that may be used for free.  These photos are perfect for students to use in creating multi-media projects.  His website states "treat as public domain." 

Vote for Digital Wish and WIN prizes for your classroom

Digital Wish is in competition to win $250, 000 from the Pepsi Refresh project & if they win, they will "make technology wishes come true for over 500 classrooms.  To register your classroom and participate, click here: http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/register (find your school and add yourself as a teacher).  Then, Invite your students and parents to vote from your Digital Wish profile and raise your rank, earn a grant, and help Digital Wish win!  (Provide them with the link to your donation page and ask them to click the image:

Teachers and their networks are encouraged to vote every day throughout the month of September.

Free Webinar: Google Sketchup

Discovery Education is offering the following free webinar: Get Ready for 3D Learning: More with Google Sketchup with Brent Jacobsen, MLA Date: Tuesday, 9/28/10 Time: 7pm Length: 1 hour Description from Discovery Education: "Brent Jacobsen tackled the basics of Google SketchUp in the “Start Thinking in 3D: Google SketchUp” webinar. Now learn more about how to use Google SketchUp in the classroom. Get students excited about modeling, and watch their creativity come to life. In this webinar, Brent will briefly review the basics of Google SketchUp and delve a little deeper into some of the more advanced tools and features of the program. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of all the ways Google SketchUp can be used in the classroom to engage and excite students about STEM." Click to Register

Free Webinar - "Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn, featuring Dr. Larry Rosen"

Date: Wednesday, 9/15/10
Time: 7pm
Length: 1 hour

Description from Discovery Education:

"Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn
From iPods to smartphones to Facebook, today's youth are more plugged in than ever before, and it's becoming increasingly clear that they do not respond to traditional teaching methods - textbooks and lectures - in the same way as previous generations. What should parents and educators expect, socially and academically, from their wired children and adolescents? Attendees will learn how to effectively incorporate this new generation's radically different learning style into a twenty-first century education."

Click to Register

Discovery Education - Head Rush Science Trivia Tournaments for classes

From Discovery Education:

Head Rush -  Challenge rival classes to win the title of Tournament Champion.

"Head Rush is the ultimate online science trivia tournament game. Physics. Math. Biology. Get your students excited about science!  Every couple of weeks, a new tournament will begin. Some will have themes like math, dinosaurs, insects, or space." Visit the Head Rush site and get your class started.

·         Now through 9/26, Head Rush is all about Mother Nature's Fury - everything from wild weather to natural disasters.

·         Starting on 9/27, we'll be challenging you to explore the world of undersea science in our Ocean Life tournament.

BrainPOP Webinar

Project Based Learning and Universal Design for Learning: What Is It and How Can BrainPOP Help?


Wednesday, September 15
6:30 EDT
Duration: 1 Hour

In a project-based learning classroom, children learn to work cooperatively, collaboratively, independently, and enthusiastically. A Universal Design for Learning approach assures that all of your students can be successful in this classroom. Come learn how to set up a "PBL" assignment, following UDL guidelines, and see how BrainPOP fits right in.

RSVP: http://projectbased.eventbrite.com/

SMART Notebook Interactive Viewer - FREE

SMART Notebook Interactive Viewer:

With this free program, your students will be able to interact with your SMART Notebook presentations from home.  This would also be great to install on every student computer in the classroom and computer lab! 

Click here to download:
http://www.smarttech.com/us/Support/Browse+Support/Download+Software/Software/SMART+Notebook+Intractive+Viewer/SMART+Notebook+Intractive+Viewer/SMART+Notebook+Interactive+Viewer+for+Windows

9/17 Constitution Day Resources

Thinkfinity has some great resources for Constitution Day! Here are a few:

• Constitutional Convention (6-8)
• First Amendment (3-5)
• Constitution Costs (6-12)
• Charting the Constitution
• The Preamble to the Constitution: How Do You Make a More Perfect Union? (3–5)
• The Constitution of the United States of America (K–12)
• The Constitutional Convention: Four Founding Fathers You May Never Have Met (6–8)
• James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President (9–12)

Free Apps this Weekend 9/11-9/12

Mom's With Apps has arranged for several apps to be free for this weekend:

• Long Multiplication
• Just Fractions
• Kid Math Fun - Kindergarten (this one is always free)
• Kid Math Fun - First Grade
• Kid Math Fun - Second Grade
• Kid Math Fun - Third Grade
• Kid Math Fun - Fourth Grade
• Kid Math Fun - Fifth Grade 

Wolfram Alpha

This application lets students find information on virtually any subject fast.  It will compute mathematical equations (yes, even calculus) AND it will show the steps for solving.  Students could also search for a famous person, find information about their surname, etc.

Recommended for all grades K-12+

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From Wolfram Alpha: "Wolfram Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries."  View the entire "about" section of their website.

Toddler Counting

Although this app says "toddler" it is great for any Pre-K - K student learning one-to-one correspondence.  The app counts aloud and places the numeral over objects as the student touches them.  Students should be encouraged to count aloud with the application.  Will also help with numeral recognition.

Recommended for Pre-K - K, remediation

Current Price: $0.99

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First Words Sampler

This app is a free sampler that includes several words.  Students drag the letters to the appropriate box to spell the word.  Letters are named as they are clicked and again to spell the word before reading it.  Cute animation when correct.  There is a full version that can be bought.

Current Price: FREE

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Farm Flip Memory Game

This app is a cute memory game where students match animals - includes animal sounds.

Primarily Recommended for Pre-K - K

Current Price: FREE

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Alphabet Tracing

This app demonstrates the proper way to form letters using an animated train.  Students trace the dots to write the letters.  Manuscript.

Recommended for Pre-K - K

Current Price: FREE

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ABCs and Me - 5 Pumpkins

This app has talking flashcards students can scroll through.  Flashcards for the alphabet include letter name, sound, and word.  Flashcards for numbers show the numeral and a pictoral representation.  The app also includes flashcards for colors, shapes, and foods.

Recommended for Pre-K and K

Current Price: FREE

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BrainPOP Featured Movie app

My kids LOVE this! They can access more than the one featured movie each day and being able to touch the screen to answer the quiz is a big hit. Turning the iPad sideways makes the movie screen much larger. I would suggest it for all elementary grades.


From BrainPOP:
"The BrainPOP Featured Movie app delivers fresh, animated movies every day, with content relevant to significant historical and current events such as Earth Awareness and Financial Literacy topics in April. After watching the Featured Movie, students can test their new knowledge with the accompanying interactive quiz. We think the app is a whole lot of fun, with a beautiful design. "
Read the whole press release

 


Current Price: FREE

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