In addition to this resource from Edudemic, also check out Richard Byrne’s post Lessons & Videos on Earth Day for more ideas.

24 April 8 Permalink

teacher-girl:

Grade-level Specific Content: Pre-K, Kinder, & All Things ECE

Early Childhood Education is one of licensing areas,so I have wealth of resources for this “grade level.”

• Games for Kindergartners : If you’re looking for DAP (developmentally appropriate) games for little ones, this is the…

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Thanks to the Cool Cat Teacher Blog, I’ve found out that McGraw Hill has been offering its Everyday Math Apps for the iPod, iPad and iPhone for free for the past couple of days. Well, today is the last day to take advantage of the offer. The blog post (click through to read it) lists links to the various apps that are included in this offer.

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A quick browse provides templates for elementary and secondary teachers.

The rest of the website also has other great tech-related resources.

25 February Permalink

teachingliteracy:

Free Apps for Kids

These are some of the great free apps we will be trying this year to get them creating their own stories, listening to stories, increasing their reading skills, and improving their English proficiency. These are available on the iPod Touch and iPad as well but may not be free on those platforms.

• Talking Tom- Kids talk to Tom and he repeats everything said with a funny voice, pet him to make him purr, pour a glass of milk for him, and poke his head, belly or feet, grab his tail. The best part is that within seconds what the students say to Tom is recorded as an avi video which can be uploaded to YouTube and Facebook or sent by email. This app really gets young learners speaking English!
• StoryKit- Create an electronic storybook by drawing on the screen, uploading images, recording sound effects and voice, laying out the elements of the story (text boxes, images, and sound clips) freely by dragging them or pinching to resize, reordering pages, and uploading to the StoryKit web server. Email a link to the story. The application includes four public domain children’s books to rewrite and rearrange into a new story.
• Fotobabble- Quickly create and easily share talking photos in 3 steps (Snap or select or a photo, speak into the microphone to record audio, share with friends via email, Facebook or Twitter).
• StoryCorps-Listen to the weekly story; share stories via email, Facebook, and Twitter; get tips for recording stories on mobile devices; create and email a list of questions for an interview with StoryCorps.
• Read Me Stories- Children’s books- A new talking picture book everyday teaches children new concepts, new words and how to say them. Free limited time trial. Keeps track of favorite books to read again and purchase from Amazon.com.
• K12 Timed Reading Practice Lite- 25 short, engaging stories for K-4 readers, variety of fiction and non-fiction, 10 Flesh-Kincade reading levels, view recommendations for moving up or down in reading difficulty based on recorded Words per Minute scores, and track one reader’s stories read, words per minute, percent above or below average reading rates, and what’s next on the reading list.
• Library Of Congress – Virtual Tour for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad- Includes highlights of exhibitions and architectural features, with photos, audio by curators and other experts, links to more detailed online exhibitions, and even a video about the history of Thomas Jefferson’s Library.
• Puppet Animation Lite- Kids animate uploaded images or sample puppets; animate them by choosing swing, elastic, or scaling; save as an animated gif to send via email or Twitter.
• Kids Apps: 13 in 1- 13 different applications ranging from math games, over 600 flash cards, interactive tracing drills, ABCs, counting, vocabulary, number and letter tracing, Math Whiz quiz, music instruments vocabulary, house words and pictures, and more.
• Animoto- Upload images, choose a soundtrack from the library, and click a button to make a 30-second video. Sync your videos with your Animoto.com account, download videos for offline viewing, and make longer ones with an All-Access Pass.
• Chicktionary Lite- The chickens head bobs and clucks when kids use one of their letters to make a word. The “beak sneak” option fills in one letter from each of the words not yet found. Has 12 levels.
• Tales2Go- Free for 30 days. Instant, on-demand and unlimited access to over 1,200 stories from leading audio publishers and storytellers.

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“We are shifting from a whole-group mentality to an individual-child mentality,” said John White, the DOE deputy chancellor in charge of labor and innovation in schools. Because some of these programs allow children to learn at their own pace, the teacher “can spend more time with each individual child over the course of the day. Research has shown that individual attention is an enormous tool,” he said.

In a recent English class, students read “The Fairy and the Chupacabra and Those Marfa Lights” on their laptops. Some students were reading the story on their own, and those who chose could have the story read to them. The teacher adjusted the vocabulary for students who were more advanced. So some children read that the horse ran, while others read that it galloped.”

Be sure to check out the rest of the article. Here is a teacher’s response to it, as well. Both are good things to consider.

Here’s an informational site about blended learning if you want to read up on it more (what is it, what research shows, designing a blended learning course, etc).

24 October 3 Permalink

positivelypersistantteach:

Casa Notes is designed to allow teachers to quickly make, and customize, typical notes that are sent home to parents or given to the students. This is done by using templates and allowing the teachers to customize some of the content, choose a color scheme and add a graphic. The notes can then be printed on a black-and-white or color printer to be used. Teachers can select whether the notes should be in English or in Spanish. 

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positivelypersistantteach:

This is site is run by the actual weather channel and has games, facts, safety tips and video clips to enhance lessons on weather.

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