Flip Cameras

     A Flip video camera is a quick and efficient way to document learning.  You can film a student solving or explaining how they solved a math problem and post it online for student to review at home.  Also, you could record a brief reading assessment once each month.  This would give one an extremely accurate overview of the student’s yearly progress- not to mention the great end-of-year gift it could make for parents!  Flip makes it so easy to film reader’s theater activities, science experiments, songs, and more.  Model a “think aloud” for your students and post it online for students and parents to view on demand.   You can imagine the possibilities.  These are cheap.  Every classroom should have one.

Cheap Document Camera

     Document cameras can serve many purposes, but for such an expensive piece of equipment, they are limited.  Most digital cameras can do what you need.  You just need access to a projector/TV, a cheap tripod, the camera, and the RCA video out cord (shown below) that comes with the camera!

Media Literacy

Website Authenticity

• Martin Luther King, Robots, DHMO, and all about explorers.
• Solutions: easywhois and archive 

Online Publishing & Storytelling

• 50+ ways to tell a story, Web 2.0 style
  
• VoiceThread 
• Lulu  Self Publishing
• VisuWords Perfect for Mike Sule
  

Blogs, Wikis and Websites

What is a Wiki?

What is a Blog?

Blog:  EduBlogs, Word Press,and Blogger

Wikis:  PBWiki and Wikispaces

Website:  Google Sites 

 Google is Cool

Google Map Features

• Google Earth navigation
• Happy Man Icon
•  Terrain
• Traffic Data
  

Google Image Search

Life Archive

Filters

Other Google Tools

Google Sketch Up

Google Earth & Sky

Google Docs [Example]

Google Translate

Google Mail Goggles

1-800-Goog-411

Google News Archive

Time Savers

Desktop Links

My Little Secret..

Find and Share Slideshow Presentations

Animoto  

PDF to Word

Big Huge Labs

eMints-  someone else has already done the work... you just gotta find it.  Luckily, much of it is all right here.

Activities

Teaching Tone using a word processor

Create greeting cards, invitations, or thank you cards. [Instructions]

Just for you, K-2 [CLICK HERE]  

Create a comic strip online.  This one is great too!

This site has a variety of activities.  I like the Bio Cube and the Book Cover Creator.

Reading Resources

FreeReading-  I just discovered this last night so I admittedly have not really messed around with it all too much, but at a quick glance it looks fantastic and hard to believe that it is free!

Looky Book-  Full books available online!  This site would be great for guided reading lessons with a projector.  Ask Matt C. and check one out today!

Literactive-  "Literactive is the leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and grade 1 students available online."

 Starfall-  "Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade."

Google Earth Lit Trips-  I am anxious to try one of these out with a small group.  Any takers?

Math Resources

Create simple charts and graphs without Excel

Fun with physics!

Online Math Manipulatives [CLICK HERE]

Environmental Education

A weekly journal of the earth.  Earthweek