I have noticed many teachers have found a website to be very useful in their classrooms. Teachers are using them for assignment calendars, announcements, and just a place to put links to good sites to use for class. If you are interested in me helping you set one up, let me know what times you have available, and I will gladly come down. Even if you only have 15 minutes one day and 20 minutes the next day, we can start. Here is the upcoming schedule for Fridays:
Friday, September 7th:
School in Session
Friday, September 14th:
Review Blogs
WTL Review (Mrs. Boyd, Mrs. Lessman, Mrs. Konold, Ms. Eggers, Ms. Wiedrich)
1) http://www.meegenius.com/ is also an iPad app: http://itunes.apple.com/app/meegenius/id364734296?mt=8
MeeGenius is a place for free ebooks! Right now you can sign up for a FREE school and library account to have access to more ebooks. There are only 6 free ones if you do not sign up for an account. I do not know how long the free account offer will last and it does take awhile for them to approve your account.
2) http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/picview/id538356858?mt=8 PicView is a FREE iPad app that allows you to take a picture and record a short caption to the picture. I think that could have a lot of fun applications for any grade level.
3) http://www.pixorial.com/pixorial/educators Pixoral is an online video editor that will give you a FREE account to edit your videos. It is also compatible with Google Drive (formally Google Docs) to share info.
4) http://typewith.me TypeWithMe is something you can do quickly in the computer lab or with 1:1 computers.
1) Click on link and name your 'Pad'
2) Click on "New Pad" button
3) A blank "Pad" will open (For example: http://typewith.me/p/It's_Wednesday!
4) It will say: "Welcome to Etherpad Lite!"
5) You can delete everything on the pad or leave it, if you want.
6) As it says, everything is synchronized, so anybody that writes on the "pad" will say the same thing. You can click in the upper right hand corner and put in your name so your words are highlighted in the corresponding color. If you click on the example above, I have a few ideas for you.
7) You can use the bottoms on the top to share your pad via a link or embed it on your website. You can also export it as well to a pdf or other document and even do a 'time slide' to see if anybody deleted anything on the pad too.
Let me know if you are interested in using this and would like more directions.
5) http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ Human Body and Mind This site has an interactive human body and human mind psychological tests that you could have students complete. I could see applications in both science classes and Psychology class. Just explore this site as there are lot of fun things to see.
If anybody with an iPad would like me to put a lot of apps/ interactive books on their iPad, bring me your iPad and it takes me about an hour to put on some fun apps for you.
Have a great week!
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