ToonDoo is a super easy website for students and staff a like to use to create comic strips. ToonDoo has many built in images and resources so that the comic strips can truly be customized and fit into any subject. Watch the video below to see how to create a ToonDoo of your own!
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Fall is officially here and so are the beautiful leaves. Many teachers during this time do a variety of leaf projects or research topics. Often, a student will bring in a leaf and ask what kind it is. Well, I may have an education degree, but it certainly doesn't make me a botanist. Have no fear though, here are some great websites to help your students identify that mystery leaf!
I find few things harder to do then to figure out dates and time lengths. Thankfully, there is timeanddate.com! This website has one of the greatest tools I have seen on the web and it is pretty fun too. The Date Duration Calculator allows you to input two dates and see how much time passed in between. For example, the first Star Wars movie was released on May 25, 1977, and the last movie was release on May 19, 2005. If I asked you to calculate how many days passed in between you would have some serious math homework. But, if you used the Date Duration Calculator, you would get a report like the image below. The KidsKnowIt Network is like the Jack of All Trades website for education. This 100% free website features educational: games, websites, worksheets, movies, and even music. The subject material ranges from simples math to high school chemistry. One of the best parts of this website for teachers may be the worksheet portion. They currently offer over 4,000 worksheets that are Common Core aligned and also free! Also, be sure to check out my favorite game, Turkey Terminator. There is truly no better way to learn about fractions then to fling pumpkin pies at turkeys! Often we view yelling at a computer a bad thing, but with Backpack Practice hollering at your computer can be a good thing. Backpack Practice allows students to test their ability in Science, Math, History, Foreign Languages, and more. Students have to verbally respond to each question in these fields and Backpack Practice can tell them if they are wrong or right. One of the toughest parts of being a math teacher is creating quizzes and tests online. All too often the programs we use are not math friendly and can not create the correct looking equations. Edmodo found a nice way around this by allowing LaTeX (a document markup language) to work within its quizzes. Teachers can create just about any math formula thinkable on the Online LaTeX Equation Editor and then copy and paste the code into a Edmodo quiz. The only trick is that you have to put the copy between the 'math' tags, e.g. the LaTeX code of x^{2}=100 would be entered into Edmodo like this: [math]x^{2}=100[/math]. The math tags let Edmodo know you are trying to enter in a LaTeX equation. This may sound tricky, but if you watch the tutorial below, you can see how truly easy it can be! If someone asked me what was one of my top favorite classroom tech resources, Lino would be near the top of the list. Lino is a online sticky note board that teachers can use to facilitate discussions, share resources, share videos and pictures, and can all be done without students even having to create accounts. Lino can be a great way for students to interact both in the classroom, outside the classroom, or with entirely different classrooms. Teachers can also create groups so that information can be kept within a 'walled garden.' This could be a great way to allow students to interact online in a safe and secure way. You can watch the video below to see how easily this can be done. Once a place for people to find recipes that they would never make or a place to find amazing center pieces until you attempt to make it. In fact these attempts even inspired a spin-off website called Pinterest Fails which can make anyone chuckle. Pinterest has now also become a resource every teacher should know about. Using Pinterest, educators can find lesson plans, classroom resources, bulletin board ideas and more! As I always say, don't reinvent the wheel, just add your own twist. Here are some great Pinterest Boards to get you started, OneTab - Pinterest Board Links. You can also find some more great Pinterest resources on TeachThought or you can even follow this really cool guy named Justin Cowen. With the end of the year coming up, it is quickly becoming slideshow time. Teachers from around the country are scrambling to make some kind of slideshow to show off their classroom and amazing students. If you have ever made one of these, you know they can be a giant pain in the, well, you know what. This is where Animoto comes into play. Animoto can help you create a photo/video slideshow with amazing ease. Not only is it easy to use, but the end product looks high class! Animoto can be used for many different assignments too. From book reports to research presentations, Animoto can do it all! Animoto project examples: Research - The Peshtigo Fire, Book Report - Out of the Dark, and Photo Slideshow. |
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