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The Art Zone is an interactive art site that I heard about from Deyana Matt. The site is maintained by the National Gallery of Art. It offers fun, interactive online projects for students of all aged.
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Art and Technology is a blog post on the Art Class with LMJ blog that I heard about through Deyana Matt. The post offers great ideas for using technology in the art class, but many of these ideas — Digital Photography, Virtual Classrooms, Graphic Design, Digital Portfolios, Pinterest — also apply to the regular classroom. […]
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Tumbledown Mathletics Games is a site that offers interactive math games. The games are designed to practice fractions, money, spatial relationships, perimeter measurement, and basic arithmetic operations at five levels of difficulty. I like that, in addition to providing practice in basic math concepts, students are expected to read and follow the directions, as they […]
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Wonderopolis is one of the latest editions to Thinkfinity.org, a site supported by the Verizon Foundation that offers free resources for teachers and students. I was made aware of this new edition to the Thinkfinity suite of online tools by Pam Gruzynski. Wonderopolis is maintained by the National Center for Family Literacy to help promote […]
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Printing Press offers interactive, online templates for creating newspapers, flyers and brochures. Printing Press is part of the many wonderful offerings available on the ReadWriteThink website. It’s user-friendly interface allows students to choose from several templates, then add images and text. Another nice thing about this site is that it allows students to save their […]
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Mobento is a site that contains hundreds of educational videos. The staff at Mobento boasts that the videos included on the site are high quality educational videos from reputable speakers and institutions. What makes Mobento different from other educational video sites is that you can search by words actually spoken in the videos. What would […]
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Teaching Kids News is a site created by a mom and her son’s teacher to help elementary aged students access and understand the news. The articles/stories on the site, written in kid-friendly language, are designed for students in grades 2-8. Each day a new article is added that relates to some news story of the […]
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My StoryMaker is an interactive site maintained by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh designed to help students write stories. The site allows students to pick characters, a setting and other objects for their story. They even offer hints for what to write about. Once the story is complete, the story can be printed. My StoryMaker […]
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Aesop’s Fables Interactive Book is an interactive book of over 140 of Aesop’s Fables that can be accessed through a web browser or through an iPad and Android app. The collection of fables is made available through the Library of Congress and is adapted from “The Aesop for Children: with Pictures by Milo Winter,” published […]
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Telescopic Text is an interactive website designed to help students expand on their ideas, create a structure, and add more detail to their writing. The best way to learn how to use this very clever tool is to look at their example which you can access from the “Texts” link on the top of the […]
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