Archive for the 'General' Category
Brain Tour is an interactive site that explains the parts of the brain and how the brain functions. While the site is sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association, most likely with the purpose of showing how Alzheimer’s disease affects the brain, the first seven slides of the presentation can be used as a good visual model […]
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Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection is a collection of online logic games that can be played by a single player. These are the kinds of games that you might play when you want to take a break from working on something or have a couple of minutes to kill. They are easy to learn but […]
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Database of Award-Winning Children’s Literature is a website through which you can search for award winning books for children. The database contains over 7,000 books that can be searched by a wide variety of options — keyword, author, title, setting, historical period, ethnicity, language, genre, age of reader,etc. — which makes this a great site […]
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Wordle is a site that creates word clouds from text that is typed or copied and pasted into the text box on the site. I have to admit, the first time I was introduced to Wordle I thought it was a cool website, but I didn’t see much educational application. Since then, I realized that […]
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Vintage Ad Browser is a site at which you can peruse print advertisements from as early as the 1700’s to the present. There are over 100,000 ads available to browse through. The ads are organized by category (Sports, Clothing, Cigarettes and Tobacco, TV and Electronics), then organized by years. There is a search feature that […]
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CNN Student News was recommended to me by Justin Kastory. CNN Student News is geared for students at the middle and high school levels. Students can access the site to get information on the top news stories.
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Ideas to Inspire is a website that Pam Gruzynski told me about. It has some great ideas for teachers who want to use different technologies and engaging activities. The ideas are contributed from teachers from all around the world and cover a range of curriculum topics, including writing, the arts, and geography.
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This post has links to resources related to Bloom’s Taxonomy: Visual Bloom’s is a wiki page that offers two visualizations of Bloom’s taxonomy that also relates to 21st Century technologies. Google-Proof Questioning: A New Use for Bloom’s Taxonomy is a blog post that offers suggestions for creating assignments with “Google-Proof” questions. A common complaint that […]
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Interesting Ways to Use Audio in Your Classroom is the result of a collaborative effort from teachers with tips and hints for using audio in the classroom. At the time of this posting, there were 22 Interesting Ways…; more ideas are added as teachers come up with them. What I like about this site is […]
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PDF2Word Online is an online tool that quickly and painlessly converts a PDF document to a Microsoft Word document. I’ve tried several PDF converters and have found this to be the best. After uploading the document to their website, the file is quickly converted and made available to you as a download link on their […]
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