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MovieText by ClassTools provides a simple way to present scrolling text. The template uses a Star Wars theme which is appealing to students. To create your scrolling message board, simply go to the site and click on the Edit link in the lower left corner. Then delete the initial text that’s in the textbox and […]
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8 Classic Storytelling Techniques for Engaging Presentations is a post on the Sparkol.com that describes eight different ways for making presentations more interesting. We often have students make presentations but don’t always know how to help them make their talks more engaging. This post contains not only descriptions of the techniques but examples as well.
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Scratch is a tool created by the MIT Media Lab that allows students to learn about coding while creating interactive stories, games and other activities. I was excited to learn that Scratch is now available as an online tool, so it can be used on a variety of devices. Scratch has been around for a […]
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Your Life On Earth is a fun site in which you enter your birth date to find out how the world has changed since you were born. In addition to reporting the number of times your heart has beaten and how far you’ve traveled through space, you can also find out how many earthquakes have […]
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Newseum Digital Classroom is a site created for middle school, high school and college students. It offers a variety of cross-curricular activities including interactive timelines, videos and primary sources. In addition to covering events in history, there are also lessons that center on bias and journalism.
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BrainRush is a website that allows teachers to create interactive activities for their students. Activities are created using built-in templates: Cards Template, Buckets Template, Sequences Template, and Hotspots Template. The Cards and Buckets games allow you to add images and audio. Teachers can create classes and add their students to assign activities. To get a […]
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The Digital Public Library of America is a one-stop-shop for over 7 million images, books, primary documents, audio files, artifacts, maps and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the country. These resources are freely available to the public. You can search for resources by keyword, date or location of where the artifact is located. […]
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ThingLink is a site that allows users to create interactive images. After uploading an image, the user creates hot spots on the image that link to text, video and audio content or to other websites. ThingLink for Education allows teachers to set up and manage accounts for their students, which is a great feature for […]
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OpenEd is a repository of online educational materials that are aligned to the Common Core standards. It contains a searchable database of videos, games, courses and assessments. The resources can be browsed by topic, grade level and standard. In addition to the resources, OpenEd has a practice assessment generator which allows teachers to add multimedia […]
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Here are three visual online noise meters that might be useful in monitoring the sound level in your classroom: Bouncy Balls – the noise level is displayed by colorful, bouncing balls Calmness Counter – the noise level is displayed through a dial meter Too Noisy – another site that uses a dial meter to display […]
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