Turn your smartphone into a digital microscope for. Bo, the Robot, Plays Beethoven's 9th. Design flyers to spread the word online. Yapp - App yourself! Kidsafe YouTube - safe videos for kids with parental control for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on the iTunes App Store. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Collection of Great Interactive Sites for Teachers.
Today as I was sifting through my feeds I came across this awesome treasure trove of educational websites curated in a Weebly page.I spent a couple of hours going through the links included in this resource and I found them really interesting and worth sharing with the readers of Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.
I am particularly adding them to the Educational Web Tools section. This Weebly page is a work in progress and there will be more added to it in the future like the Art section for instance is still not ready but I will let you know of any additions.There are also few links which no longer work and apart from that I am pretty sure you will be amazed by the web tools recommended there. These web tools are geared towards k-5 students. They are basically online interactive, educational games and simulations. Here are the main categories featured in the list, click on any title to access its web tools. 1- Math 2- English Language and Arts 3- Science 4- Social Studies.
Your Students Can Enter Our Video Competition. African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Hosted by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this series continues to explore the origins of the people from Africa whose enslavement led to the creation of the African American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives that African Americans have developed against unimaginable odds.
Continues Tuesdays at 8 p.m. through mid-November. NOVA "Cold Case JFK" For decades, the assassination of John F. Kennedy has fueled dark rumors of conspiracies and mishandled evidence. SECRETS OF THE DEAD "JFK: One PM Central Standard Time" Fifty years after the tragic shooting of President John F. Science and English Language Arts Resources for Halloween. Sure Halloween is about dressing up and trick or treating.
But there are some serious subjects that you can pull out of the holiday. Check out these resources from PBS Learning Media that highlight science and English Language Arts dubbed the Halloween Spooktacular. Spooky Science Special - Grades: PreK-1: Using this resource group, students learn about Halloween related science topics. The kids investigate how bats are helpful creatures that catch mosquitoes, spiders are expert engineer web builders, cats are leaping aerial acrobats, and skeletons help hold up our bodies!
Free Interactive Science Lessons and Activities. 5 Tech Tools for the Next Generation Science Standards. 21st Century Curriculum | October 2013 Digital Edition 5 Tech Tools for the Next Generation Science Standards An education futurist shares his favorite software and hardware to help teach the NGSS.
By David D Thornburg11/05/13 I want to start by saying that, in general, I am not a huge friend of standards. For years I've spoken out against standards that turn our curriculum into a series of disconnected factoids to be regurgitated on tests. So why am I writing an article about standards? Play-i Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Child-Programmable Robots. Programming | News Play-i Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for Child-Programmable Robots Play-i, a new company recently launched by former Apple, Amazon, and Frog Design employees, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for Bo and Yana, two robots designed to be programmed by children as young as five years old.
Play-i is developing the robots with the goal of getting children interested in programming at a young age. According to the company, both robots are "expressive, interactive, and completely programmable. " They are colorful with a rounded design and feature a prominent eye. The company is creating a visual programming environment for the robots on touch devices for kids, such as the iPad or Android tablets. Key features of Play-i robots include: EDpuzzle. 06:34. Web 2.0 Awards. Simply label a Gmail “Evernote” to send it there by scottzeller. Easily Publish Gorgeous Magazines. Assessment and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom. Evernote Corporation.
Using Padlet (f.k.a. WallWisher) across the curriculum. Over the last few years, I’ve been looking for ways to make interactive whiteboards actually interactive.
Despite the hype around them, iWBs still promote stand at the front content delivery and the interactivity is limited to the two students/teachers holding the pens. Everyone else is still pretty much a passive observer with regular doses of disengagement. With the recent creation of iPad mirroring software like AirServer and Reflector, the whiteboard has become more interactive with the ability to project multiple iPad screens onto the board. This is still a limited solution as only so many iPads can fir on one screen. In recent times, though there has been a proliferation of Web 2.0 collaborative tools that have the potential for full class interaction. Formerly known as WallWisher, Padlet started out as an online pinboard where unlimited users could post notes on topics being discussed en masse. Access. Padlet has a wide array of sharing tools to make your wall accessible. Web 2.0 Tools.