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'Fakebook'! Create a Fake Facebook Profile Wall using this generator. 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects. April 16, 2011 by mrkaiser208 Facebook is the place that kids hang out after school. Heck, it’s the place many of them hang out during school. It is definitely a platform they are comfortable with communicating on. Why not use student enthusiasm for Facebook to generate learning opportunities in the classroom? I have seen several classes in the past few weeks work on Facebook projects. Students love them. Science might be a little harder, but imagine students pretend that they are a part of a chemical reaction. There are several different platforms for doing Facebook projects in the classroom. Fakebook: This online app is the best I have seen. My Fake Wall (no longer functional) This is a cool template, much like Fakebook. PowerPoint template: This page template opens in PowerPoint, but functions surprisingly as a Facebook page.

MS Word template: This template is a little harder to use and doesn’t look quite as good as the others, but it is another option. Use from smartphones – new - lino. In Education: Free Teaching Resources, Tools. 48 Ultra-Cool Summer Sites for Kids and Teachers. A good majority of northern hemisphere and international schools are winding down the 2011-12 school year, and doors will be closing as the students and teachers take off on their summer adventures.

Here is a list of great sites for kids and teachers to keep you happily productive and learning this summer. These are in no way in any order of personal preference or coolness. Happy summer! 1) Magic Tree House If your students like The Magic Tree House series (and let's be honest, who doesn't?) 2) Toporopa Can't afford that summer vacation schlepping around Europe? 3) ReadWriteThink Printing Press ReadWriteThink creates a lot of great educational resources. 4) Spell With Flickr Spell With Flickr is a simple site that allows you to enter any word, and will then create a photo representation of that word using pictures from Flickr. 5) Freeology 6) Tagxedo Tagxedo is a Wordle-esque site that allows students to create beautiful word clouds. 7) Learn Your Tables 8) Virtual Sistine Chapel 9) Cool Math.

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TodaysMeet. Free Teaching Resources, Tools, & Lesson Plans — Intel Education. Classroom 2.0. Conceptboard – Visual Collaboration on Ideas & Documents. Free Flowchart Software & Flowchart Examples. Flubaroo – Let Google Grade That! Wishing you had a Teacher’s Assistant to help with your stacks of ungraded assignments? Google has made your life a little bit easier. If you are a Google Drive (formerly known as Docs) fan, you may already be familiar with using Google Forms for easy data collection. Now, if you create a Form to collect quiz or test answers, you can sit back as the grading happens instantly!

The tool is called Flubaroo, and it is a Script within Google Spreadsheets. After creating your quiz or assignment as a Google Form, open the accompanying Spreadsheet where the data has been collected. You will choose to ‘Insert’ a ‘Script.’ Simply search for “Flubaroo,” choose “Install” and then from the Flubaroo Menu option, choose “Grade Assignment.” Flubaroo will instantly grade the students’ responses, flag low-scoring questions, show you a grade distribution graph, and even give you an option to instantly e-mail the students’ their grades.

Check out flubaroo.com for details and a quick tutorial. Best Online Collaboration Tools 2012 - Robin Good... WebQuest.Org: Home. Voki Home. Popplet. Learn about ancient rome on instaGrok. Viewing: Dreidel. About Kidblog.

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