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A Thousand Sites in One; Educational Games in math, reading, science, social studies and more

A Thousand Sites in One; Educational Games in math, reading, science, social studies and more

Welcome to Crickweb Using Diigo in the Classroom - Student Learning with Diigo Diigo is a powerful information capturing, storing, recalling and sharing tool. Here are just a few of the possibilities with Diigo: Save important websites and access them on any computer.Categorize websites by titles, notes, keyword tags, lists and groups.Search through bookmarks to quickly find desired information.Save a screenshot of a website and see how it has changed over time.Annotate websites with highlighting or virtual "sticky notes." To learn more about how Diigo can be used as as information management tool, visit these pages: Diigo has clear advantages to the individual that needs to store and recall important information. Below are just a few options for using Diigo in the classroom. Personal Student Bookmarks One common problem of student computer use in schools is access to student work from home. Using Diigo, students can bookmark important websites and access them from school, home, the library or any internet-connected computer. Bookmark Lists Extended Learning Research

Story Dice - a creative storytelling tool from Dave Birss As you can see above, you get five story dice (or nine dice, if you prefer), each with a random image on it. Your job is quite simply to turn these prompts into a story. I recommend you try to work with the order they appear on the screen but if you’re finding it tough, you can do some swapsies. You also don’t need to take the image literally. You can use the dice metaphorically or as representations of other concepts. You may just want to dive in as soon as you see them, working from left to right as you try to incorporate each image into your yarn. But let me give you an example.

ProTeacher! Teaching ideas and resources For Elementary School Teachers Green Eggs & Facebook: 15 Social Media Tips from Dr. Seuss The older I get the more I realize how smart my mother & Dr. Suess are. Yes, Dr. Seuss may have some crazy rhymes and guys drawn in his books. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. And I will close with my all time favorite Dr. “You’re off to Great Places! Go get-r-done peeps! *Important Note: The above quotes are either from Dr. Connect: Authored by: Pam Moore Half marketing, half geek, social media addict, CEO & Founder of Marketing Nutz @MktgNutz, entrepreneur, speaker, trainer, coach. See complete profile

Afterlife Buildings A while back there was a game called Afterlife which was like a harder version of Sim City 2000 and also involved Heaven and Hell instead of some American city somewhere. Wikipedia has a fairly okay page about it, at least at the time of writing. Unlike Sim City, the buildings are not just R-C-I stuff, they're rewards and punishments focusing on the seven deadly sins and their conjugate virtues and so to add flavour, the designers wrote or had written a bunch of descriptions for pretty much every building in the game. They are all present in one big data file that I PRESUME has some parsable structure to it and may also contain the graphics (which are some pretty charming and Boschian bits of late 90s pixel art), and certainly contains the music (open it up as a .wav file, but get the sampling parameters wrong and you get [INSERT YOUTUBE LINK HERE]) but the descriptions are at least in it in plain text. Here, then, are all the descriptions and graphics I could find. "This is horrible!"

1000s FREE Preschool Printables and Kindergarten Teaching Aids - SparkleBox USA Apps in Education Romans Used 20-Sided Dice Two Millennia Before D&D Many of us geeks take great pride in the ability to recite the history of role-playing games based on the 20-sided die, but what about the history of the die itself? Apparently it predates the original Dungeons and Dragons by almost two millenia. Christie's, auctioneer to the rich and famous, sold a glass d20 from Roman times. It was included in a collection of other antiquities that sold in 2003. I wonder - how do you say "critical hit" in Latin? The seller acquired this die from his father, who picked it up in the 1920s in Egypt. (Thanks to Marty for the pointer.

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