Using the Web to Take Virtual Field Trips

By: Kennedy Schultz Helping kids learn about the world can be an exciting adventure for both adults and kids. When I teach about the chateaux of the Loire Valley in France or ancient Mayan sites in Mexico, I’m always looking for kid-friendly resources that can provide accurate information and engaging authentic pictures that hold the attention of little ones. Virtual Field Trips Since my field trip budget is pretty limited, I especially love websites that offer virtual tours and live webcams to show kids what it REALLY looks like in another world location. Live web cams are another great cultural resource. We have also found web cams of the storks roosting on roof tops in Rust, Austria, and have shared our own local webcams of Niagara Falls with our pen-pal classrooms in other countries to give them an idea of our region. Organizing Teacher Resources With all these cool resources, how do you keep track of them and retrieve them when needed?

Technology in the Classroom | iHeartLiteracy Let's get some technology resources together for teachers. Here are just a few: 1) 27 Apps that have changed my Teaching and Learning Practice 2) What do you want kids to do with technology? 3) 9 Powerful (And FREE) Tools To Boost Summer Learning 4) 10 Exciting Ways to Use Mobile Phones in the Classroom 5) Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers What other resources do you love? 10 Collaborative Technology Projects Your Students Will Love If your classroom is far from a 1:1 environment (more like 1:32), it can be hard to find great technology projects that really work. Here are some simple tech tools students can use to create awesome projects. Students can work together in cooperative learning groups or independently depending on your access to technology in your school district. Bonus: They're all free! 1. 2. Cooperative learning idea: Have students share a computer and agree on an image. 3. Cooperative learning idea: Students can collaborate and create a science comic strip, such as: the life cycle of a butterfly or frog, the journey of a raindrop or the transformation of matter. 4. 5. Cooperative learning idea: Students can take turns talking. 6. Cooperative learning idea: Older students can work in teams and create a digital book for a presentation. 7. Cooperative learning idea: Students can share a computer, generate a "What if?" 8. 9. 10.

3 Tech Tools You Can Use NOW! {Educational Technology for Teachers} - thethirdwheel Educational technology is all the rage. I dare you to go to a professional development conference or meeting without the mentioned of technology these days. Moving into my new coaching position has given me a chance to really look into instructional technology in a new way. Symbaloo is an AMAZING website that you can use to create visual, clickable links to all those websites you have your students connect to through your website or classroom blog. GoNoodle has changed the way I handle brain breaks…and indoor recess. Looking for a quick way to do a formative assessment with your students and have the data almost instantaneously? Find Flubaroo in the list, and follow the steps. Now it is your turn!