The following are free, online resources that you might want to play with and think about using in your classroom. If you were in one of the sessions I presented on free internet tools at the Christa McAuliffe, NELMS or SAU53 conferences and wanted more information, you are in the right place.
Will you be able to use all of these resources in your classroom?
Probably not.
Not every tool is useful for every situation. Your best bet for getting a particular concept across may be finger puppets or origami or your whiteboard and a good story. All I can say about these tools are that they are ones I've used with some success in my own classroom and which seem to have a lot of cross-over potential for other classrooms.
(On the other hand, they ARE pretty cool.)
Probably not.
Not every tool is useful for every situation. Your best bet for getting a particular concept across may be finger puppets or origami or your whiteboard and a good story. All I can say about these tools are that they are ones I've used with some success in my own classroom and which seem to have a lot of cross-over potential for other classrooms.
(On the other hand, they ARE pretty cool.)
Here is a link to that video by OK Go that we watched at the beginning of our session (the one with the marching band): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY&feature=fvst
Common Craft Videos:
Classroom Blogging:
The homepage for my RootsBlog project - http://kuntakinte.edublogs.org
The homepage for EduBlogs, the platform I use for classroom blogging - http://edublogs.org
"How To" Lessons on Flickr
The Flickr homepage - http://flickr.com
How to Make Cupcakes that Look like Cheeseburgers - http://www.flickr.com/photos/katedw/sets/72157617528706606/
How to Make Crayons - http://www.flickr.com/photos/16533831@N03/sets/72157622991699748/
Movie Posters and VoiceThreads:
The homepage for Big Huge Labs, a website with many cool applications - http://bighugelabs.com
The Big Huge Labs movie poster making site - http://bighugelabs.com/poster.php
The homepage for VoiceThread - http://voicethread.com
An example of a VoiceThread that my Advisory Group made:
Fun with GoogleMaps:
My Awesome Food Map
View Restaurants and Other Food in a larger map
Tiny URL, a web application for shortening really long web addresses - http://tinyurl.com/
Creating a Classroom Wishlist on Amazon:
And finally, here is another look at the OK Go video that
I used as a clumsy metaphor at the end of our session:
That's it.
Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have:
Email - fladd.john@gmail.com
School Email - jfladd@sau53.org
Twitter - woodenmask
Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have:
Email - fladd.john@gmail.com
School Email - jfladd@sau53.org
Twitter - woodenmask
