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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.

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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.)





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:

How World War One Started In Plain English from John Fladd on Vimeo.





Basic information on how to use Vimeo to upload and show videos - http://vimeo.com/help/basics





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


The homepage for Wordle, the application for making "word clouds" of text - http://www.wordle.net/



"How To" Lessons on Flickr


The Flickr homepage - http://flickr.com

The Flickr Blog - http://blog.flickr.net/


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:



GoogleMaps - http://maps.google.com


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/

A blog post I wrote about using GoogleEarth and GoogleMaps Streetview to make a custom bulletin board:  http://tinyurl.com/o95ter





Creating a Classroom Wishlist on Amazon:



How to do it - http://tinyurl.com/y8gf6qk


My own classroom's wishlist - http://tinyurl.com/yfm7g8o





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
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