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Middle School Spanish Class Takes a Virtual Field Trip...
Google Earth.. Not your typical classroom map!
News Stories for Grades 1-3
Celebrity Video Conference – It’s just good business!
The student’s in Ms. Febres’s 7′th grade Spanish classes video conferenced with students from...
Google Earth has been available as a free download for computers and mobile devices...
In the past I have written about Tween and Teen Tribune. You can read...
Our high school business department had a special guest visit them today. We hosted...
The student’s in Ms. Febres’s 7′th grade Spanish classes video conferenced with students from a K-12 school located in Mexico City called Nuevo Continente. Ms. Febres coordinated the video conference session with 4 of her classes. During each video conference session the students exchanged questions. The students from Mexico spoke in English and our...
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Google Earth has been available as a free download for computers and mobile devices since 2005. The core feature set is a mapping of the earth using satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D Globe technology. Google earth can be downloaded and installed for free. Click here to download. Once opened you can start...
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In the past I have written about Tween and Teen Tribune. You can read more about them here. These sites provide news stories for students. Teachers may setup student accounts that allow them to leave comments that are moderated by the teacher. Tween Tribune just released Tween Tribune Junior for grades 1-3. It includes...
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Our high school business department had a special guest visit them today. We hosted a Skype video conference with Barbara Corcoran. Barbara is an extremely successful entrepreneur in the real estate industry. During her impressive career she took a $1000 loan to start The Corcoran Group. She parlayed the loan into a five-billion-dollar real...
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April is National Poetry Month. While there are a number of online resources with activities to celebrate and explore poetry I really like the Poets.com Listening Booth . The listening booth contains audio recordings of poet’s reading poems. You can search by poet name or poem name. There are a number of benefits to having...
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Little Bird Tales is a free site that allows teachers and students to create and publish their own digital tales. Here is what i like about it. Class Management The has a simple to use teacher interface in which you can setup classes and control access. Teachers manage student accounts. The teacher assigns usernames...
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Our district is a member of Google Apps for Education. We have started to use Google Sites for a number of initiatives. We started to use Sites for teacher websites in some of our schools. We also used Sites to build instructional resources. Our interactive Pyramid of Intervention and Collaborative Group Work Resource are...
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Storyline (www.storyline.com) is a website published by the Screen Actors Guild. The site features videos of famous actors and actresses reading children’s books. There is an index of books to select from. The videos display well on an interactive white board. They can also be used in a listening center. With most stories there...
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The smart notebook software is a powerful and feature rich addition to any classroom. The gallery is loaded with images, backgrounds, interactive content and flash-based lesson activities. Did you know that you can add most flash activities from the web directly into a smart notebook page? Here is how it works. First, using Google...
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The CK-12 foundation has introduced a new resource called the flexbook. CK-12 provides free access to textbooks for science, technology engineering, math and SAT review. They are now offering the ability to design your own “flexbook”. You can read more about this initiative here. The web interface allows the user to select chapters from...
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