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Episode 51
Science Buddies
Science fair project ideas, answers and tools, including a project guide – asks questions on grade level, interests, abilities, limitations and then gives project ideas for kids to use. Ask an expert feature and parent and teacher resources!
CL1P.net – The Internet Clipboard
Copy and paste between computers – text, images, files, links. No sign up or login. Quick way to share a file with a class, but no password protection.
Classical Comics
Classical literature in comic form, but wait there’s more! Text is written ways–original and unabridged, plain text (modernized version of the original), and quick text (simplified dialog). There’s also a version without text, so that students can come up with their own translations. Check out the free versions available for download!
DOGONews
DOGONews is an online news and web resource for elementary school children, aged 5-10 and a publishing platform for aspiring reporters ages 9-15. Current events on 3-D globe, directory of kid friendly links, resources for kids, teachers and parents
EcoKids
Environmental resources for students and educators. Lesson plans, printables, and other resources for teachers. Activities and games for kids.
MacHeist
MacHeist’s missions are an opportunity for our members to live out some of those secret agent fantasies, including mission briefings, simulated web espionage, and a storyline packed with tech-mystery intrigue, while earning free Mac software.
Today’s Meet
A real-time backchannel with 140 characters like Twitter/Plurk, but created only for a specific topic/event. Room deletes after a set period of time. Password protection coming soon.
Visual Representation of Bloom’s
Attempt at interpreting Bloom’s taxonomy using 21st century tools. There are various Web 2.0 icons on Blooms hierarchy – still a work in progress and needing input.
iFaves
- Kindle for iPhone
Amazon’s application for the iPhone gives users access to its Kindle store of electronic books without the need to purchase a Kindle or Kindle 2 electronic book reader. The e-books are formatted to the iPhone’s smaller display, and pages can be “turned” with a finger flick to the left or right. - TED
TED app for iPod touch/iPhone allows users to listen to audio and video published from TED. Search, bookmark, and share features
The golden episode…yup #50!
Episode 50-Links that make us think…
Resources
- Jeopardy Labs - Allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world.
- TikaTok – Imagine a story, create a book.
- Kinetic City – Amazing collection of games, science experiments, and projects. Beat the bugs and set things right.
- JayCut – Online video editing.
- Edmodo – Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other.
- All About Explorers – All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Because we wanted to make a point about finding useless information even in a site which looked at first to be fairly well put together, all of the Explorer biographies here are fictional. While many of the facts are true or based on truth, many inaccuracies, lies, and even downright absurdity are mixed in indiscriminately. As such, it is important that you do not use this site as a source of reference for your own research! Follow @explorers on Twitter.
- In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update – NY Times article about how the job of librarians is changing in the digital age.
Faves
- Mancala FS5 ($FREE) – strategic thinking board game gone global (website).
- ABC Animals ($2.99) – ABC Animals provides a wonderful set of interactive flashcards that aid in teaching young children to recognize, say and print English alphabet letters (website).