The Write-A-Nator This is a neat website that teachers can use for writing prompts. Students view a short cartoon clip and then take a challenge by writing. Check out 'Mr. Big's Plan' about using simile.

Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch this is a web guide that is alphabetically sorted for grammar and writing tips and info. There are also web links. Good resourceful tool.

Mentor Mob neat teacher tool to create web lessons you can add videos, lessons, and quiz's. Very neat check it out. Click on the link http://www.mentormob.com/learn/playlists/impact-of-westward-expansion-on-native-americans

Picasso Head is a simple little art designing website where you can create your own personal Picasso. This site is safe and simple for students and without the advertisements to distract. I could see this being used as a reward activity for students.

Grahic Organizers from Teachervision

This site has many graphic organizers and they are arranged by grade levels and by subjects. This looks to be useful but you only get 5 downloads free and then you must pay a $39 membership fee. May well be worth the money. Teachervision Graphic Organizers

I took a look at edHelper.com and realized I have to pay for an account to access and print educational materials. I have heard good reviews from other teachers together who ordered this subscription. From looking at the home page the site is clean with no distracting pop-up's and it has an organized table of contents that makes it easy to find what you need. There are also many printable items and even foreign language activities. This site may be worth the money.

This review is for The Gateway to 21st Century Skills website. This website has been serving teachers since 1966 and contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items. Here you can search for teaching materials by subject, grade and by common core standards.

School Tube Review

School Tube is a great resource for teachers and students. Teachers should know that this is a safe and secure website serving educational purposes. With School Tube videos you can spark student engagement and classroom discussions. Teachers can also share lesson and projects. For students School Tube can be used to create video projects and assignments that they can share with classmates and teachers. Students can also see what other students are doing around the world. Click here for the link to see a video of how one class uploaded their readers theater project.

Chart Creating

I have compared two great sites for creating charts for classroom use or teacher collaboration use. The first site is called "Hohli" and it is a simple to use chart creating website that is clean as in not any extra advertisements that might distract students. This is so simple to use just pick the kind of graph you will need and the size then fill in the blanks on the title,data,and grid point information. There could be an easier print option on the site but still all you have to do is save the image to your computer and then print it at any time. The other site I reviewed is "Cacoo" this is a neat way to crate, share, and collaborate with others about charts. Creating a chart here is as easy as click, drag, and drop. This is nice because you can save and work on charts from anywhere and multiple users can view and edit at the same time you are viewing the chart. Love the extra benefit of collaboration chart creating. Sorry but I could not capture an image of either of these sites but I have attached a link to their titles above.

Glogster

Glogster is a tool for educators and students with the technology to create GLOGS - online multimedia posters - with text, photos, videos, graphics, sounds, drawings, data attachments and more.

Measurement Smart Board lesson. This is a Smart exchange lesson that will be useful with a third and fourth grade class. This lesson covers many topics of measurements such as history of measurement, customary and metric measurement systems, and converting from one unit of measurement to another.

Probability from Smart Exchange This is a neat smart board lesson to be used an introduction to the topic of probability. I like this the visuals are an added tool in helping students learn this math.

This is a cute Saint Patrick's day Classroom attendance. Students can move their pot of gold down under the rainbow when they come to class in the morning.

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Check out my newly created Name Picker above here is a link. Angie's Class Tool. Fun way to randomly select a student to answer questions during a class discussion.Enter all of your students names and then you can save the list for later use on the random name /word picker. ClassTools.net also has many other interactive tools like Venn diagrams, plagiarism checker, countdown timer, etc. Find this website at ClassTools.net.

Seasons of Learning: A Journey in Education: If Earth Were a Golf ball

Seasons of Learning: A Journey in Education: If Earth Were a Golf ballNice presentation by a classmate, Beth Harper. Follow her blog at Seasons of Learning: A Journey in Education

Weekly Web Review

I have visited the PhET Interactive Simulations on the University of Colorado at Boulder website. Watch different types of molecules form a solid, liquid, or gas. Add or remove heat and watch the phase change. Change the temperature or volume of a container and see a pressure-temperature diagram respond in real time. Relate the interaction potential to the forces between molecules. This is a great simulation for use by teachers and students. On the main page is a list of sample learning goals and topics that this simulator could be used with while teaching different lessons. There is also a list of lesson ideas and links to lesson plans below, they range from elementary level to high school.

Click to Run

Story Jumper

This is a fun site where you can allow students to create their own story and share it with others by email. Here is a link to the site. www.storyjumper.com

here is a link to the story I created. Link

Article from ED Compass Magazine

ED Compass Magazine is a great place to read about "SMART" learning in education. I found a very interesting article in this months subscription on pg.6 online called "Smart Solutions in the Early Education Classroom". The creators of SMART products understand the education needs of students being that students learn from participating, collaborating, and demonstrating their knowledge. In this article SMART Creators are informing educators of the new technologies they are making for the early education classroom. There is a new SMART Table Interactive Learning Center that has K-3 learning activities and games. The SMART table has multiuser, multitouch capabilities so students can learn together simultaneously. Smart Notebook also has a library of resources for students. They have also created a SMART Response LE interactive response system that is a useful easy to use tool for students to select their answers on a remote. Last bit of info from this article is that they now have both a SMART Mobile height-adjustable floor stand and a height-adjustable wall mount. Yay! SMART for continuing to find ways to improve the ways young students can interact and learn.

Pete the Cat: I Love my White Shoes. by Eric Litwin Illustrated by James Dean. This is currently one of my daughters favorite books. If you like cats or music you will enjoy this cute story.

Changing Education with Web 2.0 Tools

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Canadian teens put a (Lego) man into space for just $400

For more info on this check out Trevor Moggs post on Digital Trends:

My Greeting

TeAch-nology.com

The Web Portal for Educators. I just reviewed this site and decided I had to share with all of my bloggers. This site offers many great teacher resources such as forms, rubrics, worksheets, a worksheet maker, lesson plans, and so much more. Over 50,000 resources for thirty dollars a year. TeAch-nology.com

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Blogs in Education-

I have found and reviewed another blog nominated for an award as a resource sharing blog found on edublogs.com. "Doug- Off the Road" is a resource filled blog by Doug Peterson an instructor at the University of Windsor. This blog has many resources and links to current information for technology, computers, and teaching helps. Doug really knows what's out there, where to find it and how to share. This is a great place to look for new tech. info and fresh education ideas.

Blogs in Education

I am taking a few minutes to share an award winning classroom Edublog I viewed from WordPress.com. The blog is called "Into the Wild" by Sabrina De Vita's fifth grade class in Argentina. The teacher is very creative with this blog in how she incorporates Web 2.0 into assignments for students to work directly from the blog. Once the assignments are complete they are shared on the blog for parents and students to view and leave feedback. Check out my favorite assignments they completed which were "Blabbering" and "Photostories"

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