November 2011 - Posts
Do2Learn …Excellent resource for writing paper. #elemchat #spedchat #paper #writingpaper Included in Classroom Printables You may also like… Free Online Graph/Grid Paper Illuminations: Dynamic Paper Tool The Amazing Incredible Handwriting Worksheet Make
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Prep and Landing is a nicely put together site to create a holiday themed comic. #elemchat #spedchat #writing #comiccreator Educational uses… Create a poem to add to your comic. Create a comic with a rap or chant. Create an advertisement. Create a poster
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Fun Winter Comic Creator included in Comic Creator for Kids @LiveBinders! #elemchat #spedchat # Club Penguin Motion Comic Creator turns your comic into a short motion clip. There are many templates, backgrounds, characters, art tools to use to create
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Splat Square is one of the nicest 100 charts that I have seen. #elemchat #spedchat #mathchat #kinderchat #1stchat Simply fantastic for whiteboard use. Every time a number is clicked a colored splat occurs. You can change the colors and print your charts.
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Using Children's Literature to Teach Science : Great collection of science lessons, with printables, based on children’s books. #elemchat #spedchat #scichat
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Linking Children's Literature to Math : Great (huge) list categorized by function. #elemcaht #spedchat #mathchat
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10 Special Education Teachers to Follow on Twitter : Tooting my own horn a little bit because I was included on the list. WooHoo! Check it out because We Read Better put me in some great company. #spedchat #elemchat #twitter
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Great opportunity for budding scientists! #elemchat #spedchat #scichat gjmueller : Space Lab Wants You: Your Experiments Could Be Performed on the International Space Station! Are you a student between the ages of 14-18 who has an idea for an experiment
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Video Writing Prompts: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
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7 Tips for Overcoming Teacher Burn-Out
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I included this in my Art Recipes LiveBinder. Many of which would be great for science. #elemchat #spedchat #scichat #artchat Lots of neat formulas and concoctions to interest the students. teachertoolbox : Glow in the dark slime. Anything glow in the
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Black Friday Savings | Yummy Math : #elemchat #spedchat #mathchat #blackfriday “ When shopping this Friday, students will be able to add some understanding and analysis to the trip after calculating savings in dollars and percents with this very timely
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Horrible Science Lab features a collection of pdf’s for cool science experiments from Nick Arnold, the author of the Horrible Science Series . #elemchat #spedchat #scichat #scienceexperiments via @sharnon007 Some pretty neat experiments here. Also check
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Love it! Music Shake is cool and fun. Create your own music with their easy to use interface. #elemchat #spedchat #music via @ICTMagic I had a ball playing around with Music Shake . Kids will have a great time creating their own songs and raps. Lots of
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100+ Winter Websites for Kids! #elemchat #spedchat #wintersites #edchat #mathchat #literacy
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Winter Character Twitter Feeds is just one of the fantastic printables in Tracee Orman’s FREEBIE, Winter Creative Writing Activities . 12 pages in all! #elemchat #spedchat #twitter4kids #literacy Super nice packet. Make sure you check out Tracee’s other
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Dimple Prints… Thanksgiving Party Package …FREE! via Sam’s Cool Tools for the Classroom Awesome Blog! #elemchat #spedchat #Thanksgiving Included in Thanksgiving
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Novice Teacher: Letter to Tumblr : Eva, you can cross 2 books off your list. They’re on their way. Happy Teaching! novicephoenix : Dear Tumblr, I’m posting this letter to anyone who might be able to help. I realize that I have no right to ask, but please
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Interesting question. Right now many of my visitors come from Pinterest, LiveBinders, and Twitter and I have aprox. 800-1000 unique visitors a day. I don’t really know how many are non-tumblrs. I never would have dreamed in a million years that this many
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Everywhere and anywhere. It seems to me that I find the coolest stuff when I’m looking for something else. I have an awesome PLN that I love that I constantly learn from. I use Diigo and Delicious (follow others). I read tons of blogs. Twitter is also
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Making Books with Children | Free Activities : Included in Write On! for Kids Livebinder under the tab “Make Books”. 25 resources under this tab alone.
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-Strategic Teaching Strategies for Active Learning : Fantastic resource! #elemchat #spedchat #strategies Via @surreallyno
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Teachers: Do you Tweet? Educational Paradigms: Learning and Leading in the 21st Century : I like the phrase used in this post describing Twitter as a “professional development superhighway”. My thoughts exactly! Great read.
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Just Blog It! Blogging Tips & Ideas | The Daring Librarian : I really enjoyed reading this post. Lots of good ideas for new and seasoned bloggers.
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Double the Fun with Twist Our Words and Twist Our Music ! Students must be 16 to send their creation but any age can use the websites. #elemchat #spedchat #literacy #music Twist our words is a really cool way for students to practice making complete sentences.
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The Toasted Cheese - Writing prompts organized in a daily calendar. #elemchat #spedchat #writingprompts #literacy You may also like… An Entire Blog of Free Writing Prompts with Pictures Readers/Writers Workshops, Centers, and Resources Write with a Penci
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How to Laminate With an Iron | eHow.com : No need to buy a laminating machine. Always looking for inexpensive ways to laminate. #elemchat #spedchat #laminating Here’s another way to laminate with no ironing needed… The Poor Teacher’s Laminator
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Tons of Interactive Whiteboard Games and Activities : Oodles and oodles of them! #elemchat #spedchat #games #whiteboard #edtech
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MathsKit is one amazing resource for teachers. I just added it to my Marvelous Math Sites LiveBinder. #elemchat #spedchat #mathchat I found it while I was on my hunt for great “dice sites” (previous post) and knew immediately that I had to share it with
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40+ Resources for Dice and Everything Dice Related. Educational of course! :-) #elemchat #spedchat #dice #spinners #mathchat Kids love dice and seeing dice means fun. Below are some really neat resources for dice. Basically anything and everything dice
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Beyond the Book Report: Ways to Respond to Literature Using New York Times Models - NYTimes.com : Good ideas.
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55+ Word Games | PBS KIDS : Added to Word Party Word Games
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Great Scrabble Idea! #elemchat #spedchat #scrabble #literacy If you don’t have any scrabble tiles click here to create your own. Just print them out and glue on cardstock or chip board and then glue on a magnet. Easy Peasy! Need a piece of metal to put
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Kinect: Not Just For Games | Youngzine : Great article to share with students. #elemchat #spedchat #edtech
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Thanksgiving Recipe Cards...Fun Writing Freebie! - The Organized Classroom Blog
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Reflective Questions to Ask Students : ❤ 25+ excellent questions that you can ask students to get them to reflect on work, behavior, etc. #elemchat #spedchat #behavior #charactered Empower your students by getting them to think reflectively. You may also
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✔this out! Want to use special characters but don’t know how? Then ✔ out Tammy Worcester’s Tech Tip 99 on how to do it fast and easy. #edtech #elemchat #spedchat #keyboard No need to remember key combinations any more. You may also like… 50+ Web 2.0 Keys
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Writing Contest - So You Wanna Be a DogEared Blogger for National Geographic Kids? : #elemchat #spedchat #literacy #contest Win a three month assignment to blog about books on National Geographics Kids online book blog. What to do: Read a children’s chapter
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Time Fillers - Great to leave for substitutes or for when you need a quick little activity to fill a minute or two. : via @teachersharetp #elemchat #spedchat #timefillers #substitutes Added to Super Sites for Subs
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Many new additions to my Character Counts @LiveBinder including ” 101 Affirmations for Children “ (flip cards) via Abundance Tapestry . #elemchat #spedchat #charactered #bullying #behavior Lots of great resources for teaching character education in the
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learning & laughing: Tumblr Teacher SOS! : Will this help? Could be modified. Self-reflection report card positivelypersistentteach : iamlittlei : kicksandgiggles : Ladies and gentlemen, I need some “rubric” help, Marzano style. Now, what Marzano calls
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““…reinforcing the idea that effort and elbow grease are as important or more than innate smarts will place kids on the best path of learning. “Instead of saying, ‘I’m not good at math, why bother trying,’ she’ll say, ‘I didn’t study enough, so I should
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Veteran’s Day Resources @LiveBinder #elemchat #spedchat #veteransday #sschat Resources include printables, lesson ideas, activities, videos and more.
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Free Technology for Teachers: 50 Games for Learning About National Parks : Great find by Richard Byrne #elemchat #spedchat #nationalparks #sschat #scichat Love the National Parks! You may also like… National Parks Electronic Fieldtrips NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
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3 Customizable Tools to Help You Create Lessons The Differentiator Take your idea and turn it into a differentiated lesson. Just click on your choices and they will appear at the top of the page. Excellent! Create your own customized, printable “Project
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The Science Spot is a great resource for science teachers of middle school students. #elemchat #scichat #spedchat #middleschool There is so much available on this site and it is fun to hunt around it. I really liked the Science Starters. When you’re looking
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Excellent! Student Screencasting - @LiveBinder : Full of examples, tools, reviews, and more. Via @sglassett #elemchat #spedchat #edtech Great binder for teaching students how to screencast!
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Powerful words! mspersaud : teach4thekiddos : If you are a teacher or going to be… Watch this!!! If you are not a teacher.. WATCH THIS! I love this and I am so glad someone put this into words. Always love hearing this, so couldn’t help but reblog it
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The Teacher Report: Are Games a Learning Tool or ... : Some insight and many great ideas. #elemchat #spedchat #games
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More Ideas Than You’ll Ever Use for Book Reports
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Wow…You’re more than welcome. Thanks so much for taking the time to let me know that you enjoy my blog. That fuels my passion. I appreciate that you share it with others too. There is so much great stuff out there and I really enjoy writing about it.
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Easy to Make Book Trailers for Librarians, Teachers and Students : #elemchat #spedchat #booktrailers #literacy Tutorial Via EdTech Vision
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gjmueller : English teachers, your students have found heaven on earth. CliffsNotes will be presenting 6 minute animated condensed versions Shakespeare classics .
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The Periodic Table Of Videos is a great collection videos for each element. #spedchat #elemchat #scichat #chemistry #periodictable The videos are interesting and very informative presented by a professor at Nottingham University and his students. Also
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Krazy Dad’s Free Printable Mazes Huge collection categorized according to difficulty level. #elemchat #spedchat #mazes #braingames Added to my Brain Games LiveBinder.
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