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A touch screen educational toy! Woohoo! I saw this on the NY Times website this morning and immediately thought about what a great addition this would be in my classroom, especially during literacy center time! Fisher-Price's iXL is a learning tool for the 4-6 year olds that lets them read interactively, draw, look at pictures and play games. ...

Don’t get me wrong, I love my Smartboard that is mounted in my classroom. Unfortunately my whiteboard occupies approximately 75% of the dry erase whiteboard board space. Others have complained of this issue too… If you are a math teacher, you may already know where I am going. My rhetorical question (only because I know that [...]

History.com has a terrific interactive site featuring Black History Milestones (this link takes you to the page on Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier). Perfect if you're looking for a reliable yet accessible starting point for Black History Month! You'll especially appreciate the slider which allows you to move from early events ...

Welcome to another midweek post which I am very excited to share with you. ReadWriteThink is more then just an awesome Language Arts site filled with outstanding resources. It goes beyond Literacy and shows ways to integrating technology to support 21st century learning and core curriculum. For instance, Teaching with Blogs, Teaching with ...

Free Online Interactive Activities Use Brainingcamp’s collection of free math teaching software activities to teach a variety of middle school math topics. Activities contain an interactive lessons, virtual manipulatives, and question sets. |6513D844-|-6|6513D844-|-7|6513D844-|-8 |BE58E821-|-Math Teach math concepts ...

Playnormous is a colorful, professionally designed, kid and teacher friendly site that features health games. Now if your first reaction was distaste or boredom, then this site was designed with you in mind. In the site's own words: Playnormous isn't just for kids and their parents to learn about health the fun way. We've found that many ...

A friend on Twitter shared this; a great collection of online comic creators which can be used as a creative response to reading or as a writing option. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, so check them out for yourslef before unleashing your students. A couple of these would be great extensions for the Hero writing lessons I presented on ...

Okay, not easy, but much clearer! Kentucky Virtual Library's Research Rocket offers a student-friendly, step-by-step introduction to the research process. While the screen shot to the right gives you a basic idea of the steps involved, what it doesn't show you is that each individual step provides its own easy to understand tutorial (see ...

Just this morning I had an excellent experience using an exciting interactive site called Class Tools which allows you to create games, activities, and diagrams in Flash (without knowing a thing about Flash!). While covering an eighth grade social studies class, I informed students that they would be creating review games for an upcoming test. ...

Tucked away in the BBC Bitesize KS2 Games section is a quirky little game called Questionaut. It has no flashy intro and no instructions, and that's precisely the way its creator intends it. Questionaut begins with a placid enough scene: a strangely hairy, organic shape floats freely in space, accompanied by some funky synth music. A fish jumps ...