10x10

10x10 is a visual news board that gathers news and information from around the world.

Rhymer

Rhymer lets you type in a word and get a list of words that rhyme with that word.

Incredible Educational Virtual Tours

This site has 100 virtual tours that you could use in your classroom.  There are links to universities campuses, famous places, museums, and even outer space!

Click here to visit this site.

QR Code Treasure Hunt

A QR-Code Treasure Hunt is a fun, simple way to get students using their mobile devices to continue learning outside of lesson time. 

Textivate

This is a great tool for sorting paragraphs without having to cut apart sentence strips and glue them on a page.

Samson's Classroom

http://www.samsonsclassroom.com/try.aspx

This is an interesting site for ELA.

QR Codes

Anyone with a smart phone, iPad or iPod can use a scanner to scan a qr code.  A great use would be to make qr codes for Open House explaining elements of the classroom.  Parents could use their device to scan the code to get the information.

This is a great site to make qr codes:  http://www.qrstuff.com/

Have fun!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to a new school year!  Check out this blog for interesting websites, projects and other technology related items.  In the archived posts, you will also see interesting posts from last year.

Storybird

Site description:

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.

Read them like books, play them like games, and send them like greeting cards. They’re curiously fun.

http://storybird.com/

Note:  This is a very easy site to collaborate on a story. 

Great Art site

This is a great art site that is free and registration isn't required.  You can upload your own photos and even save your creations to your computer. 

http://www.befunky.com/

Teaching With iPads

With more and more iPads showing up in our classrooms, here is a site that is devoted to Teaching with iPads.

Graph Words

Graph Words is an online interactive English dictionary and thesaurus that helps you find the meaning of words and show connections between assoiated words.

Student Response System Online

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

StoryBoard Generator

StoryBoard Generator

You can choose a script and create a storyboard. Try building your own
storyboard using background location photographs.
Once done, you can save and share your storyboard video with friends.

http://generator.acmi.net.au/storyboard

Mighty Book

http://www.mightybook.com/

This is a site with books, games, songs, etc. Some are free but more are available with a subscription.

This site has numerous games, interactives and printables to help enhance and practice elementary skills in Math, Science and Language Arts.

VocabAhead

This is a great site that has video to explain vocabulary. It also has a place to sign up to receive the word of the day which sends you a vocabulary video each day.

Here is the link: http://www.vocabahead.com/

Teachers Love Smartboards

This is a good site for resources for the SMART Board.

Click here to go to this site.

Jodi's Wiki

Don't forget that you can get resources from my Wiki.

Click here to go to the Wiki.

Scholastic Interactive Whiteboard Activities

Scholastic Interactive Whiteboard Activities