Longwood School District in New York has hundreds of lessons grouped by grade level. Check them out.
http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/longsmart3.html
Wichita Public Schools has a SMART school which, hopefully, means there is some good teacher learning going on there. They have downloadable lessons; however you have to have the SMART Board software to view the lessons. They also are taking lessons if teachers are interested in submitting ideas.
http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm
PBS has a site dedicated to SMART Boart lessons at
http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/
SMART Exchange has many lessons, also divided into categories for easy search.
http://exchange.smarttech.com/index.html
SMART Tech has them too...
http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+activities/
You can also see showcased SMART schools to get a feel for how they are being used at
http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Classroom+solutions/Advantages/Showcase+Schools.htm
And... professional development
http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter
If I find more I will add them here.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
XtraNormal movie making
www.xtranormal.com
This is my example movie. I think it is really pretty neat for a free movie creation. Since I spent the time seeing what it was like, I threw together an assignment for my daughter who I am homeschooling right now. That means that this movie is going to tell you what to do. Don't stress, I am not waiting for your movie. :)
The setting, characters, number of characters in the movie, ambient noise and background soundtrack can all be manipulated to create many different movies.
It was fun to make and certainly worth attempting a writing assignment to test it out.
Free workbooks
Free books! This is really cool. The Library of Congress published a TON of books. The subjects cover math, reading, writing, job training, test preparation, and so much more at various levels. Each link is a 3-4 hundred page workbook with pre-test, post-test and a key.
I am trying not to download everything at once.
I am trying not to download everything at once.
To twitter or not to twitter, it isn't really a question!
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhcbw9bz_228g76svdhf
If you go through these resources you will find that this title isn't unfair.
http://mrslwalker.com/index.php/2009/03/29/nine-great-reasons-why-teachers-should-use-twitter/
This is another good one, but I like the first one more.
If you go through these resources you will find that this title isn't unfair.
http://mrslwalker.com/index.php/2009/03/29/nine-great-reasons-why-teachers-should-use-twitter/
This is another good one, but I like the first one more.
Are you holding yourself to the best standard?
http://technologyinclass.com/blog/2009/12/09/teaching-the-unprofessional-profession/
This is an excellent article. I think every teacher should read it and reflect.
~In reflection on work: “that’s someone else’s job. I don’t want to step on any toes.”
How many teachers are too afraid of stepping on toes? That can't be how we approach our jobs or we are sacrificing the children we aim to serve. I have seen it too much. I refuse to be that teacher.
"When I care the work involved is not an issue. I’ll make the time because I’m passionate about it. I’ll work with my administration. Chances are they welcome the input from teachers on how to make staff development more relevant. This takes tact. We don’t want to make their jobs more difficult unnecessarily."
~I hope every teacher has the opportunity to reflect on this article.
This is an excellent article. I think every teacher should read it and reflect.
~In reflection on work: “that’s someone else’s job. I don’t want to step on any toes.”
How many teachers are too afraid of stepping on toes? That can't be how we approach our jobs or we are sacrificing the children we aim to serve. I have seen it too much. I refuse to be that teacher.
"When I care the work involved is not an issue. I’ll make the time because I’m passionate about it. I’ll work with my administration. Chances are they welcome the input from teachers on how to make staff development more relevant. This takes tact. We don’t want to make their jobs more difficult unnecessarily."
~I hope every teacher has the opportunity to reflect on this article.
Math Powerpoint games
http://mathbits.com/MathBits/PPT/powerpoint.htm
There are quite a few powerpoint presentations put together as games and study material at the above mathbit site. Everything is free.
There are quite a few powerpoint presentations put together as games and study material at the above mathbit site. Everything is free.
More art and geometry
Creating your own mutated art is the idea behind this site at
There you choose two images from their selections and what types of
changes you want to occur based on geometry terms and art terms.
It was amazing to me how many things can be
interpreted like Georgia O'Keeffe made them herself.
I don't think I will be any more explicit than that.
I mutated these shapes as a representation of my experience of online technologies and my learning.
Because of that I will just give a short caption of what I see in each image.
My learning revolves around me.
It gives me joy to create. I think that is nature's way.
My entire family can be involved together.
I feel free
Sometimes it is frustrating. This mutation seemed to illustrate that feeling you get when you have had enough.
Even with the frustration, I feel like a part of a community.
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