Another year has come and gone and with it almost twenty tech sessions. As software and hardware continue to change at a dizzying pace I hope you continue to find these sessions valuable as we try and keep up with it all. Please fill out the survey below as it helps me plan sessions for next year as well as continue to support you with your individual learning needs and goals.
As we close out the year it is always nice to leave with some great parting thoughts. What better way to do so then with the latest TED video from Sir Ken Robinson.
The founder of the site, Brad Shepherd Jr., has been creating educational software since 1982, and it shows. Along with the rest of his team, he creates engaging, highly interactive, original and fun programs for learning about a huge range of subjects.
Science Online is a compact collection of science interactive sites, worksheets, , lesson plans and more for K-8 students.
http://www.littleanimation4kids.com/ is the kind of free, excellent interactive resource that really helps IWBs reach their potential in the classroom.
The service is of course completely free and highly intuitive, suitable for middle- and upper-elementary students and beyond. It’s a supremely visual, a drag-and-drop environment where kids can create either a short comic strip or pages and pages of an actual comic book (just like Comic Life). Here’s a look at the user interface:
This new SMART resource is fast becoming the one stop shop for SMART Notebook lessons and SENTEO question sets. Click here to take a look. Try checking out the different lesson banks from different countries.
Big Brown Bear is an extraordinary website that offers several FREE interactive materials that are based around phonemes and include prefix and suffix activities, nouns, adjectives and verbs, magnetic letters and even a keyboard game to reinforce keyboarding skills! All of the ELA activities work very well on the SMARTBoard since many use the click and drag technique. This website is definitely worth a look if you are looking for a resource to reinforce phoneme skills using an Interactive Whiteboard.
