A web site that will host podcasts for free

I was doing a project that needed to have a home for my audio/visual file. I googled and found PodBean. I am still learning all the processes to do through on the site, but it is free.

I hope this will help!

Patrick

Make your own bingo & flash cards

http://www.educationalpress.org/

Beyond Google Earth

Was looking at United Streaming this morning while getting stuff ready for next week's sessions with first-year students and saw this cool idea that I thought Emily especially would just love. Hope it inspires all of you to look at United Streaming and all it has to offer.

Handout on adding videos to place markers in Google Earth

Virtual Manipulatives

Here is the site Professor Richardson demonstrated with virtual manipulatives.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

She also asked me to let you all know that the NC Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCCTM) sponsors mini grants. As noted on the NCCTM grant information page:

A total of $15,000 is available each year for the mini-grants, with each region [of the state] awarding approximately $5000 in grants to its members. In recent years, approximately 30-35 proposals have been partially or fully funded, for an average grant of just less than $800.

Templates for PowerPoint

Visit the Microsoft Templates page.

You will need a PC for this download page.

Great Website

If anyone needs a great reading website, www.starfall.com/ is for you! It has four levels of instruction with the first level for a child who needs help with the ABC's and the sounds. My three-year old loves it.

Gas Map... great site... sad prices

http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_map_gas_prices.aspx

Really neat!

Other resources-reference aids

HI everyone. I am working on my website this weekend, and trying to gather some sites for reference materials, dictionaries, etc. Can anyone make any suggestions or share ones that they use with their students? Thanks again!

Here ya go, Traci!

I have a few content area links for upper grades. I teach 5th.

http://parkplace.ehe.abss.k12.nc.us/

You are going to love this!

NY Times Learning Network

This site is wonderful for upper elementary through high school. Go to the site and in the left menu follow the link to Lesson Plan Archive. If your class is researching a topic, you would enter that topic and find a lesson plan that correlates to that subject. WAIT, it gets better!

Then skim through the lesson for articles that are related to that topic. When you follow the link to the article you will turn on the knowledge tools at the top of the article in the yellow and green tool box. Once you have done that, the article will provide students with a definition for difficult vocabulary and a map for geography terms.

I'm LOVING it! :)

Check this out

This is a great site from Discovery TV.

http://kids.discovery.com/

Sites for Traci and other upper elementary folks

North Carolina
http://www.visitnc.com

http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/kidspg/

Writing
poetry http://www.poetry4kids.com/index.php

Science
animals: http://www.animaland.org

That's all I have for the moment.

Vote on the New 7 Wonders

There is a new compiling of Wonders around the World. Vote!

Looking for good sites

Hi everyone! If you have any good educational sites for writing, reading, science or math--please share. I am trying to build a resource list.

Great Web Site!

Check out this web site about nursery rhymes. We took the nursery rhyme quiz this morning in our children's literature class. It was fun!
www.rhymes.org.uk

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