Larry Ferlazazo's Best Digital Storytelling Resources (includes links for voicethread tutorials and pdf) http://ping.fm/ep20w

Build a Portable Green Screen http://ping.fm/zghCW

Working with a great group of teachers today with Gaggle Email Accounts!

Matching Game Math http://ping.fm/K2vnk

Telling Stories through Digital Threads: The Election in Iran http://ping.fm/UPCCa

Thanks to Den - Common State Standards Draft Released (The DEAN's List) http://ping.fm/PiFLq

Interactive White Board Activities for Foreign Language http://ping.fm/KkGSb

Blogs, Wikis and Social Bookmarks, Oh My

Today, I am meeting with a group of teachers and we are exploring blogs, wikis and social bookmarking. All of the teachers have attended other professional development sessions this summer so we know each other fairly well, and we are having a good time. The wiki we are using has guided the instruction all summer long. (Thank goodness for Web2.0)

Each time I introduce teachers to blogs I look at them with "fresh eyes." I try to remember what it was like the first time I read one and all the stuff that went with them. And as you know, new widgets and gadgets appear daily so they look fancier and fancier but the content or the conversation is still king.

We have had great time reading lots of teacher blogs, Support Blogging: Bloggers List. Thanks to all the bloggers out there who make it all possible.

Thank you Anita, Sandy, and Cindy!

Social Networking Tips

Thanks to Nicole Engard. She blogs at "What I Learned Today"

• 20 Tips to Define and Manage Your Social Networks (Part 1)
• 20 Tips to Define and Manage Your Social Networks (Part 2)
• Over 40 Free, Must Have Open Source Resources

Want to update your social networking site or need something to jazz up your presentations?

22 Websites for Free Twitter Backgrounds
Free Textures, Inspiration and Tutorials

Bookmark the photos and pictures you find on the web with Vi.sualize.us

Summer reading at the beach! Check out the book reviews at Bookarmy

Where has the day gone? google docs, google earth and google lit trips --

The Alice Programming Workshop @ Duke is wonderful!

I've learned so much. And it's so much fun! But I can't get on the network :(

Just finished a geocache workshop (day 1) with a great group of teachers! The weather was perfect and we had a great time.

Got to go! Got to go to the elementary school --

Looking for old b&w photos to use for voicethread- working on handout and updating wiki--

Busy day planned -- Meet with students @Knapp Early College, VoiceThread w/ 2nd grade, Skype with CHS and Central Elementary

Did you see that! Mine That Bird! He was amazing!!!

Setting up a Tek Pal Tv Remote and it's being balky

@dgoodman_58 Thanks to Deborah (she's on Plurk and Twitter) She shared some great handouts. She started the Diigo GPS group-- it's excellent. If you geocache with kids, check it out.

Geocaching today with fifth graders. Weather is beautiful. Warm, no rain.

Ancient Civilization from the British Museum (through NC Learn Instructify) http://linkyy.com/1Z

Shorten Long URL's with Linky http://linkyy.com/ This has a very, nice clean look

Bre Pettis and Sammich http://ping.fm/1mj2g

Hacker Spaces Worldwide http://ping.fm/ecsmW

Cultural Touchstones http://ping.fm/eTzpr

SpreadTweet (Virginia Pilot) http://ping.fm/83JKz

Yesterday, huge turtles were basking in the sun along the ditches in Currituck County. Tried to take their picture but they are camera shy.

Good Morning Everyone! It's going to be a lovely day here in northeastern NC!

20 Kids*20 Kites*20 Minutes http://ping.fm/rzBsE this is just one example of the great links Instructify has...

This is an awesome blog Instructify (Learn NC) http://ping.fm/Eu33C

Study Guides and Strategies http://www.studygs.net/

Test Taking Links http://ping.fm/o3b7g http://ping.fm/NWVXd

Test Taking Links

CMSCE eBoards Smartboard http://ping.fm/Pu0Kf

Thnx @Lucas.Gillispie for Presentation on Games in Education http://edurealms.com/

Ten Reasons to Try Backchannel Chat http://ping.fm/wyOhV Keri-Lee Beasley [from@jutecht]

Computer Cameras and Presentation Skills http://ping.fm/j0RFH [ from: @jutecht]

Oh Joy is beautiful, fun, and a real treat http://ping.fm/RJLsn

Mac Users Character "Key" and shortcuts http://ping.fm/fF7Ma

Thnx NCS-Tech (http://ping.fm/wwPZa) for Sheppard Software http://ping.fm/O7veL

Thanx to EdTech Solutions - discovered Webspiration http://ping.fm/RCSlD -

Catching up on blogs. Reading EdTech Solutions http://ping.fm/WEnIj

Ideas to Inspire http://ping.fm/v3yP1

Oops, Correction Social Networking http://ping.fm/gaduM

Dave's Educational Blog "Social Networking"

Cool Librarian Some Things I Have Learned About Teens http://ping.fm/sBfEd

How to Make Newspaper Seedling Pots http://ping.fm/VIiZN

Reading Lucy and Ethel in the Lbirary http://ping.fm/YePmh

Virtual MacBeth http://ping.fm/wTHXE

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling http://ping.fm/99vmO

Social Bookmarking Delicious Expose (Thanx Hey Jude) http://ping.fm/nHGJh

Shrimp Recipes from Sunset Magazine (thnx @Arcadia1 from Twitter) http://ping.fm/69QFt

Working on I-Safe Internet Workshop

Oops, Moving Forward Getting Started with Wikis http://ping.fm/ugHPm

Moving Forward Getting Started with Wikis

Lodge McCammon is so talented. Science Songs http://ping.fm/Aoec5

Barnes and Noble in Chesapeake, Va April 21 6:00pm Marketing Your Library Like a Bookstore

Science on the Brain are short science videos perfect for elementary students. http://ping.fm/zCbc4

Pasquotank River, Pasquotank County, NC

Women's History Month

Are you looking for great resources for Women's History Month? Then, take a look at the following links:

Five Women That Changed History

Women Who Changed History (Scholastic)

National Women's History Project

March 18, 2009 Links of Interest

NC Elementary Schools Battle of the Books 2009-2010

LEARN NC has created an online digital textbook about NC History. This is on ongoing project and it provides online access to primary resources.

The following link provides all of the "chapters" now available:

North Carolina History: Digital Textbook Project by LEARN NC

These following links are the "specific" chapters by period:

Pre-Colonial

(To 1600)

Colonial

(1600-1763)

Revolution

(1763-1789)

Links 02.24.09

Read Across America, March 2, 2009

Cat in the Hat: Happy Birthday

Read Across America Activities

Dr. Seuss Biography

Dr. Seuss Printables

Online Story Sites

Mrs. P.com
(Flash Required)

Storyline Online

Denver Public Library Podcasts

Wired for Books
Featuring the books of Beatrix Potter

Wonderful Wikis

"Not Another Wiki" or The Power of the Wiki
Online Gems: Online Learning Discoveries by bookjewel
URL: http://bookjewel.edublogs.org/2008/12/


Deborah Goodman
URL: http://dgoodman.pbwiki.com/

Digitally Speaking
URL: http://digitallyspeaking.pbwiki.com/

Educational Origami
URL: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/

Gail Holloman Holmes Web 2.0 Wiki
URL: http://ghholmes.pbwiki.com/

Kidpedia
URL: http://www.kidpedia.info/

Learning Telecollaboratively
URL: http://clifmims.wetpaint.com/?t=anon

Miss Baker's Biology Class
URL: http://www.missbakersbiologyclass.com/

Useful Wiki
URL: http://usefulwiki.com/page/Main_Page

Wiki Educator
URL: http://www.wikieducator.org/Main_Page

Links 2.18.09

Interactive Mathematics Online Resources

Keywords:

math
maths
mathematics

General

BBC Starship Maths (US equivalent K-5)

Alien Cookbook (Flash plugin required)

Calamity's Quest (Flash plugin required)

Cross the Swamp (Flash plugin required)

Number Jumbler (Flash plugin required)

Park the Pods (Flash plugin required)

Place the Penguins (Flash plugin required)

Cynthia Lanius Fun Mathematics

K-8 Math Advantage (Harcourt School Publishers)

Fractions

Elementary School Lesson Plans: Math Forum

Exploring Fractions with Patterns

Cynthia Lanius' Lessons
Intended Grade Levels: 3-6

Designer Fractions

Draw Fun Fractions

More Fun Fractions

No Matter What Shape Your Fractions Are In

Graphing

Graphing Templates
Caesar Rodney Elementary School

Bar Graph Sorter

Create A Graph

Grapher

Graphs Galore @ Open Wide, Look Inside

I Am Special (K-2)

Interactive Coordinates Grid

NASA's KSNN What's a Graph?

Kinds of Graphs

Square Root

APlusMath Square Root Flash Cards

High School

Euclid's Algorithm, Heron's Algorithm, and Understanding Pi

Geometry Online by Cynthia Lanius

Geometry Problem of the Week

Math Bits High School Math Resources

More Mathematics Than Science

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Middle School

Fun with Fibonacci

Geometry Online by Cynthia Lanius

Labyrinth
Pre-Algebra Online Game

Number Sequences

Elementary

CrickWeb Double Operation Function Machine

CrickWeb Simple Scales

CrickWeb The Number Balance

CrickWeb The Digit Workout

CrickWeb Tangrams

CrickWeb Math Teachers' Toolkit

• Place Value Calculator
• Screen Calculator
• Virtual HTU Place Value Cards
• Hundred Square
• 10 Digits Number Line
• Tables Tester
• 12 Hour Clock
• 24 Hour Clock
• Counter
• Double Dutch
• Double's Tester
• Sequences
  

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives:

Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Measurement and Data Analysis (PrK-2)

Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis (Grades 3-5)

Caesar Rodney Elementary School has excellent web resources listed by grade level.

Kindergarten Math Links

1st Grade Math Links

2nd Grade Math Links

3rd Grade Math Links

4th Grade Math Links

5th Grade Math Links

Johnnie's Math Page

Interactive White Board (iwb) or Smartboard actitivies

Smarter Ways to Use the Smartboard with Math Core
Kenton County School District, Kentucky, USA

• Clocks/ Templates
• Hundreds Chart
  
• Graph Templates
  
• Fraction Resources
  
• Pythagorean Theorem
  
• Dotted Grid Templates
• Square Numbers
• Place Value
• Money
• Metrics
• Graphing Coordinate Pairs
• Geometry in Action

MSTE Online Resources: University of Illinois

Binary Calculator Applet

Body Mass Indicator

Cubic Volume (Grade 5 and up)

Counting : Learning to Count - 2 Digit Numbers

Floating Point System or Applet

Polygon Angle Applet (Grades 7 and up)

Flash Card Applet
Addition and Subtraction Available

Geometry: Toothpick Puzzle

Geometry: Toothpick Grid

Numberline

Numberic Base Converter or Applet

Prime Number Determiner or Applet

Probability: Cliff Hanger

Probabilty: Monty's Three Dog Dilemma (Grades 3-5)

Relative Prime

Rounding Rules

Web Dice

Shodor Interactive Actitivies

A Better Fire

Algebra -- 30 activities available

Geometry -- 29 activities available

Number Operations -- 44 activities available

Probability -- 17 activities available

Statistics - 20 activities available

Venn Diagram Shape Sorter

Venn Diagrams

02.12.09 Links

Valentine's Day is right around the corner.

Interactive activities or animations about the heart~

Smartboard, Mimio or Promethean interactive white board users will enjoy adding these resources to their toolkit.

Heart

Franklin Institute: The Human Heart

Franklin Institute: Enrichment Activities: The Human Heart

Franklin Institute: Heart Resources

KidsHealth: Your Heart and Circulatory System

Nova Online: The Electric Heart

Map of the Human Heart

Amazing Heart Facts

Heart Surgery: Interactive

Science Museum of Minnesota: Habits of the Heart

Virtual Heart


Maps

National Geographic Maps: Tools for Adventurer
Teacher Resources


National Geographic Maps: Game

Online games:
Explore a pyramid
Find a sunken treasure
Explore Mars
Plan a Family Vacation
Animals and GIS
Adventure Island


Book Links

LookyBook

Storyline Online


Check Out This Blog Site

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02.06.2009

RezLibris

Thanks to Chris Smith's Shambles in S.E. Asia Newsletter (February 2009) for providing information about RezLibris, the librarian's online magazine about Second Life.

Downloading Videos

Chris has also compiled a great list of video downloader's to use with YouTube, TeacherTube and other video sites.

Student Contests:

World Math Day Video Challenge

Doodle 4 Google