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links for 2008-06-24

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Create Your Own Adventure: Interactive Lesson on the Rain Forest
(tags: rainforest smartboard sjeds-travels-latinamerica)

Crayola Digi-Color
Color with Crayola
(tags: art interactive elementary drawing smartboard)

Interactive online Google tutorial and references - Google Guide

Google Guide is an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in betwee
(tags: google tutorials)

Maps.com Online Map Games
(tags: geography games maps education elementary)

Comment Challenge Day 28- Blog Commenting Strategy

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Day 28: What’s Your Blog Commenting Strategy?
Yesterday we looked at how commenting can help us build our personal brand. Today, I want you to check out this article by Caroline Middlebrook on developing a blog commenting strategy. Do you think it’s important to take a more strategic view of commenting and to have a plan [...]

links for 2008-06-23

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Chirrup, a comment system for Twitter
(tags: twitter tools blogging)

Who would listen?

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

I just heard about an interesting experiment. Gene Weingarten, a Washington Post journalist, and Joshua Bell, a young man decided to test people in the Washington D.C. subway. Read the entire story in the article in the Washington Post
No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an [...]

links for 2008-06-22

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Electing a President for Kids
(tags: social_studies elections)

F1 for Kids
Kids develop 3D design and spatial-relations skills using F1 for Kids and Google SketchUp (TM) , which architects, designers, math teachers, and art instructors say is the easiest and most powerful modeling application available!
(tags: google sketchup drawing)

Mathtrain.com with Mr. Marcos
(tags: sjeds-math podcasts math)

links for 2008-06-21

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Museum of London - Apprentice game
The Medieval Game of Life
(tags: social_studies interactive game)

Kids for Kenya Home
According the the Kenya Education Fund, many people do not realize that high school in developing countries is not free. In Kenya, both public and private high schools cost hundreds of dollars in tuition each year.
(tags: Kenya service_learning)

Comment Challenge Day 27- Communicating your Personal Brand Through Commenting

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Day 27: What Do You Communicate About Your Personal Brand Through Commenting?
Online personal branding is becoming a big deal. The more active we are on the web, the more we communicate about who we are and what we do. Many of us may have considered that our blogs are a way of communicating about [...]

Comment Challenge Day 25- 26- Explore other Ways to Comment

Friday, June 20th, 2008

I know that the Comment Challenge has concluded almost 3 weeks ago, but I also know that it was just impossible for me to work on and finish during that time due to it coinciding with the last days of our school year, post planning and summer camps.
I don’t like to leave things unfinished, so [...]

links for 2008-06-20

Friday, June 20th, 2008

nrich.maths.org :: Monthly Index page:: All Stages
(tags: SmartBoard math)

History at The Children’s University of Manchester : Ancient Egypt
Explore Ancient Egypt, Giza Pyramid Panorama, Egyptian Timeline, Writing in Hieroglpyhs, Making a Mummy, Egyptian Jigsaw, Egyptian Word Search
(tags: egypt SJEDS-travels-Egypt socialstudies)

The Children’s University of Manchester
Body and Medicines, Energy and the Environment, Ancien Egypt, The Earth and Beyond, [...]

Digital Storytelling- Part VI VoiceThread

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Storytelling- Images of sitting around the campfire in the summer, the fireplace in your home in the wintertime, the dinner table with your family or saying good night to your children are conjured up in my head. Listening to fairy tales, passing a personal family story on from one generation to the next, creating a [...]