Wow. Websites for teachers!!

Thanks to teach4the heart...these are amazing websites for teachers.  I have shared, tweeted, and now added to my blog.  This is how good her blog is!  Check is out and follow her

http://teach4theheart.com/2014/09/01/50-best-websites-for-teachers/

Getting organized?

Trying to get organized? It is that time of year for most teachers.  I am on the search. In reading blogs I came across this... My favorite so far

http://www.thecurriculumcorner.com/thecurriculumcorner123/2014/07/24/student-data-binder/

Hope it helps you get ready for back to school.  It is fast approaching.  

Back to school...collecting resources for students!

In researching tidbits my students will need, I ran across this on FB shared by Cool Cat Teacher

This will be a valuable resource for my students. We do a lot of research in science and I teach them to give credit.  This will be the first hand out I give.  

Hope this is helpful to your class.

26 ways to go paperless!

For a teacher paper is a big deal! I am constantly fighting my students to bring paper. I am always buying paper for my class. It is a fine line between pencils and paper and you can't teach without it.  

Last year my district adopt a new policy that students can bring their own device to school.  So I quicky tried to become paperless.  We put almost everything on google docs.  They emailed me their work.  I edited, graded, and sent it back. It was great.  I am working out the bugs, but I like it.  

I found this post I wanted to share ;

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/26-ipad-apps-paperless-classroom/

Let me know what you think! 

Mocomi. Check it out!

So I was on Facebook and saw a new website that caught my attention. 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/06/mocomi-offers-hundreds-of-short-video.html?m=1

It has lots of neat videos that teachers can access for your classroom. I wanted to share.  

Let me know what you think!

Bingo for the IPad...a viewer shared!

Shared from a great website...Over the last few weeks, http://www.educatorstechnology.com/ has been posting articles featuring different iPads activities teachers can use with their students.

The last thing they published in this regard is these 5 iPad learning tasks. I am doing this in reply to the multiple requests I received from teachers asking for suggestions of iPad-based activities to use in class.

Today I am sharing with you an iPad Bingo card created by iPad Bingo. This card is available for free download from this page. iPad Bingo card is a chart that features 6 iPad apps and with each of these apps is attached a set of activities to be achieved through the use of that app. These activities are divided into three levels with different layers of difficulty.

I loved this activity and wanted to pass this along.   I hope you will continue to follow them and find their website useful.  I visit them frequently and use many useful tips with my students.  

Favorite Apps...Kid Approved

I was asked today what are some of my favorite apps?   It was easy for me to answer.  I keep them organized on my IPad by subject.  My kids are free to play them when they finish an assignment.  I tell them they are testing them for me and I need honest feedback.  I am constantly adding new and deleting ones that have bugs or ones that the kids tell me are boring, or are not fun.  They can only play a game that is on our subject matter, at that given time.  I do have puzzles and fun games for free time for them to evaluate.   

Here are our favorites at the moment:

Most if not all of these are free.  I never pay for an app!  I have won a few apps at tech workshops, but that was only two.   There is an app called Appsgonefree that you can download that gives you 5-7 apps free everyday.  These are apps that normally cost.  It is a very good deal.