Mobi/Workspace Tutorial Videos

Learn how to use your Mobi with Workspace, an interactive whiteboard software which allows you to interact and annotate on any content or medium. Check out these 6 tutorial videos on using the Mobi with the Interwrite Workspace Software.
http://www.einstructionwv.com/home/mobi-workspace-videos

Resources for Typing Practice

Typing has always been a challenge for students and adults. I was reading Richard Byrne's blog, Free Technology for Teachers, and he listed 7 resources for developing typing skills. I hope this will give you a variety of tools to use to help develop this skill. Click here to check it out!

Interactive Cells!

The University of Utah has interactive animal and plant cells. For each orgenelle there is a short video and/or audio explaination to enhance understanding of parts and functions. There is a guide that students can use to explore these cells. Many students use Cells Alive website, but this is an alternative site.

Brain Thinking Puzzles and Games

From fun and easy to hard and tricky.
Clever puzzles and games to stretch your
mind and tease your brain.
Daily jigsaw puzzles too.

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Triptico Desktop Resources

Do you want a cool way to pick students in your class? To keep score during group activities? How about creating your own word magnets with a custom background? If you are interested in any of these things you have got to check out http://www.triptico.co.uk/. You can download it for FREE!! It works great with an interactive whiteboard and you can use it even if you don't have access to a interactive board.

Check out this video from the creator.


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National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults

Visit the National Archives Digital Vaults for a unique and first-hand experience of primary documents from history. Click HERE to explore the contents of the vaults.

Begin by clicking on SEARCH to find information for a particular person or event. The search will reveal related images and documents with detailed information on each. Select one image to move to the center of the page and all other related documents will reorganize around that main photo. By hovering your mouse over the tags on the left of the screen, certain related images will be enhanced for your viewing. In the photo below, I did a "civil rights" search, moved the "Seat in Question" photo of Rosa Park's bus seat to the center, and hovered over the word "Women" on the left. You can see how some images are grayed out and you are left with the images that relate to Civil Rights, Rosa Parks, and Women.
Click on the PATHWAYS button to follow a series of clues that reveal relationships between photos, documents, and other related material or create your own pathway for your students to explore that you can Save or Email: Think Google Lit Trip but with documents and photos. Below is a Pathway on "Men and Monuments". By clicking on CREATE, you and your students can make interactive posters and videos using photos and documents from the National Archives Vaults to enhance your study of history.

Be sure to sign up for your FREE account to save all of your creations. This site provides a great way for you and your students to interact with history!

EduTecher- Great Links for Teachers

EduTecher is an online resource full of links to some of the most valuable webtools for instruction. More importantly, they provide tips on how the tools support what you teach.

To get started, browse by subject, and start enjoying what they have to offer. Know of a tool they've missed? Just send them an email and their happy to add it to the list!

Have a smart phone? Visit the app store and grab this free app! For more information, visit: http://edutech.org/

Word Sift

Try Word Sift for an interactive, engaging way to introduce and help your students grasp content related words or challenging vocabulary.

Word Sift is an interactive word cloud generator. Simply copy and paste your desired text into the text box, and a word cloud will be created for you. Then the fun begins! Each word becomes a link to images, videos, definitions, antonyms, and synonyms. The words are automatically sorted alphabetically for you, but you can also sort them from rare to common and common to rare. Here is the word cloud I got when I pasted the text from the Advanced Biology curriculum map, BIO.9a

When I clicked on the word organism, here are some Google images that were found.

AND, here is what came up in the visual Thesaurus!

Science Animations

This site offers visual aids that will help students make sense of hard to grasp concepts. The site offers directions on how to download the Flash animations, so you can use then even if they network goes down. It is worth taking a look!