Instructional Technology Specialist

This website is a free site that allows you to download and personalize a wide variety of awards.  There are 9 pages of educational awards alone.  They download in PDF version.  You can type the information in but you are not given the privelages of saving what you type.  You must print at that point.

This is a great resource to have at the end of the year when teachers are giving awards to students for a variety of reasons.

Image source:  http://www.myawardmaker.com/templates/education.html

Here are some links that will help your grade 3-6 child/student practice language arts/reading skills.  I would be happy to add more if I’ve missed any.  Just let me know what I’ve missed.

http://www.jogtheweb.com/play/Y7e64ut49CeT/readinglanguage-arts-practice

Do you like to play games like jeopardy in your classroom in order to review specific concepts but do not like to do the work to create the PowerPoint version? There are other options for you to create jeopardy games and other games with your own content.

Image Source:  http://jeopardylabs.com/

Here are a couple of sites that have jeopardy and other game possibilities:
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/misc/winnergame022500.html
http://www.superteachertools.com/index.php

One of my principals does a weekly assembly on the topic of bullying on Wednesdays.  Our district has a No Bullying Allowed policy.  At North Fairview we have staff NBA shirts that we wear every Wednesday.  The students respond well to the assemblies that often include enjoyable stories.  Mr. Albert is a wonderful speaker, so we decided to share these assemblies with the educational community as well as parents and local community members by posting them in a podcast.  Enjoy our first week’s podcast.

http://nba.podomatic.com/

Image Source:  http://nba.podomatic.com/

You may have noticed a new link on My Links in the navigation bar.  I have added a link to my favorite web 2.0 tools.  I put the links on a weebly, so you can navigate through the areas of

• Image/Voice Tools
• Data/Information Organization
• Collaboration

Here is the home link. http://web20tools.weebly.com/ Just remember, it is on the navigation bar for your future use.

Here are a few of my favorite sites on dinosaurs.  I tried to find sites that second graders could access and use on their own.

Image Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/

http://www.dinodictionary.com/

http://www.kidsdinos.com/

http://wside.k12.il.us/tes/2ndino/sld001.htm

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/dinosaurs/

http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/dinosaur/index.html

Here is a fun craft you can do at home:
http://www.rain.org/~philfear/download-a-dinosaur.html