March+5,+2011



You can teach students a lesson for a day; but if you can teach them to learn by creating curiosity, they will continue the learning process as long as they live. ~Clay P. Bedford

Below are the websites that were discussed in class on March 5th.

[|Storybird]- "Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print. Teachers love them because they inspire their most reluctant writers and readers and reward their most adventurous. Kids adore them because they feel empowered by the tools and supported by the social feedback." [|Click here]to sign up for the free Class accounts to manage students without emails, create assignments, and build beautiful libraries.

[|Clay Yourself Avatar]- a fun site that allows you to create an avatar. You instruct students to skip the nameing of the avatar as it will ask for an email address. Simply go tot he next step and download the avatar or take a screen shot and save it.

[|Dotty-Dots]- a fun application that allows you to create some fun text. Does not work in Internet Explorer! Creates nice text for Notebook lessons.

[|Google Art Project-] A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Basically its Google Street view **inside** various art museums.

[|Zimmer Twins-] A site devoted to kids and creative storytelling- it invites children to create and share their own animated stories. You will need to create an account to save your stories.

[|Abraham Lincoln's Crossroads-] This activity takes you on Abraham Lincoln’s political journey in a very unique, informative and educational format- complete with audio so make sure your speakers are turned up. It chronicles Lincoln’s political decisions during his Presidency. This activity also displays well using the SMARTBoard.

[|Modern Marvels-] a website sponsored by the __ History Channel __ and offers short videos on several interesting inventions, topics of modern history. It is based on the television series. Click on the Video link (left side) to few the categories.

[|Down for Everyone or Just Me]- an application that will tell you if a website is offline for everyone or just you! There short URL is [|isup.com].