Kahoot

Kahoot is a free game based learning platform. Students can answer a series of multiple choice problems played in a group setting. These created games promote student understanding and engage peer-led discussions. It is a student response system that allows teachers to create games and quizzes.  

Math is Fun

Math is Fun

I came across this site that my students were able to use interactively. Specifically counting money.

Interactive Whiteboard Lessons-- ShowMe and Educreations

ShowMe is a whiteboard interactive app.  You can record lessons that you create so that students can view them and learn.  It is a global community where you can share with anyone in the world. There is also an online website that you can log into to view and share ShowMe lessons created.
                                           

Educreations is a whiteboard interactive app and website.  You can record lessons that you create so that students can view them and learn. You can import images, documents and webpages.  Videos are cloud synced and can be shared with anyone.  You can create a class where a student can sign in using a class code.                                  
    

Bulb -- Free portfolio

Bulb is a place where students and teachers create and share work.  It is a portfolio where kids can take  the work they have created and keep it for life.  They can add videos.  The interface is intuitive and easy to use.  It has a drag and drop feature.  It is free to sign up.

Solar System Exploration.......NASA

In January 2013 I mentioned the NASA site:  The Solar System Exploration site.  It's worth mentioning again  that it offers an education and kids section, video gallery, a multi media section that students would find interesting.  As well as a gallery of images, videos and an interactive section.

OR         NASA

Student Interactives

Read Write Think website has many student interactive tools that help accomplish various literacy goals.  Some examples are:
Letter generator
Postcard generator
Timeline generator

You can find all of their generators at this link,

Instructables

Instructables is a site where you can explore creations and share our own creations with others. It is a worthwhile site to explore and use.  Click on image for link.

Today's Meet

Today's Meet is a back channel for class discussions without student disruption.  They can connect with the audience in real time.  It is similar to Twitter but not made public. The teacher provides a link to the room that was created so that students can begin a discussion.

ThingLink

ThingLink helps you create a story from images by linking web content to each image.  The images become interactive and creative.  Thinglink help students develop 21 Century skills and inspire them to be creative.
Thing Ling Education is free for sign up.  http://www.thinglink.com/action/store/education


What is ThingLink Youtube Tutorial.

Socrative .... Edcanvas ...... Quiz Taking

Socrative is a student response system that allows teachers to create games and quizzes.  "Students interact real time with the content."  Socrative runs on laptops, smartphones and laptops.  Very easy to register and login.

(Thanks John and Mario)

Edcanvas now allows a teacher to "Add Quiz" on an empty canvas tile, and add questions and answers.  Then it automatically grades the quizzes for you.  I mentioned what Edcanvas is in my March 22nd post.

Socrative and this section of Edcanvas create, "Formative assessments and it helps you guage student understanding after a lesson."

Teach Your Monster To Read

A free game to practice the first steps of reading.

SpongeLab

An earlier post revisited: Spongelab.  There have been upgrades and changes since I last mentioned this.  Sponge lab is an open and free science learning community.  Spongelab is interactive and the media is available for anyone to use.



http://www.spongelab.com/

Solar System Exploration.....NASA

My daughter came home one day and announced that she needed to make the Galileo Space Orbitor for her science project.  She went online and began researching for her project.  She came across the NASA website that had templates of their Space Exploration Fleet.   She printed the PDF and created her Paper Model.  This is the model she created AND the model turned out just like this image!!!

This website is a great Solar System Exploration Site.  There is an Education and Kids section as well as offer other interesting information.  Aside from this, what interested me was the Multi-media section that students would find interesting.  There is a gallery of images, videos and an interactive section.

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Art Appreciation for Kids.....Garden of Praise

This site is called Garden of Praise and it has a section that offers art appreciation lessons for kids on famous paintings and learn about the artists as well.  This site offers biographies, worksheets, prints, puzzles, printables as well as  links for further research on a particular artist and links to art lessons.  The prints on this site are public domain. Not bad for Smartboard use.
This site has a game called "Who is the Artist"?
http://gardenofpraise.com/art.htm

ePals Community.......PBL

Epals Global community is a site that offers projects for classroom collaboration.  You can safely connect with other classrooms, collaborate or start your own project based learning OR Teachers can search for classroom ready projects and activities. You can join for free. 
 www.epals.com

There are lesson plan/projects you can find in this community.

Comic Master

Comic Master is a graphic novel creator.  Like other comic generators, comic master has drag and drop features for students to create their comic pages.  Comic master allows students to save their work so that they have the option to go back to edit their work.  Once they are finished, students can print their short graphic novel.  http://www.comicmaster.org.uk/

Wallwisher

Wallwisher is paper for the web.  It is a wall (blank page) that you put anything you want from anywhere. This page can be used to make noticeboards, to share ideas, brainstorm, etc.
Teaching idea: pose a question and children would post their feedback.

Click on this page and the wall you see will give you suggestions on how to use this wall............ Lot’s of possibilities.  http://wallwisher.com/
An example of a wall:

Essay Map

Essay Map is a great interactive tool from Read Write Think a site I mentioned in one of my earlier posts.  Essay map provides step by step guide for constructing an essay. http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/essaymap/

SketchUp.........3D models

SketchUp for Education  http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/industries/education.html
Students from K-12 can create 3D images/models by using this online drawing tool. They have a free download version for educators and kids.
http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/download/gsu.html    (download)

For Educators:
Have students sketch a model. They are to teach other students how to create what they created;  they can create a movie describing step by step on how to make their image. This is a good idea to do collaboratively or as a project based learning assignment.

Meograph........Interactive Writing....Storytelling

Meograph.......4-Dimensional Storytelling

Meograph helps create interactive stories. You can combine maps, timeline, links and multimedia to tell stories in “context of where and when”. Easy for students to be creative and create projects.  It is Free.

http://www.meograph.com/education 

An earlier post revisted:
Meograph is like Google Lit Trips that I discussed in my April 10, 2011 post.  This site plots out a 3 dimensional journey that a novel takes. Each plot also includes podcasts and screen shots of locations. You can contribute to the mashup of literature. This site is regularly updated.