Happy Holidays! -From Santa and his Reindeer-

Super cute:

White Christmas Sing Along

Have a great holiday!!

The Reindeer Orchestra

Here's a link to help you have a few laughs the last days before vacation.

Reindeer Orchestra

Let me know how good you get. :)

EdVideo Replacement

I'm hoping that by now, you have all heard that Powermedia Plus a.k.a. EdVideo is being yanked at the end of the school year.  So, we are forced to find a replacement. Vital New York is another site that (for now) is free to teachers.  Here, you can download or view videos in your web browser.  It works a lot like EdVideo, it's just not as extensive. When you go to the site, click on the Test Drive to see if there are comparable videos to what you have been using from EdVideo.  I'll follow up with details later about signing up for a real registration.

Vital New York

The Magic Gopher

Ok, bear with me today.  This site may look all fun and games at first, but it could be a great math exercise.  Students practicing addition and subtraction skills could have a great time with this game, and students practicing higher math skills such as algebra can try to figure out how it works.  Not to mention the fact that the game is really fun!  Try it!

The Magic Gopher

Comments, please!

Hi All!  I hope you are all enjoying my blog.  I really encourage you to take a second to leave me some comments.  I want to know what you think!  Let me know what types of sites you are interested in, or if you have used any that I have posted so far.  Thanks!

Online Microscope

Today feels like it should be dedicated to science!  Here's a neat website from The Open University that allows you to view a variety of different plant, animal, or microbe cell slides.  This is a great opportunity to show all your students a specimen without worrying about lab equipment.  All you need is a projector!

Online Microscope

Once you have a specimen in the lens, you can click on areas of interest (outlined in red and green brackets) to zoom in for a closer look.  You can also move the slide around to look at different areas of the cell.  Have fun!

The SMART Exchange

Sorry for the late start today.  It was a busy day at the office!

Today's site is a great tool for finding (and uploading) great work. At the SMART Exchange, you can search notebook files that have been uploaded by teachers all over.  Tweak what you find, or use it as is!  You can even click on the "Share a Resource" tab to upload a notebook file that you think could benefit someone!  Happy hunting!

The SMART Exchange

Oh! I forgot to mention that there is a standards-correlated search feature that will browse files based on the New York Core Curriculum.  How cool!

Ben's Guide to US Government

Sorry I missed the last day of last week, what a busy day it was!  Anyway, I have the perfect site to make up for it: Ben's Guide to US Government for kids.  This is a fantastic site for K-12 students and teachers.  Here, you can find very accurate and useful information pertaining to the inner-workings of our government.  Games and a glossary can also be discovered here.  Enjoy!

Ben's Guide to US Government

Make a Word Mosaic

Today I've got a site that is a combination of ELA and art!  Students could use this tool to enhance their book reports, poetry, lyrics, or speeches.  Simply put in some text, choose the shape and color of your mosaic and you have a wonderful piece of art!

Image Chef - Word Mosaic
Here's an example I did with a few ideas for what this tool could help students gain:

Disposable Email

What a beautiful North Country day today, right?  Yuck!

Anyway, getting right to business, I have a website today that is a perfect solution for a lot of us.  Don't you hate how you find a neat site, and then have to register for it using an email?  A lot of times, you have to worry about getting spam delivered to whatever email you use.  Well, mailcatch.com is your answer.  Simply put in any mailbox name you can think of, then @mailcatch.com, for example 1234554321@mailcatch.com.  Then, you can go to the mailcatch site, put in your mailbox name and check for the confirmation email to activate whatever account you're starting.  After that, you will never have to worry about checking the mailcatch account again, because it's deleted after a short time!

One tip: try to use something unique, because ANYONE can use this site.  If you use something simple like 1234@mailcatch.com, you may find some other emails in the inbox from people who have used the same address.

MailCatch

Keep this site in mind, because it may come in handy for future "Sites of the Day".

Teachers Love SMART Boards

If you take only one thing from this blog, it should be the site I'm going to share with you today.  This site is a blog in itself, dedicated to the sharing of K-12 SMART lessons, resources, ideas, and activities.  You could spend hours looking at new and archived entries with hundreds of ideas and downloads available for your use.  I would also recommend subscribing to the site's newsletter: The Smart Insider.

Teachers Love SMART Boards

Vitual Math Manipulatives

Hey Math Teachers! No matter if you're teaching kindergarten or seniors, check out this site where you have access to literally hundreds of different virtual manipulatives, in all areas of math.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

To use the site, find your grade level are in the top row, then find your content area in the left column, and click the box where they intersect.

There is no need to download the full version...you already have everything at your fingertips for free!

Leave a comment to let me know what you think!

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