Category Archives: Cross Curricular
Multimedia Posters with Glogster EDU
Ever wish you could provide your students with a one-stop shop of resources for a lesson or project? If so, welcome to the world of Glogster EDU. With Glogster, you and your students can create multimedia posters of information using a “pin board” style format. You can include links, documents, videos, and pictures to … Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Cross Curricular, Social Studies, Web Tools
Tagged Brooklyn Bridge, Glogster
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Embedding HTML Content in Google Earth
One of my favorite teaching tools is the topic of today’s free webinar: Google Earth. We have produced three webinars about using Google Earth in the Classroom. The latest version of Google Earth lets teachers insert links, images, and videos via HTML into the “Comments” section when a place-marker, polygon, overlay, or line is created.… Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Cross Curricular, Literacy, Social Studies, Tips, Video
Tagged Google Earth, Google Lit Trips, YouTube
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TED-Ed: Flipping the Learning
Many of us have viewed and shared links to TED Talks videos, where speakers teach us about a topic they are passionate or knowledgeable about. TED’s newest initiative, TED-Ed, is a service that was created “with the intention of supporting teachers and sparking the curiosity of learners around the world.” These high quality … Read more
Search 365,000 TV News Broadcasts
The Internet Archive is a library of archived PDF’s, audio tracks, videos, articles, and website — anything that exists in digital format. For example, using the Archive’s Wayback Machine, a teacher could bring students to The New York Times website as it appeared on a date in (recent) history. Students could use this research tool … Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Cross Curricular, Social Studies
Tagged Internet Archive, TV News, Wayback Machine
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A Back to School Message from Dr. King, NYS Education Commissioner
Last week Dr. John King, New York State Education Commissioner left a back to school message on the newly created EngageNY website. We invite you to watch Dr. King’s Back to School message and share your thoughts.
Dr. King’s message focuses on the following themes:
- Educational Change
- What and how we learn
- How New
Posted in Common Core, Cross Curricular
Tagged Common Core Standards, Data-Driven Instruction, Dr. John King, EngageNY, New York
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New Professional Development Dates for Summer 2012
Due to popular demand, we are offering a second chance to attend some of our most popular courses this summer. We offering new dates for The 20 Coolest Things You Can Do with a SMART Board, SMART Board Basics, Best Web tools for the Interactive Classroom, Learning with the iPad, and … Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Cross Curricular, Events, Technology
Tagged 20 Coolest Things, Common Core Standards, Events, iPad, pd, Professional Development, SMART Board Resources, Staff development
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MentorMob for the Interactive Classroom
As part of one of our summer courses, Best Web Tools for the Interactive Classroom, we’ll be taking a look at MentorMob.
MentorMob is a site for creating learning playlists. Within a maximum of 10 “steps” you can lead your students through the learning process focused on any topic. Since playlists … Read more
Posted in Cross Curricular
Tagged Google Forms, Interactive Classroom, MentorMob, Playlists
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