Website of the Week: Yong’s China Quest Adventure (Gr. 1-7)

Yong’s China Quest Adventure – An interactive learning game Yong’s China Quest provides an interactive approach to learning about China and Chinese culture. While the site is more game than academic, students will be exposed to bits and pieces of information on clothing, figurines, and weaponry as they try to solve puzzles. Where the real [...]

How-To Tech Tip: This is How Twitter Works

Mom, This is how Twitter works – Handy tips for everyone! For those of you who may not know, Twitter is a popular social networking service that allow users to share news, events, and links with one another via posts that must be 140 characters or less. Some people use Twitter to share resources with [...]

Website of the Week: Storyline Online (Gr. K-8)

Storyline Online – Virtual story readers in your classroom! Storyline Online is an absolutely wonderful literacy resource to get students excited about reading, writing, and the telling of stories. A program of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, this site contains 24 animated stories on such books as A Bad Case of Strips and Romeow & [...]

Website of the Week: Copyright Q&A (Gr. 3-8)

Copyright Q&A – Quoting, paraphrasing information, and citing sources This simple website asks some of the most common questions surrounding copyright law and citing sources. Once you enter the classroom, use your cursor to hover over a student to make them raise their hand and ask a question. Click on the student or question bubble [...]

Mathnet & Mathman (Gr. 1-8)

Mathnet/Mathman – Show segments on YouTube If you don’t follow Richard Byrne’s blog Free Technology for Teachers then I strongly recommend you do so. In a recent post, Richard shared his discovery of episodes of Mathnet and Mathman, popular segments from the PBS television show Square One. For those who don’t know: Mathnet is a [...]

Website of the Week: Let Me Google That For You

LMGTFY – Empowering others with essential Internet skills The About page on the website says it all: “This is for all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves.” To start, type in the search term(s) that a student or colleague has asked you [...]

MLTI Minute: Text Substitution

MLTI Minute Podcast Episode 163: Text Substitution This podcast will show you how you can program your own text substitution and apply it globally to most Apps. installed on your Apple computer. The example in the podcast shows how to program the Mac to convert “LOL” automatically to, “That was quite a humorous statement. This [...]

Website of the Week: Find That File (Gr. 6-12)

Find That File – Search for content by file type (Gr. 6-12) Find That File is an Internet search engine designed to help users find content by media file type. For example, let’s say you would like to find an audio recording of MLK Jr. “I Have A Dream” speech. Simply enter your search criteria [...]

Google Apps Tip – Speech2Text w/Chrome

Google Translate Working with a student where there is a language barrier can be a very frustrating experience. Both parties are smart, knowledge, and communicative…but they just don’t understand one another. Enter Google Translate, which provides the simple tool of converting text from one language into that of another (there are currently 63 to choose [...]

PBS LearningMedia

PBS Learning Media – Fostering Classroom Innovation and Student Engagement PBS Learning Media is an online platform created to help teachers “re-imagine classroom learning” and integrate rich multimedia into lessons and activities. Currently there are over 14,000 resources available and can be filtered by grade level (Pre-K to 12+), subject (8), media type (document, audio, [...]