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 [...]

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: How To Do Research (Gr. 1-8)

How To Do Research – A virtual tour Created by the Kentucky Virtual Library Work-group, this site is a virtual step-by-step map of how to conduct research using old and new resources laid out in a game board theme. The tour/game board is broken down in five sections: Plan Search for Information Take Notes Use [...]

Website of the Week: QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator (Gr. 4-12)

QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator – Get students using their mobile devices to move and to learn. If you’ve ever been shopping at just about any type of store, you’ve seen the bar codes they use to quickly scan and record the price of each item. Recently, a variant of the bar code called the [...]

Website of the Week: NextUp (Gr. K-12)

NextUp – Your Meeting, Your Schedule NextUp is a simple web tool that allows you to create an agenda, tag it with a time duration, then start the countdown when your meeting begins. To start, choose a title for your schedule. Then, begin entering in the stages or steps in the order that you want [...]

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: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade – An informational database (Gr. 4-12) This site is chalk full of information, maps, lesson plans, timelines and multiple databases including slaves names, ship names, voyages and more. A definite asset to any student doing serious research but with enough diversity in materials and oversight to be helpful to those looking for [...]

Website of the Week: Mission US

Mission US – A Revolutionary Way to Learn History (Gr. 4-8) Mission US is an interactive online experience for students to learn about US history. Students start with Mission #1, “For Crown or Colony?” about the steps leading up to the Revolutionary War. More missions are forthcoming, so check out the ABOUT section for updates [...]

App of the Week Review: The Monster at the End of This Book

This week Hillary Brumer over at Techno Bytes reviews an interactive storybook App called The Monster at the End of This Book. This was so my favorite book when I was a kid; I think my parents had to actually buy the book twice because I wore out the first one. And come on, who [...]

BONUS #4: Digizen.org

Digizen.org – Helping Teachers, Parents and Kids become better DIGigtal citIZENS (Gr. 4-12) The Digizen website is full of topics and resources to help educate everyone on becoming ethical digital citizens in this world of ever-changing technology. Just some of the topics covered by the site include copyright, cyberbullying, plagiarism, selecting the perfect password and [...]