Website of the Week: Instagrok (Gr. 3-12)

Instagrok – A new way to learn Instagrok is a new twist on the traditional search engine that utilizes a visual mind map and a sorting outline that organizes results into facts, sites, videos, images, and even quizzes. In the mind map view, clicking on one of the satellite concepts will expand the map to [...]

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: 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(s) of the Week: Two Earths

Another Earth – Compare two Earths over time GE Teach – Look beyond your borders Both of these sites use the Google Earth plugin to give viewers a unique perspective of our planet and the wealth of information we’ve collected about it over time. Each site allows you to put TWO Google Earths side-by-side in [...]

Website of the Week: LogoType Maker (Gr. 6-12)

LogoType Maker – Create & customize your own logo images LogoType Maker is a free, Flash-based web tool with an impressive archive of fonts, graphics, and templates for making logos and rich titles. Simply type in the text for your logo, then click the Generate LOGO button. If you don’t see one you like, click [...]

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 [...]

BONUS Website #1: MeeGenius!

MeeGenius! – Enhanced online books for kids (Gr. K-6) A wonderful literacy resources that has a library full of online audio books. While the site does list books that require purchasing before being accessed, the site still has an impressive library of classic titles which are completely FREE. Stories can be listened to or read [...]

Website of the Week: Historvius

Historvius – Discover historic sites (Gr. 3-12) Part search engine, part map, and part reference guide, Historvirus helps you find historically important and sometimes forgotten sites. Search by destination and choose from over 200 possibilities or search by time period and enter a date (4000BC to present day), enter a historic period (70+ to choose [...]

Japan Earthquake: Before & After

Japan Earthquake: Before & After (Gr. 3-12) From ABC News in Australia, this site shows the level of devastation that Japan has experienced after the earthquake and resulting tsunami events that took place a week ago today. Using a unique overlapping interface along with images from Google Maps, students can compare and contrast the landscape as it look [...]

Website of the Week: Crayola Online Tools

Crayola products have been a staple of every classroom for like, ever. Now Crayola has brought their drawing and design products into the Web 2.0 world with two online interactive tools: Crayola’s Online Drawing Canvas (K-5) Students are given a blank canvas and up to nine different Crayola drawing tools to choose from. The toolkit [...]