Finding Common Ground http://mkrill.edublogs.org Talking Education (& Technology) Sun, 27 May 2012 14:30:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 edublogs/ZiaIhttp://feedburner.google.com Elem Sites (weekly) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/edublogs/ZiaI/~3/mDOi4xTUKig/ http://mkrill.edublogs.org/2012/05/27/elem-sites-weekly-60/#comments Sun, 27 May 2012 14:30:17 +0000 mkrill http://mkrill.edublogs.org/2012/05/27/elem-sites-weekly-60/

  • Story Sequence | Classroom Strategies | Reading Rockets

    “Helping students learn to recall the facts of a story in the proper order is a skill that aids comprehension. Sequencing is an important part of problem solving across subjects.”

    tags: reading sequencing comprehension elem_sites

  • Bedtime Math | A new math problem every night.

    To make the nightly math problem as common as the bedtime story.

    tags: math elem_sites

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    Personal and collaborative sticky notes web-app | http://corkboard.me

    Grab the unique url, share with your audience and collect input. Quick and easy!
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  • whizz.us – Online math tutor for elementary grade students

    “Online math tutoring through Math-Whizz Tutoring Plus improves students’ Math. We guarantee that 5 to 13 year olds will improve using fun math games and exciting online resources.”

    tags: math interactive elem_sites notfree subscription

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  • There’s an app for that for cats | tweentribune.com

    Easy to read: TTJunior.com offers easy-to-read news stories for 2nd Graders, 3rd Graders and advanced 1st Graders, as well as remediation and ESL for all grades.

    Easy to write: Students can post blog comments that teachers review before publication.

    Click below to sign up. It’s fast, easy and free!

    tags: writing blogging elem_sites

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  • WatchKnowLearn – Free Educational Videos for K-12 Students

    WatchKnowLearn has indexed over 33,000+ educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness. Our Web site invites broad participation in a new kind of wiki system, guided by teachers. We have had a tremendously positive response from educators to the website. If we continue to work together, we can create an incredible, free, educational resource for students across the world.

    tags: education video collaboration elem_sites

  • Reading Bear – learn to read for free!

    Reading Bear, a project of WatchKnowLearn.org, is the first free program online to teach beginning readers vocabulary and concepts while systematically introducing all the main phonetic patterns of written English, all using innovative rich media. We have launched with 14 presentations and plan to increase the number to about 50. In the end, well over 1,200 items of vocabulary will be given the Reading Bear treatment.

    tags: phonics vocabulary elem_sites

  • Behavior Management Software – ClassDojo

    ““ClassDojo makes it easy to keep my students alert and on-task.””

    tags: behavior ClassroomManagement motivation elem_sites

  • Ways to use QR Codes in the Elementary Classroom and Using Google Docs to Create Them « Inside the classroom, outside the box!

    Ways to use QR Codes in the Elementary Classroom and Using Google Docs to Create Them

    tags: qrcodes elem_sites

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  • Cookie ™ | Learning Games for Kids | Kids Online Games for Elementary School

    “At cookie, child experts and educators design interactive online games for kids. Our learning games for kids help in building skills needed for success in school. While playing our fun educational games, kids learn to read with phonics, build skills in math, language, social studies, science and much more. Our educational videos encourage children to keep learning, even after school hours.”

    tags: elem_sites kindergarten 1stgrade interactive preschool phonics

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    ]]>     http://mkrill.edublogs.org/2012/04/08/elem-sites-weekly-56/feed/ 0 http://mkrill.edublogs.org/2012/04/08/elem-sites-weekly-56/     A day in the life… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/edublogs/ZiaI/~3/a_4e1KkOsJA/ http://mkrill.edublogs.org/2012/04/01/a-day-in-the-life/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:57:20 +0000 mkrill http://mkrill.edublogs.org/?p=648 I am co-facilitating a professional development series for teachers in the Allentown, PA area. This week they will be exploring web 2.0 tools and the whys and hows of classroom use of these tools. In our forum, they are asked to document their use of the Internet for a day. I tried to do that for myself and I realized that if I actually documented my entire day, I could be writing for a pretty long time!! That would seriously cut into my productivity though:)

    Here is what I came up with:

    An ordinary day starts for me with checking in on Facebook and Twitter. I like to see the recent posts and scroll down for any resources that might be useful for me or others with whom I work.

    I check in on the USA Today app and also Smartbrief.

    Then it’s on to email. I have my work email and my gmail to check. Within my gmail I participate in an instructional coach listserv where I glean resources and share anything that is relevant.

    By about 8:30 I am making rounds and working with teachers, either by appointment or drop in. In between visits, I check in on email, twitter and sometimes facebook.

    I control my twitter access by creating lists. That way I do not have to scroll through every single tweet. Other times I check on hashtags, like #edchat. I try my best to share back when I can, but this usually happens in the evening because twitter is blocked in my district.

    I used to use Google Reader to bring information right to me, but now I tend to access those same things through twitter and facebook.I use Flipboard and Zite on the iPad, as well as AP News. I access my Diigo account at least once an hour – to find a resource or add one for later review. Diigo is hands down my favorite and most useful organization tool!

    That’s all about how information comes to me, but I also create a lot each and every day!

    We use wikispaces, google apps, Moodle, and WordPress in my district. This week I am working on building Marketing materials on a wikispace, helping a teacher organize a student site with google sites to plan an appreciation breakfast, building these Moodle sessions and maintaining a elementary wide blog using WordPress. These are the main focus areas this week, but I also have smaller activities going on with these types of tools for other teachers and for other purposes.

    For me, I see using the web in a plate spinning analogy – I keep things turning, so nothing comes crashing down!

    What is your day like??

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  • Reading Graphic Organizers and Printables

    tags: graphicorganizers languagearts reading printables elem_sites

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  • Reading Graphic Organizers and Printables

    tags: graphicorganizers languagearts reading printables elem_sites

    • Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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  • Educators, innovators call for earlier intro to computer science – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

    tags: computerscience elem_sites shift businessed

  • Digital Portfolios for Primary Students! | Powerful Learning Practice

    “My students all love to put their learning online. They love that they have an audience and even more, they love to get comments about their work.”

    tags: eportfolio primary elem_sites portfolios

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