How do you do that?

Ever wonder how to do a trick on a skate board, or how to make folded paper crafts?  Well you're in luck I have the answer.  Graspr.com is your online how to educator.  It is similar to Youtube where people can post videos that they share expert knowledge on. 

**NOTE: Graspr does state in it's Terms of Service that it does not view each submission.  It is up to you to preview the videos before you show them to a class or group of people.  They do have ads on their site.  They all seemed appropriate from what I saw, but please be aware of this.**

Happy viewing and get learning!

Open Office

Welcome Back from break everyone!  I hope you are all rested and enjoyed your time off!!

Are you tired of not being able to edit Microsoft Documents at home when you haven't purchased the office suite?  Well I have an answer for all of you.

  

Openoffice.org is your solution.  This is a free download where you can open, edit, and save Microsoft documents without having to pay for the suite.  I am not doing it justice here is a little blurb from their website...

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

Check it out by clicking here and give it a try.  It is Mac and PC friendly!!!

Read Write Think

 

Are you looking for ELA lesson ideas?  Maybe you want some sort of interactive whiteboard activity, ReadWriteThink is your site!  Along with interactive whiteboard activities you can find calendar activities, printouts for K-12, and great ideas for your SMART Boards.  

Read, Write, Think is a branch of Thinkfinity.org.  If you have time check that out as well!

Happy Hunting!!!

100 Days of School

Are you looking for a 100 Days of school activity, well you're in luck.  ABCya has a great activity that the kids can use mouse movement skills.  One Hundred Snow Balls is a fun way for the students to explore what they could really make with 100 snow balls.

If you want to print the student's work, you MUST Right Click on the picture, then click print.   

DO NOT CLICK FILE AND PRINT, since this is a flash game it will not show up by clicking file print.

Enjoy and HAPPY 100 DAYS!!!

Wordle.net is a pretty neat site to organize a collection of words in a creative new way.  It arranges your words into "word clouds".  You can type in your own words and click create.  They give you options to change the font, color, and size, or you can just click randomize and they will put your words in a random order.

What is neat about this is that you can put in a link to a blog and have it upload instantly.  This is a great way to have students create poems online or give out spelling.  It's a pretty neat site to decorate your room with as well! 

Check it our here!

This is Jeopardy.....

Alex Trebek move over... your classroom teacher is taking over!  Check out James Maddison's amazing Jeopardy link.  They have perfected and simplified a way for teachers to use Microsoft PowerPoint to make a Jeopardy review game.  There is step-by-step instructions for you to follow.

So throw away your index cards and poster board and check out this great site!

Don't forget to download the template for you to put your answers on!!!

ABCYa

This is a great site for teachers to let students explore on.  It's called ABCYa.  It has great games on here for students to enhance their math, reading, spelling, and other school skills.

I let my students use these games more than any others because they have a great educational component to them.  The only down fall is that it is made for students in grades K-5, but I have used them with students up to 8th grade.

Click here for the link.

Hello

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog!  Check back here often to find great websites for teachers, educational professionals, and kids! 

Please leave comments and I will get to them as soon as I can.  If you would like to request sites or information please e-mail me at tplace@cooperstowncs.org.

~Tom