Source: Seterra Geography Games
Seterra Geography Games is a great site for helping you teach geography. There are games and resources for all sorts of geography related lessons. Best of all, everything is free, including the iOS and Android apps.
The site consists of online games, printables, and the ability to create your own quizzes. Seterra Geography Games covers more than the US, with maps and games for all over the world.
Source: Programming for Kids | Kodable Kodable offers both free and paid resources for teaching programming in primary and intermediate schools, from grades K-5. I really like how their curriculum moves to actually writing code in 3rd grade, moving beyond the drag and dropping of blocks like in Scratch. The use of blocks hasn’t convinced…
Source: FindSounds – Browse for sounds Who doesn’t need sound effects? Whether it is for that multimedia project or that Scratch game, everyone needs a sound effect at some time or another. FindSounds is a search engine for free sounds. Unfortunately, even though you can play and download the sounds for free, who own the…
Source: Freesound – Freesound You’re working on the perfect video or slide show, and it is awesome. But, it’s awesome like an ice cream sundae without the cherry. Great, but not fantastic. So you look for things to push the project to new heights when you realize that some well placed sound effects add not…
6 Truths About Technology in Education I recently had the opportunity to Keynote the University of Pennsylvania Literacy Network’s Winter Symposium. Penn Literacy Network founder Mort Botel (who was also a former President of the International Reading Association) wrote one of the most influential works in my teaching career, “The Plainer Truths of Teaching/Learning/Assessing Across the Curriculum“;…
Classroom technology is everywhere. Schools are filled with shiny, interactive devices, and new gadgets and apps flood the market every day. Teachers in districts with limited funding for technology are turning to crowdfunding sources to obtain technology for their classrooms. But is technology the panacea that we’re all searching for? Source: Five Myths About Classroom…
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