Epic offers free activity calendars
Epic is an online digital library that is free for educators but a paid service for families. Without an account they offer free monthly activity calendars.
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Source: Apollo 11 in Real-time The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing is coming up, and what better way to celebrate it than by listening and view the mission itself. The BBC has also put together information about the Apollo 11 mission, including a podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon. As someone who was…
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Last week I attened the ITIP Ohio Google Summit. One of the sessions I attended was Getting Google-y in K-2 Reading presented by Jazmine Monroe and Becky McDonald. One of their examples was a Google Sheet that was formatting for Word Mapping, using conditional formatting to reflect correct and incorrect answers. I thought this was…
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Who Is Responsible for Tech Abuse? For as long as there has been social media, kids have been getting punished for its “misuse” (in the eyes of adults). Because of this perceived inappropriate behavior in social media, many schools have blocked Facebook, Twitter, and other frequently-used social media sites from their students. Smart phones are…
How did I miss this before?!? Free resources from Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it,…
