Source: Games, Videos, and Books for Kids – Funbrain
Funbrain is a free to use website with books, videos, and games available for students K-8. The activities are organized by grade level and activity.
No registration is required to use the site, and each activity has it’s own web address, making it easy to share in your learning management system such as Google Classroom.
Paris Musées announced yesterday that it is now offering 100,000 digital reproductions of artworks in the city’s museums as Open Access — free of charge and without restrictions — via its Collections portal. Paris Musées is a public entity that oversees the 14 municipal museums of Paris, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville…
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“;…
There are times when you are using a Google Sheet, such as collecting information in a form, where you would like highlight the minimum and maximum cell in a column. Google Sheets offers conditional formatting, which gives you the ability to change the formatting of a cell based on the contents of the cell. For…
Source: Illustrations Gallery – ManyPixels Yes, there are many different sources of royalty free and copyright friendly graphics and pictures. What makes ManyPixels nice is that the graphics you download all share a common look. After selecting a color, you can search for clip art, and ManyPixels will show you clipart with the same color…
There are times when you’re on one device but want to use the content from another device. For things like pictures it’s pretty easy to send the content to Dropbox, but that is cumbersome and slow. Plus, it doesn’t work well for textual content like links of notes. That’s where Pushbullet can help. You can…
5 Best Practices to Globalize Your School | Getting Smart Although we know what a modern education can and should look like, we struggle to provide equitable opportunities for all students. Global learning experiences in particular stand out as an element of a rigorous education that is common to some students fortunate enough to attend…