Source: About BHL – Information about the Biodiversity Heritage Library Their Flickr album is probably not the best way to find images, but their Biodiversity Heritage Library Portal has a search feature. The publications are pretty high level, so the site is more of a resource for teachers and high schoolers instead of elementary students.
Source: Mr. Nussbaum – Educational Games, Activities, Resources for Kids Ages 5-14 and Teacher Tools. If you teach grades 1-6, then check out Mr. Nussbaum’s website. There are tons of resources available for free and also a subscription model. What makes Mr. Nussbaum’s website pretty cool is that he offers not only online activities, but…
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…
Source: Workbench Google Workbench is a repository of lesson plans that you can find through search. The search allows you to drill down through grade levels, content, project duration, and learning standards. Lessons can be assigned through Google Classroom or Clever. It’s all free, but they do have some premium features if you want to…
The majority of our students use technology daily to learn and share their voice, creativity, ideas, and passion with the world! When we integrate technology effectively into the curriculum students discover how to use technology to problem solve, create, and better their future and world. Before students embark on any digital project, you need to…
Source: Reshot: Uniquely Free Photos I’ve written about Unsplash before, and while their pictures are really nice, they can be overused. There have been times when I’ve seen the same shot on several different websites. Reshot is another source of images. The pictures are released under a very permissive, they can be used for non-commercial…
The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here. Source: Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way It’s a long read, but well…
Source: A Google a Day Here’s a fun Google search activity. When you visit A Google a Day, you are presented with a countdown timer and a question. The quicker you find the answer to the question, the more points you get.