Wonder Wednesday: Testing 1,2,3... Testing

Participate in the poll above... (by May 16)

This month's poll is about... State Testing... For Ohio at this time of year, that would be the OAAs or Ohio Achievement Assessments for grades 3-8. What do you think will happen with state tests in the next 10 years? (Answer at the top of this page!)

RECAP:
The last Wonder Wednesday poll was about Spring Break Plans... Turns out that many decided to either work on house projects, make time for some R&R (Good for them!), or catch up on grading or lesson plans -- too bad! (Click image below to see full results)

Tools for Tues: Livebinders & Infographics

Here are two tools that are visual AND help us organize information, which is an essential skill today and well into the future...

LiveBinders - although not a new "tool", this may be an alternative for teachers or students to save websites, PDFs, videos, images and more to one location... Here are some possible uses:

• bookmark/favorites alternative
• eportfolio
• online presentation resource (alternative to PowerPoint)
• collaborative resources space (share with colleagues and all add to it)

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LiveBinder on Infographics

And take a look at this sample LiveBinder on Infographics -- the FUTURE of presenting/sharing information!

Learn more! Here are some more resources on InfoGraphics...

Visual.ly - a website dedicated to visual expression of data and information... Explore, share, and create here!

10 Tools for Creating Great InfoGraphics

Sample InfoGraphics

Infographics App — An app for finding infographics

Google's Education On Air Conference

Looking for more professional development in ed-tech? How about trying Google's "Education On Air" offering on Wednesday, May 2nd from 12-10pm (ET) via Google+ Hangouts (so get an account/sign up soon!)

More info, including presenters and session topics, are available at: https://sites.google.com/site/eduonair/home 

Tools 4 Tuesday: SMART Board Thinking Games, Audio Books & eBooks, and Interactive Maps

Librivox: Free books site (eBook links & Audio recordings of book readings) - books from public domain

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Cool Interactive Map Website
http://show.mappingworlds.com/usa/

Choose from the U.S., World, or Japan... "Select a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value."

 

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 SMART Board Logic Games
(Re-shared from Teachers Love SMART Boards)

Here are five strategy games that Teachers Love SMART Boards blog best qualified as "educational." You can click these links to view and/or download these SWF files which can be inserted onto a SMART Notebook slide/page. 1. Peg Solitare – Jump over other pegs until all the pegs are removed from the board.   2. Shot – Try to knock other balls off the grid. Be careful you don't leave a ball alone on the grid.   3. Code Master – This is my favorite game. You have to assign a number from 1 – 9 to a letter to break the code. This game uses handwriting recognition to recognize the numbers that are written. It works very well although it struggled a few times trying to recognizing my number 8.   4. Recognizer – This is another number recognition activity where students can write in the answer to a two-digit addition problem using the SMART Board pen or their finger and the activity will recognize what number they wrote.   5. Tacoyaki - Click tiles to change the color of the surrounding tiles trying to get all the tiles the same color.

Manic Monday: Planner & Calendar Templates

Planning is good… Free, pretty planners make it more fun to do "good"...planning! 

View and download the daily or weekly planners and calendars in PDFs or Word formats from Xerox. They even come in 2 per page! (Note that calendars are for March-December 2012)