Tour Builder by Google

This is what  Katie Siemer has to say about Tour Builder, "So what is Tour Builder? Tour Builder uses Google Earth technology and allows you to add a sequence of locations on a map that users can click through like they’re going on a tour. You can upload up to 25 photos and YouTube videos to go along with each stop on the tour. You can also add a description and links to additional resources for each location that you add. When users view the Tour, they will click “next” on the tour to be taken to the next point on the map. Check out this example by the Jane Goodall Institute to get the gist of it. Tour Builder was originally created, “to give veterans a way to record all the places that military service has taken them, and preserve their stories and memories as a legacy for their families,” according to the Tour Builder website. Obviously, Google saw the cool ways this could be used in education and beyond and eventually made it public."

This tool could easily be used in History or Geography but you could use this in English class when discussing a novel that the character travels around.  You could easily build a tour to show your class.   Or you could have your students build a tour of the book they reading.  To see Tour Builder click here.

Writer's Workshop by Ted Ed

The Writer's Workshop is a list of 22 Ted-Ed short videos.  You might want to have your students look at this prior to a major essay or you might want to use one or more of these in your classroom as an introduction to a lesson.  To see the Workshop click here.

System of Equations and shooting hoops

 Andrew Stadel posted a nice little pdf that you could use to introduce systems of equations.

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 Maybe you might have your students go to the gym and shoot some baskets in pairs and record the number they make from the free-throw line and from the field (or field vs 3 pt line) and then they can present their data to the class and have other students solve the equations.

Zero Noise Classroom

If you want a countdown timer and noise meter for your classroom try Zero Noise Classroom as a Chrome App.

From their website, "The free noise level display and stopwatch for the cooperative classroom.

It helps students be aware of the noise level in the classroom during cooperative learning activities, and moderate it accordingly.

When time is over, the percentage of time that the noise level has exceeded the optimal level is displayed, so the teacher can use that value in gamification techniques."

To see the website, click here.

Pindex = Pinterest for Education

Stephen Fry, a well known British actor and comedian, co-founded Pindex.   He calls it Pinterest for Education.  To see the site click here.  To see an article from The Telegraph about Stephen Fry and Pindex click here.  If you are interested, they also have a "How To" guide.  You can see that by clicking here.

An Alternative to Canva

From a review from gerenm.photograpy, "Every so often, and especially around holidays, we all need to put together some sort of photo collage, be it for a Facebook post, an e-mail to friends and family, or for some sort of promotional material for our businesses. And, certainly, we can do it in Photoshop or InDesign or Illustrator or even Lightroom - if we have the time. More than likely, though, we need to do it quickly, and most of the "usual suspects" are not conducive to getting the job done right now."

To see Fotojet click here.  If you have never used Canva click here.

Table Top Twitter

I saw this on the Conversations In Literacy.  If you would like an activity that actively  involves the whole class, you might want to try this.  It will work in a Social Science class too.  Each student reads the posted passage and has to write something about it.  Then the students move around and respond to other students writing.  To see Lori's post click here.  

Build an Atom

This site has many great simulations you can download or just click on and use.  "Build an Atom" is an interactive information simulation.  You can build and atom out of protons, electrons and neutrons and then see how the element, mass and charge change.  You can play a game to test your skills.  This would be great as you are teaching this topic or as a review.  To see Build an Atom click here.

Biodiversity Day on Monday

May 22 is Biodiversity Day.  I thought I might want to show your class this interactive by CNN on Monday in honour of the day.  To see the page click here.  On May 22, 2013 I made a post about Biodiversity Day.  You can see that post by clicking here.

Ormiboard - web based white board

From their website, "Ormiboard is a web-based whiteboard for schools that lets teachers create content and collaborate with students – on any device with any OS – making teaching and learning seamless, hassle-free and more inclusive. Instantly transform your classroom, home or anywhere you roam into one giant canvas to engage students like never before!"

To see their site click here.    To read a review and how to of this site click here.

Setting Up Your AP History DBQ

I have posted about Tom Richey's  great AP History website before.  To see my post click here.  He posted a new video on "Setting Up Your AP History DBQ".  He leads students through the procedure to make an excellent essay that meets the standards of the new AP US, European and World History DBQs.  See the video embedded below.

New York Times Spanish Edition

Read New York Times articles and original content in Spanish with this site.  To see the site click here.

Domain and Range

I saw this post on Domain and Range on John Scammell's website, Zero Knowledge Proofs.  He explains the game he plays with his students and gives links to downloads.  To see the article on his blog click here.

Voice Thread

According to Joseph Taylor at Warrior Ed Tech, "Are you looking for an alternative to PowerPoint with the power of screencasting? Do you want your students to work on their presentation skills?  Do you want your students to show what they know through a presentation but do not want to take 5 class periods to get though everyone in the class? VoiceThread is the answer!"  In the embedded video below Jenna Moore shows how to use VoiceThread  in the classroom.  To see their site click here and go to the K-12 Learn More section.

Why Read?

Why read?  Here is what Kylene Beers says.

Debucate

Debate + Educate = Debucate

This website is "A place to educate yourself on current topics, evaluate different views and present your own."  If any of your students are "debaters" they might want to go to this site for some practice.  If you teach current events, your students might want to join in.  To see the site click here.

Collaborative Essay Brainstorming Activities

Before your students start their next essay you might want to have them try any one of the ideas from this website by  Christina, The Daring English Teacher.  To see her website click here.

What's Happening to Biodiversity?

The following infographic is on biodiversity and endangered species.  It comes from The World Bank and can be found by clicking  here.

Text2VoiceOver

From their website, "You have this awesome video and need a to add voice to it? This is your place. Using the Google Chrome technology we can generate voiceovers from text in 15 different voices and 13 languages!  With our easy to use editor, use a Youtube video or your own to mark the times when the voiceover should happen. Time the duration of each text block. Merge with the video and get it ready to publish !. Supporting up to 15 voices and 13 languages, the ultimate tool to make semi-automatics voiceovers for your videos!"  To see the video tutorial, look at the video embedded below.  To see their website click here.

eQuiz Show - like Jeopardy

If you would like to make up a Jeopardy style game or use the ones already made on this site click here.  I have posted about this site and other Jeopardy type sites previously.  To see those posts click here. 

Schools of California Online Resources for Education

From their website, "The former Schools of California Online Resources for Education, History/Social Science (SCORE H/SS) evaluated, aligned, and annotated quality resources from the WWW to the California History-Social Science Content Standards and curriculum." and  "Funding for maintenance of the SCORE H/SS website ended by 2006, and the site was no longer being updated. However, due to the continuing high traffic to the hundreds of activities and lessons hosted on the server, archived versions of those resources will continue to be hosted for the time being."

The site has many great lesson plans and activities but you will have to root around in their index folder to find stuff, but it is well worth it.

To see the website click here.

Delf A1 Resources for French

One of the French teachers at my school was in the library lab and I asked her what she was looking at on the computer, yeah I am nosy.  Long and short of it I ended up looking up a few things for her.  If you are teaching French at the grade 9 applied level these two links to pdfs might be of use to you.

To see the links click here or here. 

sine, sine, every where sine

From the Science March in April 2017.  It might be something you can use when you start trig.

Taken from Alison Griswold's twitter account.  To see it click here.