Blog Posts to Check out!

Here are some links for your enjoyment!

1. Take Students Around the World with Virtual Field Trips
    ISTE'S NECC '09 Blog
2. Virtual Field Trip Planning Kit
    Free Technology for Teachers
3. April - National Autism Awareness Month
   Talking Smartboards and Much More!
   This post has some great tips on raising awareness for autism!

It's my spring break this coming week!  I hope to catch up on writing some posts about the projects I've been working on and get those posted.  So be on the lookout for those!

Happy Friday!

Here are some exciting posts you should check out from Free Technology for Teachers! I'll try and read some other blogs this week and get some different ideas from around the web, but these 3 are great ideas!

1. Animated Web Search Tutorials
    Free Technology for Teachers
   This looks like a great idea to help students get the most out of researching on the web.  Students want 
   quick answers and sometimes get caught up in searches that don't lead them to more specific information
   on topic areas.

2. Mac for Beginners
     Free Technology for Teachers

3. 20+ Ways to Use Flip Cameras in the Classroom
     Free Technology for Teachers

TGIF!

It's been a long week working on Glogster posters!  I'll be writing more about that later, but here are some blog posts to peruse during your weekend.  Happy Friday!

1.  Creative Exercises for Artists and Art Students
     Free Technology for Teachers

2. Putting Tech in Phys. Ed - Google Maps Bike Routes
     Free Technology for Teachers

3. Turn Your Spreadsheets into Word Clouds
     Free Technology for Teachers

4. Top 10 Reasons Communicating on Computers Impacts Quality of Writing
     ISTE Connects

Happy Friday!

Here are some great blog postings from excellent teachers and technology integrators.  Check out #10 for sure!

1. Game Based Learning with Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics
     Trails Optional
2. Flixtime: Another Worthy Animoto Alternative
    NCS-Tech

3. The Great Wordle Crisis
     The Whiteboard Blog

4. NOVA on Hulu
    Free Technology for Teachers

5. Big, Huge, Free Presidents Timeline Poster
    Free Technology for Teachers

6. Auto-Captioning Available on All YouTube Videos
    Free Technology for Teachers

7. How to Embed a Map into Blogs and Wikis
   Free Technology for Teachers

8. How the Web Works - A Slideshow from the BBC
    Free Technology for Teachers

9. Top 50 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Google Maps
    Virtual Hosting.com

10. How To Teach an Old Dog New Tech, Part 2
       ISTE Connects Blog

Friday blogs

Here are some blogs you might like to peruse this weekend...

1. Create Critical Thinkers Using Databases (and Spreadsheets)
     ISTE'S NECC '09 Blog

2. Learn Something New Everyday
     Talking Smartboards and Much More

3. The Trick to Image Fill
     TeqSmart

4. Teaching Commenting Skills
     The Edublogger

5. What Happened the Year You Were Born?
     Talking Smartboards and Much More

And I couldn't resist-if you need a smile, check out this photo on Technology Times!!

Friday Again!

It's been a quick week, only being back in school for three days.  Here are some education blog posts from around the web that you might enjoy this weekend!  Happy Friday!

1. Using Voicethread for Writing Ideas and for Peer Marking
    EDTE.CH 

2. Where Do You Live?
     iteach
 
3. 25 Best Sites for Free Educational Videos
     Technology Times
    
4. Finally! A SAFE, easy way to show and share YouTube videos in school!
    Welcome to NCS-Tech

Happy Friday!

I've been out of work for pretty close to two weeks due to the incredible amounts of snow we've been getting.  We broke the record of 54.4 inches back from 1889 and the new record is now 54.9 inches.  But I'm still glad it's Friday!  Here are some education blog posts from around the web that you might take a gander at this weekend!  Happy Friday!

1. Why podcasts haven't revolutionized education...yet
    ISTE Blog
2. Notebook files to share and a second post to share
    Talking Smartboards
3. Top 10 Web 2.0 sites for educators
    Teach 42
4. Smart Notebook 10.6 Parts 1 and Notebook 10.6 Part 2
    TeqSmart
5. Student Blogging Challenge
    The Edublogger
6. Around the World
    Trails Optional
7. World Maths Day
     NCS-Tech