Written by James Hollis
Here’s one of my favorite interactive websites for children aged 3 to 7 to help them with their reading and writing. It’s called Between the Lions and it’s based on the PBS television show with the same name. It’s really an incredible site that contains games, videos, stories, printables, downloadable music, and much, much more.
I am in awe of one of the latest entries into Word Cloud Generators called Tagxedo. The options for creating word clouds are simply incredible and best of all, the site makes it very easy to save your work as an image file without the need to "capture" your work. The flash-based results are a […]
These two amazing Notebook lessons for the SMART Board were created by two amazing teachers, Becky Arnett and Sherri Fricker. These two lessons are very special to me because each one utilized techniques found in the courses from Teacher Online Training. As a matter of fact, Becky’s “Writing Prompts” lesson was the grand prize winner of the SMART Exchange Contest Challenge.
I found a pretty good site from Red River College in Winnipeg Canada called Online Writing Resources that contains a wealth of great PowerPoint and Microsoft Word downloads as well as interactive exercises that work well with the SMART Board interactive whiteboard. In addition, it contains a lot of great links to other writing resources.
How can you use your Smartboard as a tool to adapt instruction to respond to the diverse needs of learners? Well, here’s a resource that attempts to do just that. It’s a remarkable resource for K-5 teachers that provides a compass for using technology to differentiate learning.