Friday, December 10, 2010

Wix.com

My girlfriend showed me this cool website Wix.com Basically it allows you to make your very own website. It has tons of great features to be as creative as you like. She created a page for her photography and designs.

Link below

ILL Photos and Designs

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

3 Teacher resource websites

My first choice would be the discovery channel's website.

http://dsc.discovery.com/
1. The discovery channel is full of information on almost everything.
2. They have videos available on most of their inf
3. They have a specific section on the site dedicated to kids

Second would be National Geographic website

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/1. The site allows you to access magazines published from the web.
2. They have tons of accessible material for students, that is easy to access
3. They express and present the different passions and interest of the world and life we live in.

Third would be PBS

http://www.pbs.org/
1. Its a publicly funded site for the increase in knowledge
2. The site allows you to watch and purchase programs that have been aired over the years
3. The sections for kids is well known. The section is very interesting and fun for most kids

ALA






Created through American Library Association. Students could create covers of newspapers through site.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Test your IQ about the world!

With Travelers IQ a student can learn about different places around the world. The player is presented with the name of a location and needs to find where on a map this place is located. The setting can be changed to different countries or to capitals around the world.

http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq

Free Rice

Free Rice is a game where you learn as you help food get donated to the hungry from the World Food Programme.

http://freerice.com/

Image generator


Created with an online image generator.You can add different backgrounds and add different word bubbles.

My creation on Wordle

Wordle: EnterShikari

Song lyrics from three of my favorite Enter Shikari songs


Created on wordle.net

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

EDTP 563 First Blog

The current lesson of creating a blog is huge improvement in learning and teaching for me. I was unaware of the positive possibilities that a blogs could bring. Going through all the different educational blogs was very insightful. I'm excited to use blogs as a teaching tool for my future students and a learning tool for myself.