DED 318- Resources
Things I Can Use in My Classroom
10 Resources for the Classroom
FunBrain: Change Maker
On FunBrain: Change Maker you earn money in a virtual piggy bank by calculating change. If you get the answer right the amount of change is added to your piggy bang, if you are incorrect the amount is subtracted from your piggy bank. The Change Maker offers different levels of difficulty and five difference currencies: American dollar, Canadian dollar, Mexican peso, English pound, Australian dollar.
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eQuizzer
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5 Educational Videos
5 Podcast Resources for the Classroom
The Podcast History Of Our World by Rob Monaco
This series of podcasts includes 28 episodes that cover the history of our world from the Big Bang to the Modern Age. All of the episodes are free.
Storynory- Stories for Kids
Storynory brings you an audio story every week. Each one is beautifully read by Natasha Gostwick and friends. Let Natasha's voice beguile you with classic fairy tales, new children's stories, poems, myths, adventures and romance. There are 41 free stories available.
CNN Student News
CNN Student News utilizes CNN's worldwide resources to bring each day's top news stories to middle and high school classrooms. The 10-minutes, commercial-free program encourages student participation and provides classes with context for understanding current events. There are 6 free episodes and all include video.
A Way with Words by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett, produced by Stefanie Levine
A Way with Words is a lively public radio show about words, language, and how we use them. Hundreds of thousands of language-lovers around the world tune in to hear author Martha Barnette and dictionary editor Grant Barrett take calls about slang, grammar, English usage, old sayings, word origins, regional dialects, family expressions, and speaking and writing well. The program is a fresh look at the pleasures and delights of language and linguistics, words and speech, writing and reading. There are 49 available episodes.
Inside Creative Writing-- Weekly Podcast on Craft & Technique for Writers of Fiction and Creative Nonfiction by Brad Reed
The InsideCreativeWriting.com podcast is a weekly audio discussion of craft and technique for writers of fiction and creative nonfiction. Every week we examine a different specific element of craft through examples, insight, and weekly writing challenges. The podcast features guest interviews on specific elements of the writing craft and incorporates listener feedback in the form of topic suggestions, responses to previous episodes, favorite quotes and advice on writing, and questions. There are 6 podcasts available.