Technology Tuesday
03.24.15
Free Apps
Poptropica
Play Poptropica®, the popular virtual world, created by Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Explore the stories of each Poptropica Island and solve the challenges that await!
Weird But True
News-O-Matic, Daily Reading for Kids
Educators, check out News-O-Matic School Edition, with its multiple reading levels, its embedded assessment questions, and its teacher's dashboard. Each daily issue features five dynamic news articles, Rich and detailed images, videos, and illustrations, informative maps relating the user to the location of every story, news room for drawing or asking questions about the news, an interactive history-based timeline, puzzles, games, fun facts, and many other elements for discovery, audio support for challenging vocabulary and full stories read aloud, and more....
$plurge App
What Would You Do at School If Fun Deck
This colorful, educational social skills App for the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® has all 56 illustrated picture flash cards (plus audio of each card text) from the What Would You Do at School If … Fun Deck® by Super Duper® Publications. Select the cards you want students to see, and have them work on solving problems and practicing good social skills as they discuss situations in and around school. The prompts include questions like, “What would you do if … you forgot your homework?” and, “What would you do if … your classmate teased you about the new shirt you wore?”
Purchase What Would You Do at School If Fun Deck from the iTunes app store for just $3.99!
Teacher Web 2.0 Tool
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