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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Lent: Giving Up Worrying
Worrying won't change a thing. God is in control.
Virtual Bookshelves for Kids
Shelfari
Shelfari is a social cataloging website for books. Shelfari users build virtual bookshelves of the titles they own or have read, and can rate, review, tag, and discuss their books. Users can also create groups that other members may join, create discussions, and talk about books, or other topics. Recommendations can be sent to friends on the site for what books to read.
Link: www.shelfari.com
Bookopolis
On Bookopolis, students can rate and review books in a safe environment. Teachers can track and review student's work. This a great way to assign book reports, track reading logs, and more.
Link: https://bookopolis.com/#/Biblionasium
How many of you use Shelfari? Library Thing? Well, Biblionasium is the social network students in grades 4 – 12 can use to set up virtual bookshelves and keep track of what they’ve read, what they like, and what they plan to read. Students will read more consistently when they connect with friends to share and recommend their favorite books. English, ELL, and Reading teachers will appreciate the inclusion of Lexile ranges. Grades 4-12.
Brainstorming Platform
Padlet, formerly called Wallwisher, makes posting things on the Internet as easy as pinning notes on a bulletin board. Using the idea of a blank piece of paper, you can put whatever you want on your wall by dragging and dropping documents and images from your desktop, copying and pasting links to websites or videos or just typing notes on your page. When you finish posting things to your wall you will be able to collaborate with others using a unique URL as well as through a variety of social networks.
Link: https://padlet.com
What is ELearning?
We hear about eLearning all the time, but what exactly is it? Here's a nifty infographic that explains it! See link to view entire infographic.
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Blogging Partner Schools
QuadBlogging
Quadblogging connects students in four different schools around the corner or around the world to blog with a purpose. Instead of having students write blog posts "that go in their tray to die" teachers sign up on this site and are linked with three other schools to provide an opportunity for elementary and secondary students to blog with each other. Over the last 12 months 100,000 pupils have been involved in QuadBlogging from 3000 40 countries. Grades 3-12.
Quadblogging connects students in four different schools around the corner or around the world to blog with a purpose. Instead of having students write blog posts "that go in their tray to die" teachers sign up on this site and are linked with three other schools to provide an opportunity for elementary and secondary students to blog with each other. Over the last 12 months 100,000 pupils have been involved in QuadBlogging from 3000 40 countries. Grades 3-12.
Link: quadblogging.com
HAPPY FINAL FOUR
Future NBA player.
"No matter what teams I choose,
They always seem to lose,
I got meself them broken bracket blues."
"Good news...It's not mad cow...It's March madness."