Techgab1415
Friday, December 12, 2014
I Just NEED 5 Minutes!!!
This is a list of five free online resources that are quick and easy, and will give you those five precious minutes in your early elementary classroom.
Storytime Station
LInk: http://www.storytimestation.com/
Storyline Online
Link: www.storylineonline.net
Read To Me
Link: http://www.readtomelv.com/
Three Very Cool Map Making Sites:
Animaps
This is a great mapmaker for trancing the steps of a journey or exploration! Figures are animated and move from place to place on the map with a time long on the top of the map.
It extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by not only letting you create maps with markers that move, but also images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time.
Geocommons
GeoCommons enables everyone to find, use and share geographic data and maps. Easily create rich interactive visualizations to solve problems without any experience using traditional mapping tools.Visualize data from numerous sources to identify trends that were before unseen. Map your data with real-time social data and the over 50,000 open-source data sets in GeoCommons.
Link: http://geocommons.com/#
Scribblemaps
Using scribblemaps allows the user to draw, paint, insert shapes, etc. on maps. Easy and fun to use!
Set Game
The Set Game is a puzzle that uses cards which ave four features on them: colors, symbols, shading and numbers. There is only one rule to make a SET. A SET is three cards in which each individual feature is either all the same on each card or all different. See the examples and check out the tutorial below.
Daily puzzle: http://setgame.com/set/daily_puzzle
Tutorial: http://www.setgame.com/sites/default/files/Tutorials/tutorial/SetTutorial.swf
This is an Set answer
This is a Set Answer
All different colors, all different shapes, all the same shading and all the same number
This is a Set Example
All different color, all different shapes, all different shading, all different number
Creative Commons Licensed Photos
For older kids and adults it is useful. This site helps users find and cite Creative Commons-licensed images. The site utilizes Flickr's API to find images that match the user's search terms. After finding an image to use, users click the download link just below the image. The downloaded image will have the attribution information added to it! Handy!
Link: http://www.photosforclass.com/