Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A People's History of the United States

The book is available digitally here, for free.  You can look at a chapter at a time so it makes it easier to use as a reference.
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Tech Tip Tuesday: Picasa 3.0 – edtech VISION

Blog to learn a bit about Picassa and how it works.  I love Picassa and use it as my picture organizer on my computer and also to upload to the internet.  It works very well, allows you simple editing and organization tools.  I think this can easily be mastered by a noob.  One of the best things about Picassa is it allows me to upload my pictures to the web from one computer and then to access them on another computer.  I get the full image, downloaded to the new computer, I can edit it, use it with other sites, whatever I want to do.   I am a big one of having pictures somewhere safe, in fact my husband says I get carried away. Digital pics are very vulnerable, if you only have them in 1 place you can easily lose them.  I upload to Picassa, Snapfish and then save to an external hard drive.  I also double check each of those periodically to see that all is well.  You don't have to use my resources but I recommend you develop a way to back up your pictures.  In addition stay up on formats and file types.  You can lose things throug obsolence also. 
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The File Cabinet / FrontPage

Great list of resources in a wide variety of areas.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Exploring Nature Educational Resource: A Natural Science Resource for Students and Educators

Leveled science resources for elementary school.  3 reading levels to make the material accessible for all readers.
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Kids Around the World | Home

What a great site. Kids can learn about other societies and cultures and their practices. An example, learn how children in other parts of the world celebrate birthdays. Children from different parts of the world are interviewed and you can read their answers, see pictures and in a few cases listen to the interview. A great addition to social studies country research.
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Funny poetry for children

Funny and cute, great way to get children to read and enjoy poetry.
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100 Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers - Classroom 2.0


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