Tons of Halloween Resources from Larry Ferlazzo

Larry Ferlazzo provides great resources for ELL teachers, but many of these are just plain good for all teachers.  With this in mind I thought I would include a link to his "The Best Websites for Learning About Halloween".  It is that time of year and many teachers are looking for ways to enhance learning while engaging students.  Check out these resources! To access the list click here.

More Google Apps Resources from Richard Byrne

Free Technology for Teachers has to be one of my favorite educational blogs, Richard Byrne provides wonderful resources and tutorials for teachers that enhance their use of technology.  Here is a blog featuring a link to his many Google Apps videos.

65 Videos about Google Apps

This is phenomenal, I saw it on Larry Ferlazzo's blog and it is awesome.

World Without Teachers

Free Technology for Teachers posted a really great link to a series of YouTube videos for students.  The video featured is called A Crash Course for Kids on Weathering and Erosion.  There is a whole series called A Crash Course for Kids featuring videos on a variety of topics that would be great for teachers.

A Crash Course

I have a couple links I want to share today, they are just fun things, helpful sites that might make teaching a learning a bit easier.

The first one I just love, the whole idea is so helpful.  It is called Bouncy Balls and it monitors classroom noise levels.  You do need to have a microphone and I understand from the Teacher's First blog it was a little difficult to get that going but once you do the balls let your students know what their noise level is.  Just a little thing but it is such a nice visual.  I think you would initially have to let the kids make the balls bounce, get the fun of the thing out of the way but if you used it regularly I think it might be helpful.

Bouncy Balls

The next one is Just Flip a Coin and that is just what it does, great fun but also great for probabilities!

Just flip a coin

I know there are a huge number of classroom timers out there but this seems so easy I thought I would share it.  Google as a classroom timer, you simply type Set timer in the search bar and you get a timer.  You set your time and then you can go whole screen, it is nice a big so it can be projected for the whole class.  What a great thing and so easy.  I love easy!  Again, a tip from Free Technology for Teachers.

I found a really great history site this  morning, it has a Visual History of the Last 100 Years.  I got it from the blog Free Technology for Teachers, and I admit I get some of my best resources from this blog.  I loved this, it quickly explains the events with graphics to support the text.  There are timelines, and infographics.  Teens get so bored with dry explanations, this seems a nice way to bring a little more interest into this topicl