tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41775040860575912462011-12-19T08:29:40.145-08:00I believe in making the classroom come alive by teaching with interactive technology. One of my driving passions is to collect, use, and share FREE online interactive teaching resources.Will Kimbleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03949813811253056260noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4177504086057591246.post-18346637850530780882011-08-10T15:19:00.000-07:002011-08-16T18:16:25.987-07:00

View my Screencasting 101 presentation here.  I watch a cooking show and I want to cook. How does this apply to my teaching? It applies in several ways: First, teaching must be inspirational. When you present a lesson, you must do so with gusto. Bring it to life! You are a salesman selling them a product that they don't think they need and may not even want. Overcome their reluctance with

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A tip of the hat once again to @ktenkely for an excellent resource. Read her review at: http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=2672 Landform Detectives National Geographic's Jason Science Landform Detectives allows you to "Travel the globe to unlock the secrets of Earth’s strangest and most inspiring landforms in The JASON Project’s geology game: Landform Detectives. Unlock new, challenging landforms

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http://demo.thinkfinity.org/widgets/resources_share.html

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I was invited to be a guest blogger for BrainPop. They have over 76,000 registered educators. Heady stuff. I decided to go ahead and post it here as well for my 7 followers. Enjoy! I also made a screencast of the process which can be viewed here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW1BmI-sooY Using BrainPop With Student Response Systems I began using BrainPop with classroom responders four

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Playing History: Your Source for Historical Games http://www.playinghistory.org/ WHY PLAY HISTORY?There are tons of free historical games, interactives and simulations on the web. Playing history aggregates info on these resources in a simple, searchable database making it easy to find, rate, and review historical games. There are currently 131 shared games covering everything from American,

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http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/PQTimeline/ This interactive multimedia timeline traces the search for extrasolar planets, from ancient philosophical speculation to modern discoveries. 450 BC to Present (Thanks ktenkelly - read her review at http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=1784) Also, don't forget to check out NASA for Educators http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html and NASA for

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http://www.spellingcity.com/ I just found out about SpellingCity. It is a great, fun way to practice spelling lists. You can enter your list and have it test, teach, or play a game with them. They have some 42,000 words in their database and use real voices to read them - they even use them in sentences. I tried a number of words out including some science terms - they didn't have genome, but

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I thought I would share some of my favorite math teaching websites. These are my "go to" resources that I rely heavily on. In addition to my duties as the TSA for Technology, I have been teaching the 6th grade math classes at Yokomi. Which is why you see so many math sites referred to in my blog thus far. Never fear, I also taught Science Literacy and multiple-subject and have numerous

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Here are two great sites for free, online math videos. The first is Math On Call produced by the Fresno County Office of Education designed primarily for elementary through high school students. They do a great job of demonstrating how to solve various math problems and even have a help hotline available during typical homework times and a web and cable show. Their video archives are available

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http://protopage.com/yokomi.scitech This is my classroom website. It contains many of the links I have collected. At least those that apply to my 6th grade classroom. since it will probably take me a while to get everything on the blog up and running I thought I would post this link to whet your appetite for what is to come and give you access to at least part of my collection.

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Nice math facts practice site from ktenkely and 2sparkley at http://www.mathtwo.com/ The setup looks like math flash cards, but students enter the answer and get immediate feedback on their answer. The only thing I didn't like in my brief trial of it was that you have to manually click the mouse in the answer box every time you want to enter an answer.  The math facts practice site I have used

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Since before I got into education I loved sharing things I learned and discovered - books, music, news, recipes, places to go...and the list goes on. In fact, it was that realization that helped me decide to enter the field of education when I finally reached a point in life where I could complete college. During my initial student teaching assignment, I integrated technology into my teaching in

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