Thanksgiving Resource

This Talk Like a Pilgrim site gives audio examples of some key Pilgrim phrases.

xtranormal

If you can type you can make animated movies on xtranormal.com. This is probably the easiest movie that I have ever made. You type in the dialogue for each character, pick a music track, add actions, and viola, you have a movie!

Here are a few examples for you to check out:
Mr. Ludwig's movie
Mrs. Crawford's

Spelling City!

The site is great! SpellingCity.com is an FREE online spelling program that make practicing spelling words fun!

As a student you can enter your own spelling words and test your spelling skills.

As a teacher, you can create an account so that you can save your classroom word lists. Once you create lists, students can access your specific list from home. No more "I don't know what my spelling words are" excuses.

Classroom 2.0.com

Classroom20.com is a social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative or transformative technologies in education.

Win a BrianPOP T-Shirt!

BrainPop gets so many requests from educators for BrainPOP t-shirts, they decided to hold a contest!

Two Easy Steps
1.Submit an original lesson plan that highlights the integration of BrainPOP or BrainPOP Jr.
2. If your lesson is selected to be published between now and January 31, 2009 you will win a BrainPOP t-shirt!

Browse plans here & submit your own!

Kids and Cookies

Kids and Cookies is an online game that helps teach fractions. The objective of the game is to divide a selected number of cookies among the number of friends that you choose. The friends can't eat the cookies unless you divide the cookies equally between them. Fair, delicious, fun and perfect for learning.