Tag archives for literacy

18 Educational Apps for Halloween

Part of the Cool Sites series Halloween is one of the most fun holidays. Kids love the spooky monsters, sounds, music, dances, treats, traditions, haunted houses, and costumes that surround the holiday. As an educator or parent that has an iPad, iPhone, or iPod you can capitalize on this time to help kids learn while [...]

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Xtranormal: Text to Speech Video—A Few Uses

Part of the Cool Sites series Today’s Cool Site post comes from guest blogger, Kathy Niebuhr As a .5 elementary media specialist, I was assigned the overflow prep time for two sections of 3rd and 4th grade—one a day. My assignment from my principal when this was created at the beginning of the year was “do [...]

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10 Cool Tips & Resources for Text Response by Judith Way

Part of the Cool Sites series I developed the Preston Girls’ Secondary College Reading Wiki to show and share with students and teachers how web 2.0 tools can inspire students to respond to set texts in a more creative way. Making book trailers Filming their own ’60 second recap Making animotos Creating toondoos Using Flickr [...]

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