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 [...]
Free E-books and Resources for Your Summer Reading!
Part of the Cool Sites series In my last post in the Cool Sites series I provided you with 35 free professional development opportunities for the summer! This post included ways to access free e-books. I want to share with you some great e-books that are resourceful and inspiring. Just click on the titles to [...]
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 [...]
What Did They Tweet?
2nd week of December edition! The countdown till Christmas is coming! Here are some gifts I found on Twitter. You can find more in this weekly series, What Did They Tweet? Educators Learning to Change Video @Ejulez shared this video tweeting, “We have to accept as educators that technology is not a choice.” I think [...]



