Mallory Burton's List: Something to Use on Monday

Best geography games I've seen. These are excellent tutorials and games that would work well on the SMARTBoard. The Canadian Geography activites are particularly good. For example, in the Province Names tutorial, you click on each province and its name appears on the map along with a sidebar containing information about the province. In other games, you drag the province into place on the map. World geography quizzes galore - over 250 fun online map games teach capitals, country locations, and more. Also info on the culture, history, and much more.

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geography Canada socialstudies excellent games on 2009-01-26 and saved by 91 people

This is a toy for generating colourful and interesting word clouds from text. This text can be typed, copied and pasted from another source, or imported directly from a blog url or rss feed. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, colours, and layouts. Take a screen shot to save your creation as there isn't a way to export as a jpeg. Wordles would make great title pages or slides and could be a fun class brainstorming activity or a way for kids to practice writing their spelling words. Kids could create a wordle of adjectives to describe themselves or a character in a novel. They could also be used to analyze student writing for repetitious words or to get the gist of an article. See my wordle tag or WebSlide list of sites with ideas for using Wordle in the classroom.

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vocabulary wordle excellent on 2009-01-26 and saved by 1294 people

This is a very nice word-search game on the tags associated with Flikr photos. Just type in a word (you don't need a Flikr name unless you only want to restrict the use to only your own photos) and the puzzle is created instantly. The clues to the words are the pictures around the puzzle, and the words are generated from the picture tags. For more info see Paul Hamilton's review.

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games language arts vocabulary photos on 2009-06-20 and saved by 75 people

Amazing spelling site recommended by James Hollis (Teachers Love SMARTBoards). Definitely instant implementation. Input a list of spelling words and click test me, teach me, or play a game. The test me section gives the word orally , uses it in a sentence, and the student spells it and gets feedback. The teach me section spells the word orally and uses it in a sentence. The play a game section instantly generates games such as word search, crosswords, hangman using the spelling words. The games work great on a smartboard.

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vocabulary language arts excellent spelling on 2009-03-10 and saved by 750 people

Brain Boosters offers online activities for your kids including educational games and brain teasers. These brain boosters are organized by type: categorization, spatial, lateral thinking, reasoning, etc. Suitable for high school or gifted intermediate.

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math UDL on 2008-10-30 and saved by 55 people

Great visuals and ideal for theme study. Enter a word to look up or just explore by theme. The definitions are constructed as pages with a small amount of text and labeled drawings on which the labels are also clickable links. This would be a great "multiple means of representation" resource.

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language arts vocabulary reference dictionary on 2009-06-20 and saved by 249 people

Ideas for importing text to wordle and using that text in a lesson where students examine the vocabulary to discover the "gist" of an article or poem.

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wordle on 2009-01-26 and saved by 54 people

June 20, 2008 post. Several ideas for using wordle. Students create wordles about themselves listing their name and characteristics, hobbies, etc. Students create wordles describing a character in a novel for a character study. It would be fun to create these without the names and then have students guess who the wordle refers to.

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smartboard wordle on 2009-01-26 and saved by 4 people

A blog about interactive whiteboards and how they can be used effectively in education. Also discussion of other technology that impacts on education. There are some very simple activities described, such as the plenary circle, and also some very cool guru tricks.

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smartboard lessons on 2009-03-12 and saved by 3 people

An article about using Daily Quotations in the Classroom.

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lessons language arts on 2008-10-30 and saved by 4 people

Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game. This would be a fun activity for intermediate and high school students. if the words are too difficult for students, they can start back at level 1 with words like "penny" and "pony". You can also change the subject at the top of the screen to practice grammar, geography, time tables, and other skills. Warning...it's completely addictive.

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language arts games vocabulary excellent on 2008-11-18 and saved by 429 people

This subscription site allows you to look up a limited number of words per day for free. After you type in a word, related words are displayed in a concept-type web. You can then click on any of those words to display their related words.

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language arts vocabulary reference thesaurus on 2009-06-20 and saved by 777 people

Great visual, especially on the Smartboard. Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

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language arts vocabulary reference dictionary on 2009-06-20 and saved by 1269 people

Instant Implementation Idea for teaching figures of speech! When you first open the site you get a caption such as "Gimme some skin" and the site invites you to guess what that might mean (gives you 4 choices) while the image is loading. Kids could discuss or write their responses. After you click one of the choices, the photo is revealed and you have a chance to change your answer.

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language arts vocabulary on 2008-10-30

This is a version of Glogster designed especially for educational use. Great, because this removes one of the reservations teachers might have about letting students use Glogster because students might run across innapropriate content. Glogster.com - Poster yourself - Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends. It is fantastic!

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art writing sentences on 2009-04-14 and saved by 640 people

Poster site reviewed by Paul Hamilton Nov 2008. Upload your own photo or use one of theirs, add a title, and save your creation to Flickr or your computer. Very nice, simple site and easy to use. I was able to tab around on this site to select a picture, add a title and text, preview and save so I believe it is accessible.

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writing sentences on 2009-04-14 and saved by 214 people

NIEHS Kids Brainteasers, Rebus Pages, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, to introduce kids to science and research interests.

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vocabulary on 2009-04-14 and saved by 27 people