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Story Starters | Scholastic.com
"Hundreds of creative combinations that take the writer’s block out of creative writing. Set young writers loose with prompts that focus on character (who the story is about), plot (what happens in the story), and setting (where or when the story happens)." You can also pick the story format (notebook, letter, newspaper or postcard).
ImageChef
Many classroom uses! Create a custom image without any technical knowledge or advanced tools. Modify text in a variety of image templates to create professional quality images with your own personal touch.
Educational Uses
-Visual poetry
-Study letter sounds
-Gifts, posters, cards
Zimmer Twins
The Zimmer Twins is a fun way to incorporate technology into the classroom. Watch your students expand their vocabulary, practice proper writing habits, and become junior movie producers all at the same time!
Students can:
Watch a starter (a short animation that ends with a cliff-hanger).
Create their own ending to the story by writing dialog for the characters and putting scenes together.
Save their work on the website for other kids to watch, rate and comment on.
Watch and rate movies made by other kids.
Free 3D Software for Interactive Whiteboards
A free opensource 3D virtual world" designed to be used with interactive whiteboards. Did you hear that? It's FREE and OPENSOURCE!!!
Squeakland
A free media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways
StarLogo on the Web
StarLogo is a programmable modeling environment for exploring the behaviors of decentralized systems, such as bird flocks, traffic jams, and ant colonies. It is designed especially for use by students.
Critique and Ideas for Squidoo.com
Have you seen Squidoo? I would roughly describe it as a means of mashing up information from a variety of resources into a lens (as in the eye of a giant squid
Recommended Educational TV Programs
I ve been pleased to see a resurgence in quality educational television programs recently. Even better is that our kids are choosing to watch these programs over the just-for-entertainment children s programs.
Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Video Games
Our educational video games offer an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills by incorporating features of arcade games and educational practices into fun online games that will motivate, intrigue, and teach your students.
Free/Open-source Educational Software for Kids
This list was generated for those teaching 3-12 year old students. It suggests FOSS for music composition, painting, space exploration, math, and more.
The KDE Education Project
We are developing high-quality educational software for the K Desktop Environment. Our primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users. However, we also have programs to aid teachers in planning les
Free Educational Software
Childsplay has “several games in the software that test basic math and language arts skills along with other exercises that practice matching, listening, and memory skills. The activities help children learn fine motor skills as they navigate the comput
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