Sunday, March 1, 2015
A Freebie to Celebrate!
9000 Free Resources by Teachers for Teachers TES
- TES
- TES Resource Bank
- Via Patricia Donaghy
TES?
The TES (Times Educational Supplement) is Britain’s leading publication covering the world of primary, secondary and further education, as well as the market leader for teaching job vacancies.
TES RESOURCE BANK?
"The TES resource bank (9000+ resources) is a place where you can share materials with other teachers and recommend your favourite teaching resources. TES makes it easy for you to upload and download files and direct other users to websites that you have found useful. Once registered, you are allowed to freely use the resource bank to download any useful material. Resources are divided into over twenty different categories. The ICT section, alone, has 270 resources!" - Patricia Donaghy
Also, if you want to find educational resources for English (1900+), or Modern Foreign Languages (1400+), I suppose this resource bank should provide you with plenty of options.
WHAT ELSE?
In addition to contributions from teachers sharing their home-grown resources, you can have fun swapping ideas, and letting off steam in the Staffroom. Yeah, there is even a Blogs section, plus reviews of books, software and other published resources.
Finally, you might want to check out the weekly TES Magazine, which is free with all editions. A full colour glossy covering teachers’ personal and professional lives, it contains primary and secondary sections with features about good practice, tips on how to teach, special needs and ICT – plus health, money and travel.
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How to Make a Photo Mosaic
I gave one of these as a gift to a coworker this Christmas and another coworkers first reaction was, "So youre making a tutorial for that, right!?" So here it is... I added this option to the poll just for her... and it won the poll this week!
First things first, download the program here:
Now its time to play along. I promise its much easier than it looks!
Here are two versions of the mosaic for you to see close up.
This one has 1500 tiles:
This one has 5000 tiles:
All of your settings will depend largely in part on what pictures you use, so be sure to play around with the settings!
Ive been playing around recently with using Smart Notebook files on other types of interactive white boards, and I figured Id offer help for one of the whiteboards on the poll: How to open a Smart Notebook File on a Mimio board!
Becoming Creative Super Learners at IMU!
TALK SHOW
PRESENTATION SLIDES
Please, remember that these Creative Super Learning skills are chunked based on how I am planning to develop the program over the next months, and not based on difficulty level (e.g. Blooms taxonomy) :)
How to Organize Your Life With Technology!
Katie teachers 3rd grade in the same school as me and she is absolutely fabulous! Ive considered changing grades just to be able to teach with her! lol! She teaches 3rd grade and I teach Kindergarten... yet we can swap ideas easily and adapt them to our own grades. And... shes great with technology, so you know she has my heart! LOL! Be sure to check out her blog and follow her!
Now... for this weeks technology tutorial, which Im sure everyone is going to LOVE... how to organize your life with technology!
This option was incredibly popular on the poll!
Do you ever have that moment (of course, when youre in the shower or driving) where you say to yourself, "Oh I really have to remember to send that file to so-and-so." or "I need to remember to print that worksheet for tomorrow?" That always used to happen to me... until I got this app! (Okay, it still happens, but not if I use the app diligently!)
For next weeks poll, Im going to add a similar option to this weeks poll: how to organize your files for the week to make life easier at school!