Cool Sites Slideshow

brain rules

Teachers are always looking for the magic key to gaining attention of our students and

to keep their attention. This website discusses the rules that our brains follow and these rules are

helpful when trying to prepare presentations for our students.

Brain Rules

Award Maker

Award Maker

Just in time for end of the year awards.

A wiki example

The 7th graders have been working on a wiki in Practical Arts. A wiki is a site that they can all access and edit. Each pair of students was assigned a topic of WWII and developed a multimedia 'textbook' page on their topic.
WWII in Review They also posted to a blog about their work process. These are both Web 2.0 tools because you can add information directly to the Internet without a tech person.
Reflections Blog

Prezi

A very cool presentation tool that you add text, images, videos and audio then you can click and zoom on various components.

Prezi

icue

An online learning environment using NBC archived footage to document various topics. Course topics, Thought Starters, Writing Challenges are included. 'snag' cue cards to your own stack. The cue cards include a video clip, a transcript, and other information.

icue

Multimedia Quizzes

My Studiyo

Make multimedia quizzes. Insert video clips with questions, images, or text as quiz resources.