Links You’ll Love – 12-14-12
Here’s a fun, simple website to use if you have a competition going on in the classroom. Enter the name of the quiz and a name for each of two teams. Click start and you can add or take points away. It’s got a timer and fun sounds.
Well, this is interesting…educational publisher Wiley and Sons has teamed up with TED talks to integrate TED content into educational courses. In an upcoming psych course, for instance, they’ve combined an intro PDF file, seven videos and a summary essay and related activities. Is this a harbinger of what’s to come? Read about it here.
Here’s a fun website for the little ones to practice counting and number order. This is great for a SMART Board!
Want to know what kids need in order to learn? Of course you do! Here’s a 6 minute video on just that…created by kids.
eSchoolNews has an interesting take on 2012 in review and how the biggest ed-tech developments of the year will affect education in 2013.
Thinking about doing some writing with younger kids using the iPads? Here’s a great video showing first graders doing a poetry writers workshop.
Speaking of the iPad… here are 50 – count ‘em…50 – fun tips and tricks to make them even easier and more fun to use.
“Please DON’T raise your hand…” Who says that? This teacher.
Who wants to visit Versailles? Thanks to Google you can…right now! What will they think of next?
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Debbie Harris is the director of educational technology at the Sager Solomon Schechter Day School in Northbrook, IL. Involved in Jewish education for over thirty years, she has an education degree from Northwestern University with a concentration in instructional media and a master’s degree in professional Jewish studies from Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership. She is skilled in using and teaching desktop publishing, video editing, presentation and animation software; and consults and presents regularly on integrating technology into Judaic studies. Her students podcast, blog, edit video and create claymations. She co-chaired the technology track for CAJE 33 in Vermont, is a SMART Certified Trainer for SMART Notebook, and a 2011 recipient of the Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education.
When not learning, teaching or writing about technology, Debbie likes to sketchnote and craft. She likes to knit, do calligraphy, sew, watercolor, paint fabric and just generally play with fun toys like scrapbooking supplies and anything with texture. Debbie travels to California every summer to paint tallitot with high school aged campers. Finally, she is incredibly proud of her two daughters; Lori, who teaches English at a community college; and Allie, who is the director of the URJ’s Camp Newman in California.
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