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The Children’s Poetry Archive is an ever expanding archive of poets for children reading their own work…
Wonderful resource! Nice archive of poetry that can be explored by subject, theme, author, or form. Many of the poems have audio so kids can read along. Students can also learn about poets through biographies featured on the site.
I’ve added this to Kool Kids Write Poetry.
Excellent! 3D Postcard Generator
#edtech #artchat #writing #literacy #languagearts
Via the newest member of my PLN @Teachersilvert
Create your own 3D postcard. No sign-up or registration.
Add your own text, and images (or use theirs). Customize with colors, fonts, frame and more.
Final product may be downloaded or sent via email.
Educational Application: Students can create postcards using their own artwork for holidays or anytime. This is a neat tool that could work for many projects. I could see student created poems as messages. Nice final results.
Included in…
Reading with Kids has some nice resources for teachers that you can share with parents.
#reading #1stchat #2ndchat #3rdchat #4thchat #spedchat
These include…
Added to 
Classroom Printables
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Educational Coloring Pages
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My Top 43 Weather Resources for Kids
#meteorology #scichat #weather
List includes interactives, games, kid-friendly information, online quizzes, how-tos, videos, raps, ideas, crafts, calculators, projects and more!
Includes a space to report the weather. 
How will I manage all these Edmodo groups!? After SCASL13, I find my sidebar of groups (ones I’ve joined) to be quite full. SCASL asked presenters to create an Edmodo group for conference sessions this year, and now that I’ve opted to join those conference session groups, I have to click “show all” to find ones […]
Click on the picture above to view all products in detail. Great Tumblr feature.
Great ways to add a little sparkle to your classroom and products you sell!
#1stchat #2ndchat #3rdchat #4thchat #5thchat #spedchat #elemchat #teacherspayteachers
Everyone loves glitter and a little sparkle…especially kids!
I just added quite a few sparkly/glittery products to my TpT store and am starting to add them to my Teachers Notebook Shop. They are all being offered at a one week introductory price. Great deal if I do say so myself…and I guess I am.
All products are high resolution (300dpi), png images.
All frames come with and without white centers. Products are for personal and/or commercial use. See TOU (in product and preview for details.
Click the links below to view each product.
I was told, ‘My sons cannot memorize their times tables — yet they sing along with Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones, and they get their words.’
—Bob Dorough, who composed, conducted and even sang much of Schoolhouse Rock’s music, on the idea for “Multiplication Rock,” the very first series of Schoolhouse Rock shorts. Hear the full interview from Weekend Edition.
Believe it or not, Schoolhouse Rock is 40 years old.
See on Scoop.it – Education Matters – (tech and non-tech)
Excellent resource for timely, real-world math problems.
#kinderchat #1stchat #2ndchat #3rdchat #4thchat #5thchat
See on Scoop.it – Education Matters – (tech and non-tech)
Aside from having a somewhat tidier desk, going paperless has been enormously beneficial. I can now access student information anywhere and at any time.
As a special education teacher in the 3rd largest school district in the country, I fear what giving local level decision making on eliminating class size cap for special education classrooms would mean for my students and every other student in CPS.
Please share to get the word out.
From Illinois Raise Your Hand (www.ilraiseyourhand.org)
Yesterday the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) passed a proposal that would lift formal class size limitations on special education classrooms and allow all decisions on class size limits to be made at the local level. We strongly oppose this proposal and agree with the many special education advocates who testified against it in Springfield this week.
If this proposal passes, the state would no longer require smaller class sizes for special education students and would allow CPS and other districts to make their own determination about the size of self-contained rooms which now have caps in place. For example, small classes currently serving autistic children who require calmer settings could be much larger under this plan.
General classrooms would also be affected if this proposal is made final. Currently, no more than 30% of a general classroom can be comprised of students with IEPS. This proposal moves to eliminate that cap and make it a local decision. We are very concerned with how this would impact all of our classrooms at CPS.
What can you do?
We are told this proposal will go to the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules next. Call the state representatives who are on this committee and tell them to oppose this change. We need to keep state mandates on class size limitations for our special education students as these limits are in the best interest of children and will impact all of our classrooms if changed. Also call your own district reps and tell them about this. There may be a period of public comment in the next few weeks as well, so consider writing something to share.
For list of people to contact on the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules click on Read More
More questions? Email Info@ilraiseyourhand.org
Cool resource! The National Museum of African Art has a nice interactive feature called TxtStyles to Fashioning Identity.
#BlackHistory #sschat #edtech
From the past to the present learn how symbols are used in African fashion. Lots of neat interactives and activities.
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Countries for Kids LiveBinder
More kid friendly stuff from the National Museum of African Art.
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Go On a Live African Safari (Fantastic resource!)
The popularity of the iPad is nothing new, we all know it’s a huge hit but did we know how much kids loved it? New statistics have been put together by Florida agency MDG Advertising in this new infographic. It shows exactly how into tablet technology our children are. More than just fun and games, there is evidence of more kids using tablets for educational purposes rather than anything else.
To read more please click the link below:
Celebrating 125 years with a “Tumblr”. Awesome “found” photos added daily.
#Scichat #sschat
#edtech #spedchat #1stchat #2ndchat #4thchat #5thchat #sschat #scichat #artchat
Hi Readers! I’m very excited to tell you that KB..Konnected has just reached 1,000,000 page views. How cool is that. Never in a million years did I envision this happening when I started this blog.
I sincerely want to thank all my readers, past, present and future, for making this possible. Special thanks to my family and friends for their love and support through this amazing journey. I’ve learned so much along the way and I’m happy to share what I learn on my blog.
So….I hope you participate in my celebration giveaway. It’s a $50 Amazon Gift Card. All you need to do is fill out the form below. Entries can be submitted until Feb. 3, 2013. Then I will announce the winner. Good Luck!
Fun for teens!!!! Record Setter is a website that lets you create your own world records.
#edtech #mathchat #literacy
Use Record Setter for a fun learning activity. This activity will include brainstorming, planning, criteria, rules, writing, measurement and more. I know students will get a kick out of this. Just brainstorming what kind of record to attempt ought to be quite fun.
Free registration by teacher (or someone over 14) is required.
The idea would work well for younger students too but the site is not age appropriate for their viewing.
Create your own records or break the records of others. Some fun records featured include…
ATTENTION folks, there is currently an astronaut posting to Tumblr from space. I repeat, there is a human being, that is currently in freakin’ SPACE, posting pictures (from said SPACE) to their Tumblr blog.
There are things, called words, that are failing me, about the other things, that I am feeling.
Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield: You sir, are cooler than a polar bear’s toenails.
(He’s also on Twitter)
