Technology in our classroom

Another activity recommended by Larry Ferlazzo.  This time it is all about the human body.  There are arcade type games, jigsaw puzzles and mix and match.  Try to whack Harold in the game “Whack a Bone”.

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Another great game from the BBC KS2 Bitesize website.  If you are interested in science, maths and language then this game is for you.  It is interactive in that you have to do things in a certain order before the games begin on each slide. 

When I first came up against these interactive sites, I nearly gave up in frustration.  Keep persevering and as a final resort, ask me for a clue to get you going.  Hovering until you get a hand to point at something is a great way to start.

I won’t add the flash player version here as it doesn’t load well in Edublogs at the moment.

Well Larry Ferlazzo has done it again.  A great language site covering many languages of the world.  You need flash player to use it but try Japanese, French, German or many of the other dialects found around the world. The site is called Digital Dialects.

Photo from my collection travelling in Canada.

By reading the blogs of other people like Larry Ferlazzo, you often come across a website that has potential in the classroom.  This happened to me today when I found a link to this site at PicLits. Naturally I checked out any age limits and could find nothing mentioned on the site, so joined and created my first masterpiece.

You are shown many photos to choose from, then can drag and drop or create freehand a poem or significant line to add to the photo.

 
See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

As we are doing work using the multiple intelligences, perhaps you could create a collage, with one liners for each type of intellignece.

Having joined Tutpup with the students, the race is on ……. who is going to be top of our class ladder by the end of term?  Look at where I am so far …..  Binga, you will have to get a move on.  In a 24 hour period finishing at 9.38am this morning, this is where I was on the Australian board. But if I look at my results over 365 days, I am 104 after playing 121 games. 

I did this by graduating in all levels in spelling, graduating all levels in tables and beginning to graduate in algebra.  Even as a teacher, I find some of the top levels very challenging especially against some students from countries with a high education standard such as India, China and the Scandinavian countries.

 If you want to take a picture of where you are, use the print screen button on your keyboard, then go into a paint type program to crop and resize your picture.  Save on your drive then upload to your blog.

As you may have noticed, I have been having problems embedding some great images or media for you to look at.  If you are embedding games make sure you check that they work properly especially if they end with .swf  I have left these two in from Blabberize.com and GoAnimate because they are both great websites to go to if you want to create something online.

Here is a link to the blabberize animation -  I made a Blabber for You!

Have you ever seen or heard an alpaca talking?  I have!! It has such a cute accent … South American I think, maybe Spanish or Portuguese. If you want to hear it then visit this site … lots of fun to play around as a guest but must be 13 or older to join.

Many students have enjoyed playing 9 men’s morris on the Smartboard, so today I headed to the “Teachers love Smartboards” website and checked out some of the games.  I know the BBC in England have some great games for students to improve their skills, so I decided to try the “Brainbox Challenge“.

WOW was this tough!!  I selected the game called “Shaping up” to improve my visual skills.  Have a go at some of the others and perhaps write your own post or comment here about how you went in the game. 

What was difficult?  What was easy?  Remember though to challenge yourself.

Have you noticed the new counter on our page?  It is another of those widgets you can use as long as you are 13 and older, and have your parents permission to have on your blog.

 It shows the visitors to our blog and the flag of the country they are in.  This might help you work out where our visitors are coming from on our cluster map and feedjit map.

 Have you found any great widgets for those students not yet 13 years old?

Just been reading another blog and found this fascinating site, showing the most used words in the English language.  The larger the word, the more use it has in our reading and writing.  This would be a handy website to use for those students trying to improve their spelling as one of their goals this term.

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