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I ran across a blog post today - http://education.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1027485%3ATopic%3A24039 that describes NBC’s News Archives on Demand through hotchalk.com.  This appears to be another great resource for videos for educational use.  The blog link will provide more detailed information and the appropriate links to sign up.

Check out this java applet that creates “clouds” out of inputed text. In the example below, I used my name with words associated with the content I teach. http://wordle.net/ There are tons of possibilities for using this in the classroom.

Many of my students do not have access to graphing calculator at home. If you need one too, try this one.

http://my.hrw.com/math06_07/nsmedia/tools/Graph_Calculator/graphCalc.html

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Does your student have a Solar System Project? Checkout this site.  You can add your own planets, asteroid belts, and commets to your solar systems.  Learn about the planets and their moons.  Lesson plans are also listed here for your class. 

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm

Teachers in Burleson ISD have created great Performance Excellence tools in the form of software templates. If you do not already have an IT account as an author for this resource page, register by clicking on the link to your right. You will recieve an email upon approval. Then please add a post and upload your templates and examples here. Be sure to select the category “Performance Excellence” so other teachers can easily find them. If they are specific to a certain grade level or subject area, be sure to select those categories, as well. Please include a short summary and other helpful information about the template.

Seating Chart Template - A Publisher template for a class seating chart.

Seating Chart Template 2 - Another Publisher template for a class seating chart.

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Templates created by/for BISD Teachers

These files were created for teachers and students to use if they
are uncomfortable with creating PowerPoint Presentations from scratch.
Each one has instructions below each slide in the notes box explaining to the student exactly what to do on each slide. Click on the link and save them to their desktop.

Thomas Edison Biography Template - This template was created for a class to write a biography PowerPoint on Thomas Edison. It can be adjusted to write any biograohy.

Poem Template - This template was created to allow students to type in poems they had written.

Habitats Template - This template walks students through creating a PowerPoint presentation on 4 habitats. The students should have already done the research before beginning.

Portfolio Template - This template allows students to create a portfolio of their work.

Texas Facts - This template guides students into creating a presentation on facts of the State of Texas.

Sentence Writing - This Microsoft Word template was created for 1st grade. It was created as a form and is protected. The students can’t change the content of the document, only the input. For a teacher to change the content, you need to unprotect the form - password is “sentence”.

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Games

These PowerPoint activities can be downloaded and customized for any classroom or topic.

100,000 Dollar Pyramid - Put your vocabulary words or phrases in the squares. Students pair up and one student must get the other to say the vocabulary word and phrase by giving them clues.

Be A Champion - This football themed game lets teams of students answer questions to earn touchdowns!

Concentration - Use your own vocabulary, photos, or classroom content to customize this classic matching game.

Hollywood Squares 1 - Customize the questions asked by stars in this PowerPoint version of the famous game show.

Hollywood Squares 2 - Another variation of the popular game show ready for your customization.

Hollywood Squares 3 - A blank Hollywood Squares template for you to customize.

Jeopardy 1 - Who is? Remember to give your answer in the form of a question when reviewing with this popular game.

Jeopardy 2 - Another variation of the popular game show. Download the instructions HERE (word document).

Jeopardy 3 - Yes…ANOTHER variation of the TV show with Alex Trebec. Download the necessary music files here:

• Daily Double Sound
• Final Jeopardy Sound
• Opening Sound
• Question Timer Sound

Jeopardy Examples - Here are several versions of the Jeopardy Game for Download!!!

• Blank Jeopardy
• Math Millionaire Jeopardy
• Speech Pathology Jeopardy
• Literacy Jeopardy
• Measurement Jeopardy
• Jeopardy Directions

Off to the Races - Up to four teams can compete by answering questions asked by the teacher to move their horse closer to the finish line.

Race and Review - Four teams move their race cars around the track by correctly answering questions from the teacher.

Survivor - Based on the television phenomenon, teams answer questions and complete assignments to earn the Immunity Idol and vote someone off the island. Download Immunity Idol HERE (word document).

Weakest Link - Make sure YOU aren’t the weakest link with this review game based on the popular television game show.

Weakest Link 2 - Another variation of the popular TV game show.

Weakest Link 3 - This version boasts sounds from the actual TV program. Download the sounds and instructions here:

• Background Music 1
• Background Music 2
• Lets Play
• Link Graphic
• Weakest Link Instructions

Wheel of Fortune - Buy vowels and earn good grades using this popular format. A bit difficult for PowerPoint novices.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire 1 - This game allows lifelines, 50/50 questions and audience polls! Fun! Download additional materials for the game HERE (word document).

Who Wants to be a Millionaire 2 - With actual sound effects from the show, you’ll love this variation of the popular TV show. Download the necessary sound files here:

• Let’s Play Theme
• New Question Sound
• Regis Walks In
• Value of Next Question Sound
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire Theme

This website has a “how to” for claymation and movie maker.  It also has examples of claymation movies. This a root directory but you can still click on the links to go to the documents or you can right click, choose save target as and then save the file on your computer. 

http://www.earlyisd.net/~kflippin/

 This was the one website I was able to get down from the closing speaker http://torres21.typepad.com/flickschool/  It amazed me how many different teachers had figured out that they had to make the subject appealing to the students.  These teachers chose to use pod-casting, broadcasting, windows movies, etc. to make their subject interesting.  One school started making posters of students stories who scored a 4 on their practice writing.  Then that student was allowed to make an audio pod cast of the story.  Once that was done, they let the student make a windows movie, using still pictures the students took with a small digital camera, about their story.  The school posted the podcast and then the movie on the school website.  They said that after about the 3rd or 4th story that was made into a movie, students who had never wanted to write started revising and revising until they got the necessary 4 on their paper to be allowed to do this.

I went to several broadcast workshops where they were using quick clips to help students with TAKS.  This website has more than just the broadcast notes.  http://www.pasadenaisd.org/tcea/ 

You can also use Photo Story 3 to make videos from still pictures and the students love it!  There was a school that used the incentive of making a Photo Story 3 movie out of the students work (they had to score a 4 to do this) that raised their TAKS writing scores.  They actually had students that had never wanted to learn about revising doing a ton of revising just to get to make a movie out of their story. 

Here is another site that has more than just broadcast information on it http://tweb.lisd.net/melissa_hall/index.htm.

Send your students on an internet search while refining their algebra skills.

http://www.mathbits.com/MathBits/StudentResources/Algebra1/Algebra1Student.htm

There are several web sites listed on this page that have games related specifically to algebra, enjoy.

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/ALGEBRA/games/Aquiapage.htm

http://regentsprep.org/regents.cfm

Want to improve you math skills? Try this interactive battleship game, you have to answer the math question correctly to score a hit.

http://www.quia.com/ba/28820.html

Great web sites for teaching parallel and perpendicular lines.

PARALLEL SITE

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/SlopeSlider/

Check out the Teacher resource and print the Slope Slider Explorations Sheet and Slope Slider Record Sheet.  I had my students record the results of 4 different graphs on the record sheet.  They were asked to create 1 line initially and record their results (no decimals please), then they only changed the y-intercept and created 3 new lines and recorded those results.  They DISCOVERED that parallel lines have the same slope!

PERPENDICULAR SITE

http://regentsprep.org/REgents/math/math-topic.cfm?TopicCode=parallel

There are 3 different pages that go with this lesson. A teacher lesson, practice and a hands on activity. 

This was a great website that has all of the power point presentations that Patrick Crispin presented at the TCEA conference.  I attended the one on Google and the other one on the Complete Waste of Time.  Even though it was a silly title, the workshop was full of great websites and was very insightful, especially the one on tiny URLs.

http://netsquirrel.com

Including the Instructional Technology staff, 22 BISD teachers recently joined over 8000 other Texas teachers in attending the TCEA (Texas Computer Educator Association) conference in Austin. They were joined by teachers from the BHS Business Department and Technology leaders. Dedicated teachers rushed from session to session in an effort to learn all they could about integrating technology into their curriculum. Doni Bracht did a fabulous job of teaching a podcasting class to a large group of teachers from across Texas. IT is inviting our teachers to record their experiences and share links to resources about what they learned this past week at TCEA. They might even tell you about the things they won!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/

http://www.musictheory.net/index.html

An interactive website with music theory tutorials for students and teachers by Ricci Adams. Lesson topics include: staff, clef, and ledger lines; note duration; measure and time signatures; rest duration; dots and ties; simple and compound meter; odd meter; steps and accidentals and more. A chord calculator, staff paper generator, and matrix generator are available for online use. You can download the stand-alone version of the trainers and utilities. There is also a forum for sharing information and asking questions. Nicely done, Flash intensive.

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