Free Ebooks from Microsoft

Microsoft Education has some books and guides available for teachers to download. Here are some of them:


Windows Live Movie Maker Guide

Microsoft Office Web Apps: Teacher Guide

Developing Critical Thinking Skills through Web Research

Free Tools for the Classroom

Digital Storytelling

Free Lesson Plans from Microsoft education

We had mentioned the Microsoft education website earlier and some of the tools that were available. This time we are looking at the lesson plans that are available on their website. MS Lesson Plans .

You can browse by subject, the subjests being:
Arts, Design, History, Social Studies, Music, Digital media literacy, Language arts, Physical education, Geography, Mathematics and Science.

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Free Educational video with Snag Learning

SnagLearning features carefully selected films from SnagFilms’ award-winning library of over 1,600 documentaries that are appropriate for students from middle school and up. Our titles cover nearly every classroom subject and many are produced by well-known educational sources, including PBS and National Geographic. The goal of this site is to highlight documentaries that make for engaging educational tools. We will also feature guest teacher bloggers as well as special programming stunts like Q&As with the filmmakers.

Teachers can submit and share their own lesson plans, quizzes and homework ideas with fellow educators. The commenting area on each film page functions as public forum to share and discuss.

Collaboration around the world with Skype in the classroom.

Skype in the Classroom, a video networking service for educators worldwide, is officially out of beta today.
The service, which has been in beta since December, allows educators to collaborate with others around the world over video. The VoIP provider said it developed the service "in response to, and in consultation with, the growing number of teachers using Skype to help their students learn."

 

Teachers all over the world are using Skype to make learning more exciting and memorable. It's easy to see why: Skype offers an immediate way to help students discover new cultures, languages and ideas, all without leaving the classroom.
Cultural exchange: Introduce your students to new ways of seeing the world with a cultural exchange between your class and another classroom anywhere in the world.
Language skills: Bring language to life with real-life conversations where students can practice a new language with a class of native speakers, or help English learners practice their skills.
Discovery: Try mystery Skype calls, where classes connect online and give clues to help each guess the other's location. Or introduce your students to a classroom in the location of a book they're reading or a subject they're studying.

 http://education.skype.com/

Sticky Notes for Class

As teachers what would we do without sticky notes? I have been looking for the different sites where you can create and share walls of post it notes for you and your students to share quick scraps of information. Here are some of the best sites. Clcik on the images to go to the websites.

Scrumblr: no registration required

Stickr: need to install the Stickr browser extension or bookmarklets.

Wallwisher:

Fun Lesson Plans from funlessonplans.com

Here are some fun preschool lesson plans for you to use. Many of them can be downloaded as PDF files. some of their offerings include: Across the curriculum lesson plans include shapes for math, the water cycle for science, health, manners, a free alphabet banner for reading, and a free numbers book for writing.

Youtube.com what more can you do with the site?

We all have been to Youtube and watched videos there, commented, uploaded video, read comments by others. But have you stopped to check all that is there on offer from the site.
If you are a video creator, there is a special creators cornerwhich has ideas, tools and helpful ideas to make the most of your YouTube experience.
Some of the options allow you to: edit your video online, optimize it, find a community online, create your own videos and more. And now you can create videos using Stupeflix, Xtranormal and Go Animate within your YouTube account. What are you waiting for? Try this out.