If you visit the Microsoft Education website, you will see an updated site with even more resources for teachers.
There are many more teacher resources and how-tos and a large variety of lesson plans too.
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Old Radio Shows for Class
Old Time Radio Network Library is a collection of old dramas, comedies, westerns, and science fiction. There are more than 12,000 programs.
The programs come from more than 160 series, mostly ranging from the
early 1930s through the 1950s, but some from as early as 1929 and as
late as the early 1960s. The programs are interesting for their dramatic
or comedic contents, and also for the content of their commercials. All
programs are copyright-free.
File Sharing on Facebook with filefly
Dropbox has been around and almost everyone is using it because it is so convenient and good. This week I was introduced to filefly which tris to do the same as dropbox, except that it does it with facebook and is a secure folder between you and your friends.
The reason I thought of this is that I have had some people who are avid facebook users, but have not been able to get up to speed with dropbox.
Here are the 3 features of filefly
1. Share Easily — Create and share a folder with just a few clicks, accessible anywhere.
2. Transfer Quickly — Download and upload anything up to 2GB at blazing fast speeds.
3. Pay Nothing — Filefly is free for you and your friends!
So try it out and see how it works for you.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Microsoft Education: for educators
Keep visiting the Microsoft website for more tools and resources.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Online Photo Editing
There is a plethora of online photo editing sites out there and everyday a new one seems to get created. One of the biggest advantages for us is that we do not need to spend lots of money on image editing tools when all that is needed is an internet connection. Here are a few links for photo-editing sites.These are for your images that you can upload and edit.
Most of them have similar feature sets, but some of them are more friendly and easy to use. The kids in my school seem to like picnik a lot and use it often.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
3 Websites to download free eBooks
As teachers, we all need to foster the habit of reading. With ebooks, we do not have to worry about space and storage of actual books as we can build our libraries of ebooks.
I have come across 3 sites that offer free ebooks for download. The books are legal for download, in case you were wondering about how the whole free ebook downloading goes.
A huge collection of older novels that you can dow nload in many different ebook formats.
A collection of more modern books on a variety of subjects. More books by new authors and first time authors and some free offers by publishing companies.
Their goal is to be the library to the world. They currently have Bookyrds has a total of 17,008 books, 41,784 external web links, 4,197 news & blogs links, 384 videos, 32,963 Ebook links and access to hundreds of online libraries (800,000 Ebooks). I have not verified it but its possible.
Well here we have it, more free ebooks for all top use. Have fun with this.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Current Events with theweekinrap.com
If you want to change your current events around a bit in the classroom, you could try showing the week in rap. It is a summary of the news headlines in a short rap video usually under 1:30 minutes.
They also have a transcript so you can read the news beforehand. The news is entertaining, a bit US centric, but they are based in the US. They update every Friday, so if you live in Asia, it can be a part of the new week’s classes.
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