Cool Tech. Activities for your students

All About Me
Scavenger Hunt (K-3)

1.The Day I Was BornSee what happened on the day and year you were born.- http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/
2.What's In A Name?Look at this web site to find out what your name means. Be sure to click the Popularity button to see how popular your name is too!- http://www.behindthename.com/
3.How Old Am I?Calculate how many hours and minutes old you are.- http://www.mathcats.com/explore/age/calculator.html
4.What does your phone number spell?Enter your phone number and see what words can be created to represent it.- http://www.phonespell.org/
5.How tall will I be?Answer a few questions and let the computer predict how tall you will be.- http://www.ahealthyme.com/topic/adultheight
6.Birthday CertificateEnter your name and birth date, choose a background, and print a certificate!- http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/Games/BirthdayGame/
7.Personalized Story CreatorEnter your name and age and create a story about you!- http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/gamestation/storymaker/default.aspx

What is JamStudio?

Click on this link to check out JamStudio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Oawi6GQDQ

JamStudio is an amazing website that allows you to create music using prerecorded instruments. You can choose from a variety of instruments, you can change the notes and keys, loops, progressions and so much more. There is no limit to what you can do. Most of all get this...you can download it and convert your song into an MP3 file. In order to do this, you have to be a member.

Limited membership is free. If you want all the bells and whistles, you'll have to fork over $10.00 a month. I know you'll go crazy over this site. I'm going to use this with my students. I can't wait for them to begin to produce their own music and add it to their digital portfolios, projects, video. Have fun. Let me know what you think....

United Streaming

Do you use unitedstreaming in your classroom? If so, how is it working for you? If you don't use unitedstreaming and are interested in it and would like more information, just click on the link.

What is united streaming?
http://discoveryeducation.com/products/streaming/
Discovery Education streaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service to help improve students' retention and test scores; it is aligned to U.S. state and provincial standards.

50 ways to integrate unitedstreaming into your classroom.
http://home.nwoca.org/Academy/classroomIntegrationIdeas.pdf

Where are the Workshops?

I know that we usually have workshops at the begining of the year, but I haven't heard anything yet. What about you?

Shopping List?

Did you get a chance to see how much money was in your school's budget for hardware and software yet? If so, what are you ordering? It gets harder and harder each year to order software that we actually use. Anyone have any ideas on software. I spoke to a few teachers who told me that they were ordering databases for their schools. Know anything about that?

Want A Website?

I use www.portaportal.com to bookmark all of my favorite websites. It is free and open to all. My students love it! I can update it whenever I find a new site and my students can access it from both home and school. I've used this site for over five years now and have accumulated a good amount of links. Oh, the Guest Access is: PS36. Let me know what you think. If you you know of a great website that you would like to share please post it.

"See you in SEPTEMBER"

I'm sure you have some great ideas for the first week of school. How do you introduce your students to technology? Do you bring them into the lab or do you visit their classrooms? Feel free to share...