- We discussed the website freerice.com. This website has a lot of practice capabilities at varying levels for students. I like to use the English vocabulary subject because there are 60 levels and it allows students to practice words at their level. It allows them several practice opportunities with the same word and provides them with the answer. The thing that is cool about this site is that, with every correct answer provided, 10 grains of rice are donated to the World Food Program - a worthy cause. There are a few other capabilities that are pretty neat as well. First - you can create a class and monitor what the class is doing as far as levels and grains of rice donated. Second - you can give students practice in many different subjects. There is art, science, math, SAT, foreign language, etc. So they have many opportunities to practice what they are learning and be charitable at the same time! Have I mentioned it is a bit addicting?!
- We discussed the fact that GoogleReader is going away. For those of us that use it, that was a bit of a bummer. We looked at the site Feedly as a way to move the information from our GoogleReader to a new site that, according to Twitter, is pretty good. What was nice about this site is that it syncs with GoogleReader, so the conversion is as simple as logging in to your Google account. It doesn't get any easier than that!
- We created this blog because we want to encourage a collaborative environment where teachers can share things they have found and things that they use in the classroom with others across the buildings and across the district. If you are reading this blog, and have a google account, you can comment on anything you see here. If you want to be an author, which I encourage you to do, please contact Heather Spetman with your email address and you will get an invitation to be an author - it is that simple! Please join us...the more the merrier!
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