Interactive+Whiteboard

  ==**Blogs ** == ===**The WhiteBoard Blog ** === = = Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. These tools are also cost effective. The Internet has tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students. Including a list of 20 interactive whiteboard resources and activities guaranteed to stimulate learning.

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This blog by Dr. Scott McLeod focuses on the use of instructional technology in schools and the technology leadership issues that educators are currently facing.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">This blog by Will Richardson centers around the use of web-based technologies in the K-12 classroom such as blogs, wikis, RSS, and audiocasts.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">David Warlick manages this wiki that discusses the uses of wikis for teaching and learning while also providing information on other tools such as social networking, podcasting, and personal learning networks. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: inherit; padding-right: 10px;">[|Classroom 2.0]

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">This social network is made up of educators who discuss Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies and how to integrate them into classrooms.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This wiki focuses on current educational technologies and how they can be used with students. It focuses on the shift to 21st century literacy skills.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This social bookmarking site provides users a central location to tag, save, and share web pages.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">Flickr is an online collaborative tool that can be used to organize photos and videos and share them with others.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Have your students play this vocabulary game, and they’ll learn while donating food to people in need.
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Discovery Education’s Brain Boosters are challenging mental games.
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This collection offers multimedia education on sharks, slavery, and more.
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This website is home to more than 30,000 free books that you can read online
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Bartleby offers lots of different texts online, from novels to reference.
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Allow your kids to listen to audio books for free with this site.
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In the RhymeZone, you can type in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more.
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This site offers illustrated children’s stories for free.
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Create a customized printable word find worksheet with this tool.
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On this site, you’ll find classics like Huckleberry Finn on audiobooks for free.
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The Poetry Idea Engine is a great tool for writing haikus, limericks, and more**.
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Bibliomania offers more than 2,000 classic texts, along with notes, author biographies, and study guides.
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Check out these topics to assign to your students.
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Use these worksheets to help your students practice their handwriting.
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This project has more than 25,000 free books, and over 100,000 titles in its network.
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Take field trips online with this site**.
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">FreezeRay (6-12) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in Schools. The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. Categories include Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Scientific Literacy, Technology VnR modeling as well as a Teacher Guide category.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PBSKids SmartBoard Games (K-6) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This site has a collection of educational interactive games for educators. Students will enjoy participating in these collaborative and engaging experiences, while exploring curriculum from trusted programs such as Curious George, Super Why and Arthur. These educational games can be used with a SmartBoard.Subject areas include Arts, Language Arts, Math and Social Studies.