Room 403 Version 2.0

Links of the Day 01/20/2010

• Rename Mixed Numbers as Fractions

  This website provides a very good, step by step, explanation of converting mixed numbers to improper fractions. The students in my class were having difficulties with this concept. They understood how to convert improper fractions to mixed numbers, but not the reverse. This website provided not only an explanation in simple terms, but an interactive flash demonstration that students can play with on their own in order to further understand the concept.

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  • – By Jason Smith

• Science Projects – Lemon Power

  A solid experiment for electricity. You can also substitute a penny for the copper wire in this experiment. It doesn’t work as well as the copper wire (because often they are dirty, which begins to insulate it a bit), but it can work to show the students that everyday materials can make a battery.

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  • – By Jason Smith

• Target’s Lesson Plans on Cultural Diversity

  Target and the Smithsonian Institution have teamed up to create and share lesson plans for teachers grade K-12 on cultural diversity. Lesson plans range from the Japenese Internment Camps during WWII to plans on incorporating Black History Month into curricular lessons.

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  • – By Jason Smith

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Links of the Day 01/19/2010

• Vance’s Blogger Tutorial

  A quick tutorial guide to setup a blog on Blogger. Could be used to show students (or a colleague) how to setup a quick blog.

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  • – By Jason Smith

• educationalsoftware – PBWiki Tutorial

  This is a quick tutorial on wikis. THis would be good to show students (or colleagues) how to set one up. The other cool section on this site is the other sections within the links on the left. It provides cool links to various software (lots free!) as well as collections of sounds, pictures, and videos. Be sure to check this one out!

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  • – By Jason Smith

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Jing | Add visuals to your online conversations

Have you ever wondered how to create a short video to show a student how to create a blog post? Or perhaps a colleague needed to see how to create a Google sites page? Well, Jing can step in to help. Jing is a screen casting software that allows you to create short (5 min) videos or pictures of what you are doing on the web. You can use it to demonstrate almost any technological instruction you can think of. There are both free and pro versions of Jing, with the primary difference being the output. The free version allows you to save videos as swf files (or flash). The pro version (which costs $14.95 per year) allows you to save as mpegs or even export it straight to Youtube. Check out Jing for yourself!

Jing | Add visuals to your online conversations.

Foursquare: What in the world is it?

So what in the world is Foursquare? Foursquare is an innovative no way to update status, stay in touch with friends, geo-tag your location, and find others in the same vicinity as you. Imagine Twitter, but on a much bigger style. What if Twitter allowed you to see someone that just posted a tweet near where you currently were. Imagine if Twitter told you about coupons and deals near your current location. Imagine if you earned “rewards” and “badges” to your Twitter profile for each tweet you made. Bundle all these things together and you find Foursquare.If you want more information or the chance to dig a bit deeper into what Foursuqare is, check out Mashable.com’s articles on it below.

Here is Mashables article on Foursquare

Here is a list of articles at Mashable.com that describes Foursquares Features

Room 403 Version 2.0 01/16/2010

• Display the local weather with a simple badge

  This website gives step by step directions of how to add a weather badge to your website or blog.

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  • – By Jason Smith

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Room 403 Version 2.0 01/12/2010

• Library of Congress: Teachers & Primary Resources

  The Library of Congress offers many sets of primary sources, lesson plans, themes, and resources for teachers to use in the classroom free of charge. You can also search around the website and find more public domain images from history and other useful tools to use in the classroom or with class projects.

  Tags: social, studies, photos, reference, public_domain, Wikipedia, photography, publicdomain, public, image

  • – By Jason Smith

• Wikipedia:Public Domain image resources

  Here is a solid source of public domain images that can be used in class projects. These resources collected by Wikipedia are not copy righted, and therefore can be used in such class projects as media festivals or other competitions.

  Tags: social, studies, photos, reference, public_domain, Wikipedia, photography, publicdomain, public, image

  • – By Jason Smith

• Library of Congress on Flickr: Historic Newspapers

  The Library of Congress now hosts a collection of historic newspapers on Flickr! Most images do not have copyright restrictions and can be used within class projects. The collection contains many photographs from our nations history, as well as newspapers from the early 20th century.

  Tags: social, studies, photos, reference, public_domain, Wikipedia, image, public, publicdomain, photography

  • – By Jason Smith

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Room 403 Version 2.0 01/08/2010

• How to Speed Up Firefox by Running It In RAM: 9 steps – wikiHow

  Another article to help speed up your Firefox experience

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  • – By Jason Smith

• Twitter Guidebook

  A guidebook to everything twitter

  Tags: twitter, microblogging, web, guide, socialmedia, web2.0, mashable, tutorial

  • – By Jason Smith

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Volunteer Spot

Volunteer Spot.

Check out this blog post from iLearn Technologies. This could be a very useful classroom resource!

Room 403 Version 2.0 01/07/2010

• How to Make Firefox Load Pages Faster: 7 steps – wikiHow

  Some good tricks to make Firefox run faster!

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  • – By Jason Smith

• Fraction Number Line

  Here is a great website to use when students are learning to comapre and order fractions!

  Tags: math, fractions

  • – By Jason Smith

• Printable Fraction Chart (Fraction Bar)

  A printable worksheet to help students visually see the difference when comparing and ordering fractions.

  Tags: math, fractions

  • – By Jason Smith

• Free fraction worksheets and charts to help with homework

  A good collection of fraction worksheets

  Tags: math, fractions

  • – By Jason Smith

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Room 403 Version 2.0 01/04/2010

• The Digital Marketer : How to Enhance Your Facebook Page :: Quick and Dirty Tips ™

  Here is a blog post with some suggestions on how to use your Facebook Fan Page to communicate and connect with parents and students. While it is written in a business aspect, many of the same suggestions can be used within the classroom.

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  • – By Jason Smith

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