Create Trading Cards for Fictional and Historical Characters

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/12/create-trading-cards-for-fictional-and.html#.VQA5GfnF-Sp

Big Huge Labs offers a great selection of free tools for building digital products with your pictures. One of the tools that I like is their Trading Card generator that allows you to create trading cards about people, places, and events both real and fictional. To create your card you simply upload a picture or import one from Flickr, Instagram, or Facebook then add some text details about the person featured in the card.

Applications for Education
As I wrote when I featured Read Write Think's Trading Card Creator earlier this year, the Big Huge Labs Trading Card generator could be used by students is to create a set of trading cards about characters in a novel, to create a set of cards about people of historical significance, or to create cards about places that they're studying in their geography lessons.

Richard Byrne

The Three Best Free Coding Websites for Kids

http://www.edudemic.com/the-three-best-free-coding-websites-for-kids/

KAHOOT

https://getkahoot.com/

A great free tool that combines game-based learning  and a student response system to bring a fun, easy to use assessment tool to the classroom.

How to create FLASHCARDS from a Google Spreadsheet!

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/02/how-to-create-flashcards-from-google.html#.VOdvk_nF-Sp

The Google Docs Template Gallery hosts some templates for creating flashcards from a spreadsheet in your Google Drive account. None of those templates are as easy to use or as flexible as the template offered on Flippity.net. Through Flippity.net you can quickly create a set of flashcards that include pictures, videos, and text. You can even turn your flashcards into a printable quiz. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how easy it is to use Flippity to create flashcards from a spreadsheet. 

Written by Richard Byrne

Math Folks, Do you need a creative anticipatory set?

Check out http://www.flickr.com/groups/badmaths/pool/


Save  the individual pics to your lessons and see if the students can figure out what the problem is.

Why math is important:)

Prodigy: Online Math Game

Prodigy is a free online Pokemon type math game.  It is aligned with the Common Core Standards; however, we know that the SOLs and Common Core are very similar, since VA helped to write Common Core.  It is geared towards grades 1-6 and allows educators to track students' progress as well as generate detailed reports.  Something to check out.  

https://www.prodigygame.com/Teachers/

Do your students need a brain break?

Are your students fidgety, maybe they need a brain break?  Here are two different sites you can use to get the wiggles out and focus your students.

https://www.gonoodle.com/

http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Category.aspx?CategoryID=17404  (Brain Breaks for Secondary Students)