Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Time Magazine's Recommended Websites

Here are some fun and useful websites to help you through the school year! Yes, teachers have to eat... MySupermarket.com helps you save money too by putting all the stuff you want into your basket and then finding the best prices on the web.  You pay with one click.  I haven't tried it but plan to this fall. Here's another one related to food and saving money: Supercook. You enter random stuff in your kitchen and it gives recipe suggestions - I need to check it out!  Now, I have tried this one, Noisli.com, it generates sound and also colors for activities where you need something in the background, but not too much. This site: calm.com does the screen color thing but no sound as far as I can tell.  Here's site with a lot of funny posters but also some pictures that may be good for conversation in the FL classroom:  Imgur.com   Reading the news and wondering if your email address has been compromised?  Log on to haveibeenpwned.com/ to get some sleep (or not). Do your students sometimes make presentations?  Are you getting tired of the same old formats?  You can try this one: haikudeck.com and let me know how it goes. Want to get the class talking, laughing or start a conversation? Vine does it better than anything! Be careful, it's addictive. Pining for the good old days when you went to school and remember everyone sitting nicely in their seats, hanging on the teacher's every word?  Me neither, but if you want to teleport back, try The Nostalgia Machine to remember all those fun and pretty bad songs and videos. Good luck!

Formative Assessments

A light bulb just went off over my head.  Formative Assessments!  Here's a great resource: Dipsticks :)