2012 Election Resources

The Election is just 49 days away...

I thought I'd share a handful of techie Election 2012 resources for you to explore:

The New York Times Learning Network is designed with 6th to 12th graders in mind.  They have recently posted a section with teaching ideas and resources:

... and a section with a number of great free web sites for teaching about the 2012 election:

Scholastic:
The Scholastic website is designed with younger kids in mind, and includes a number of games, videos and other resources:

 

Discovery Ed:
Holy Trinity School has a subscription to Discovery Ed, and among the resources is a weekly 3-minute video update on the election:

Remember, if you have not yet signed up for your personal HTS Discovery Ed account, our account number is: 13FF-53EE

 

BrainPop:

 

BrainPop also has an extensive Election Resources section, with quizzes, games, and lots of short videos from our friends Tim and Moby:

 

 



 

Remember, our login is dtarantino, and our password is seashell.

Do you have other favorite Election resources?  If so, share them below in the comments section:

Integrating Technology ... with Prezi

Hi all, I've spent the day experimenting with a super cool web-based presentation tool called Prezi...  I created a presentation for the Integrating Technology workshops Polly and I have been hosting - some which have already taken place, and others scheduled for a few weeks from now.

If you have a few minutes to explore this Prezi, be sure to select the "full screen" option above the "more" tab.

You'll find a huge number of resources here to spark your imagination.  We hope that you'll be able to take a bit of time to explore a range of techie options for your classroom next year.  I was able to imbed videos for TedEd, the Google World Wonders Project, Google Earth and more... so please take some time to explore those possibilities.

Let me know if you have any questions at all - or have other resources to add... and hope you are enjoying your summer,

mb

Brainpop

BrainPop is a website with hundreds of short Flash-based movies for students in grades K-12 covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, arts and music, health and technology.  The movies are about five minutes long, and can be a great way to introduce or reinforce the information in a unit of study.

At HTS, we subscribe to BrainPop and BrainPop Jr (for K-3)

Our Login is: dtarantino
Password is: seashell

This is for use by a single teacher at at time - that is to say, you cannot have an entire class login and watch their own movies.

The BrainPop homepage looks like this:  Each of the movies are narrated by the characters Tim and Moby, featured in the picture below...

Each subject is divided into major categories:

Then again:

BrainPop Jr is narrated by a character named Annie, and introduces topics with younger students in mind:

And perhaps most importantly, BrainPop has comprehensive resources for teachers:

 

You might enjoy an interview with the director of BrainPop Educators:

http://www.teachhub.com/news/article/cat/14/item/214