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Whether you are feeling creative or just want to play around – TerraClues can scratch both itches. An excellent site which will allow you to either play the searches already created or create your own. Students will enjoy having a way to show off their creativity and geography skills in a method that will impress each other and you.

Have the kids create their own searches and then pop them up on a SmartBoard to have class wide reviews and competitions.

Hi! I’m playing with Voki – if you are reading this post via a reader or feed, then you can check it out by clicking here.

This is a cool way to grab readers attention and maybe even direct your students’ attention to something important. How about a student who has difficulties speaking up in class – let Voki be their voice!

It was very easy to get an account and set up my choices. Go and play with one!

Remember the song back in the late ’80s We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel? I’ve always thought that a great project would be to set the music to pictures, either for myself or as a project for students. Well, several people beat me to it and did a much better job than I ever thought about doing.

Listen/view for free from these links:

We Didn’t Start the Fire This page however has some advertisements at the top and bottom of the site that could be objectionable. You can however, get it set up and centered on the screen for just the video and the ads wouldn’t be visible to the classroom. Takes about 20-30 seconds to load and play. Will repeat until you close the browser window. The pictures are also clickable to websites with more information about each person/topic.

We Didn’t Start the Fire No advertisements on this site and I feel the picture quality is better than the first one.

HotChalk Lesson plan Excellent lesson plan for middle/high school history or music classes.

We Didn’t Start the Fire Ozteacher created a website with lyrics and video along with references to information on topics mentioned in the song.

Another Lesson plan site for WDSTF and includes a rubric for grading the essay developed throughout the lesson.

A lot of fun could be had with this type of project! Enjoy!

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This slideshare show gives the reader excellent resources on where to find various Assistive Technology for free. If you are reading this blog on a reader, the slideshow itself has probably been stripped so you’ll need to head on over to my actual blog-site to see the show.

EdTech Action Network

Pres. Bush is recommending zero funding for educational technology funding for the next budget. The above link gives more information and to the right of the page is a box that you can put in your zip code and you’ll be taken to a page with pre-written letters for your Congressional members about this issue. It does ask for you contact information at the bottom of the page to verify you are a real person and not a computer.

This is important – our kids, our grandkids, our neighborhood kids need to be kept competitive with the world and cutting the budget isn’t how it’s done.