Greetings! Summer is here and many of us are looking for ways to help our kids (or students) get through those long summer car rides. Podcasts can be an alternative to hours of music or video games, and StudyDog has a list of suggested podcasts that can help. On it's blogpost "Make Driving Fun and Educational: The Best Free Podcasts for the Car", you can find podcasts that feature literature, math, science, and social studies. In Media Center this year, after they created their own book review podcasts, the fifth graders explored other podcasts, including "Elmo's Adventures in Spending, Sharing, and Saving" as well as "The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd". They couldn't get enough of the latter. If you have a chance, check out the world of podcasts this summer and perhaps find ones to share with your students next year!
Rosanne
Thursday, June 25, 2015
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May 2015: Kahoot
Greetings! Interested in a tool that stimulates collaboration and social learning, requires zero setup time or player accounts, and that works on any device with an internet connection? Check out Kahoot. One of the presenters at the NH School Library Media Association conference I recently attended used it to have attendees play an icebreaker game. We only had to access the Kahoot website, enter in the game code he gave us, and then answer the multiple choice questions as he made them available to us. The results were shown in real-time, listing everyone in order of how successfully they answered the questions and how quickly they answered them. If you are looking for a fun way to review curriculum in your classroom, this could be an idea for you!
Rosanne
Rosanne
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