Deb Norton Tech

Wednesday, February 5th Welcome to a new episode of Chat with Deb: Here are some great sites to use with your students on DLD.  Most of them do not require a log in, so you and your students can be ready to go.   Big Huge Labs   edit photos and share    Jigsaw Planet create and share a puzzle.     QR St uff create colorful qr codes.     QR Island    read a qr code with your PC webcam  ABCya's Go Animate   create an animation and save it to your computer. Tackk  create a webpage with images, text, video, audio, hyperlinks, maps and more.  Easily share with others. Scribble Maps  use drawing tools to draw on top of a map.  Easily download and share your map with others. Magnoto  create an online poster similar to a Glogster.  You do need an account. Padlet  online sticky notes with capabi...

My co-teacher and I often begin the year with a few mini lessons in reading.  This year one of the lessons we are starting with is a lesson on making connections.  We searched and found a simple presentation on the Internet to use.  I love that searching Google led to a presentation that will save us a lot of time and will supplement our lesson perfectly. This presentation suggests using the book "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson to practice the skill of making connections.  So I turned to Google Books to find this book. I simply typed in books.google.com and searched for the title.   I found that the book costs $1.99 which was within my price range!  I used Google Wallet to purchase the ebook version. Here are the results for a search for the book "Shiloh". When we use this book in our lesson in class, we can project the ebook on our SMART Board. There are some helpful features we can take advantage of when using an eboo...