Deb Norton Tech

My Great Maps is a site for creating your own personalized map. Choose from maps such as states, regions, historical maps, world maps and countries.  You can add colors, a key, icons, text and so much more!  Use the site with or without a login.  If you create a log in you can save your maps and add notes to your map.   This would be a fantastic site for our 5th graders as we begin the year with map skills.  Once a teacher signs up for an account, they can make accounts for their students.  This will allow the teacher to view their students' maps. After you save a map, an embed code is available.  This makes it possible for students and teachers to put their personalized maps onto a blog or website. Here is a map I created and embedded: I highly recommend giving My Great Maps a try.

Here is a phenomenal K-5 site of interactives that work very well projected onto your SMART board.  This site was created by Karen Ogen , an IT Specialist in North Carolina. The site is organized by tabs across the top.  The topics cover a large variety of subjects. One thing I have done in the past, to use interactive sites like these, is to create QR codes for the sites.  I then place the QR code at the top of a piece of paper with a few questions that students could answer after viewing the site.  Students scan the QR code with the Quick Mark download and then answer the questions.   Take a look at some of the great opportunities from this site: I would like to thank Karen for putting this site together (notice it is made with Weebly!) Check back often since she adds new sites to the Weebly often.