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The Daily Round Up - May 24th, 2013

5/24/2013

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Happy Friday!  Today's Round Up starts at Teach Thought with a helpful post covering "4 Sources of Low Cost Textbook and Educational Resources."  With ever-tightening education budgets,  this post suggests checking out resources like Bookboon, Flat World Knowledge, OpenStax College, and Boundless.  While the primary focus of these sites if for university students, high school classes could also benefit.


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Free Technology for Teachers starts off with "Every Stock Photo - A Search Engine for Free Images."  Every Stock Photo is an excellent site for students to find public domain and creative commons licensed pictures.  Setting the advanced Google search settings to find public domain photos can sometimes be tricky for students just learning the web, and this site is a great alternative for finding properly licensed photos.

Free Tech also introduces us to "FatURL - Share Bundles of Links"  Need to share a big group of links for a webquest, project, or class activity?  FatURL is the perfect tool to package your links and send them all together in one easy bundle.


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Getting Smart opens with a post entitled, "Next Gen Science Standards 101."  This post offers the perfect introduction to the NGSS, a set of standards that today's science educators should consider.  The post outlines the basics of the NGSS and provides 5 resources for teachers to check out.

And Getting Smart also covers "DragonBox: This is How You Gamify"  DragonBox is an "educational game that secretly teaches kids algebra."  The program runs on mobiles, tablets, and desktops and works to help students discover the rules and principles of algebra while they play.  This is an excellent app and worth checking out for math learning. (along with MangaHigh from yesterday's Round Up.)


The Lightning Round...

  • Free Technology for Teachers outlines 5 Good Places for Kids to Learn About the News
  • Teach Thought shows us 36 Digital Storytelling SApps from Edshelf
  • Finally, Teach Thought also has a some great posters on Improving Student Vocabulary

And there you have it, short and sweet!  The Round Up will be back on Sunday with the weekend edition and until then, have an excellent weekend!
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