Animoto - Refer-a-Pro Summer Special

Animoto - Refer-a-Pro Summer Special: Create Hollywood quality videos from your photos and video clips with Animoto to share with your friends and family. Animoto is one of my favorite resources for creating videos. If you haven't tried it yet, you should. It is easy to use and provides music for you with the credits at the end. Saves you time and energy. Plus the end result looks great.

New Curriculum Now Available in Learning.com Marketplace

It is exciting to find resources that you love to use in your classroom partnered together to be delivered in one location. As I follow the new curriculum items added regularly to the marketplace in Learning.com, I am more in awe of the way integration is taking hold in what we are able to deliver to our students through technology, the places we can take them and the way they can explore their interests to take charge of their own learning.

The digital learning environment that is the Learning.com platform provides a location for teachers to locate digital curriculum, create their own curriculum and assess student learning all in one place. Teachers do not have time to teach all curriculum content in separation, so having resources all in one place seems such a relief. The integration of digital resources into the tried and true classroom environment has made teaching and learning far more exciting than it was.

Learning.com has recently added a few of my favorite digital resources to the marketplace. I recommend that you check them out......

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration): These K-12 free science resources cover the following topics: Climate, Freshwater, Marine Life, Ocean and Coasts, Weather and Atmosphere, and Special Topics.  NOAA’s reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as they work to keep citizens informed of the changing environment around them.

Glogster: Glogs are interactive digital posters that allow teachers and students to add various types of content into one location (text, video, audio, images, weblinks and more). Glogster EDU has been one of my favorite resources since they first came into being. Creating glogs is easy and fun. Use it to give an assignment, gather resources for teaching a unit or anything else your creativity can devise. After creating a glog, you can copy the embed code and paste it into a journal or activity on the Learning.com platform to assign out to your students. The integration options are endless. The Glogster EDU Teacher Premium product can easily be used in Grades 2-12.  Teachers can buy a 12 month teacher subscription for up to 200 students for a discounted price in the marketplace.

Verizon Thinkfinity : Thinkfinity by the Verizon Foundation offers comprehensive teaching and learning resources created by some of the most respected organizations in each academic subject and literacy. The easy-to-navigate K-12 resources are grade-specific and aligned to the Texas TEKS.  Thinkfinity is not visible in unlicensed search in order to prevent users outside of the aligned states from accessing these items.  Learning.com has access to the complete Thinkfinity library.  Item types include PreK-12 activities, lesson plans, videos, collections, Audio, Interactives, Primary Sources, and Worksheets.  Subjects include Art, Economics, Educational Technology, Foreign Language, Geography, Health, History, Literacy, Mathematics, Professional Development, Reading & Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.

Log in to your Learning.com account and explore these new resources in the Marketplace to discover another new way to integrate technology into your classroom.