JUST CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE TO BE REDIRECTED TO SMARTY GAMES.
With state assessments at an end, this is a good time to offer some links to a few online games that students will love. Smarty Games also offer some excellent mobile games for your idevice at Smarty Games Mobile. If you finish up your work and want something fun to do, I recommend “The Pirate Island”.
Mrs. Peery and I are here in the Austin, Texas. Austin is the capital of Texas. We were wondering how many Texas cities or town that we could collect here on an Answer Garden. Do you think we can reach 100? 200?
Please enter the name of a Texas city or town…. at AnswerGarden.ch.
I look forward to each Christmas season because of Kelly Tenkely’s Web 2.0 Advent Calendar. Within these 25 tiles you will find 25 outstanding tools that can be immediately used by teachers and students alike. Just click on the image above to be redirected to this page of resources. Thank you, Kelly Tenkely for your annual collection!
All I want for Christmas is…………. at AnswerGarden.ch.
It will be interesting to see what is high demand this year. Please participate so that we have a lot of data.
When September rolls around, we begin to think of Johnny Appleseed. He was born on September 26, 1775, and his real name was John Chapman. His nickname came from his travels across the wilderness and his practice of planting apple trees all along the way. Listen to the story below about Johnny Appleseed, and then enjoy playing some of the apple games as well as testing your knowledge of Johnny Appleseed on the “Who was Johnny Appleseed?” link.
| Simple Apple Simon | Matching Time on an Apple Clock | Bad Apple |
| September Highlights | Apple Concentration | Connect Four Apples |
| Who was Johnny Appleseed? | Pick a Bushel | Online Word Search |
The Summer Olympics will soon kick-off in London, England, on July 27, but the festivities began several weeks ago. On May 19, the Olympic Torch was lit and the country began to follow 70 days of 70 routes of the Torch Relay. I was personally invested in this tradition because my first cousin, Don Raborn, was chosen to be one of the torch bearers. This was quite an honor for our entire family and one that we will not soon forget.
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However, Don has always been a great source of pride for our family. Don and his wife, Staci, began the Jake Owen Raborn Foundation in 2006, shortly after their four-year-old son, Jake, died of a rare liver cancer. The Jake Owen Raborn Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to financially supporting families enduring pediatric cancer, as well as providing financial support to organizations and facilities that care for families enduring pediatric cancer. For this family, the torch has been burning for over six years now.
Mrs. Odom and I just returned from Tots and Technology in Galveston where we presented Mrs. Peery’s Prezi on I Spy a QR Code. If you have ever wanted to use QR codes in your classroom please take a look at this presentation to get some wonderful ideas. You can also find out how Mrs. Peery used QR codes to create a Treasure Hunt for her students. Be watching our hallways and classrooms this year for these specialized codes. You will most likely see them on some of your assessments.
The staff of White Oak ISD was addressed by several of its peers on Thursday, May 31st, to kick off two important phases of collaborative learning, Project Based Learning and Professional Learning Community. Teachers from each campus were given opportunities to share the higher level thinking involved in PBL and also to showcase over 90+ Web 2.0 tools and apps. It was impressive to see the level of instruction that our students receive from our White Oak ISD teachers. Equally impressive was the development of problem-solving skills and collaboration that our students, from primary through high school, demonstrated through “voice and choice” presentations
Resources for the Web2.0 tools and apps are linked to the image above. Several of the resources are already posted on the new PLC Blog.