Useful Information In and Out of the Classroom 3/25/22

Here are some interesting sites that I’ve found this week, thanks to my PLN. As a teacher, I feel we have to keep up to date concerning research in our field and current issues in the education system. I hope some of these inspire you, inform you, and even have you asking questions. Thank you for coming by and visiting!

Note: Each resource is labeled with a level and subject area to make it easier to use.

Levels: E: Elementary; M: Middle; H: High; G: General, all levels; SN: Special Needs; T: Teachers

Subject Areas: LA: Language Arts, English, Reading, Writing; M: Math; S: Science; Health; SS: Social Studies, Current Events; FA: Fine Arts; Music, Art, Drama; FL: Foreign Language; PE: Physical Ed; C: Career; A: All

Mouse for Sale - “Enjoy this CGI animated short film about Snickers a lonely mouse in a petshop, craving to be bought by someone. But he’s got one big problem: his huge ears. The kids entering the store keep laughing at him. Will Snickers find the buddy he so desires, someone who will take him for who he is?” (L:G; SA:A)

Speakpipe - “Receive voice messages from your podcast listeners” (L:G; SA:A)

National Museum of Computing - “The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) has virtually opened its doors for anyone to visit and take a tour of the world’s largest collection of working historic computers. Wherever you live, you can now journey through the history of modern computing from its very beginnings to the present day at TNMOC - from the comfort of their PC or device. You can stroll through our new, virtual experience – unguided or with one of the museum’s experts for a live, virtual tour where you will gain first-hand insight and knowledge about the 50,000 artifacts in the museum’s unique collection.” (L:G; SA:A)

Photographer of the Year Awards - “From beguiling pictures of Alaskan mountains and Louisiana swamps, to stunning wildlife images taken in Kenya and Canada and mesmerising depictions of life in Syria, North Korea and Turkey, behold the winning images in the 2021 global Travel Photographer of the Year awards. Some 20,000 images were submitted by photographers in 151 countries, with the judges declaring that they present ‘a diverse and glorious view of life on our planet’.” (L:G; SA:FA)

Make Your Own Wordle Type Game - a video by Richard Byrne; “In the following short video I demonstrate how to create a Wordle-style game with Flippity's WordMaster template.” (L:T; SA:A)

Original photo by Pat Hensley