Radiooooo

Radiooooo – World Music App.  Music from around the world organised by decade.

WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resoruces

The WWW Virtual Library of International Affairs Resources…  a free academic support site from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.

Learn more here at this posting from FreeTech4Teachers.

Historica Canada: Think Like a Historian

Historica Canada: Think Like a Historian.  The Think Like a Historian series is a tool for educators and students to build skills to analyze and interpret primary sources.

Kahoot

Kahoot released a new mobile app last week. The new app, available for Android and iOS, … will let students participate in Kahoot games both in the classroom and at home.  Learn more in this posting at FreeTech4Teachers.

This is Your Brain on Snapchat!

As is frequently the case, the first ‘App’ I feature is not an App.  Rather, as we start the school year – and are in the final stages of planning for a special morning of Wellness related activities for our new Grade 9’s – I’ll take this opportunity to share some research on the relationship between social media and mood… and hence, one’s predisposition to learning.

Please follow this link to find this week’s recommended App: This is Your Brain on Snapchat! Produced in partnership by PBS Learning Media, I found this at my favourite EdTech website, FreeTech4Teachers.

Google Earth Update.

Learn how to create a KML file to use in the latest Google Earth update in this posting at FreeTech4Teachers.

Word Mover

Since it’s still National Poetry Month… say hello to Word Mover, a free app which helps students get started writing poems (and short stories).  Learn more in this posting, from last weekend, at FreeTech4Teachers.

Learners TV

Learners TV features more than 400 science concept animations. The science animations on Learners TV are organized by categories according to the curriculum guidelines: biology, physics, and chemistry.  Learn more in this posting at FreeTech4Teachers.

We’re back!  I forgot entirely about posting the week after March Break, and since then I’ve been so busy I just completely forgot each of the following two Monday mornings. I had Poetry in Voice, and then Great Soup on my mind to the exclusion of all else on each of those successive Mondays.

I’m back at the cottage this weekend, in my happy place relaxing in the warmth and the sunshine, and realised – with quite a jolt yesterday – that I hadn’t posted here for a couple of weeks.  I have a remedy however!!  I have – why only now? – made myself a calendar alert reminder for Sunday’s.  My mind is not the steel trap it used to be.  Hopefully that’ll keep me on track.

But I digress…

Please follow this link to find this week’s recommended App: Google Product Updates.  I draw your attention to two locations on the web.

• First a posting from my favourite EdTech guy, Richard Byrne at Free Tech for Teachers.
• Second, a Google Slide Deck – internal to the Digital Lead Learner (DLL) community within the TDSB which is a group I am a member of.  You can only access this file is you are logged in through the TDSB network.

There is some overlap between these postings.  Straying from my usual format in these alerts, I’d like to comment on a couple of these items.  You can find my thoughts – for what they’re worth – in this shared Google Doc.