A Simple Booklet

I am sharing some tools with new teachers and mentors later today and I decided to pull together my ideas using simplebooklet.com. Here is the one I created using a free account (there is a $10 fee for an education account which includes 30 student accounts); two of my six pages are ads so I am not sure I would use this site again without upgrading as I expected more of a logo stamped somewhere and not for my newsletter to be made 33% longer. This site is not as flashy as glogster.edu but the cost to have some teacher control over student creations is far less.

Check out my product here or below, where I share some details about Google, searching for images, creating a custom search engine, and more:

simplebooklet.com

Teachers, Meet Graphite

For years I have used the Common Sense Media website to read up on a movie before our family would see one in the theater or even at the local PTA Movie Night. Their reviews are informative and most important...dependable. When I learned recently that Common Sense Media was unveiling Graphite, a free service to help teachers and parents find the best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula rated for learning, I knew it would be a great resource to share with my colleagues. Finding resources for lessons can be overwhelming and cause me to waste lots of time looking for 'just the right resource'. Whether or not this happens to you too, I think you will find Graphite to be a super-helpful tool in your future. Go ahead and try it out. Curious how Graphite rates and reviews their resources? Look HERE for a concise explanation.