Google Search Sites Video Creator. Quick, Easy, Fun!

Want your students to have a fun way to share the search terms they used to create their project? Check out the Google Site Search Video Creator. A fast fun way to make a quick video. To make your own video, click here: https://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/creator/

Check out the story I did about Dakota, our crazy Jack Russell Terrier.

Best of the Web 2012

Richard Byrne over at freetech4teachers.com has put together a great slideshow highlighting tools that can be used by students and teachers to locate information. He also lists several interactive tools you can use to engage students in real-time polls during class using their mobile devices. how cool is that?

Check out his slideshow here. give yourself some time because you will definitely want to explore some of the related links like 30 Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers.

The educational potential of YouTube.

Can YouTube help you learn? You bet! If you're like me, you learn best by seeing moving images representing a topic. YouTube is loaded with videos and animations on just about every subject you can imagine.

You can customize your YouTube experience by saving videos as favorites, or by creating playlists. For example, I have created a playlist featuring videos related to biology in Boise. You can see it here.

For example, the video below helped me understand DNA replication much better than I did just by reading the textbook.

Tools to enhance and reinforce learned material.

There is a very active blog out there called Technology for Teachers. Although the title indicates that the information is intended for teachers, parents and students might want to view this regularly or subscribe to the feed. The blog highlights resources that people can use to help reinforce learning. Check it out at http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Classroom ideas for biology teachers.

Found a cool link to some resources for Bio teachers. Check out nabt.org, the National Association of Biology Teachers.