Technology Tuesday
November 19, 2013
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Related Apps:
 
Apple:
 
(free) This app offers voice search that allows students to find a word without knowing how to spell it! This is a great tool for reference, education, and vocabulary building.
 
(free) This app features an A to Z picture dictionary with hundreds of words and sentences. It also has a fun self-record tool for children and parents to record their own voices and playback! 
Android:
  
(free) This app features synonyms & antonyms, voice search, example sentences, audio pronunciations, word of the day and much more!
 
(free) This app has more than 500 English words for children to practice and master. Children will listen to words pronounced in English,
then record and hear his/her own version of each word!
Safe and Fun Websites for Research



For any given subject there is a countless number of websites available for students.  The following sites provide children with safe links to great information on thousands of subjects in categories such as history, geography, math, and biography.  In addition to facts and figures, these sites include flash cards, games, quizzes, and even sites for teachers!
Fact Monster
  
Fact Monster is a website that allows students to safely search for the information they need, without the worry of finding inappropriate links. The site has different topics to choose from as well as a search bar option.
 
Kid Friendly Search
Travel the internet with this kid friendly site.  Each subject brings in a myriad of choices for safe surfing!  

In Case You Missed it Last Week:

PreK-3 Digital Learning

Free Webinar

 

PreK-3 Digital Learning is a free professional learning community (PLC) that hosts webinars and wide-ranging discussions on digital learning in the PreK-3 grades. This community will help educators stay connected, share ideas, and get support from colleagues. As part of this community, educators can post questions, start discussions, and get feedback from experts and peers on the issues and challenges they face every day.

Members of the community receive:

  • Invitations to free webinars and live chats.
  • A Continuing Education Certificate for attending/viewing our webinars.
  • Access to all of the recorded webinars, presentations, resources, and online discussions.

This unique combination of webinars presented by leading experts, combined with a social networking community, creates a new way for the education community to connect and work together to help move forward faster with innovative new ideas about gaming and learning.

This community is offering a new webinar series and professional learning community for early childhood educators.

 

Media Manager, Mediator and Mentor: Key Roles for Educators in the Multi-Screen, Multi-Touch Digital World will be offered on November 26th. Learn how to be an early childhood educator in a multi-screen, multi-touch digital world! Earn Continuing Education credits with this free webinar.

Register here.