Friday Favorites

It's Friday ... time to share more of my favorites!

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Guest Post: A Few BrainPop Features I Forgot About

I'm excited to share a post from Becky Burnett's Tech Tips and Such blog today. Be sure to check it out. If you'd like to receive emails when her blog is updated, sign up for her mailling list here!

From Tech Tips and Such:

I was in a session earlier today about BrainPop at my local education service center, and decided that there are "A Few BrainPop Features I Forgot About". Since I forgot about them, I thought some of you might have too. Our district is fortunate enough to have a BrainPop subscription, but if your district is not, have no fear, there's some wonderful free features too!

If you have ever seen a BrainPop video you know that they are short and sweet, as well as very informative (if you haven't, click here to view one). I think they are a great way to intro a concept or reinforce. They can be class activities or individual student activities. Also, BrainPop is adding to the collection of activities that support their videos and the concepts that they deliver. Read on to learn (or be reminded) of a few.

FREE STUFF! That's right, I said free =)
You can get free stuff from all of the BrainPop sites (BrainPop, BrainPop Jr., BrainPop Español, BrainPop ESL), but it's best to go from the main BrainPop site so that you can see ALL of the free stuff from ALL of the sites! Just go to the main BrainPop page (brainpop.com) and click the button for free stuff. 

Search By Standards
I think this comes in particularly handy when you have a student or students that are struggling with a particular skill but it's also good for many more reasons. Just click the Standards button, select your state/subject/grade, and then click the link for the proper video or resource. It's not just videos listed here, but also games, which leads me to...

GameUp

These games are ALL FREE and intended to be reinforcement for skills that are demonstrated in the videos. This being said, they work well after a video has been watched, and also for reinforcing a concept that has been covered in class in a different way. The games can be accessed by clicking the GameUp button on the main page, or after a video has been watched.

That's just a few, but there's lots of other great things on their site too. I definitely suggest that you go check it out or revisit if you haven't been there in a while. Enjoy and Happy Friday!!

Thanks Becky! That's good stuff!

FREE Printables for your Classroom

One of my new (to me), favorite blogs is Technology Rocks. Seriously.

Shannon, an Technology Integration Specialist from College Station ISD, shares all sorts of creative ideas. She has tons of printables that would be perfect in a classroom, the halls, and even in the teachers' lounge!

She recently shared one of the best printables I've seen. It's creative, it's fun, and it's so appropriate for our students (and all of us!) Before we Facebook, Text, Tweet, or Blog, we need to THINK.

When you click the image above, it will take you to a site called Scribd. Click the download link, log in with either your Facebook account or a Scribd account (you can create one for free). Click the Download link again, and you will get the option of saving the file as a pdf or a text document. I always choose PDF. 

Shannon has uploaded so many great printables - some are great for the classroom, some are family and religious printables, and she even has a category for Sonic drink addicts lovers!