Mr B's List of SMART Board Sites - List of SMART Board sites, lesson resources and other educational resources online

My son Elliot, who has Down Syndrome, is a student at the Little Light House school in Tulsa, OK. The Little Light House is a non-profit, TUITION FREE school for kids with special needs. It is truly one-of-a-kind.

His school is in the running for winning $500,000 in funding in the Kohls Cares Facebook contest. Please, please, consider voting or sharing some votes for my son’s school! Here is a link to his school: http://www.littlelighthouse.org/

Honestly, it is a micacle already that the tulsa community has rallied around the little light house and brought them to the top 40. But we need to crack the top 20 to be awarded! PLEASE VOTE! Its free, harmless, all you have to do is find Kohl’s Cares on facebook, and find The Little Light House and share your votes, please! THANKS!

-Mr. B, aka Elliot’s Dad

CLICK HERE: FreeTech4Teachers.com

I like this guy’s blog and follow him; this is a good post! Some good plagiarism detection / prevention web resources

I have finally sat down, focused, and spelled out (in detail) how to go about adding a youtube-style video clip into Notebook Software for all your SMART Board users.  Please note that, since it is lengthy, I have dedicated a page on Mr. B’s List just for this, and you can reach the page by CLICKING HERE

Friends and Mr. B’s List-browers.. am I missing a great smart-board or teacher-friendly website? Please hit “Contact Us” and send me an email and I will check it out! THANKS!

-Mr. B

CHECK THIS ONE OUT, Social Studies teachers! click here: http://www.activehistory.co.uk/

PLEASE NOTE: This is a paid site, but, a great VALUE I believe for teachers looking to invest a small fee for added resources during the year. Please consider supporting this site with membership!

Active History offers award-winning methods of bringing world history alive in the school classroom. It is packed with virtual interviews, online simulations, educational arcade games, worksheets & lesson plans and revision quizzes. As the work of a full-time teacher, the site is practical and regularly updated.

AUDACITY: Audacity.sourceforge.net Free audio recording software, a popular resource for teacher podcasters!

PODOMATIC:  Podomatic.com Free Podcasting network / host to browse other podcasts and share your own (for your students and parents!)

JING:  jingproject.com free screen capture / screen video recorder for podcasting SMART activities, etc.!

What other sites are you using for Podcasting?

UNCLE: “What does your daddy do for work?”

5-yr-old: “Goes to schools.”

UNCLE: “Thats neat, what about your mommy, what does she do for work..?”

(pause..)

5-yr-old: “Groceries!”

After wearing his new cowboy boots for 3 straight days… young cowboy asks, “Momma, what are the big heels for on these cowboy boots?  Oh I know, they’re to step on Bad Guy’s fingers!”

Heres another cool web resource for teachers, especially SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHERS: http://www.teachersdomain.org/ TeachersDomain.org is a collection of digital media (VIDEOS) mostly from Public Television. It does require registration but it is FREE! Check it out, http://www.teachersdomain.org/

eachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards.

Teachers’ Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using “My Folders” and “My Groups” to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students.
Teachers’ Domain strives to strengthen teacher knowledge by providing innovative teaching methods that incorporate technology in the classroom and inspire students to learn.

Here’s another, (remember Mr. B is a proud parent of a 3-yr-old hurricane with Down Syndrome).

“My brother got an extra chromosome and all I got was this t-shirt!”

“Momma, why do all the guys that know God wear sandals?”

heh
-mr. b

“Daddy, did you know that Dumb Beatles lays eggs in your poo?”

-mr. b

TED.com is “ideas worth spreading, Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world”. In other words, a giant collection of videos of keynote speakers / experts / etc. Loving it!! some great talks on Education. click here: www.ted.com

vocaroo.com is a cool site for students to record notes and thoughts, check it out! www.vocaroo.com

Interesting quotes from training..  “Just put my Url in your Delicious, honey..”

-Mark

Mr. B and family were challenged with completing all of the following ’weekend’ Summer Outings in less than 24 hours:    LAKE, Minor League BASEBALL GAME, CHURCH, WATER PARK, large BBQ Cookout, etc.

…and here are the results:  1 aggrivated foot injury, 5 sunburns, 20+ tick and chiggar bites, a pair of sore ski legs, a scraped knee, a bruised elbow, 1 big bump on a head, 3 tired children, and 2 exhausted parents who are questioning ”what were we thinking?!”

Tommorow starts a new week!  But on the calendar for this week is no less than 2 full-day SMART Board workshops, 1 x 500-mile round-trip for a Conference, a week long vacation bible school for child #1; teaching all week at vacation bible school for Mom (after Mom gets child #2 to school first), and last but not least, a 14 hour drive with the kids to South Texas for an (outdoor) wedding weekend extravaganza..

If we survive, we will see you next week,

-Mr. B

True story from Mr. B’s wise-crackin’ Grandma:

FAITH HEALER: “Ma’am, I am here to lay on my hands and pray for you.”

Mr. B’s GRANDMA: “Ok.”

FAITH HEALER: “Ma’am, I’m going to lay my hands on your chest and pray for your lungs, that you will be free to breathe again..”

…(Faith Healer lays his hands on Granma’s chest and prays softly for Grandma’s lungs)…

FAITH HEALER: “Ma’am, now I’m going to lay my hands on your back and continue.”

Mr. B’s GRANDMA: “Ok.”

…(Faith Healer lays his hands on Grandma’s back and continues to pray softly)…

Mr. B’s GRANDMA: “Honey, I’m hard of hearing, you better speak up cause I can’t hear a word you’re praying.”

FAITH HEALER: “OK Ma’am, next I will pray for your ears, that you will be free to hear clearly again.”

…(Faith Healer sticks his fingers into Grandma’s ears and prays loudly)…

Mr. B’s GRANDMA: “While you’re at it sweetie, I been having bladder issues…”

hehe.

-mr. b

Mr. B is digging in for the summer.. this is our first official “summer break” as a family, as our oldest just finished his first year of “Pre-K”. Results from first day of summer break? “Momma, I’m bored…” hahahahaha its gonna be fun!

-Mr. B

Podcasters, have you seen this, the Education Podcast Network? I dig it, check it out! http://epnweb.org/

NeoK12.com Don’t know how long its been around but its the first I’ve seen.. check it out! Mr. B is *super* impressed at the web 2.0-ness (is that a word?!) of NeoK12.. and especially, the video library awesome (SCIENCE emphasis). CHECK IT OUT www.neok12.com