Mrs Banjer’s Little Bytes

Mrs B’s Little Bytes!

Professional reading, viewing and listening!!

Education Queensland 2008 School Year Calendar

http://education.qld.gov.au/public_media/calendar/calendar2008-web.pdf

Free printable resources for early years teachers (and middle school for reinforcement of basic skills)

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/cll/keywords/space.html (sight words)

Making Learning Fun – another free printable resource site

http://www.makinglearningfun.com/index.html

Need tips on how to do something? Go to About.com I’ve been going through tutorials on how to use Photoshop. Has expert advice on anything you can think of.

http://www.about.com/

Bit of time on your hands? Look into salary sacrifice, see if you can benefit in some way. (I have a novated lease on my car and a PDA.)

http://www.remserv.com.au/Education.cfm

A different tool to encourage students to get involved, by voting! They do it for Big Brother, now use it in the classroom! There are expensive clicker tools available for Smartboards (not ours), but this online application uses mobile phones, landline phones and the internet to lodge votes. Read the blurb, it is interesting.

http://www.votapedia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Feel like reading? This blog post by Dean Shareski provides links to a number of respected educators promoting the integration of technology into teaching and learning. It also links to a conference that was held this week in San Antonio, Texas – the NECC (National Education Computing Conference). This event is sponsored by ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education).

http://ideasandthoughts.org/2008/07/04/my-big-fat-necc-brain-dump/

Holiday Videos:-

An incredible air catch of a baseball by a ball-girl.

http://www.noob.us/entertainment/amazing-baseball-catch-by-ball-girl

Falou’s massive jump in State of Origin game this week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRtXkwHRQr4

Pivot Animation and Movie Maker are on the school computers and your laptops. Easy to use and create little stories (maybe not as violent as this one! LOL)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOShahqe_M8

Enjoy the holidays

P.S. Adding one more to look at 360 Desktops, lot of negative reviews because of ads and tech perspective but it is amazing what it can do!

I’ve just downloaded this one though, costs money but comes with recommendations and no ads.