Posted on June 19th, 2008 by brianbass
Itunes is a great all in one stop for your audio/video needs. You can play and copy cd’s, listen and purchase music, and/or watch podcasts. You can even buy TV shows that you may have missed and watch them on your computer. For your classroom, I recommend the podcasts function. There will be [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2008 by brianbass
I just found out about this today, and Alex will probably beat me for posting this but I give her credit for showing it to me :-p StoryNory is a podcast in which the author reads a story. Currently there are 28 stories to choose from. Most of the stories seem to be [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2008 by alexandramartin
This PBS Kids production focuses on pre-reading skills varying from upper and lowercase letter recognition to initial consonant sounds. The website focus on these skills through educational games, video streaming (which is broken into small segments allowing specific segments to be shown to reinforce skills being worked on in the classroom), video [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2008 by alexandramartin
This podcast is awesome because it is accompanied by an animated video. The video turns the podcast into what digital natives are calling vodcasts. This presentation takes children on adventures to various places around the world helping Mr. Mailman deliver letters. Through the vodcast the narrator uses vocabulary that is specific [...]
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