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Moneyville is designed to be an educational and fun universe for children 5-9 years old. The many games and activities found in this universe introduce children to information about where money comes from, what money is worth and how to prioritize and save up.
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This is a shameless plug for my own classroom website. I have worked for the past year and a half to develop a comprehensive website that is useful to teachers, parents, and students. This is where I am putting a large number of my posts to practical use. I wanted to try out the website, Pictochart, and so I made the infographic that you are seeing. 
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April 17, 3:29 AM
I'll have to check this out. Always looking for resources. Delete the scoop?
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Very useful list of resources.
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Keep this list handy as we enter the final weeks of the school year. Delete the scoop?
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YoYo Games offers a free game development tool called Game Maker 8. Game Maker 8 enables users to develop simple video games using a drag and drop editor. Game Maker 8 gives users the ability to customize backgrounds and actions throughout their games. Delete the scoop?
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Design Squad from PBS Kids features a great collection of hands-on activities for elementary and middle school students. The activities are designed to help students explore engineering concepts.
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My son is an engineering major in college and I saw him get excited about this subject when he was a very young man. Help ignite the fire in your students. Delete the scoop?
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May 12, 2:50 AM
Unique resources. Plenty to discover and share with students. Delete the scoop?
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The Children's Poetry Archive is an ever expanding archive of poets for children reading their own work... Via Fiona Beal, KB...Konnected
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May 12, 11:08 PM
Wonderful resource! Nice archive of poetry that can be explored by subject, theme, author, or form. Many of the poems have audio so kids can read along. Students can also learn about poets through biographies featured on the site.
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From iPads in classrooms to mobile apps for educators, new technologies are changing how teachers teach and educational institutions are run. Whether they flip the classroom model, blend the learning experience or just make educators’ lives easier, lots of innovators are talking about technology and how it is transforming education as we know it. To give you an idea of what’s coming, we’ve turned the spotlight on five technologies that are driving the ed tech revolution. Delete the scoop?
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What is screencasting? Why would you want to record your computer screen, anyway? Well, I’m glad you asked! Recording what is happening on your screen can be a pretty useful tool for teachers who want to create video tutorials or presentations for their classrooms, and many teachers are using screencasting tools in their flipped classroom models.
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I also like Screenr. It's easy to use and does what I need it to do. Delete the scoop?
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After a big investment from some venture capital firms and ten months of testing and revising features eduClipper is better than ever. In fact, I think it's what teachers wish Pinterest could be.
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Great resource for educators by educators. Delete the scoop?
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Aside from having a somewhat tidier desk, going paperless has been enormously beneficial. I can now access student information anywhere and at any time. Delete the scoop?
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You can use custom timelines in book reports, projects, and just about every other piece of coursework in K-12. These tools will help.
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Your class will really enjoy seeing each others' work using these timeline creators. Delete the scoop?
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Watch the video from Dr. Wesley Fryer. He walks you through how to create multiple track podcasts using free tools including Audacity and AudioBoo.
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My third graders have been writing and producing their own weekly newscast this year. We used AudioBoo for part of the year and now we use BrainShark. Visit our site to listen: http://vhes.tvusd.k12.ca.us/borgeson Delete the scoop?
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#mathchat #financialliteracy Learning Center Online Activities: Great Minds Think: A Kid's Guide to Money Booklet Includes: basic lessons, exercizes and activities. Designed for Middle-school aged kids. Via KB...Konnected
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Easily revise some of these activities to be used with elementary students.
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April 27, 12:47 AM
You may also like... The Money Museum http://www.chicagofed.org/webpages/education/money_museum/virtual_money_museum.cfm
Hands on Banking (free courses for kids and teens) http://kbkonnected.tumblr.com/post/45955861715/hands-on-banking-free-courses-designed-to-teach
Kids can also follow @teachingmoney on Twitter to learn about financial literacy. Delete the scoop?
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Zondle enables teachers and students to create games to support exactly their learning needs: phonics games, science games, language games and lots more.
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I can think of a lot of great possiblilities for Zondle. I have started with a quiz about our school and I have put it on our website. Wouldn't it be great if students created games about what they have learned and they were share with the other students? Delete the scoop?
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Follow this expert's recommendations to sharing files.
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Great tools here. Delete the scoop?
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Backpack Practice is new site from the creators of Backpack TV. The purpose of Backpack Practice is to provide a place on which students can practice basic skills and review facts in math, science, social studies, and language arts. On Backpack Practice rather than typing or dragging and dropping answers into place students speak their responses into their computers. Delete the scoop?
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This list is a great place to start if you are excited about helping your students publish their work/creations.
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May 11, 2:02 AM
Awesome, well thought out list. Not a bad tool in the bunch.
To make it a Top 11 list I would add Youblisher. It's a free page-flip book/magazine generator. http://kbkonnected.tumblr.com/post/1023251114/youblisher-pageflip-book-generator Delete the scoop?
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May 12, 10:45 PM
Nice collection of fables. Some have audio and video. Delete the scoop?
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Boy Scouts do it. Video games do it. Sometimes grades aren't enough. What's a teacher to do? Check out this handy guide to using badges in your classroom! Delete the scoop?
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Vocabla is a service for learning English, Spanish, and Polish vocabulary. The service can be used online or with the free iPhone and Android apps. The concept behind Vocabla is similar to a lot of other language learning applications. In Vocabla you can create lists of words and phrases that you want to learn.
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A Spanish speaking student in my third grade class is teaching us some basic Spanish vocabulalry. This site should help to make her lessons more meaningful. Delete the scoop?
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Widbook is a platform designed to help people collaboratively create multimedia books. The service is part multimedia book authoring tool and part social network. Mashable called it "the YouTube of books." On Widbook you can create a digital book that contains text, images, and videos. Delete the scoop?
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The truth is, the single best educational tool that we all have is simple to deploy and worth the very small amount of effort needed.
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I wrote this article because I want everyone to know that even though I completely embrace the new technologies, they will never replace the bond we have between teachers, students, and books. Delete the scoop?
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IfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration.
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This is a very interesting site. I checked out a few countries: Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and Nigeria. Obviously we came out pretty well against Nigeria, but we have some ground to make up against the others. Delete the scoop?
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With the advent of technology and the uptake of web2.0 tools, portfolios migrated to the cloud making it dead easy for teachers and students to easily create and save their portfolios online. The good thing about digital portfolios is that they can be accessed anytime, anywhere and from any device with internet connection. Delete the scoop?
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We offer grants to have pets in school; to help teachers so they are able have small pets and aquarium equipment in their classrooms Via KB...Konnected
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Such a deal!
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April 26, 8:00 PM
I'm adding this to my Grants for Teachers LiveBinder http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=52098 Full of grants to apply for, tips and tricks!
Read more about it at Tales from Outside the Classroom http://www.talesfromoutsidetheclassroom.com/2013/04/pets-in-classroom.html Delete the scoop?
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Storyboard That is a cutting edge Web 2.0 tool for rapidly creating amazing storyboards, no art skills needed. Great for business meetings and in the classroom for students to express their creativity. Via Baiba Svenca, KB...Konnected 
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May 11, 10:05 PM
Storybird is also wonderful for creating student writing portfolios and documenting/ assessing student writing samples. Delete the scoop?
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This is a nice compliment to my classroom monetary system.