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This is an excellent website to find podcasts on Lewis and Clark and westward expansion for the end of 4th grade and beginning of http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/legacy/louisclark/index.htm

Here is a good article on uses for the IPOD: http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1280&issue=jun_05

Okay...I need an idea for where to store a lot of links that are specific to my classroom. Does anyone know of a good site or program that will let me do that? For example, I want a quick list of links we have used in class and that are curriculum specific for my kids to be able to access in class and at home. Any ideas? *Sara at Riverchase I would use [|www.ikeepbookmarks.com] and set up an account. They are online bookmarks and you can add them from anywhere you have internet access. You just give your students the link and everytime you update, they will see the new links. You can store them in folders, too. You can see mine online here, though I have way too many! http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/hcse Cameron

Look at this site: http://www.zuzu.org/ It is an online magazine for kids. How about having kids publish something here. I especially liked reading the "Courageous Kids" section. There was a neat compilation of stories about a school that collected shoes for the homeless.

Could you have a literature circle with these online books? http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/book_details.asp?Category=TR%2DChildren Using the tablet you could highlight, make notes, etc. Just an idea. You can even bookmark your place!

Make sure to look for the email on the Video Converter for iPods.

Using your document camera for guided reading lessons: I have been recording myself on the document camera manipulating a guided reading book and having guided reading lessons. I download the recorded books into movie maker and convert the size with the site Mandy gave us (Jodix) I can then us the I-tune video section to put them on the I-pods. The children use these for individual review of material and I can record one groups guided reading and it becomes anothers "shared reading" on the I-pod. I plan to burn several books on a DVD to use with the notebooks. It's a littlebit of a lengthy process, but we can share these recordings with each other in the lower grades. Melinda (K- Green Valley

One day I was wandering through the Marco Polo lesson plan website and I made a great discovery amoung all the links... There is a great website that integrates the arts with science: [|http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3358/.] One year our second grade classes went to Children's Theater to hear the Alabama Symphony Orchestra play music with a "weather" theme. They used various pieces of classical music and their instruments to demonstrate lightning, thunder, various stages of rain, and other weather events. Now, I can use my Lightsmith and camcorder to give these children a similar experience in our classroom this spring. This was one wonderful field trip that I thought was lost to me and my future students. This discovery makes all the extra work worthwhile. Karen Davidson Gwin

Ideas for Things You Can Do in Your Classroom from July 9-11 Training · Podcast · Electronic Portfolio · Weekly Podcast News · Audio Books on iPod · Record Assessments · Tablets with Lit Circles- Writing · Use One Note to Plan · Scan Worksheets and use tablets · Sharing Math Journals/ Writing and editing with Lightsmith · Skype with video camera · Tablet for notes with meetings · United Streaming with Closed Captioning iPod · Camtasia video recordings · Audio recordings of what you learned for the day · Writeboard to collaborate online -Use Laptops for Writing Workshops with ink annotation -Interviewing important people using IPODS and combining with pictures for a Photo Story -Interview neighbors to find community living history, add to Google Earth with audio -Starting activity-entered into reading database or lunch count with graphing (Excel) -Show ABC project and then do scavenger hunt in photo story and print -Make 2 wikis 1 for teachers, 1 for students, on student wiki collaborate with outside expert (Example: ecosystems) -Catalogue project examples by art, music, enrichment, etc. -Use your ipod to record instructions -Student video explaining rules, procedures, etc. to be shown at Parent Night (email to parents unable to attend)