Karen Mayfield’s Top Ten Resources (+1)

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Starfall.com, http://www.starfall.com An incredible, free site dedicated to helping all children learn to read. Interactive stories and print and writing books to go along with them are high quality and engaging. Reading for Meaning, http://reading.tomsnyder.com/readingformeaning/index.cfm An Internet subscription service to improve student reading comprehension skills that targets skills often covered on standardized ...

Create Art with Artpad.art.com

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

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Flickr.com Creative Commons Images

Monday, October 13th, 2008

[display_podcast] Finding images to use that are not restricted by copyright is challenging. Creative Commons is a great alternative. Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your ...

Creating a WikiSpaces Account

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

[display_podcast] Watch the screencast to observe how to create and set up your Wikispaces.com wiki.  This is free to students and teachers.  The built-in tutorials are very useful. The best thing is there are no ads.