Google Cardboard

Google Cardboard is an invention created by Google that lets you experience the world of Virtual Reality using cardboard and your Smartphone. An affordable and immersive technology, the simple download of an app and fifteen dollars (along with your monthly cell phone bill) can bring you to experience life as you’ve never seen it before. Google Cardboard is compatible with most Android or iOS phones with screen sizes from four to six inches and the cardboard is easily assembled within three steps.

YouTube also offers Virtual Reality videos that can be watched with Google Cardboard on your mobile device. Some Virtual Reality videos that can be watched on YouTube are the Angel Falls in Venezuela, realtime footage of the Aurora, or paragliding above Chott el Jerid. These videos can be used inside the classroom through the Google Cardboard lens to explore other environments or experiences that are being studied. There are even videos that can give you a 360-degree view of Outer Space!

Google Cardboard is an exciting way to explore life outside of your natural elements, and as low as fifteen dollars a pop, it’s worth a shot!

Other variations are available. Check them out here.

Rockalingua

"Research has shown that music is one of the best ways to learn a foreign language". 

Most things that I've remembered from language classes throughout school had stuck with me through song. Music has the ability to let children discover their rhythm, advance their development in language and literacy, and have fun learning! Rockalingua is a music based Spanish learning website that aims to support and make learning Spanish easy and fun. It's directed towards children of all ages, but may make it easy for adults as well. Created by a talented team of educators and artists, this website will be incredibly useful for teachers to utilize in their classrooms around the world. With fun videos, games, songs, worksheets, and picture dictionaries, children are bound to find entertainment exploring the website while learning Spanish as well. Learning should be fun, so give it a try!

         

                                                                                       Flash Notes May be a Tool for YOU!!!

Flash Notes is a very useful tools for students.  Flash notes allow you take notes on certain subjects and sell them online to other students.  As long as you are good at note taking, and have some very good educational thought your notes will sell.  Flash notes can help other students out in many ways.  First, if you are a student who really do not understand your own professor notes, and needs notes to be simplified you can possibly go on flash notes and get notes regarding the subject you may not understand.  Secondly, if you are a student who thinks your professor is boring and uninteresting, you can also use flash notes to get notes that talk about the same subject you professor was talking about.  Lastly, if you need detailed notes on a certain topic, you could also use flash notes to get those detailed notes on that subject.  Flash notes can be very beneficial to many students.  If any of these examples apply to you flash notes may be the site tool for you.  All you have to do is access flashnotes.com.  GOOD LUCK!!!!

FUNBRAIN!

I have very fond memories of Funbrain.com. It has really improved since I've visited the site last. Funbrain is a website for students in grades pre-k through 8th grade. It offers hundreds of free interactive games, books, videos, and printables that help kids develop skills in math, reading, problem-solving, and literacy. Each activity in Funbrain is labeled with what grade(s) it is for, and each grade has a ton of activities to choose from. What is cool about this site is it has many books and videos from authors and shows that students really enjoy, like Judy Moody and Teen Titans Go! The games on Funbrain are wonderful, and they are good practice for school. This is a great site for leisure time because it is safe, it has academic elements to it, and it is a lot of fun!

8notes.com

8notes.com is an awesome website for someone who loves playing the instrument. In this website, there are four sections on the home page.  The first one is instruments. In this section, it shows stringed instruments, wind instruments, brass instruments, vocal, ensembles, flexible ensembles and other instruments. It also shows the picture of each instrument. For example, when you click on the piano picture, it shows more information about playing the piano, such as different style of piano sheets, different level piano PDF sheet and voice record for children and adults, and when you click on it, it shows you PDF sheets and voice record. The second one is Styles. It offers classical, pop & rock, Jazz, traditional, Christmas, and wedding music sheets.  The third one is Artists, there are different kinds of artists. If you have your favorite artists, you might be able to find them there. The last section is resources. It includes music tools & resources, chord charts, fingering charts & scales, converters & generators, and tuners and other information. It has free online tuners, but it only has five tuners: Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele, Violin, Viola, and Cello.  In this website, you are not only can read the sheets, but also can click on the ‘play’ button to listen to it. You also can watch the green square box move on the music sheets while playing the music. Each day you only can listen to the audio twice. If you want to listen more than twice a day, you have to pay for 20$ per year to subscribe. It’s not that expensive if you really want to learn how to play an instrument, it’s worthy.  If you are thinking about learning to play an instrument, this is a very useful source for you. You can download the music sheets from this web. The music sheets are Free on this website. !!!!!!!!!!! https://www.8notes.com

TECHNOLOGY CHANGES EVERYTHING

TECHNOLOGY IS THE KEY!

 

 

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The UB Tech Conference would be very beneficial for educators to attend if possible.  This conference offers information related to technology, and ways to communicate through technology.  Technology has been progressing over the years and is in everyday learning.  In this conference you will learn how to communicate with other educators through various forms of technology.  These forms of technology will differ depending on your on interests.  Technology had been a big way to communicate whether we are communicating to our parents, friends, or even our community.  As educators we have many different ideas that should be shared between on another, and if you attend this conference you will be able to find ways to distribute this information.  The conference would be very beneficial to all educators.

Bibme.org

Bibme.org is truly a lifesaver for students. We all have had to make citations for school papers. With this website, you can make citations for all types of media. This includes journals, websites, books, and videos. Bibme.org can make the citation in whatever format is required for your paper such as MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian. This website is insanely easy to use. All you have to do is provide the website with the information it asks of you, and it will put this information in the correct order for a citation. Making citations for a website is a breeze. All you need to do is copy and paste the website’s URL and bibme.org will do all of the searching for you. When your citation is made, you simply just copy and paste it into your paper. This website also can teach you how to make in-text citations as well. Bibme.org is completely free and I haven’t had a problem with any of my citations.