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Richard Byrne’s Blog, Free Technology 4 Teachers Summary

I followed and read past posts for the blog “Free Technology 4 Teachers” by Richard Byrne. He is the winner of Best Individual and free resource Blog from Edublog Awards 2008 and 2009. This is a fabulous resource of information, websites etc. that is totally free. I even added it to my RSS reader so that I can keep following it even after our class is ver. Mr. Byrne talked about everything from free puzzles and games to free e-books for digital storytelling in the classroom. I could read his Blog for hours and not even touch the surface of the enormous amount of fabulous information and free sites it contains. I started reading the blog from February to present. Here are some of the fabulous free stuff I found: [|32 Puzzles and Logic Games] These games are easy to play but difficult to master. They can be played online or downloaded. (February) [|Free e-book: Digital Storytelling in the classroom] The guide outlines the basics of digital storytelling, offers ideas for digital storytelling projects for all grade levels, and provides examples of digital storytelling projects. Microsoft's [|Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide] also offers instruction for using Windows Movie Maker and Photo Story in the classroom. (February) [|Weblist] is a site that lets you create a visual gallery of all your collected sites. (February) [|MagnaHigh] has free math games K-12 that allows the teacher to upload his/her class list and monitor the student’s usage and progress. (March) [|Google Earth Cool Places] is a site that catalogs links and files for cool, interesting things found in Google Earth. (March) iBrainstorm is a free ipad or iphone app to use when brainstorming. (March)7 Good sources of Math Help are [|Math TV], [|Brightstorm] , [|Mathtrain.TV] , [|Teacher Zone] ,  [|Khan Academy]  , [|Next Vista] , and [|Watch Know]. (April) Google offers [|five free posters] for websearch techniques. (May) [|NASA's Lunar Electric Rover Simulator] is a free iOS app that lets you explore the moon. The app is really a game in which players perform tasks to support the activities of a lunar outpost. (May) [|The top 5 apps for administrators] include email, Evernote, Twitter, Dropbox and google apps.(June) At this page post you will find [|9 places to find creative commons and public domain images.] I plan to use this with my students to explain the public domain and intellectual property. (June) This post is a compilation of [|77 tips for teachers to try this summer]. (June) Check out [|freshbrain] if you want some fun tech projects for students. (July) If your students need some eEtiquette, here are [|101 guidelines for the digital world]. (July) [|How Our Laws Are Made] is an infographic or flowchart that outlines all the steps that a bill must go through to become a law. For those of you who are a little older that childhood video “I’m Just a Bill” is on the site as well. (August) The [|Boolify Project] is a handy resource for showing students how search operator words affect search results. (August) [|ABCya!] advertises on his blog and this is one of my favorite sites for educational games with elementary students. I really enjoyed following this blog and plan to continue to learn about all of the free fun things that I can share with my teachers and students. I encourage you to check it out too. You won’t be disappointed.

=Works Cited= Byrne, R. (2011, February, March, April, May, June, July, August). //Free Technology for Teachers//. Retrieved July 10, 2011, from Free Technology for Teachers: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011_08_05_archive.html Feinberg, J. (2009). //Wordle//. Retrieved August 10, 2011, from Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/