Zondle and common sense media certified educator

Common Sense Media Already in love with their fantastic resources for media literacy; got an email asking if I'd be interested in a CSM certified educator designation! Would I?!  Making room on the mantelpiece between my Safety Patrol Captain badge and Sorry Not A Winner snapple bottle cap.

And I literally just found this today: Zondle - games to support learning.  You supply the topic and questions - they make them into games.  Clean, professional website with capability to add classes and track progress.  An embarrassment of riches all for price teachers like best: free. Thank you, Zondle.

Learning.com and Tinkertags/Gigabryte

So I started this blog in school on a workshop day; all well and good.  Next day at a different school the firewall/filter blocks me.  Arrrrrggghhh.

These tidbits from the last few days:

• Learning.com is a digital curriculum portal with both free and paid resources. Of particular interest is their free digital learning environment, Sky, which looks like a nice alternative to Edmodo for my 4th and 5th grade students.
• Tinkertags, which has not yet launched, has changed its name to Gigabryte - looks like it's going to be a simple, but exciting intro to programming.  Sure would love to get an invite code to try it out a - hint, hint.

Blogging as a Learning Archive

I've been wrestling with how to keep up with my learning. This is a start - to blog something each day on what I have learned.  Maybe it will also help me to remember!! Today:

• Visual.ly has striking infographics on many topics.  I posted one on my website relating to children and media.
• ERIC is the Education Resources Information Center - DOE.  Seemingly comprehensive collection of scholarly articles on education.  I did searches on keyboarding and typing.  Some bizarre studies out there.