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Nik's Learning Technology Blog SimCityEDU Is Coming Soon To A Classroom Near You Remember SimCity? Me too. I loved it. So you can imagine my excitement when I heard that Electronic Arts is developing SimCityEDU . SimCityEDU will fit into the U.S. Details are still scarce at this point but the screenshot above via The Verge should whet your appetite like it did mine. **Want an early look? Online Speech Bubble Photo Editor - Create comic strips with phrase.it AppShed - Build HTML5, iPhone and Android apps online for schools, education and business Class Buddy: Student planner PanPlanner is a partner in this smart phone’s era that can change your lifestyle! By looking at today’s schedule organized in a simple way, changes in life will begin. Plan today. When we were planning days on paper and barely managing time, Franklin Planner was a big help. You can do many more things together rather than doing it alone. It is difficult to satisfy the needs of everyone in their schedule management. [Important Features of PanPlanner] ❖ Memo- Just by assigning a date on the memo allows it to be changed into a schedule, and for a schedule that you can’t complete, deleting a date of a schedule will transform it into a memo. - Images and maps can be attached in a memo just like the schedule. - Various categories such as a diary, to-do, information and so on can be added, edited for usage. ❖ Share Schedule - The registered schedule can be sent to a friend through SMS.

Raki's Rad Resources: Top 10 Reading Websites for Elementary Students There are so many great websites out there for Elementary students that I decided to put together some Top 10 Lists for websites to use in the upcoming school year. For the next few weeks, I’ll be posting lists of sites to use for various subjects. Be sure to see the post I wrote about organizing websites, if you need a way to keep track of all of these. And feel free to leave a comment with any additional sites that might help everyone with this week’s subject – Reading. 1.) Storyline Online - This great website has famous actors and actresses reading quality children’s fiction. 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) 10.) For more resources to integrate technology into your classroom, check out my Technology Integration Kit. Top 10 Writing WebsitesTop 10 Math WebsitesTop 10 Science WebsitesTop 10 Social Studies WebsitesWebsites to Teach Typing SkillsWebsites to Create Videos

Classroom Aid | Game Building Resources The best FREE resources of game building for teachers and children: Building games for teaching Teach with Portal – Today, innovative educators are finding ways to incorporate Portal™ and Portal 2 into their classrooms—helping teach physics and critical-thinking skills. It’s eye-opening to see how video games can be used in amazing and unexpected ways to help educate our next generation. You’ll find the beginnings of an engaging set of lesson plans, created by teachers, using the Portal 2 Puzzle Maker. Machinima (from Knowclue’s wiki) – Film making in virtual worlds can have many roles in education from digital story telling and making documentaries by students in the K-12 classroom to creative expression in the Arts to training farmers about climate change in developing nations. ClassTools – Over 20 free web tools for teachers … create quizzes, diagrams, and educational games, you can host them on your own site free of charge (licensed under creative common). … plus no log in. Others

9 Wrong And 8 Right Ways Students Should Use Technology Technology is a tool. It’s not a learning outcome. Too often do we get distracted by all the activities and action we can perform with an iPad or some other device. We can post to Edmodo! But they’re not really learning. That’s the idea behind the fabulous visual I saw on George Couros’ blog (great read!) Don’t get me wrong, you can do a lot of good with technology in the classroom.

Cargo-Bot – iPad The first game programmed entirely on iPad® Be Logical. Play Cargo-Bot Presenting Cargo-Bot. The first game programmed entirely on iPad using Codea™ Get it for free on the App Store. Cargo-Bot is a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates. It features 36 fiendishly clever puzzles, haunting music and stunning retina graphics. Built with Codea Cargo-Bot is the first game on the App Store developed using Codea, an iPad app for rapidly creating games and simulations. Get Codea on the App Store. Cargo-Bot was developed by Rui Viana using Codea. Fred Bogg coded the entire music engine using Codea's sound API, as well as composing the Cargo-Bot score.