The winner of StarrMatica’s Valentine’s Day Giveaway is…..drum roll, please…..Kathy Schlack!  Kathy has won a one year classroom membership to StarrMatica’s library of 3,800 K-6 interactive resources with her inspired version of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”.  You can check out her creative comment here:  http://interactivecontentcorner.com/2011/02/14/a-starrmatica-valentines-day-giveaway

Congratulations, Kathy!

Thank you for all of your fantastic comments, and if you didn’t win, don’t worry, check out this entry over at the amazing iLearnTechnology blog for another chance to win!

http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=3702

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Take advantage of these interactives to help bring the celebration to life!

Play the History Mystery Game to learn about the Civil Rights Movement.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/start.asp?Game=2

Explore historic civil rights locations with this interactive map.

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/mainmap.htm

Read and listen to Dr. King’s famous letters, speeches, and important documents.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/king/speeches.html

 http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documents_contents

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Tonight, Monday, December 20th, is the only lunar eclipse of 2010!

It should last about three and a half hours between 1:33 a.m. ET and 5:01 a.m. ET.   The totality phase — when the moon is entirely inside Earth’s shadow — will last approximately 72 minutes.

Explore the science behind this event with these animated interactives:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11947384/ns/technology_and_science-space/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,419794,00.html

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::800::600::/sites/dl/free/0072482621/78778/Eclipses_Nav.swf::Eclipse%20Interactive

http://www.kidsknowit.com/interactive-educational-movies/free-online-movies.php?movie=Eclipse

http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/ph/eclipse/eclipses.htm

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The websites:

• http://bit.ly/d4Zf42
• http://bbc.in/aBDK02
• http://bit.ly/9ulkn6

Celebrate Christopher Columbus Day the interactive way with these online resources!

1.       Primary students can listen to a simple illustrated story to learn the basic narrative of Christopher Columbus and his journey.

2.       Intermediate students can learn about the life of Christopher Columbus and his journey across the Atlantic with this more detailed illustrated biography.  Be sure to click on the highlighted items in the illustrations to view artifacts and learn specific facts about the voyage.  Then, challenge your students with the quiz to test their knowledge.

3.       Have your students design a character. (Don’t’ be surprised if it looks like you when they are finished!)  Then, challenge your students to answer questions about Christopher Columbus correctly to make their character walk the plank!

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Last week, I was honored to be receive an award from Alexandra Francisco who writes the Zarco English Tool of the Day Blog found here: http://zarcoenglish-tooloftheday.blogspot.com

The award was created to spread the word about blogs we personally hold in high regard.

For those I am awarding below, here are a few rules to follow: 

1- Copy and display the picture of the award given to you;

2- Link back to the blog that nominated you;

3- Nominate 10 different blogs yourself;

4- Inform the people you nominated, so they can in turn, continue the chain and spread the word about other great blogs out there.

Here at the Interactive Content Corner, I am focused on sharing online interactive content and ways to integrate that content into classroom instruction.  These blogs support that mission and help me on my personal learning journey.  I highly recommend:

iLearn Technology http://ilearntechnology.com/ by Kelly Tenkely @ktenkely

Sharp’s Audio Visual Blog http://sharpsav.com/blog/ by Vanessa S. Cassie @vanessascassie

ROTA:  Reading Teachers Online Arsenal http://rtoa.us/wp/ by S. Johnston-Robinett @sharnon007

Teachers Love SMARTboards http://smartboards.typepad.com/ by James Hollis @jameshollis

Bright Ideas http://slav.globalteacher.org.au/ @brightideasblog

Bits and Pieces Place http://2sparkley.edublogs.org/ @2sparkley

The Education Technology Blog http://www.educationtechnologyblog.com/ by Jonathan Wylie

Integrating Technology in the Primary Classroom  http://primarytech.globalteacher.org.au/ Kathleen McGeady @kathmcgeady

The Whiteboard Blog http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/ Danny Nicholson @dannynic

Edge 21 http://cffmv.blogspot.com/ Thomas Boito @xmath2007

Thank you for your contributions, and I look forward to reading your recommendations!

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