Summer Learning with Night Light Stories

Miss Mel and Mr. Chris over at Night Light Stories have started a great new fun summer learning resources.  Throughout the summer they'll be posting fun summer learning activities on the Night Light Stories Facebook Page.  Make sure you "like" them and follow the fun!  Feel free to add your own activities to the page too!

Patrick

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Filefolderheaven.com

FileFolderHeaven.com is a site that I've seen before, but never posted about.  Natalie (creator and owner) recently contacted me and shared it again so I decided to check it out more.  The site is pretty simple and she describes it like this:

Our printable file folder games and preschool activities offer students a fun way to practice basic pre-academic and academic skills. These file folder games provide students many opportunities to practice a wide variety of classroom skills at their level. Special Education teachers, preschool teachers, general education teachers and parents enjoy using file folder games and preschool printables because they are inexpensive learning tools, simple to assemble, and easy to store.

I really like the premise of the site, simple easy to use tools that are easy to create and utilize.  As the name suggests all the materials are available for download and printing to put in file folders and create activities.  They also have a section of Interactive books available for download.  FileFolderHeaven also has a section of free downloads.  One section that I especially liked where the Word Family Books.  Each book comes with a book & several games to play with the book.  It seems like a great way to support reading!

If you are interested in checking out FileFolderHeaven.com, please also check out their Facebook Page - FileFolderHeaven Facebook or follow them on Twitter - @FFHeaven.

Patrick


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Book Desktop Template

I've been struggling with a way to allow my students independent access to the powerpoint books I've created. I have many books, and the kids love to read them, but they can't open them independently. That's a major problem, I'd love them to have the opportunity to do it on their own. Taking a cue from Yuichi and a quick e-mail to tech support, here's what I've come up with:





Book Desktop Template

There are a few little things you need to do to make this file work for you. First you need to transfer the files you wish to open (powerpoint or whatever) to the SDP Externals folder inside your Boardmaker folder (I assume this works on PC, but I haven't tried it).



Book Template is the first page you open, and I put a category picture on this page and link it to the Book page (template.bm2) where I actually put link to the book.

Here's a look at the programming on the Desktop Book Template button to change it to the book page:



Once on the Book Page I programmed the button to open the powerpoint file. Here's a photo of that:



This has been quite an experience for me, I've really learned a lot. The only thing I need to check out is that it works with my switch set-up. I'll keep you posted on that front