Khan Academy

www.khanacademy.org it is a personalized learning resource for all ages.  For free and for every one.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.

It is a helpful site in education, which allows us as teachers to meet our students in the half road. It could be used to improve their skills in sciences, maths and arts.

www.khanacademy.org

This site is useful with students with special needs (ADHD and Learning disabilities) as i use, because the mission is about what they know and what they need to know. So, what you have to do is to select a mission in a specific subject , and begin.

Click the link above, and enjoy your exploring trip. 



Make teachers' lives easier.. Help students achieve more

www.wikispaces.com Wikispaces Classroom is free for teachers and students. Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. It is made incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where you and your students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools give you the power to measure student contribution and engagement in real-time. 

www.wikispaces.com on jan 16 2015

There is many ways to use it with your students.  For example i use it to collaborate a dialogue by specifying a topic and let students give there opinion in a critical way. And for students with special needs (ADD, ADHD and learning disabilities) i made the same but i specify also the student who begin, or finish or conclude. Also it's a nice tool to create a collaborative story.

be creative..and teach.

Mind Maps.. lucky to use



Mind maps is a powerful way to use while studying. One of the most benefit is that allows you to organize the knowledge and memorize the informations.

www.text2mindmap.com it is a free site allows you merging your infomations in an organized way.

We can use it in a wide variety of activities during teaching-learning process. For example this mind tool could be used to summerize a story by mentioning the main ideas and characters... it will benefit all your students. And i would advise you to use it with students with learning disabilities, ADD and ADHD, to help them organize their new knowledge in an easy way.

PS: give your students the opportunity to create the mind map by themselves.



www.text2mindmap.com

Challenge Your Brain

As it is important to keep the body healthy, it is equally as important to keep the mind healthy as well. www.fitbrains.com  Fit Brains helps you train crucial brain skills such as memory, concentration, problem-solving, processing speed, language, and visual-spatial recognition. Best of all, these games will make exercising your brain fun. Whether you are focused on completing your latest brain training session or you just dropped in for a few games, these games will always keep your mind entertained and challenged. 

Then to improve your student's attention, memory, concentration, speed... (specially students with learning disabilities, ADD and ADHD).. you have to visit this site and begin training using awesome games.

So, don't waste your time..and click the link.

www.fitbrains.com



Storybird: storytelling community

Do you want to inspire your students? Do you want to shake their minds using stories?

Then, visit this amazing site that includes millions of arts that you can turn into a fresh stories...

www.storybird.com

Storybird could be used in education by selecting a story to  read, and to create another.  And also could be used for students with special needs. for example i put an exercise to a child with learning disabilities(a problem in comprehension : integration of the details to understand the concept), by selecting a story to be read and then, summarize it using mind map.  And also you can use this tool in a much wider categories, so be creative and begin.

For more information view my presentation storybird .

www.storybird.com on Jan.16

Voki in education

www.voki.com this is a new site, which i like to share it with you.  My friend introduced it to me, i think that it is a very educative and helpful site that could enrich our education, and it benefits students with special needs. It could be used to teach some concepts and to make these concepts funny to learn. You will see lesson plans that you could use and also you can share your's.

view this presentation for more ideas interactive avatars for education

 Enjoy, then explore more...

Welcome to our blog

 Henry L. Doherty said : “Be a student as long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”

This  blog is for us as teachers thinkers of today, and the students-proudly- thinkers of tommorow, if they like.

We all know that every class is a blend of differtent abilities, attitudes  and talents..that's what inspired me to create this blog in the first place; ie. to help you -in what i know and in the margins of my experience- to reach out your students especially those with special needs (learning disabilties, ADD, ADHD), in order to corporate their minds and shake their brains.

"let's shake our brain" will include teachnological tools and strategies and the way we can integrate them into our class activities. I hope we enjoy our journey to shake our brains using stories, games, dialogues and drawing activities, which have the opportunity to improve the student's different skills.

I like to introduce my self, i'm Zahraa Hamdan, an Arabic Language and Social Studies teacher, and i'm preparing my Masters in Special Education.

Prepare yourselves for our adventure in brain shaking. I will be very happy and thankful to see your comments shaking in this blog. :)

                                                         



https://intranet.royalhospitalschool.org/thinking-skills on Jan 16 2015