Daniel Acuña's THOR GOD OF THUNDER #1 variant

Skottie Young's THOR GOD OF THUNDER #1 variant

Friday, August 30

Character Creations (fun app for creativity; normally $1.99)

Font Art (add stylish text to your photos)

WorldScan HD (scan documents and make PDFs; normally $3.99)

 

August 30, 2012

Alphabet Fun - Monster Match (fun alphabet recognition app)

Alphabet Zoo Adventure (normally $3.99)

Derivatives 1: Calculus Videos and Practice

Derivatives 2: Calculus Videos and Practice

Doodlecast Pro (create presentations with audio on your iPad; normally $1.99)

Everyday Mathematics Addition Top It (great app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)

Everyday Mathematics Beat the Computer Multiplication (great app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)

Everyday Mathematics Divisibility Dash (great app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)

Everyday Mathematics Equivalent Fractions (great app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)

Everyday Mathematics Monster Squeeze (great app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)

Integral 1: Calculus Videos and Practice

Integral 2: Calculus Videos and Practice

Kids Math Fun~Kindergarten

Learn English with EasyLang Pro (normally $1.99)

Learn French with EasyLang Pro (normally $1.99)

Learn German with EasyLang Pro (normally $1.99)

Learn Italian with EasyLang Pro (normally $1.99)

Learn Spanish with EasyLang Pro (normally $1.99)

Lets Leap Ahead Shapes

 

THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #1-2 covers

Tuesday, August 28

Please use your professional judgment in determining which apps meet your instructional needs and are aligned to the curriculum. 

• 30 Years Shuttlebook (from NASA; fabulous publication for secondary students)
• ACT Sky Vocabulary
• Alphabet Zoo Adventure (normally $3.99)
• Derivatives 1: Calculus Videos and Practice
• Derivatives 2: Calculus Videos and Practice
• Everyday Mathematics Addition Top It (great app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)
• Everyday Mathematics Beat the Computer Multiplication (great app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)
• Everyday Mathematics Divisibility Dash (great app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)
• Everyday Mathematics Equivalent Fractions (great app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)
• Everyday Mathematics Monster Squeeze (great app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)
• Integral 1: Calculus Videos and Practice
• Integral 2: Calculus Videos and Practice
• Kids Math Fun~Kindergarten
• Lets Leap Ahead Shapes
• MathFlashApp (normally $3.99; looks like a good one)
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary (app includes voice search and audio pronunciations)
• My Editing Buddy (wonderful app for elementary for writing)
• Number Game! (fun addition and multiplication game)
• Paper Notes (take a photo of handwritten notes and make them into a book)
• SpellingCity (just as good as the website!)
• Word Cat Spell (wonderful phonics app)
• Word Cracker (game; normally $1.99)
• Word Dog Spell (wonderful phonics app)
• Word Pig Spell (wonderful phonics app)

Friday, August 24

Wee Sing & Learn ABCs - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wee-sing-learn-abc/id502708985?mt=8

 

Final thoughts on SCALPED

These past couple days have been very special for me. All the kind words from fans and fellow creators have been really overwhelming. You people are seriously awesome. Thank you so much for supporting SCALPED over the years. Without you, we never would've made it to issue 60. And without SCALPED, I for one wouldn't be here.

Lots of people have been asking me how I feel about the series wrapping up, if I'm sad to see it end. I suppose I will miss writing those characters from time to time. And I will definitely miss working with the team behind SCALPED (though hopefully we can all get together again someday). But as far as the actual series goes, no, I'm not sad to finally be done. It's time. Time to give people of Prairie Rose the ending they've always had coming. Time to hopefully pay-off all the years and dollars you beloved readers have spent following their adventures. And time for me to move on to other stories (THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #1! Coming this November!).

I will do more stories like SCALPED, that's for sure. My next creator-owned project is already in the works, and I think it's something that will appeal to anybody who enjoyed the exploits of Red Crow and Bad Horse. I actually hope to start writing the first issue next week. But I don't think I'll be turning right around and jumping into another 60 issues series. SCALPED represents more than six years of my life. I don't have another journey like that in me just yet. Someday, yes. I think I even know what that next big one will be. But it'll just have to wait for a bit.

For now I'm keeping busy with X-MEN and THOR and that unnamed creator-owned book that right's around the corner. And I quite honestly couldn't be happier.

So again, thank you, SCALPED-fan, whoever and wherever you are. Even if I work in comics for 100 years, I don't think I will ever do another comic or work with another team or have another group of fans as special as this one. I love you all more than you know.

Now let's go have a beer.

Tomorrow, last one

I'm sure I'll have some more thoughts tomorrow. Today, just this.

Meryl Streep, Advocate For the Arts

On August 17th, 2012, CBS aired a benefit concert called "Teachers Rock." A variety of singers and groups performed and several celebrities were interviewed sharing stories of their favorite teachers. It was a very lovely concert supporting teachers and education with several student musicians performing along with the celebrities.

If you missed the concert, you need to check out Meryl Streep's

Monday, August 20

Math Dictionary - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id454367958?mt=8&src=af&ign-mpt=uo%3D6

 

 

Friday, August 17

English Idioms Usage - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/english-idioms-usage/id508854496?mt=8

Shake-a-Phrase: Fun With Words and Sentences - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shake-phrase-fun-words-sentences/id436414534?mt=8

 

 

Cheryl McKnight

Achiever – Individualization – Maximizer – Strategic – Responsibility

Birdville ISD Instructional Technology Specialist

http://apps4schools.blogspot.com

 

Thursday, August 16

Freefall Time - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/freefall-time/id482769793?mt=8

Pick-a-Path - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pick-a-path/id545185507?mt=8

 

 

Cheryl McKnight

Achiever – Individualization – Maximizer – Strategic – Responsibility

Birdville ISD Instructional Technology Specialist

http://apps4schools.blogspot.com

 

THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #2

Cover for #2 by Esad Ribic. Now if you put that alongside the cover for #1, you get one big sweet ass image, featuring all three versions of Thor we'll see in the series. Young, present-day and old. And also your first glimpse of the God Butcher.

August 13

Sound Beginnings

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sound-beginnings/id541898864?mt=8

 

Touch and Learn Alphabet

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touch-and-learn-alphabet/id541893687?mt=8

 

 

 

Thursday, August 9

The following educational iOS apps are free today. Download the apps as soon as possible as they can go to paid status at any time.

• 360 Panorama
• ABC Champ (spelling game; normally $1.99)
• ACT (math lessons; normally $9.99)
• Algebra Card Clutter (fast math game)
• Artistic Photo (photo editor; normally $2.99)
• Astronomical Terms
• Ben & Bob Chipmunks (interactive book)
• Biology Glossary
• Bodie, California (Museum Planet presents a narrated, digital photo tour of the historic ghost mining town Bodie, California; normally $2.99)
• Buzzle (normally $1.99)
• Cars in Sandbox: Space Rover (normally $8.99; introduce young children to the Mars Rover and the Moon Rover)
• Cartoon ABC (normally $2.99)
• Counting Numbers 123 HD (normally $1.99; very well done)
• Cyberchase: Ruckus Reader (interactive book; one free story included free; others available for in-app purchase)
• Desk Fountain (relaxing water sounds)
• Different Book (opposites)
• Earthquake Terminology
• Elements App - Chemistry Periodic Table (very nicely done)
• Explore with Farmer Jon
• Flowers by Tinytapps (early science app)
• The Foolish Donkey: HelloStory (interactive book; Aesop's fable; normally $1.99)
• Fox and the Grapes by Tinytapps
• Grammar Puzzle (normally $1.99)
• Hide Run Growl (interactive book; normally $1.99)
• The Honest Woodcutter by Tinytapps
• Hookitty-Tookitty-Tah (interactive book; normally $2.99)
• Hurricane by American Red Cross (great for tracking hurricanes, emergency preparedness, and more)
• IBM Think (a wonderful app about how progress is made)
• iReading HD - Sleeping Beauty (interactive book)
• iStory Bally, the Balloon Dog (interactive book; normally $2.99)
• iStory to the Rescue (interactive book; normally $2.99)
• Jeff the Mis-Fish (interactive book)
• JM Abel with No Navel (interactive book)
• JM The Naughty Eagle Chicks (interactive book)
• JM Untying the Knot (interactive book)
• Kids iHelp - Analogy 1.0 (free set with more available through in-app purchase; excellent for practicing logical thinking skills)
• Kids iHelp - Analogy 2.0 (free set with more available through in-app purchase; excellent for practicing logical thinking skills)
• Louvre HD
• Luna Kettlebottom and the Magic Cauldron Society - Vlad and the Beanstalk (very cute interactive book; normally $2.99)
• Luna Red (very cute interactive book about Red Riding Hood; normally $2.99)
• Magic Clothes RD (interactive book)
• Math Magician
• Make A Scene: Farmyard
• Meet Heckerty (interactive book)
• Minds of Modern Mathematics
• Mink (interactive phonics book)
• MuseumApp (create your own museum exhibits; free registration required; normally $5.99)
• My Vehicle Universe - an Interactive Educational Game
• NASA Be a Martian
• North Wind (interactive book)
• Open Wide Snap (interactive book; normally $1.99)
• PeterPan(Unabridged) (audio book; normally $16.99)
• Princesses Learn German (interactive book)
• Puss in Boots (interactive book; free the whole month of August)
• The Race by Lily (interactive book by a little girl)
• Reading for All Learners Little Book Free (interactive book)
• SkySafari 3 (normally $2.99)
• Slice Wood (puzzle game)
• Spacecraft 3D
• Spanish Lingo - Numbers & Colors (normally $2.99)
• SpellingCity
• Spot the Farm Animal
• Spot the Jungle Animal
• Star & Planet Finder HD
• StudyKit Pro (normally $24.99)
• The Tale of Tortoise Buffett and Trader Hare (interactive book about finance for children; normally $1.99)
• Tickle Stomp! An Educational Story (interactive book for preschoolers)
• Ugly Duckling Interactive Story (normally $5.99)
• Vermeer (art works; normally $1.99)
• Visual Photo Editor (normally $4.99)
• World Explorer (normally $2.99)

Tour My Classroom

Tomorrow is the first day of school. The kids are coming! I took pictures of my classroom before it gets disturbed by the chaos of the school year.

This is the view standing in the doorway. The students always enter and sit around the edge of the carpets in a circle.







You can see most of my instrumentarium stays set up at all times and is readily available. The glockenspiels are kept on

THOR: GOD OF THUNDER coming in November

As was officially announced today, I'm the new writer on THOR: GOD OF THUNDER, which kicks off in November. For details, check out the following interviews:
Newsarama
Marvel.com

Oh man, am I having fun with this one. And Esad Ribic is going to melt your brains.

Magnetic Hand Signs

Good bye, old hand signs! You have served me well for 7 years . Even though you were laminated, your thin pink paper is still curled on the edges and show years of use. You have been ripped by students who did not treat you with respect, and taped back together with care. But, the time has come for us to part.







Hello, new hand signs! I look forward to using you in many lessons! I

Storage For Die-Cut Letters

Today, I'm sharing my storage system organizing my die-cut letters used for bulletin boards. I am a very thrifty person and hate to waste, so I save anything I think I can reuse.  This storage system is something I copied from Sunday School many, many years ago.



When I acquired this position, the teacher before me had placed all the numbers and letters in this Pampers Baby Wipe Container. I

corel draw tutorial (kartu nama)

Ehm ngepost lagi … tapi tumben panjang nieh .. susah lagi…. Tapi gpp semoga bermanfaat bagi semua pengunjung terutama temen* satu kelas saya 9dhe :D
Untuk membuat kartu Nama menggunakan coreldraw sudah pasti harus punya softwarenya .. bagi yang mau gedownlod coreldraw X5 portable bisa dibawa kemana* silahkan cari di google

~ Udahkan downloadnya sekarang buka aplikasi coreldraw kalian *perhatikan gambar* perhatikan lingkaran bulat click close..




~ Lalu akan muncul jendela kosong …….. lalu tekan ctrl + n maka yang akan muncul seperti gambar dibawah ini .. pilih A4 click ok




~ Lalu muncul seperti gambar dibawah ini



Nah sekarang tempat dimulai membuatnya
~ First step pilih rectangle tool (f6) buatlah kotak sesuai besarr kartu nama yang akan dibuat





~ Second step pilih file ~ import (ctrl + I) pilih gambar yang kalian mau click import . pada area gambar pilih tempat untuk gambar yang sobat import tadi ~~ untuk lebih jelas perhatikan gambar …………




~ Sesuaikan gambar dengan besar kotak (semua pasti sudah tahu caranya)
~ kemudian pilih zoom tool . perbesar sesuai keinginan sobat semua (saya sarankan 200%)
Perhatikan gambar dibawah ini



~ kemudian pilih icon ini
atau text tool f10
Tarik garis dari attas gambar kebawah gambar seperti gambar dibawah ini



Lalu sesuaikan ukuran teks dan font tulisan





~ tulis data sobat dalam gambar tersebut
Seperti data saya inni



selesai deh cooment kalo belum ngerti

August 1

• AAC Evaluation Genie (for speech therapists; normally $11.99)
• ABC Wildlife (normally $2.99)
• American Flag (tells the history of the flag; nice app for elementary students)
• Animal Melody HD
• Comic Story (import photos and add filters, balloons, borders, and text; normally $1.99)
• SpellingCity
• Super Shapes