# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
We built Wakelet using the latest technologies to make it faster and easier to use. Unfortunately, your browser doesn't support those technologies.

# data[].attributes.body
Actors Read Online to students.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors including Viola Davis, Kristen Bell, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Wanda Sykes, Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Betty White and more reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

# data[].attributes.headline
Educational Companies who are making their products FREE. 

# data[].attributes.subject
Educational Companies who are making their products FREE. 

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
4min Teacher Introduction to Zoom.us (Highly Useful for School Closures) *Updated Video*

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Interland is an adventure-packed online game that puts the key lessons of digital citizenship and safety into hands-on practice. Play your way to being Internet Awesome.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Covid 19 has educators and educational institutions worried about and preparing for possible school closures. What happens if students have to stay home for days or even weeks? How can we keep them learning remotely? What strategies and technology tools can teachers leverage to take their traditional classes online?

I have fielded multiple questions about the best ways to engage students and leverage online learning tools if schools close for a period of time. Despite the fear and anxiety that accompanies a health emergency or a natural disaster, both of which have the potential to close schools, learning does not have to stop because kids are at home.

bit.ly/PrepOnlineLesson

Everyone is in a different place when it comes to lesson design and navigating technology. I have recorded a video overview for each stage of the 5 Es instructional model for teachers who need additional support in designing an online lesson. I also include quick introductions to some of the technology tools that pair nicely with each stage of the 5 Es.

Below is a template that teachers can use to create their online lessons using the 5 Es instructional model. I encourage teachers to visit the Hyperdoc website and check out the templates and already-created lessons available for teachers. Lisa Highfill, Kelly Hilton, and Sarah Landis are the authors of The Hyperdoc Handbook and have created a website full of free resources for teachers.

The beauty of building an online lesson using a Google document, like the one pictured above, is that teachers can create different versions of the same lesson. This allows them to subtly differentiate the content of the lesson. Readings, videos, and activities can be customized for learners at different levels, and the various versions of the lesson can be shared quickly via Google Classroom.

As teachers face uncertainty, I encourage them to leverage the power of technology to keep students engaged in inquiry, collaboration, and learning online.

This entry was posted in Learning. Bookmark the permalink.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Tips for Designing an Online Lesson Using the 5 Es Instructional Model

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Covid 19 has educators and educational institutions worried about and preparing for possible school closures. What happens if students have to stay home for days or even weeks? How can we keep them learning remotely? What strategies and technology tools

# data[].attributes.headline
World Class Museums you can visit online. 

# data[].attributes.subject
World Class Museums you can visit online. 

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Every spring since 1985, World Wrestling Entertainment (formerly the World Wrestling Federation) puts on a sporting spectacle that has to be seen to be believed. brings together contemporary (John Cena) and vintage (Hulk Hogan) pro wrestlers in the WWE for an extravaganza of athletic and theatrical melodrama. With WrestleMania 36 broadcasting from Tampa, Florida on April 5, we're taking a look back at some of the more intriguing facts behind the event that started it all, held 35 years ago in Madison Square Garden.

1. The WrestleMania name was inspired by the Beatles.

Unlike other wrestling promoters of the 1980s, who promoted in regional territories across the United States and Canada, WWE (née WWF) promoter Vince McMahon had larger aspirations. After signing a number of top stars from across the country like Hulk Hogan, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, and the Iron Sheik, McMahon wanted to promote an event via closed-circuit television that would be available nationally and emulate large sporting attractions like the Super Bowl. Originally, McMahon was going to call it The Colossal Tussle. According to ring announcer Howard Finkel, it was Finkel himself who suggested the name WrestleMania based on a pop culture phenomenon of the 1960s.

"[McMahon] was trying to come up with a name for what we could call the event," Finkel told Bleacher Report in 2013. "And I said, ' The Beatles, when they came to the United States in back in 1964, their phenomenon was dubbed Beatlemania. Why can't we call our event WrestleMania?'" (WWE employee George Scott, who was a matchmaker for the company at the time, has claimed he was the one who came up with the name.)

2. MTV and Cyndi Lauper helped promote WrestleMania.

In order to make WrestleMania a success, McMahon knew he would have to reach audiences beyond wrestling fans. Fortunately, he had a point of contact thanks to wrestling manager Captain Lou Albano, who appeared in Lauper's 1983 music video for the song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Lauper and Albano struck up a friendship encouraged by Lauper's manager and boyfriend, David Wolff, a wrestling fan. The partnership eventually evolved into a marketing strategy known as the Rock 'N Wrestling Connection, with Lauper making appearances in WWE programming and MTV airing WWE specials like The War to Settle the Score, which helped raise awareness for WrestleMania. Lauper even solicited feminist icon Gloria Steinem and politician Geraldine Ferraro to insult Roddy Piper in taped comments that aired on MTV. (Lauper occasionally got physical inside the ring and later appeared during WrestleMania.)

3. Mr. T was not necessarily a welcome participant at WrestleMania.

In order to maximize the general public's interest in his event, McMahon enlisted actor Mr. T, who appeared as the villainous boxer Clubber Lung in 1982's Rocky III and was a regular on the NBC action drama . (Mr. T's talent agent, Peter Young, also worked with Hulk Hogan, who had also appeared in Rocky III.) With no pro wrestling experience, Mr. T met with a mixed reception in the locker room, with some wrestlers resenting his presence-and large paycheck. "The wrestlers whose minds worked old-school, they didn't like Mr. T," wrestler Nikolai Volkoff told Bleacher Report in 2013. "They felt he didn't belong there. But, as entertainment, he was perfect."

Mr. T was apparently aware of the friction his presence was causing and even contemplated dropping out the day of the show because he allegedly feared one of the wrestlers going rogue and hurting him in an unscripted assault. While Mr. T went through with it, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper-who was wrestling opposite Mr. T and Hulk Hogan in a tag-team match during the main event-insisted that Mr. T never pin his shoulders to the mat. "I wasn't being difficult," Piper later said. "I'm not going to let someone come into my business and treat me like a clown." Instead, Hogan pinned Paul Orndorff, Piper's partner, to win the match.

4. Liberace was the guest timekeeper at WrestleMania I.

WrestleMania had no shortage of recognizable faces. In addition to Cyndi Lauper, McMahon invited possibly the most famous athlete in the world, then-retired boxer Muhammad Ali, to be a guest referee for the main event. To fill the role of timekeeper, he enlisted singer Liberace. "If my mother was alive today, she would say, 'Son, you're finally a man," Liberace told reporters during a press conference in 1985 to promote the show. "Because she was a great fan of wrestling." Liberace took to the ring to dance to " New York, New York " with another group of guests: the Rockettes.

5. "Mean" Gene Okerlund sang the National Anthem at WrestleMania.

Subsequent WrestleMania events were notable for enlisting A-list talent like Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner." But for the first WrestleMania, no performer was able or willing to step into the ring. Instead, the WWE asked ring announcer "Mean" Gene Okerlund to sing the song. Okerlund wrote some of the lyrics on his hand.

6. Hulk Hogan and Mr. T hosted Saturday Night Live before WrestleMania I.

McMahon got a significant amount of publicity when Hogan and Mr. T hosted Saturday Night Live the night prior to the March 31, 1985 date for WrestleMania. They were late fill-ins for comedian Steve Landesberg, who couldn't appear in the entire show due to a family illness. The episode is probably best remembered for cast member Billy Crystal commenting while in character as talk show host Fernando on Hogan's heaving pectoral muscles, causing Hogan and Mr. T to begin laughing.

7. Hulk Hogan got sued for promoting WrestleMania.

As Hogan and Mr. T made the press rounds, it was a spot on cable talk show Hot Properties that garnered the most attention-from lawyers. Demonstrating a choke hold on host and future Law & Order actor Richard Belzer, Hogan squeezed too hard and rendered Belzer legitimately unconscious. Belzer popped up, blood trickling from his head, and went to a commercial. In 1987, he filed a lawsuit for $5 million against both Hogan and Mr. T, who encouraged Hogan to put him in a submission hold, or what he called a "pipsqueak sandwich." The case was settled before going to trial in 1990.

8. A technical glitch angered a lot of WrestleMania fans.

Before pay-per-view on home cable boxes was common, major premium sporting events like boxing matches were broadcast on closed-circuit, which meant theaters or other locations would pay for the signal and screen it for customers. WrestleMania went out to 200 locations, with an estimated 400,000 people watching. Not all of them went away happy. Roughly 11,443 fans entered the Civic Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to watch the show, with tickets priced at $8 to $10 each. Unfortunately, a technical glitch prevented the signal from being unscrambled, and they were met with a blank screen. After hearing an announcement that the show would not go on as planned, fans pushed over a television and began throwing folding chairs. All attendees were refunded. Three were cited for disorderly conduct. Pittsburgh fans were able to see the show a week later on local station WTAE.

The refunds didn't hurt McMahon. WrestleMania grossed a reported $12 million, including ticket and merchandise sales, and has been an annual tradition for the WWE ever since.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
12 World-Class Museums You Can Visit Online

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Every spring since 1985, World Wrestling Entertainment (formerly the World Wrestling Federation) puts on a sporting spectacle that has to be seen to be believed. brings together contemporary (John Cena) and vintage (Hulk Hogan) pro wrestlers in the WWE for an extravaganza of athletic and theatrical melodrama.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Adblock Detected

If you are enjoying Symbaloo, please support us by disabling your ad-blocker or whitelisting our site.

We depend on ad revenue to keep Symbaloo free and fund future developments. Thank you.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Symbaloo - Save bookmarks and favorite websites online

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Save your bookmarks and favorite websites online with Symbaloo! The best way to store, manage, and organize your bookmarks on the web. Create a free account to share your favorites with friends, colleagues or students. With over 10 million users, Symbaloo is a trusted edtech tool of teachers and educators worldwide!

# data[].attributes.headline
How to Be Successful in an Online Environment (For Students)

# data[].attributes.subject
How to Be Successful in an Online Environment (For Students)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
How to be Successful in an Online Environment: Canvas Student Orientation

# data[].attributes.headline
Links to Many Resources from The Lower School Library Home Page

# data[].attributes.subject
Links to Many Resources from The Lower School Library Home Page

# data[].attributes.body
Direct students to this page to access resources such as BrainPop, World Book Online, math sites, stories/books online, search engines for kids and research sites. Click the picture below and go to the Lower School Library.

# data[].attributes.body
Did you know you can create a class in BrainPop, and add assignments?  The user name is bhls2014, password is brainpop.
Use our educator code to create your account: CIEC7515. After you create your account then log in under your account. BrainPop has many many topics, activities, games and quizzes.

# data[].attributes.body
This is amazing and free! Teachers can register for free, then add your class, assign reading in any content area. Content includes vocabulary and question sets and allows audio,.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis.

# data[].attributes.body
Free, short concept books online. No registration is necessary.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

# data[].attributes.body
Learn Spanish (or a different language) online! Create student accounts and track progress!

# data[].attributes.body
The free version of this learning journal allows teachers to create a class, make assignments, send messages etc. Students can reply, upload assignments, pictures etc.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.provider_name
Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.authors[].name
Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Elementary Learning Experience Platform | Seesaw

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Seesaw is a Learning Experience Platform with 25M+ users, enhancing elementary education, engagement, and school culture while improving academic success.

# data[].attributes.body
This is a great opportunity for assigning independent study. What are you wondering about?

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
What is a multiple?

How do multiples get used in everyday life?

How can you determine a number's multiples?

Find it out

Who was Mary Anning?

What did Mary Anning discover?

What is Jurassic Coast?

Find it out

Have you ever tasted an Arab taco?

When was the Arab taco invented?

What is shawarma?

Find it out

How are currency exchange rates determined?

What was the gold standard?

Which type of currency exchange rate system does the U.S. use?

Find it out
Which of the following is usually NOT a factor in determining currency exchange rates?

Test your knowledge

How can I use Wonderopolis?

What are the parts of a Wonder?

How do writers make a Wonder?

Find it out

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease | Wonderopolis

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Khan Academy Kids is a free, fun, educational app with thousands of activities and books for young children ages 2-8.

1. To get started, download the app onto your mobile device:

2. Open the app and click "Sign Up" to add a grown-up's email address.

3. Check your email account for a message from Khan Academy Kids. Tap the blue button on the verification email to activate your Khan Academy Kids account.

4. Input the child's name, age, and avatar to create a user profile. If you have more than one child, multiple user profiles can be added for each child.

Start learning

Head to the Home screen inside the app to get started. There, you will see multiple options for learning:

Press the green play button on the house to start a personalized learning journey.

Press the library book in the upper left to self-select activities for skills practice.

Press the characters along the bottom to explore the Kids' Club.

Getting started video

✉️ Get in touch

For questions or suggestions about Khan Academy Kids, please reach out to our support team via email at khankids@khanacademy.org. Plus, keep in touch on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook for news and kid-friendly activity ideas from the Khan Academy Kids team.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Khan Academy Kids is a free, fun, educational app with thousands of activities and books for young children ages 2-8. 1. To get started, download the app onto your mobile device: 2. Open the app and click "Sign Up" to add a grown-up's email address. 3.