Open Brainstorms

For those students whose households have computers, send free e-cards for birthdays, holidays, family events, etc. Get the parents accountable to you via their (both work and home) e-mails. For children in households without a computer, they are invited to view their e-cards at school, then be taught how to print it out to share with their families. Make this a Hot Topic at Orientation, conferences and school get-togethers, so it becomes the happy buzz it should be all year.

take pictures of your students with a digital camera. then give them a "homework" assignment to pick a place they want to go (i.e. paris, disney world, the amazon rainforest, etc.). then retouch the kids pictures into pictures to those places. incorporate this into a lesson about different cultures or something like that.

two words. kid pix. it's a cd rom game that kids love. it's just drawing with all these crazy effects. let that be an option during free time. give everyone a folder to save their drawings and then print them out and put them around the room.

Kids learn by playing. Check out what they like to do with techonology and extrapolate it.

Teach them history by showing great websites from spots in the city they can visit

How about teach kids to brainstorm with this website? They can come up with ideas for their ultimate toy.

kids are visual...how about finding a number of great images/pictures online and showcasing them with your teaching with an lcd projector