Search results matching tags 'web 2.0' and 'math'

Neat Stuff: 10-7-12

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:31:31 GMT

EdCanvas - http://www.edcanvas.com - Create an interactive online lesson with this brilliant site. Upload and curate all the resources for a lesson in one place and access them with one click. The site works with Office files, PDFs, flash files, small videos, images and internet links and even connects to Google Drive and Dropbox. Then simply [...]

Qwiki, ThingLink, Einztein

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Three great web 2.0 tools you can use in the math classroom or any classroom for that matter. Are the three in the title. For all of these web 2.0 tools you can use in your classroom, they are all free to sign-up all you need is an email address.

Qwiki: it is a free and fast video tool http://www.qwiki.com/, you select media from websites, YouTube, Instagram, and Vimeo. Students use these with pictures taken from sites or maps, text, articles, and even tweets from Twitter. The next step is to narrate your Qwiki. You can use a video camera, insert text, or select your own pre-made video. The next is to review and select the timing and your ready to publish. You can either publish the URL onto a site or embed the code into a blog.

I made one in about 5 minutes, you can use the link here: http://www.qwiki.com/treverreeh?q=vL2fq7

ThingLink: is a web 2.0 tool that allows you to store your images from your hard drive, Facebook, Flickr, and from the web http://www.thinglink.com/. Thinglink interactive images helps students develop 21st century skills and enrich their enthusiasm for learning. Teachers can use ThingLink images as interactive learning modules that activate and inspire students with creative and effective learning experiences. At ThingLink teachers can create authentic, valuable, and rich interactive stories around historical events using media, annotate graphs and timelines, record instructional messages to students, embed interactive images into student blogs.

Here is a great site for teachers for 26+ ways to use ThingLink in the Classroom.

Einztein: is the social learning network, it is used for higher education and lifelong learners. There are different learning groups that you can join and be apart of, as well as featured discussions with many other scholars across the nation and the world. Not only can teachers use this for professional development, but having your students on here as well would be a good academic place for your website to be, to focus on homework and one-on-one help. I would categorize Einztein like Google+, there aren't a lot of people on it, but it is more of a learning community than a social media site. http://einztein.com/

Math Maps

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Using Google Maps you can create your own scavenger hunt using math maps. Google Maps gives you the ability to create and share personalized annotated maps of your world. They are easy to create inside of Google Maps. Just click on My Places and create a map, you can edit map features, place markers, and create and draw lines. You can even link them or embed them into a class blog.

View Math Journey in a larger map

Here is the link to one that I created: https://www.google.com/maps/ms?msid=202680541149922653609.0004c2f01baa716e38bab&msa=0&ll=41.287621,-95.961848&spn=0.00163,0.000767

Here is a link to one that another math teacher created: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=211072539094148567472.0004879310e5c52517689&msa=0&ll=47.857403,-105.622559&spn=8.434745,6.28418

Using this interactive web 2.0 tool in the class is a great way to explore mathematical concepts, especially ones in the real world. Students can even explore their hometown and make students think out of the box when it comes to problem solving.

BrainGenie

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:00:00 GMT

BrainGenie is about helping your students meet your objectives. As an educator the tool and practice is free and you can create classes within BrainGenie. You can track the students you add to your lists and watch them achieve goals or see how long they were practicing on Thursday before the big test.

They have all math levels from Math 1-8, to algebra, all the way up to pre-calculus. You can set goals for your students to accomplish. Let's say locating points in the coordinate plane. When students are practicing, they can watch a video, and see results. They can also take the unit challenge and play multi-player games. Students can win badges and go for a top spot on the leaderboard.

It takes a minute or two for the games to load, but it is a great way to have one-on-one competition with someone else and as the teacher you get to track their achievements.

The link is here: http://braingenie.com/

eThemes

Anonymous — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:00:00 GMT

eThemes is a source for content-rich, student safe online resources that will help you enhance your teaching and save you time. eThemes provides free, fast access to over 2,500 collections of websites, on many different topics. By researching and creating these resources for you, eThemes will save you the time trying to find a few websites that will meet your teaching needs.

This is for more middle grades mathematics, or at least most of the topics have to deal with the grades 4-8. It even gives you a percentage on the side on what most fits the topic you chose. For individualized lessons where you type in, for example, "perpendicular lines". It will only show one answer, there are places where you can request more topics below. Here is the link to the eThemes website: http://ethemes.missouri.edu/

“Pie Color”

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:09:55 GMT

Pie Color is an easy place to make pie charts that you can embed. I’m adding it to The Best Tools To Make Simple Graphs Online. Thanks to Internet Techies and Nunavut_Teacher for the tip. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Flarryferlazzo.edublogs.org%2F2010%2F09%2F07%2Fpie-color%2F'; addthis_title = '%26%238220%3BPie+Color%26%238221%3B'; addthis_pub = '';

________ is a Math Teacher’s Best Friend!

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:12:20 GMT

Yes… YouTube is one of the best resources for math teacher! Why? During the Pre-YouTube years, you had to know a dynamite math teacher, attend workshops, conferences, or seminars to see demonstrations of (non-virtual) manipulatives in action. You can ask any math teacher if they have seen or come across blocks, graphing calculators, protractors, compasses, die, [...]

Professional Development Partnership with MASE

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:30:53 GMT

I taught a professional development workshop this afternoon in which we kicked-off an ongoing conversation about Instructional Design in the Digital Age. This was the first workshop in a two year project with the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering — a 6th-12th grade charter school with a high school 1:1 laptop program. The primary [...]