I was reading a friend’s blog recently, explaining how to make good use of your summer. One of the ideas was to explore projects with other schools in other areas. That started me thinking – telecollaboration has been around for a while, but not until recently has it been made so easy. Connecting with other [...]
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Math Web Sites: Math Tips - They have taken the most missed TAKS questions from last year’s 8th grade test and created teaching videos to show how to work those type of problems. Decatur Intermediate Math Videos - Decatur teachers took the 5th and 6th grade released math TAKS and posted short videos on how to complete [...]
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Inspiration is a wonderful tool to have students map out ideas, stories, events, etc. The downside is that Inspiration software is tied to a computer that it is loaded on and students cannot continue their work at home, and it is nearly impossible to work on it as a team. This week’s WWW are online [...]
It is that time of the year, when we all need to take a mental break from time to time. Here are a list of sites that can help take your mind off of the testing season and onto something completely different. Digg.com http://digg.com/ - Digg.com is a collection of web sites/stories/postings that other people have found [...]
Google is a powerful search engine and can do so much more than just return websites that have the info you are looking for. I thought I would find a few of those tricks and pass them along. 8 Google Search Tricks: 1. Specialized Information Searches: Definitions: You can get a word defined in by using [...]
Need Pictures: Comp Flight – http://compfight.com/ What is it? Searches Flickr for photos for the term you give it. The results are returned on one page in thumbnail form instead of a list of images that you have to page through in Flickr. Hold your mouse over an image and you can see the image [...]
This is the first installment in what I hope to be a weekly series of cool websites to check out. I stumbled across this link today and I am totally hooked as to what it could do for teachers! http://drop.io - Want a way for students to turn in files to you online? Maybe a place where [...]