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Super Teacher Tools

Super Teacher Tools is a great site with lots of really fun and useful tools for the classroom. Most of the activities are made in Flash and can be downloaded or played online. The great thing is you can customize each activity to your own learning objectives by adding your own questions and answers. Have teams of students play “Jeopardy” or “Who wants to be a Millionaire” using your own subject questions and points.

http://www.superteachertools.com/

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21.Jul.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Technology Integration Matrix

“The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative. The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.”

Each cell has a short video clip where the teacher explains the activity and how it was used in class with students.

http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/index.html

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03.Feb.11 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Hundreds of Educational Games, Puzzles, Quizzes for Free

Shepard Software has hundreds of online educational related games, activities and puzzles covering all subject areas, for all age groups from pre-school to primary.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/

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20.Oct.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Interactive Simulations

Physics Education Technology (Phet), is free and open source software. It is entirely web-based and is a tool for science related simulations.

The Phet website has a number of simulations that demonstrate common physics, biology, chemistry, math and earth science, concepts. Each simulation has interactive controls which allows the user to alter parameters and witness how the changes affect the simulation.

This is a great tool for classroom use to illustrate key science concepts in a visual and interactive medium.

http://phet.colorado.edu

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14.Oct.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Create Interactive Videos

Youtube has the ability to create interactive videos, where the viewer is presented with a number of options to choose from inside the video. Clicking on a selection will then load a video and more options can be presented to the viewer to choose from. The viewer can choose what path to take.

In a classroom situation interactive videos can be used to present a project, a video quiz, adventure story, explaining concepts indepth, demonstrating math equations/explanations, video dictionary, map quests etc…. there are endless uses in the classroom.

To find out how to create interactive videos on Youtube, click on the links below and read how to add annotations to your videos.

http://www.youtube.com/t/creators_corner

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=3Den&answer=92710

Here are a couple of examples of interactive videos..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbEei0I3kMQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhByBf0zU9k

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23.Sep.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Teaching Music – Resources

MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program,available for Windows, Mac & Linux computers. Some highlights:

  • WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a “virtual note sheet”
  • Unlimited number of staves
  • Up to four voices per staff
  • Easy and fast note entry with mouse, keyboard or MIDI
  • Integrated sequencer and FluidSynth software synthesizer
  • Import and export of MusicXML and Standard MIDI Files
  • Available for Windows, Mac and Linux
  • Translated in 26 languages
  • GNU GPL licenced

The site also contains video tutorials.

http://musescore.org/

Music Tech Tips

This blog contains tips, news and more importantly, step-by-step tutorials about the use of music technology with a particular focus on its use in the education sphere. It contains videos as well as online music games and resources for teaching music.

http://musictechtips.com/

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21.Jun.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

Sumdog – Free online interactive Math Games

Sumdog is another website much like Arcademic Skill Builder which uses fun interactive games for learning Math. There are multiple games to choose from and you can signup for free to play your classmates, play against others around the world or simply compete against the computer.

http://www.sumdog.com/

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21.Jun.10 Sites of Interest Comments (0)

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