Free interactive activities, online games and web-based puzzles are a growing segment of the internet today. Teachers must however, evaluate the appropriateness and relevance of each website for their students. Unwanted ads, incorrect content or difficulty level as well as promotion or marketing of products need to be carefully screened. Games are highly motivational for [...]
Increasing student engagement, providing opportunities for communicating, reflecting, questioning and reasoning, and developing creative experiences to be mathematicians, are all goals for the K-6 educator. “Working Mathematically encompasses five interrelated processes. These processes come into play when developing new skills and concepts and also when applying existing knowledge to solve routine and non-routine problems.” from Mathematics [...]
David writes:
The concept of best practice usually illicits some strong emotions from educators; what exactly is best practice. Best practice means different things to different people. With that in mind, here is my perspective of a framework or scaffold that can help school districts implement learning technologies appropriately. Again, my perspective; yours might be different. [...]
Here are a variety of wikis used in schools. Have a look and contribute a comment on possibilities for your classes …
Edublog Award winner Best Wiki 2007 : Welker’s Economics wiki http://welkerswikinomics.wetpaint.com/?t=anon
http://304sophs.wikispaces.com/Historical+Context
http://www.infinitethinking.org/2007/07/pe-geek-boys-sports-and-wikis.html
http://senior-calendar-07-08.wikispaces.com/
http://literature.wikispaces.com/AP+Language+and+Composition
http://discoveryisms.wikispaces.com/
Bud Hunt’s Wiki: Created by Colorado teacher Bud Hunt and many educator-collaborators.
Educational Blogging Wiki: Supports the educational uses of blogs and contains links to [...]
Look at one of these classroom blogs. Write a comment below to describe what feature you liked best and will add / incorporate into your classroom blog.
http://australianedubloggers.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
http://class.huffenglish.com/
http://www.missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/
http://english12ns.blogspot.com/
http://theopenclassroom.blogspot.com/
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/
http://appliedscienceresearch.blogspot.com/
http://durffsblog.blogspot.com/
http://lisaslingo.blogspot.com/
http://room9nelsoncentral.blogspot.com/ (a primary school blog … creating an audience for student writers)
http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/
