May 11

Website Worth Sharing: A Summary of Google Tools

This blog post at Control Alt Achieve highlights some of the useful tools Google has to offer. I’ve seen several of these, but Google is constantly stepping up their game so a few were new to me and may also be new to you.

http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/05/google-search-cards.html

A quick summary:

Teacher Tools: #1- Flip a Coin #2 Roll a Die and #3 Timer (No more fumbling for these tools or looking for a website that has them- these are as quick as a Google search and won’t fall on the floor.)

Math Teacher Tools- #’s 6-11- The online calculator is pretty handy for demonstration purposes- #s 16, 17, and 19 could be used for exploring graphs and data.

Primary Teachers- #12 Animal Sounds- Might be fun as a listening exercise- turn off the projector and just have them identify the sounds.

Anyone Helping Students Create a Project with Images: #14- The Public Domain option teaches kids to use images that are not copyright protected and helps them find some.

World Language Teachers: #15 for quick translation or practice speaking (see if it recognizes what they say)

Music Teacher: #18 Online Metronome (PE Teachers might also find a use for this)

Health Teachers #13 Calorie Counter and #20 Medical Conditions

Just for Fun: “Do a Barrel Roll” might be a fun signal to get their attention.

 

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March 29

Website Worth Sharing: Model Essays

Secondary Language Arts Teachers:

The Elements of Language Model Bank http://go.hrw.com/eolang/modbank/  is full of model essays for a large variety of writing genres at the secondary level. When you click on a genre, it brings up a model essay and there are components you can click on to see tips about how to write that particular type of essay.

Tech Tip: The interactive component of this site requires Flash which is no longer supported, but you can still access the printable copies.

Even if you don’t use the interactive component you can use the “View Printable Version” link to download a pdf of the model writing with the components outlined on the side (I attached a sample). The Writer’s Guide link takes to you a webpage that outlines how to write the particular piece.

Providing a link to this on your eBoard or within Google Classroom to this would provide a nice writing support for your students if you are assigning one of these types of essays.

model essays

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October 21

Website Worth Sharing: UEN- Utah Education Network

The State of Utah has put together a nice compilation of interactive websites that are sorted by level. If you go to their K-12 Student CaptureInteractives Page, you can choose from K-2, 3-6, or 7-12 grade level categories. Each grade band has a variety of interactive websites that your students could use. There is also a nice “Homework helps” section. These would be great to put on an eBoard, add to a Chromebook Bookmarks Bar, or use in a computer lab. Interactive websites that reinforce skills that are taught in the classroom are engaging for students and a good way for kids to gain the computer skills they need.

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September 26

OSPI’s Open Educational Resources

If you haven’t already, you might want to check out OSPI’s review of open educational resources for many subjects. You’ll find them  here https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/washington .  If you click on the resource itself the “View Resource” link will take you directly to the curriculum materials. The OSPI page for each resource gives a summary of that resource and also links to CCSS standards if there are any. The state is reviewing these resources as part of a legislative mandate that OSPI look into the free resources that are available for districts to use. The team will be looking into more grade levels and subjects in the future.

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April 9

Website Worth Sharing: Numberphile

You might want to check out the Numberphile website: http://www.numberphile.com/ It is a collection of videos that relate to math instruction.

The image only homepage doesn’t give you a lot of information about the video contents so you could check out the Numberphile channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile?feature=watch (there’s not much more of a description  there, but at least you get titles.)

You can show your Hilander pride and start out with the Tartan and Bagpipes exploration of Fibonacci http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4sF_Z5oJek&list=UUoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

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March 1

Websites Worth Sharing: Chartle

There is a new web tool that makes creating online graphs and charts easy: http://www.chartle.net/. Students can choose which type of chart to create, enter their data and have a ready to view chart. The FAQ page is a good one to check out to see how it works: https://www.chartle.com/faq/

The charts are published as a weblink, but folks with Windows 10 can use the Snip tool (found in the accessories folder) to take a picture of the chart and save it as a jpg file.

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February 29

Websites Worth Sharing: Mr. P’s Math Page and Wolfram Alpha Educational Portal

“Old mathematicians never die; they just become angles.”

You’ll find quotes like these, math jokes, lesson plans, videos (that are not blocked!), and lots of other resources on Mr P’s Math Page. http://www.pleacher.com/mp/mpframe.html

Many of you are already familiar with Wolfram Alpha, but you might not know about the new education portal: http://education.wolfram.com/

“In the portal you’ll find a dynamic textbook, lesson plans, widgets, interactive Demonstrations, and more built by Wolfram education experts.” This would be a great resource for both teachers and students to use. Watch the video introduction on the homepage to get an overview of the site.

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April 4

Website Worth Sharing: Geogebra

Secondary Math Teachers,

You might be interested in downloading the free software available on this website:

https://www.geogebra.org

“GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. It has received several educational software awards in Europe and the USA.”

When you click on the download button, it will give you a few options including an option to download an offline version that you could burn to a cd for students to install on their home computers. There are also links at the bottom of the page for tutorials and user information

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