Monday, May 23, 2011

LINKS FROM LOP

This post was sent to me from Kate (Bethlehem LOP):

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This email includes some links to useful websites that I was introduced to
at the Hawker Brownlow Education Conference over the weekend. I have given
a brief description of what they're about.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
A data base of electronic resources for all KLA's- use thttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhe 'resources'
list on the right hand side of the page to find your subject.

http://www.wallwisher.com/
An online noticeboard.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/
answer questions; do maths; instantly get facts, calculators, unit
conversions, and real-time quantitative data and statistics; create plots
and visualizations; and access vast scientific, technical, chemhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifical,
medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dicthttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifionary,
calendar, reference, and general knowledge—and much more.

http://livebinders.com/
This allows you to create binders to store your resources! Great for the
obsessive compulsive (myself included!) amongst us!! And it's FREE!!

http://www.khanacademy.org/
A database of video lessons on a range of topics.

Happy browsing!

Kate.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Digital Timeline - Timetoast


Interactive time line developer. Its free and available online.
Students can create hotspots that are activated by the mouse when you scroll over them allowing students to add another layer to the timeline. Fantastic tool for all subjects.

uLearn wikipage - CEO School's

uLearn CEO Wikispace - This wiki page has been set up to allow all teachers from the Catholic Education Office who attended the uLearn conference at Christchurch to share any resources and strategies gathered from the conference.

A great site that has over 15 schools sharing resources.





Thanks

Other Fantastic Blogs /Wikis A MUST READ

oksowhat - Inquiry Learning, Curriculum Design, Digital Pedagogy and Wellbeing are a few critical areas that Jamie Wahab & Steve and Terasita Borthwick (Inner west primary school executive) have explored. This wiki promotes the importance of effective teaching and learning that caters the emergence of today's 'digital natives'.

edTech - Greg Swanson from Marist College Eastwood shares all his knowledge on e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education. Greg promotes - Computers and laptops in education are important only when used with good pedagogy. He believes that Digital content and creation is an important part of the process for educators in the 21st century.

Games in Education - Adrian Camm from Victoria has created this fantastic bank of online learning games. Adrian suggests that using gaming as a vehicle for learning is a very powerful idea and one that is under-utilized.
His wiki is fantastic.

Online Quiz/ flash Card Creator

Quizlet allows students to make fun interactive flash cards that need to be matched with terms or mathematical concepts. You can set up words, definitions, equations and even images. It is a fun way for students to remember terms and concepts. Also great way to divide a topic up into components and get students to create a set of flash cards and play an engaging learning game. There are three different modes; familiarise, learn and test. The best thing about the testing mode is that the students can time themselves. This introduces a gaming element.