Looking for different way to teach a concept? The free resources at SAS may help…
“…SAS delivers online curriculum resources with a proven impact on increasing student learning and teacher effectiveness – at no cost to US middle and high schools, virtual schools, home schools and other teaching and learning environments. SAS Curriculum Pathways is designed to enhance student achievement and teacher effectiveness by providing Web-based curriculum resources in all the core disciplines, to educators and students in grades 6-12.”
“NASA at 50 highlights key innovations and milestones in the sciences and in space exploration from NASA’s 50-year history. Each clip serves as a gateway for further learning in science and history; each promotes critical thinking and inquiry as essential components of scientific literacy.
Students can enjoy NASA at 50 in video or audio formats. In addition, teachers guides are provided for each clip to facilitate integration of this content into lesson plans. Downloadable versions of the videos are captioned.”
“Now you can plot mathematical functions right on the search result page. Just type in a function and you’ll see an interactive graph on the top of the search results page.”
“Wolfram Research is dedicated to the advancement of science and mathematics education. For both students and educators, this educational portal contains a collection of resources spanning all precollege grade levels, including dynamic classroom Demonstrations from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Explore the topics below to find Demonstrations for your classroom or for individual study.” <– Lots of free great digital manipulatives that students can use to understand science and math concepts.
calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:
Library Management
E-Book conversion
Syncing to e-book reader devices
Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
Comprehensive e-book viewer
Content server for online access to your book collection
YouTube actually _does_ enable people to “deep link” directly to a specific spot in a video. Just add #t=XmYs where X is the number of minutes and Y the number of seconds you want to jump to.
Remind101 is a tool targeting teachers that would like to use text message to safely communicate with their students. Teachers never see student’s phone numbers, and students never see the teacher’s number. Messages can be scheduled and history of messages can be tracked.
It’s been since November of 2006 since we last posted any information about Empressr. Empressr is a free media presentation tool. It integrates nicely with GoogleDocs, WordPress and other web 2.o tools. If you’re looking at a free too to create media presentations, Empressr might be your ticket.
iSpeech was created by Burt Lo, and myself to give our resource teachers, in our respective districts, an opportunity to share the types of iOS apps they are using with the students that they are serving.
Besides, being a good idea, the site was created using Wiskispaces and Google Docs. A nice example of what can be created quickly and easily by educators and students using free tools such as Wikispaces and Google Docs.
“The ICDL Foundation’s goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children’s literature from the world community.”
The Chrome Web Browser has been around for a while now, and with the advent of Google’s ChromeBook laptops, and cloud based operating systems, the Chrome Web Store is beginning to fill its virtual shelves with tools and resources.
This particular tool, Cloud Save, allows users of Chrome to save web sites directly to their Google Docs account. This could be useful when students are gather resources for a project or report.
ARIS is a web based game development tool that allows people to create location based games, utilizing Google Maps, and multimedia resources. The game mechanics are similar in design to traditional computer based games, where players go on quests, and discover clues, however, in ARIS there is no avatar and there is no virtual space. You are the avatar and you play it in real space.
The game development tools can be found here: http://arisgames.org/make/ and you can download the App from the Apple App store.
Brainshark is an online tool for creating presentation, instruction, etc. It allows you to create multimedia presentations and then track the viewers of your presentation, providing reports for how long they viewed, results of embedded polls, etc.
This site is example of a traditional media publisher delving into the field of online learning and teaching. Individuals can sign up for online classes covering topics and content related to the services the New York Times produces. (High School and post secondary)
