Recently, I visited a variety of websites focused on innovative and successful teaching tools for helping the 21st century learner do what they should do best: learn. While none stood out as a shining beacon of educational insight, I did find all these sites to be MUCH more useful than the educational associations in blog 2:
Everyone knows that finding a quick, concise, and centralized resource for teaching tools is the Holy Grail of educational technology searches. While having never touched the lips of Christ, LearnNC does has an awesome little searchbar that makes even the most obscure topic easy find. I was able to quickly find several resources to help teach momentum, energy, forces, E&M, light, and many other physics topics to high school students.
Everyone knows that finding a quick, concise, and centralized resource for teaching tools is the Holy Grail of educational technology searches. While having never touched the lips of Christ, LearnNC does has an awesome little searchbar that makes even the most obscure topic easy find. I was able to quickly find several resources to help teach momentum, energy, forces, E&M, light, and many other physics topics to high school students.
Tired of worrying about copyright laws (see Blog 2)? Well mosey on over to T.H.E. Jounal where you will find useful links to free databases of clipart as well as a slew of other useful resources such as technology of special needs students, hardware for the most techno-savy geeks, and even an opinion section where you can rant about how awesome your newest Second Life character is.
Jeez, I m so tyurd of tryin to find gud dadabasus of websites wher I can find usful teechin tools! Gud thing there is Blue Web'n!
We made if, finally! CSU is officially on CNN.com, albeit for dropping the F-bomb in large font on the Collegian's opinion page, but hey, at least we are famous. If you would like to read about this and more student news items just visit turnerlearning.org and follow the link to the CNN news page! Turner Learning, likely a subsidiary of the Turner Broadcasting super-corp, provides student-oriented news and even some student-user generated content.
Wow, clicking on all these links and getting shot all around the internet is making me tired (not to mention sick of closing pop-up ads). I sure wish there was a service where someone could just compile all the websites that a pertinent to my assignment in one easy-to-use interface. Then I could just click my way right through my lesson without having to worry about my browser wondering to ESPN.com or any other mind-numbing uber-site. What is that you say? Tackstar, operated by 4teachers, offers just such a service? I am ecstatic!
Tom Snyder, who could perhaps be related to me as my great grandfather's name is Snyder, and his company Tom Snyder Productions has put together a nice group of software to help student and adult (teacher) learners. For a nominal fee you can order all kinds of educational software ranging from science simulations to geography drill and testers. Software seems legit due to the thumbs up they have received from Teacher's Choice award, to the Technology & Learning Award of Excellence, to the Software & Information Industry Association's prestigious Codie Award, but I wish they had a demo!
If you get all the software you can handle from Tom and the gang, but you are still having a hankering for a little hardware (and who doesn't have a little camera lust now and then), head over to Software Express. I know, the name seems misleading, but in addition to sweet hardware, Software Express does carry quite a few educational software programs. However, rather than producing their own software, it would seem the SE is just a distributor of educational software/hardware (kind of like an Amazon for teachers). So, if you are looking for some sweet techno-shiz check them out.
The Colorado Department of Education's website is down?! I am shocked an appalled. I will have to visit some other time, but having had extensive experience with .co.us websites, I can almost guarantee I will be riveted to the point of napping.
FREE? What could not be good about FREE? Has the government finally used a few million of the trillions of dollars tax payers pump into it and amassed a useful compilation of well thought-out and useful resources for it's droves of underpaid teachers? Of course not. But FREE does provide links to outside educational websites, and a lot of them. In fact, this is probably the best organized resource I have found so far to find and review educational websites on a large variety of topics (all of which, coincidentally, seem to have some sort of relevance to topics covered on standardized testing...). So, while not quite what I expected, FREE is still a great resource for educational websites on science, math, history, and language arts.
We made if, finally! CSU is officially on CNN.com, albeit for dropping the F-bomb in large font on the Collegian's opinion page, but hey, at least we are famous. If you would like to read about this and more student news items just visit turnerlearning.org and follow the link to the CNN news page! Turner Learning, likely a subsidiary of the Turner Broadcasting super-corp, provides student-oriented news and even some student-user generated content.
Wow, clicking on all these links and getting shot all around the internet is making me tired (not to mention sick of closing pop-up ads). I sure wish there was a service where someone could just compile all the websites that a pertinent to my assignment in one easy-to-use interface. Then I could just click my way right through my lesson without having to worry about my browser wondering to ESPN.com or any other mind-numbing uber-site. What is that you say? Tackstar, operated by 4teachers, offers just such a service? I am ecstatic!
Tom Snyder, who could perhaps be related to me as my great grandfather's name is Snyder, and his company Tom Snyder Productions has put together a nice group of software to help student and adult (teacher) learners. For a nominal fee you can order all kinds of educational software ranging from science simulations to geography drill and testers. Software seems legit due to the thumbs up they have received from Teacher's Choice award, to the Technology & Learning Award of Excellence, to the Software & Information Industry Association's prestigious Codie Award, but I wish they had a demo!
If you get all the software you can handle from Tom and the gang, but you are still having a hankering for a little hardware (and who doesn't have a little camera lust now and then), head over to Software Express. I know, the name seems misleading, but in addition to sweet hardware, Software Express does carry quite a few educational software programs. However, rather than producing their own software, it would seem the SE is just a distributor of educational software/hardware (kind of like an Amazon for teachers). So, if you are looking for some sweet techno-shiz check them out.
The Colorado Department of Education's website is down?! I am shocked an appalled. I will have to visit some other time, but having had extensive experience with .co.us websites, I can almost guarantee I will be riveted to the point of napping.
FREE? What could not be good about FREE? Has the government finally used a few million of the trillions of dollars tax payers pump into it and amassed a useful compilation of well thought-out and useful resources for it's droves of underpaid teachers? Of course not. But FREE does provide links to outside educational websites, and a lot of them. In fact, this is probably the best organized resource I have found so far to find and review educational websites on a large variety of topics (all of which, coincidentally, seem to have some sort of relevance to topics covered on standardized testing...). So, while not quite what I expected, FREE is still a great resource for educational websites on science, math, history, and language arts.
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