Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 09/01/2009

• Half of Americans use social networks - Technology Live - USATODAY.com

  Killing two birds with one stone. Here are some interesting facts about social networking and use among 35-54 yo age group growing by 60% recently according to Forrester. Also, if you are looking for a read-aloud to do with math students, here's a great example to use with them. The topic is social media, the content is proportional reasoning, data analysis, and interpreting real-world data. For example if usage among 35-54 yos has grown by 60% what does that mean among the sample of 4500, what does that mean among the sample of the US population, if previous usage was 15% of that age group, what percentage of that age group now use it? Etc. Good math/science reading is as close as your local USA Today/Yahoo homepage/iGoogle/news RSS

  tags: math, comprehension, write2pub, write2learn, instruction, readaloud

• Teaching With Technology: Educational Technology Services at MIT

  Different categories on the MIT teaching with technology page. Great way of thinking about different issues and ways of solving some of those issues from MIT's perspective.

  tags: technology, mit, edtech, web2.0

• Stanford Study of Writing - Home

  Thought provoking analysis of writing by current students.

  tags: writing

• Math Central - Welcome!

  tags: math, technology, resources

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Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/30/2009

• COPD - MayoClinic.com

  tags: copd

  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are the two main conditions that make up COPD, but COPD can also refer to damage caused by chronic asthmatic bronchitis. In all cases, damage to your airways eventually interferes with the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in your lungs.

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Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/29/2009

• Cool Cat Teacher Blog: The Wheels Never Stop Turning: Inside the Mind of Lisa Parisi, Teacher Heroine and UDL Pro

  Differentiated instruction and universal learning by design comparison. Thanks Viki for sharing Lisa's great work.

  tags: instruction, assessment, planning

• 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching

  Want to thank Michelle Desilva for finding this site. Great resource and full of practical ideas and important processes/structures to think about if implementing with a class of students.

  tags: wiki, web2.0, instruction, inter-classroom

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Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/28/2009

• Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » What’s so good about Face to Face?

  tags: instruction, pd

• http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/flashcards/algebra

  tags: math

• Illuminations: Pan Balance - Numbers

  tags: balance scale, math, prealgebra

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Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/27/2009

• Google Tutor: Tutorials and Tips for Google Users

  If you use Google tools a lot then this is a great place to go to get some tips/tricks. I learned two things about Google Calendar that I wasn't aware of: attaching Google docs to items and showing free/busy as my status.

  tags: google, web2.0

• GraphSketch

  Easy to use graphing utility. No adds easy to setup different windows, graph multiple functions.

  tags: math, graph, algebra, web2.0

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Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/25/2009

• SMART Board Templates

  tags: smartboard, iwb, instruction

• Chatzy - Start Quick Chat

  tags: web2.0, socialnetworking, communication, dialog, write2learn

• Smartboard Templates

  These templates require the Smart Notebook software, Kidspiration. Inspiration,Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer and KidPix to use. Most have a preview for you to decide if it is something you would like. I would suggest creating folders on your desktop called SmartNoteBookTemplates, InspirationTemplates, and KidspirationTemplates. You can then save the templates in the appropriate folder for later use.

  tags: iwb, smartboard

• 50+ Ways To Create Digital Stories With Students | The Edublogger

  Creating stories using web tools is fun and engaging for student while also teaching them new skills. Best of all you can embed them in blog posts to grab readers; including something a bit different makes reading posts more interesting.

  tags: web2.0, digitalstorytelling, write2learn, write2pub

• Regifting Robin

  If you are looking for an activity to have your students investigate, then this is a great little activity. Let them investigate (try a couple of examples), look for a pattern with the numbers (any two digit number minus the sum of the digits will produce a number with some very identifiable characteristics), then explore the second page of the challenge for what happens each time regarding those numbers... great fun, very educational, great way for students to look for patterns/make observations.

  tags: math, algebra, web2.0

• Wonderful Web 2.0 Tools / FrontPage

  Yet another list of web resources. Relatively up to date and comprehensive. Worth looking at if you want choices for tool usage.

  tags: instruction, web2.0, wiki, blogging

• blogmodel.htm

  If looking for a system or classroom routine to develop student eportfolio this mosdel is a nice way of organizing the 'tech' aspect of the routine. Have students write blog posts as writing to learn component, get feedback for editing, organize them according theme/topic (allows for cross-referencing), post final products as portfolio pieces. Very transparent, easy to track, allows for built-in feedback/reflection.

  tags: instruction, web2.0, write2learn, write2pub, blogging

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Math Lessons Collaboration Daily 08/23/2009

• Doodle: Easy Scheduling

  A very simple poll generating tool. Doodle helps finding suitable dates and times for group events, e.g., an appointment, a conference call, a family reunion, etc. In addition to scheduling events, Doodle also supports polls in general. That is, groups can conveniently decide on options other than dates. - comment by Rob Reynolds

  tags: web2.0, write2learn

• Wordle Blog: How to make Wordle safe for classroom use.

  FROM the Creator/Owner of WORDLE: "I’m happy to announce that from now on, the Wordle front page will never feature images or links that are inappropriate for classroom use. It's now possible to configure an institution's "site-blocking" software to keep Wordle safe for classroom use." Simply have your networking administrator block the following base URLs1: * http://www.wordle.net/gallery * http://www.wordle.net/next * http://www.wordle.net/random -

  tags: wordle, blog, web2.0, vocabdev, graphorg, instruction

• Qualifications : GCSE : GCSE from 2010 : Mathematics : Edexcel - Annotated

  tags: edexcel, assessment, math

• HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework

  tags: math, science, education, elearning, web2.0

• K12 Online Conference 2009 | Week in the Classroom“Wiki Collaboration Across the Curriculum”

  As we further incorporate technology and online tools into content literacy. Here is a great set of tools/resources from Vicky Davis on using a wiki in your classroom. She even goes so far as to include a rubric, lesson planning ideas, and examples.

  tags: web2.0, wikis, instruction, graphorg

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