Resources

Digital Media for the Classroom!  This is the site where I found the excellent video introducing Patterns at our Digital Classroom workshop.

From Houghton-Mifflin is Eduplace -- online activities and support materials for the teacher, student, and parent!

A visual dictionary for music, science, and everyday terms -- as well as in Spanish and French!

HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge. Here is a listing of the subjects it offers:

Algebra, American Government, Biology, Calculus (and in Spanish) Environmental Science, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Statistics, and U.S. History

A great new site full of short introduction videos that can be used with a variety of lessons.  From careers to academics -- there is something to choose from.  Be sure and check out their other links of their site.

Read more on the eInstruction products.

A good article sharing the effective use of interactive pads in the classroom.

The Airliner Slate is SMART's version of the interactive wireless pad.

Listed by Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, Arts, Music, PE and then broken down by Elementary, Middle School, and High School.  This is a one stop site for finding supportive and engaging activities to introduce and/or conclude a lesson.  One teacher shared with us that she no longer had to spend a great deal of time teaching punctuation after using "Punctuation Paintball"!! (See Language Arts, Middle School)

A popular question these days ... is it legal? We are not copyright attorneys but can definitely steer you in the right direction!  This is just one of our favorites.

Games for the brain! For the educational entertainment section of your lessons.

Embedded with photos, clips, books, timelines, and a great biography on many important people of our past.

Under the creative common licenses, these are available under public domain.  You simply need to give the author credit.

A great list of 101 online learning tools and resources!

A nice site that is providing interactive resources for math, English, and geography at the moment -- looks like he will be adding more! Use these to engage your students into a deeper process of learning.

It's all about the research!  More and more research points toward the effectiveness of SRS in the classroom.

From their Center For Teaching, this website provides great insight and successful use for the student response systems.

Lots of resources, ideas, and strategies -- updated regularly.

A great set of training videos on setting up and using the CPS response system.

A great article explaining the integration of ExamView and what to ask vendors about its integration.

Free and easy to use.  This site allows you to:

• Create colorful mind maps online
• Share and work with friends
• Embed your mind map in your blog or website
• Email and print your mind map
• Save your mind map as an image

Browse through this page of this site for many resources, extended activities, student response system ideas, using the Interwrite pad with students.  A gold mine of quality resources.

A great video resource for math students in all levels.

Welcome to HotChalk's Math Matters, where 21st century learning tools and methodologies have been designed to help your students.
"This 30-segment video resource focuses on ninth grade Pre-Algebra and Algebra. What makes this unit different from most? It revolves around the world of off-road motorcycle racing. Team HotChalk worked with a group of young HotChalk-sponsored cyclists, videotaping them jumping off ramps along dirt bike tracks and racing up the golden summer hills of a ranch overlooking the ocean in Central California. Courtesy of math teachers Jason Dyer (Pueblo High School, Tuscon, AZ), who scripted out the 'real world' algebra problems, and John Villavicencio (Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA), who explains the step-by-step solutions in each segment, we are bringing you our first homemade model of YouTube-style learning, "Off-Road Algebra'."

Need a review? These videos will provide you with timely resources as you progress.

Marc Prensky's web site is full of articles that he has written on our Digital Natives! Great resources to share with your administration and technology team.