Thursday, April 10, 2008

Some tools for class on 4/10

I'm trying to get my head around imagining possibilities. More to explore:

For wikis:
A math wiki, a site that hosts several high school wikis (I've been told to look at East Side Community in NYC for some models) and a site to create your own relatively easily.

For podcasts:
I found two interesting applications for foreign language and for social studies.

6 comments:

Christine said...

I forgot about virtual worlds - tappedin.org. Pace owns a sandbox but, as a guest, I haven't figured it out yet.

Jennifer Schafrann said...

An interesting online tool used to create and customize video slideshows out of your images and background music of your choice is animoto.com. Their website describes it as "a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music." The teachers who I observe have used this as a tool and posted it on their class websites and the students seem to find the technology up to date and interesting.

anitaprentice said...

This isn't a technology site per se, but might be useful for our grant projects. Donors choose is a site that lets teachers post grant requests, things they need for their classrooms, and the donor can choose what to support. There are some very nice ideas on here.
Donor's Choose
Anita

Theresa said...

Hi. This is a great resource. I found so many math related blogs by searching the internet. Attached is a fun one.

Regards,

Theresa

http://wildaboutmath.com/

Al said...

In searching the blog catalog under secondary teaching, I came across this site that uses mathcasts to present math lessons.

A mathcast is a recording of a person's voice along with content captured from an electronic whiteboard.

This site contains mathcasts created by a teacher and her students.

anitaprentice said...

Hi Al - that Patty Papers site is really cool - it gives us ideas that we can actually use to have students share information (ref. our audience conversation in class.) Thanks, Anita