Smartboards in the Classroom

Tech & Learning has an excellent Mathematics Glossary site that's multilingual.  Once you're selected a term to define, the website generates a diagram to help you understand the concept.

 

Well Done!

Attachment(s): http://www.glencoe.com/apps/eGlossary612/grade.php

Our friends at Teachers Love Smartboards have found a wonderful website that you absolutely MUST try. 

 

http://www.freezeray.com/index.html

 

To quote FreezerRay - "This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in 11-18 Schools.

 

The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. The appropriate Key Stage is indicated for each resource.

 

It is hoped that the resources will help students to make sense of some of the more challenging concepts they encounter.

 

Many of the resources can be used to support starter or plenary activities."

 

 Be sure to look at the Physics section.  

 

Just wonderful!

 

 

 

Have you been looking for an assessment to help you determine your OWN learning styles? Here's one from Edutopia.

Attachment(s): http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz

Here's a great video from Edutopia on San Diego's amazing High Tech High.

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We are always looking for interesting ideas that will trigger critical thinking, stimulate creativity and strengthen communication in our students (See Standards - NYS ELA 1,2,3,  ISTE 1,2,3,4 and NETS Students 1,2,3,4).  So, today's New York Times article (see attached) on the impact of melting arctic ice on northern shipping lanes proved very interesting. Tying this development in global warming back to curriculum, we've come up with an interesting idea that fits in middle school (seventh grade) Social Studies (see pacing calendar: October on Explorers).

WHAT IF Magellan had been able to sail NORTH instead of SOUTH when his crew circumnavigated the earth? 

Consider this map from today's NYTimes article by ANDREW E. KRAMER and ANDREW C. REVKIN, published: September 10, 2009:

 

Insert this map on a page in your SmartBoard Notebook lesson.  Use the dual screen tool.  On the second page, insert the world map outline you'll find in "Essentials for Educators" -  "Geography" - "Maps" - "World" - "Continents" and then "Notebook Files and Pages" - "World - Outline Map". Be sure to save.

 

Now pose the query:  "Based on our examination of Magellan's journal around the earth, (1) contrast his path to that of the ship in today's NY Times article, (2) Redraw Magellan's path IF he had been able to use the Northeast Passage by sailing NORTH from Spain instead of SOUTH.  What impact would this have had?    

 

Now stand back and watch the intellectual fireworks!  The first rule of education is "First get their attention by giving them something stimulating to think about!"  If you are able to use this lesson with your students, please come back and share your students' reactions with our global learning community.  Can't wait to read your comments!

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Technorati Tags: SmartBoard, Magellan, Northeast Passage, European Explorers, Global Warming, Arctic Shipping Lanes, Social Studies, Middle School

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Attachment(s): http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/09/11/science/earth/11passage.map.ready.html

Keynote Speaker

Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D

 

Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources and a New York Times Best-selling author. He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government.   All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education? (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999.   He was been honored with the Athena Award of the Rhode Island School of Design for services to the arts and education; the Peabody Medal for contributions to the arts and culture in the United States, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the Royal Society of Arts for outstanding contributions to cultural relations between the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005 he was named as one of Time/Fortune/CNN’s Principal Voices. In 2003, he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts and education. He speaks to audiences throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.

 

Technorati Tags: NYSCATE, Robinson, "The Element", Creativity

 

Attachment(s): http://www.nyscate.org/conferences.cfm?subpage=361

Online Learning Gains Respect

Attachment(s): http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/professional_development/online_learning_gains_respect

  "The Opera House Mouse"

Our friends at "Teachers Love SMART Boards" have brought a wonderful site to us from the Oak Street Elementary School in Plattsburgh, NY.  It has a range of interactive stories for K-5 classrooms.  Here's an image from one of the stories. Enjoy! 

 

The link is attached below.

 

Technorati Tags: SmartBoards, Interactive Story Telling, Literacy

Attachment(s): http://plattsburgh.neric.org/oak/smartboard/stories.htm

There are many resources available to us on how students' learn.  Here are several new ones.

 

Strategies

http://members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/strategies.html

 

Learning Styles Chart

http://www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.htm

 

 Personality Types

http://www.wilderdom.com/personality/L6-1PersonalityTypes.html

 

Technorati Tags: Learning Styles, Personality Types, Learning Strategies

 

 

How do we know the learning style of students we face in our classrooms?   There are many resources.  Here's the link to an excellent one:

 

http://www.algonquincollege.com/edtech/gened/styles.html

 

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I found this link particularly helpful:

 

http://members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/styles.html

 

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Here is the link to Drs. Dunn & Dunn's homepage on Learning Styles.

 

http://www.learningstyles.net

 

Technorati Tags: Learning Styles, Dunn & Dunn

 

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Technorati Tags: Differentiated Instruction, Learning Styles

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This excellent website from the British Council provides resources for English Language Learners.  It also has a section solely devoted to the VOCABULARY of Climate Change.  Excellent!

 

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish.htm

 

Technorati Tags: English Language Learners, Climate Change, Vocabulary

 

Here's a wonderful site for math games from the UK brought to us by our friends at SmartBoard:

 

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/games/magic-gopher-central.swf

 

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