Websites to keep checking out

Start using



Need to follow up on:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Algebra-Factoring-and-FOIL-Fun-Practice-with-Mazes-1213543


“Learning is as much about knowing what you don't know as it is about proving what you do.” ← YES! Get students excited about the learning process (not the result):  http://bit.ly/1nmzmhY

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Teaching-High-School-Math



Math is everywhere
http://bit.ly/1nJvEfL. 
blogs to follow and read :
http://letsplaymath.net/2008/05/06/struggling-math-student/?utm_content=buffer1f307&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

http://themathmagazine.blogspot.com/2014/04/free-contacts-organizer-address-book.html?spref=fb


Motivating students in math
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/9-strategies-motivating-students-mathematics-alfred-posamentier?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-math-motivation-april-link-repost

Websites to check out

Need to look at



http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/smedcohort2010/files/2011/02/Smith-Hillen-Catania_2007.pdf



Need this one
http://www.jensilvermath.com/2013/10/09/obeirne-puzzle/

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Algebra-Review-Halloween-Stations-Task-Cards-922585

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Proportions-Ratios-Rates-Foldable-Graphic-Organizer-Interactive-Notebook-927246


check this for sure-
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Linear-Equations-of-Lines-Foldable-Graphic-Organizer-Interactive-Notebook-936416


http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Algebra-Review-Halloween-Stations-Task-Cards-922585

http://teachinghighschoolmath.blogspot.com/2013/10/fun-halloween-middle-and-high-school.html

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Integers-Practice-Puzzle-Cut-Paste-Activity-Worksheet-945501

http://themathmagazine.blogspot.com/2013/10/integers-practice-puzzle-cut-paste.html?spref=fb



http://www.edutopia.org/blog/film-festival-free-lesson-plan-resources?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-6-planning-strategies-shared

http://www.yummymath.com/2013/how-many-houses-can-you-get-to/

http://www.dragonboxapp.com/video.html

Interactive Whiteboard Resources

From:  Free Technology for Teachers
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/09/interactive-whiteboards-101.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+freetech4teachers%2FcGEY+%28Free+Technology+for+Teachers%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher#.UGDo1LJlSDk

Danny Nicholson is an interactive whiteboard expert who I've had the pleasure of seeing in action a few years ago. Since then his blog, The Whiteboard Blog, has been one of my go-to places for information about interactive whiteboards.

Today, Danny published a new post that every teacher new to using interactive whiteboards should bookmark. Interactive Whiteboard #101: A Short Primer offers information that can be used by teachers who have Promethean, SMART, Mimio, and Easiteach interactive whiteboards. A few highlights from the post; Danny recommends having a Dropbox account and a large USB stick, he refers readers to some free resources for all boards, and explains the basics of using IWBs.

If you're new to using IWBs, check out Danny Nicholson's Interactive Whiteboard #101.

You might also like:

• Two Excellent SMARTBoard Blogs to Bookmark
• Bad Math in the Real World
• Language Adventures with Leo the Lobster and Friends
• Spectacular 360 Degree Panoramas of Famous Places

Wordle uses

Check this out... 46 interesting ways to use Wordle

   :) I plan to use a few of them next year... 

Sounds Maps from the British Library

This site has thousands of sound recordings you can use in your classroom from Holocaust survivors to animals and indigenous music to accents and dialect.  It is a little confusing to navigate, but under each category are many, many subcategories with interesting sound recordings.
Site link:  http://sounds.bl.uk/sound-maps/

My source:  http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/04/sound-maps-from-british-library.

Social Media Revolution

This is an astonishing video about the impact of social media on our world today.  It shows remarkable statistics that I think will surprise you.  I can foresee using it for our own knowledge about the tools we have as 21st century teachers, and I can see it as a useful discussion starter in our classes.
I saw it on a site I really recommend, Free Technology for Teachers. More about this site in future entries.

Create Fake Facebook Profiles (historical or fictional)

I found an interesting tech tool that I am currently using with my 6th grade math class. Although my 6th grade students usually write a short 2 page report on an assigned mathematician, this year I have added a new component to this assignment. I have found three different ways to create fake Facebook-like profiles.

My FakeWall allows you to upload images, write wall posts, even create ‘likes’ and comments. You do need to register and unfortunately because it is still in beta, there were many times it crashed as I was experimenting.

Derrick Waddell has created a template for historical figures that you might prefer to use. This is available through the Google Docs public template gallery. This template has a place for pictures, a friends column, an ‘about me’ section, and even a map to plot the travels of historical figures. You may want to check his template out at the above link.
In addition, he has created a tutorial to help use his template.

With the help of Classtools Fakebook , a free site, my students are creating facebook-like pages for their individual mathematicians. Fakebook actually will search the Internet for the photo to upload. It allows students to save their work and edit it later.

While these fake Facebook-like sites do not allow others to respond like Facebook, my students have been gathering information so that they themselves can generate the “friends” and create posts. Creating a fake Facebook profile hopefully will be a fun way for my students to organize information that they have discovered about their mathematicians. We are scheduling the computer laptop carts so students will input information together and I will keep you posted with how this new twist (to our mathematician reports) turns out!!

I can visualize this being used for historical figures as well as creating profiles for characters in novels.