Thursday, February 28, 2013

Do2Learn

Do2Learn

Monday, February 25, 2013

Instagrok

Instagrok - easy searching and combining searches into a journal

Online collaboration

Linoit - online sticky notes, collaboration
Wall-wisher/Padlet Tutorial on how to use wall-wisher

Kids blogging/ webpages

Kidblog - kids creating blogs easily w tr providing id and pw

Wix - creating webpages easily

Strikingly - for one-page websites

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Digital Citizenzhip

Digital Citizenship Digital Passport for students - games



http://www.abcya.com/cyber_five_internet_safety.htm a flash cartoon by ABCya to introduce children to five helpful rules to be safer on the internet.

From MDA -  huge site of resources and lessons

Math Games

Games


https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables
(interactive flash games for various subjects - Numbers, mental math, place values, add, subtract, multiply, divide, fractions, money, shapes, position, measurement. Use IE for school pc)

https://www.education.com/games/

(e,k)
Math games http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/  I really like this site.  Especially the multiplication/ division games, which are really useful for motivating the kids to memorise their tables.http://www.arcademics.com/games/



http://www.abcya.com/  Games created by a teacher.  Categorised by grades.
Select a grade and scroll down the page for the maths games.




http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/ A wealth of resources for numbers, shape, space and measures, and handling data.  Includes games, notes and quizzes.





http://www.e-learningforkids.org select by subject/ grade


Science Games

Science Games http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/
Includes a variety of topics from life to physical sciences.  Short clips to play for understanding/ experimentation, notes and short quizes. I use the short clips to let the students predict and then letting them observe and discuss about the results. 

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/index_main.html select by subject/ grade (Math, Cyberwellness, English Language, Computer skills, Environmental skills)

English Resources


ReadWriteThink - many resources, e.g. creating trading cards, acrostic poems, story maps:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/
  • For planning and creating story maps:
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/story-30008.html for other graphic maps.


Spelling City
The SpellingCity app offers six types of practice activities. The activities are Teach Me, Test Me, Match It, Word Unscramble, Hang Mouse, and Which Word. The Teach Me activity - words, letters are read aloud and a sentence is formed and read to students. If you are registered and logged into SpellingCity you can create custom lists that are read to your students.

Storybird - Collaborative storytelling - creating own storybooks for sharing.  Art work incorporated to give inspiration.  I really like the beautiful art work. 

Newspaper Clipper Generator - Creating your own fun shred of a newspaper.  Creation can be saved as a jpeg file and used as a talking point in class.


Creating stories:

Pinky Dinky Doo

Story Jumper: Letting students create their own flippable ebooksUse their library of photos or scan your own in. Requires a login, but it's free.
Zooburst Free basic/ paid account (App for zooburst)
Little Bird Tales
Student Publishing
Kerpoof:There is a storybook creator. And students can make cards/ drawings online too.
Seussville Story Maker
Artisancam Picture Book
My Story Maker
Implementing ebook writing in the class Koobits: edu.koobits.com

Maths

Mathematics Playspace
Drawing models - for teachers to use it with modelling of questioning during lessons (whole numbers, ratios, fractions, percentages) to make thinking visible..Developed by MOE ETD branch.
  • to use it online (calculator function disabled if used online)
  • to download it (Go to Edumall for Singaporean teachers.  You must extract the zip file, then open the html file.  No installation required.  Good for our wireless interactive Uboard.)
  • For non-commercial use/ download - go here.

http://iwant2study.org/workshop/?p=9
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/maths
(Numbers, Calculation, Percent and fractions, Measuring, Shapes, Graphs - include videos on the real life application of the topics)

Maths Live http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/math5.html
(Cartoon videos teaching Place Values, multiples, factors, fractions, decimals, multiplication and division of whole numbers/ decimals, area & perimeter, volume, time, shapes, probability, estimation)

http://www.mathchimp.com/Lots of Maths videos, games and worksheets. By grades.

For basic concepts in numeracy, videos activities

Blabberize

Blabberize http://blabberize.com/

I find this very fun.  Upload a picture (animal/ human), adjust the positions of the lips and speak into the mic.  You can then create an animated video of a person/ animal talking, with your own voice input.. :)
Uses:  Perhaps a student talking about a given topic/ science concept learnt..

My Milktoof

My milktoof http://mymilktoof.blogspot.sg/2012/08/bear-hunt.html

The simple story lines and the really cute milk toof are too attractive not to share.  Click on their archives on the bottom right column for their past adventures.

How to

Designing and publishing your digital magazine
Evernote
Google docs
Nearpod
ebooks
More edtech books by Richard Byrne

Math Interactives

Lots of interactives http://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&type=achttp://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&type=ac Search by grade.
Among them:
Creating your own graphpaper/ number lines. Download your creation as jpeg file.
Analyzing Data with Bar Graphs, Line Graphs, Pie Charts, and Pictographs
Creating Equivalent Fractions by Shading Squares and Circles
Exploring Several Different Representations for Fractions
Manipulating Various Geometric Solids and Investigating Their Properties
Creating a Spinner to Examine Experimental and Theoretical Outcomes
Exploring the Number of Chairs Needed when Tables Are Arranged in a Restaurant
Examining Various Two-dimensional Figures to Determine Which Ones Can Be Folded into a Cube
Determining the Volume of a Box by Filling It with Cubes, Rows of Cubes, or Layers of Cubes
Creating a Customized Histogram with Your Own Data or an Included Set of Data
Creating Dynamic Drawings on an Isometric Dot Grid
Drawing, Cutting, Sliding, Turning, and Flipping Shapes (tesselation)
Multiplying Single-digit Numbers with an Interactive Multiplication Table
Algebra tiles
Mean and median (average)
Average (game 4 for mean)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/data/mode_median_mean_range/play/ 

Simulations

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new
For Physics: there are electricity circuits, friction, states of matter (atomic), greenhouse effects
For Maths: fractions, balancing act

English Games


http://www.abcya.com/  Games created by a teacher.  Categorised by grades.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/ A wealth of resources for reading, writing, spelling and grammar.  Games, notes and quizzes included.

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/index_main.html select by subject/ grade

Edublogs

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
http://edtechideas.com/2012/06/01/49-cool-summer-sites-for-kids-and-teachers/
Others: http://edublogawards.com/

Saturday, February 09, 2013

Worksheet generation

From exam papers (USA) http://www.problem-attic.com/ (pw needed) www.tut-world.com Testpapers (SG)