"How about a Tarsia puzzle? These are excellent.
One puzzle on Factorising Quadratics.
WolframAlpha would be a great way for them to check answers.
I put together some slideshows to show the syntax for my students here. Slideshow 2…"
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An experiment - a Facebook page
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World Maths Day (& Spelling!)
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Colleen Young replied to Ruchita Parat's discussion How to improve Memory"I included some useful resources for students on memory here."
Colleen Young replied to Patrick T Jordan's discussion Ed Tech Starter Kit: What are the best Ed Tech resources you would recommend to a newbie (like me)?"I recently had a session with Year 9 (UK - that's ages 13-14) and introduced them to these tools.
They were particularly impressed with WolframAlpha and Google docs as they realised how useful it would be if they were working on homework…"
Colleen Young replied to Deb White Groebner's discussion Alternatives to Pinterest???"Each 'Scoop' is a web page so it all depends what you have on that page. When you add a Scoop you have the chance to enter the text you want displayed.
Worth a play with the free model to see if it can do what you want.
Have you thought…"
Colleen Young replied to Deb White Groebner's discussion Alternatives to Pinterest???"Would ScoopIt be of interest? I personally think it is visually more appealing. The free model is limited but does allow you, I think 5 free pages.
I use it for the top 20 posts on my blog, it's really easy to change every week as…"
Colleen Young replied to James Annunziato's discussion Online white board for math tutoring"My pleasure. I hope it goes well."
Colleen Young replied to James Annunziato's discussion Online white board for math tutoring"One of the most popular posts on my blog is the one on online whiteboards - I use them a lot. There mat be something here you can use.
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Colleen Young replied to Diana Hansen's discussion How Educators Use Pinterest for Curation"I never have been a follower of fashion and even if Pinterest do have millions of followers there are alternatives.
Using Evernote one can share notebooks free.
Personally I think ScoopIt! is considerably more attractive to look at. I…"
Colleen Young replied to Kev's discussion Digital book creator with "turnable" pages?"You could try Yudu?
I have put a link on this page - scroll down a bit. This includes a 'book' I created and you can see many examples on the site."
Colleen Young replied to Hazem Osman's discussion What interactive activities can be used in a second langauge classroom using Web 2.0 tools?"I'm not a languages teacher (Maths) but have a general interest in what's out there to support various subjects. Are any of these (all free!) resources of any interest?"
Colleen Young replied to Diana Hansen's discussion Online mathematic resources"I see from my WordPress stats that people are still looking at this older thread.
I wrote a post on my own favourite Mathematics sites which may be of interest."
Colleen Young replied to Phil's discussion Great "extra time" websites?"So many!
I created this for students at my school - free online digital tools - there are some good reading / writing / spelling sites here.
How about WolframAlpha?! See this page, On the WolframAlpha useful links page there is a link…"
Colleen Young replied to Colleen Young's discussion An experiment - a Facebook page"So true Stacey - I can delete it any time!
Here it is for now!
....and still feeling experimental - Twitter as well!"
Stacey Bell replied to Colleen Young's discussion An experiment - a Facebook page"It sounds like you have thought this through and are leaning toward launching the Facebook page. My advice would be to be smart and try it. If you think that the page is causing any problems for you or students then I would delete the…"
Colleen Young replied to Colleen Young's discussion An experiment - a Facebook page"Thank you for the replies. I am very wary of Facebook but a page is just a page - I'm not trying to be friends with anyone - just posting information for students. For education - I have Moodle / Wordpress and many other sites - just putting my…"
Thomas Nixon replied to Colleen Young's discussion An experiment - a Facebook page"I think most educators stay away from using facebook as an educational tool because that is not what it is intended for. Edmoto may be a better place to start since it looks similar to facebook, but is intended for educational purposes.…"
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- At 2:41pm on August 18, 2009,
Mark Cruthers said… - Hi Colleen,
With your interest in Online Whiteboards, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service.
Here’s a Public Class on Technology Integration you might be interested in.
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