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An experiment - a Facebook page
Started this discussion. Last reply by Colleen Young Mar 4, 2012. 5 Replies 0 Likes
World Maths Day (& Spelling!)
Started this discussion. Last reply by R. Scott Young Mar 11, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
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Colleen Young replied to Sarah Henninger's discussion Where do art educators go for resources and to connect with each other?"I am no authority whatsoever on Art (I'm a Maths teacher!) but interestingly when I ran a session at school recently to show students a whole variety of resources online one of the most popular pages was this with some online drawing…"
Colleen Young replied to Elise Jury's discussion Ideas for Middle School Math"My blog Mathematics, Learning and Web 2.0 lists many excellent (all free!) resources available on the web. Particular favourites I use every day have to be the Desmos graphing calculator and WolframAlpha.
You'll see various pages…"
Colleen Young replied to Mark Benn's discussion Looking for some websites dealing with high school algebra that answer this question I was asked."Not sure I understand your question but have you investigated WolframAlpha?"
Colleen Young replied to Susan Marks's discussion Best site for creating a Digital Book from a pencil and paper book?"Not sure what you mean by a 'digital book'? Can you explain more?
I use WordPress which works really well to communicate with my students, this could work for parents too but I am not sure if you want your students to access a site or…"
Colleen Young replied to Lyndise Tarbuck's discussion British Teachers"My pleasure Lyndise - I hope it's useful.
You have a nice weekend too.
It's nice being on holiday!"
Colleen Young replied to Lyndise Tarbuck's discussion British Teachers"Hi Lyndise (sorry, realised I got your name wrong last time). TES forums all here - you need to register (all free).
I certainly find it useful for my subject (Maths) as people will normally comment pretty fast on specification changes /…"
Colleen Young replied to Karen Cameron's discussion 100 Scientists. 140 characters away: Using Twitter in the classroom"Why would you want a phone number?"
Colleen Young replied to Lyndise Tarbuck's discussion British Teachers"I'm in the UK Lyndsie but it doesn't really matter where you are from! I enjoy connecting with the world out there!
TES Forums are full of UK teachers - do you use those?"
Colleen Young replied to Melinda Pongrey's discussion Screencasting or...how to teach math over skype?"Do you want some sort of online whiteboard? Maybe screenr or something similar?
This on online whiteboards remains one of the most popular posts on my blog."
Colleen Young replied to Theresa Young's discussion Suggestions for warm up activities"You said not necessarily mathematical - but could the 24 game be useful? I have linked to it here.
Perhaps some more (sorry - Mathematical!) ideas here?"
Colleen Young replied to Kayla Towers's discussion Wordle"Wordle is excellent and has been around a while - as have some other word cloud generators.
My own bookmarked links here"
Colleen Young replied to Jennifer Whiting's discussion Using sites for favourites!"Sheri I use IFTTT to achieve Diigo to Evernote. My recipe"
Colleen Young replied to Jennifer Whiting's discussion Using sites for favourites!"Another Diigo fan here - I like the list facility. I also like the fact that educators can set up accounts for students under 13.
Always wanting a backup plan my Diigo bookmarks are sent automatically to Delicious and using IFTTT they also go…"
Colleen Young replied to Diana Hansen's discussion Online mathematic resources"For whatever reason, I can see from my WordPress stats that this thread is getting quite a few views today, so I thought I'd highlight the thread. On my own blog I've added an 'I'm looking for...' page which I will be…"
Colleen Young replied to Jim Woodmansee's discussion Ideas for a workshop on creating a teacher website?"I teach in the UK (age 11 to 18); at school we use Moodle so all departments can upload resources for their students to use.
Personally I use a blog (WordPress) to post homework details and messages for the classes that I teach - that means none of…"
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- At 3:41pm 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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