10 Free Web 2.0 Tools And How To Easily Use Them In Your Classroom Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend the first Ozarks Education Research Initiative (OERI) Teacher Technology Conference at Willard High School (MO). The learning sessions I attended were all very good and I am going to share 10 of the FREE tools I learned about below. I will be incorporating them into how I teach and hopefully by using these tools during faculty meetings, PD sessions, and other opportunities as they arise, this will help us all to find ways to incorporate them into the classroom to engage our students even more. This quote from last week has stuck with me ever since it was spoken – “Date the tool. Marry the idea.” I don’t recall who this is attributed to, but it resonates with me still. Engagement is key! Twitter summary of OERI Teacher Technology Conference at Willard High School on May 30, 2012 via Storify This is a summary of the tweets sent out during the conference. Socrative This link takes you to their website. Today’s Meet by Allison Pilley @ajpilley
100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything | Rated Colleges Posted by Site Administrator in Online Learning May 7th, 2009 Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg. There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language. General Tutorials These sites offer a wide range of tutorials and videos. Around the House Want to know how to fix that broken cabinet or hang up some great wallpaper? Business and Management If you feel like you’re seriously lacking on business and management skills at work, no need to worry. KnowThis? Language and Writing Those who want to learn a new language, improve their writing skills or just learn more about literature will be well-served by these instructional sites. Technology These tech-focused sites offer help to both technophiles and beginners alike. actDEN: Never learned how to use Microsoft Excel? Math S.O.S. Science Creativity
Online Testing Free Quiz Maker Create the Best web-based quizzes ClassMarker Want To Learn UNIX? Here Are Some Free Online Courses For You! Here's a list of free online courses on UNIX: 1. A Basic UNIX Tutorial at Idaho State University This tutorial comprises fourteen sections, each of which addresses a fundamental aspect of UNIX computing. 2. This course provides a thorough introduction to the C programming language, the workhorse of the UNIX operating system. 3. A practical introduction to using the Unix operating system with a focus on Linux command line skills available through video lectures. 4. Provides UNIX information actually taught on campus University of Arizona. 5. This PDF tutorial trains students in UNIX basics by using explanatory text with example commands. 6. Students are proviede with a manual index or glossary to research terms that they might find diificult to understand. 7. 8. Provides students with eight UNIX tutorials outlining step-by-step procedures and codes. Source: Education Portal Saurabh Singh, EFYTIMES News Network
The Hat - Random Name Generator Current version: 3.0.9.0License: Freeware "I'm first!" "No I'm first!""No, I called it!" "Well I'm second!"" Sound familiar? The Hat is a simple but handy little utility that offers a fun and easy way to automatically determine a random order from a list of any amount of names. Note: The Hat is completely free but comes bundled with optional partner offers during installation. Recent changes:Key FeaturesGreat for Parents! Just like pulling names from a hat to determine a random order for a group of people, The Hat generates a random order from a list of any number of names. Names can be entered in several different way. The list of names can be optionally be remembered between sessions so that the next time you open the program, the same list of names is already entered. Great for raffles and sweepstakes! The Hat also allows you to pick individual names one at a time. Great for teachers to assign partners or split classes into random groups! Click here to download your free copy today.
Welcome to RoboMind.net, the new way to learn programming Classmint.com - Online Cornell Notes, Flashcards and Study Groups Using Wavelets (Wavelet Toolbox) Continuous Analysis Using the Command Line This example involves a noisy sinusoidal signal. Loading a Signal. From the MATLAB prompt, type: load noissin; You now have the signal noissin in your workspace: whos Performing a Continuous Wavelet Transform. Use the cwt command. The arguments to cwt specify the signal to be analyzed, the scales of the analysis, and the wavelet to be used. Plotting the Coefficients. The cwt command accepts a fourth argument. The cwt command can accept more arguments to define the different characteristics of the produced plot. Type: c = cwt(noissin,1:48,'db4','plot'); A plot appears. Of course, coefficient plots generated from the command line can be manipulated using ordinary MATLAB graphics commands. Choosing Scales for the Analysis. The second argument to cwt gives you fine control over the scale levels on which the continuous analysis is performed. A new plot appears: This plot gives a clearer picture of what's happening with the signal, highlighting the periodicity.
50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Learning Lesson Planning and Tools Useful Tools
ePortfolio - Saylor Saylor.org / Testing Center / Forums / Help Sign In Srichakradhar Reddy Nagireddy About Me Undergrad @ VIT Unviersity. 1000 Wisconsin Ave NW Suite 220, Washington, D.C. 20007 (202) 333-4005 | contact@saylor.org Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. © 2013 The Saylor Foundation, Saylor.org ®, The Saylor Journals ®, Harnessing Technology to Make Education Free ® are registered trademarks of The Saylor Foundation Sitemap | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy Creative Commons OCW Consortium 6 Great Note-Taking Tools for Students and Teachers One of the best things about education technology is that it has allowed students and teachers alike to turn to online annotation and records, making hastily scrawled, illegible scribbles and coffee-stained pages a thing of the past. From university students keeping track of lectures to young students making plans and mind maps, there is an online note-taking tool to suit everyone… 1. Study Blue A great site that allows students to create online flash cards, study guides and quizzes. 2. A brilliantly simple online interactive whiteboard, Scriblink allows notes to be shared as they’re created. 3. Perfect for individual students, Penzu is the online version of the old-fashioned notebook or journal in which you build up your body of lecture or class notes. 4. Pretty much does what it says on the tin! 5. inFocus.cc lets you highlight any section of a live webpage and generate a shareable URL. 6. Do you know any great note-taking tools? Images courtesy of Flickr.
My mind maps - Mind42 - Mind42: Free online mind mapping software 34 Smart Ideas For Using Smartphones In The Classroom 34 Smart Ideas For Using Smartphones In The Classroom 34 Ways Ideas For Smartphones In The Classroom By Category by John Hardison first appeared on gettingsmart.com In continuation of last week’s article, Part 1: 44 Better Ways to Use Smartphones in Class, here is a new list of thirty-six additional ideas to help leverage the power of these tech gadgets in the learning environment. In this blog post, I have attempted to avoid any redundancies. 34 Smart Ideas For Using Smartphones In The Classroom To Collaborate 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. To Communicate 6. This method encourages educators to abandon the time-consuming and inefficient task of periodically calculating the data. 7. 8. To Create 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. To Curate/Coordinate 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Still not convinced? Image attribution flickr user davelawler