Warren Sparrow: October 2013

29 October 2013

Social-Media-Monitoring-Tools

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Shutterbugs Wiggle and Stomp

Shutterbugs Wiggle and Stomp is a new educational game

produced by the Smithsonian. The purpose of the game is

to help children recognize the movements of animals. In the

game children move through a virtual zoo with a zoo keeper.

As they go through the virtual zoo the zoo keeper will ask

students to take pictures of animals who are demonstrating

running, jumping, stomping, and other movements.

Shutterbugs Wiggle and Stomp can be played online.

The game is also available as a free iPad app.

28 October 2013

SMART Notebook search engine.

Google Custom Search allows anyone to create his or her own search engine.

The benefit of this is that you can create a very subject specific search environment.

Have a look at the SMART Notebook search engine. As you would expect from the name,

the SMART Notebook search engine is designed to help you find resources

designed for teaching with SMARTBoards.

Very cool!!

Figure This

Figure This is a website produced by the National Council of Teachers of

Mathematics. The site presents viewers with a series of math problems

designed to spark discussion and collaboration between parents and their

children. The problems are based around objects and situations with which

most students will be familiar. This is also great as extension work for some

of your learners!!

22 October 2013

Math Worksheet Maker 1.0

This creates math worksheets for you.

It covers, basic math, intermediate math, conversion,

geometry and trigonometry, statistics and probability,

algebra, as well as other exercises.

Click on the options and choose the level.

Click on generate and then print the worksheets.

You can also print the solutions!!

WOW!!!

Download the file below. It is 1.9 MB big.

Mathemagic

This is absolutely stunning!!!

It creates Math worksheets for you in addition, subtraction,

multiplication, division, fractions and money.

this is perfect for Foundation Phase!!

Click to download the software below 3.4MB big

6 tips for choosing digital tools to support 21st Century Learning

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The Digital Classroom

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Blooming Orange: Bloom’s Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster

They've popped Bloom's verbage into the segments of an orange and

depicted it as a circle to illustrate the fact that often these skills do not

occur in isolation, they often occur simultaneously.

This Blooming Orange presents itself as a teacher-friendly tool for planning

and possibly an easier way for everyone to think about Bloom's.

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The conversion Prism

Reorganizing the social media landscape with the updated Conversation Prism.

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21 October 2013

Type Rocket

Type Rocket is a sixty second game in which students make

fireworks explode by typing the letters that appear on the

rockets in the games. In the sixty second span of the game

students try to correctly type as many letters as they possibly

can. The rockets speed up as the game progresses.

Very cool!!

Z Type Touch typing

This is a really appealing game to learn how to touch type.

The game has an easy level and a difficult level. The game

is played the same way on both levels. To play Z-Type all

that you have to do is go to the website and type the words

that are falling from the top of the screen. When you have

correctly typed a word a laser shoots it. The object is to

shoot the words before they reach the bottom of the screen.

Very cool!

word hippo

Word Hippo is a great little tool that students can use to find definitions,

synonyms, antonyms, and translations for words. The service also provides

students with verb conjugation assistance, pronunciation assistance, and

assistance with prefixes and suffixes. In total Word Hippo offers more than

a dozen tools for students.

Very cool!!

17 October 2013

Mad for Maths Time Tables

This is really a very cool site!!

You can choose to test your time tables from 3 - 8

The graphics are really awesome and it is fun to play!!

The different time tables all have a different game.

Time Table Shoot em up

This is a very nice timetable game where you need to look at the bottom and

then shoot the right answer before all the numbers get to the bottom.

You can also choose which timetables you would like to practice.

Great way of learning your timetables!

Learn your tables

This is a very nice timetable website where you can practice your timetables.

You can choose a specific time table that you would like to practice from 1 - 10.

There are three different modes in which you can practice.

Test, drag and answer. There is also a mixed section that jumples the tables up.

Very nice!!

16 October 2013

Math worksheet island

One of the more time consuming part of teaching is coming up with new

and interesting practice exercises for kids to learn important math concepts

starting from kindergarten and all the way up through high school, but a

site like Math Worksheets Land can help.

there is a lesson plan, practice worksheets, as well as matching worksheets

on most topics.

Very cool!!

15 October 2013

Solar System Scope

Solar System Scope is a very impressive interactive 3D Model of our Solar System.

You can zoom in and move the planets around the Sun to see how they move in

relation to each other. The scale of the planets in relation to each other is not accurate,

nor is the distance apart, but these are necessary changes to make the whole thing

fit on a screen and be usable!

I loved moving the timeline so that you can see how all the planets move and how

long some of them take to move!

It is really fantastic!!

Dynamic Periodic Table Of Elements @ ptable.com

This is an interactive Web 2.0 periodic table with dynamic layouts showing names,

electrons, oxidation, trend visualization, orbitals, isotopes and a search.

Each element also links directly to a Wikpedia page that describes it in detail,

including density, melting point, appearance, occurrence and much more.

Very good!!

Periodic Table Videos

This is an absolute must for science teachers.

It is a an periodic table that has videos for every element.

\You can click on any element and then watch a 5 minute video clip on the element.

There is also a section on other videos that goes into the science of other things.

Very cool!!

Math Live

Math Live is a really great website for both learners, as well as teachers.

There are numerous animated stories that teach mathematics lessons.

There are over 20 different lessons that can be viewed.

The lessons are divided into four categories;

Number, Patterns and Relations, Shape and Space, Statistics and Probability.

Each video also has a page for learners, parents and teachers that they can

use while watching the video.

brilliant!!

14 October 2013

Google like a boss

7 quick tips to use Google search

Very good!!

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13 October 2013

The Two Ronnies My Blackberry is not working,

Absolutely brilliant!!!!!

11 October 2013

How to Twitter in 60 seconds

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10 October 2013

What do you want kids to do with technology?

Blended Learning

What is blended learning

Benifits of blended learning

09 October 2013

Class Charts

Although I have posted this before, there has been some great improvements!!

Class Charts is a free website that lets teachers manage their classroom

seating charts online and add additional information about their students.

Seating charts are an essential tool of any good teacher . They allow

them to organise students into appropriate learning groups as well as

help to minimise behaviour issues. With Class Charts you can also

choose to include and display key data such as SEN or reading age

which can be used to position pupils in the classroom, whatever your

classroom setup.

The seating plans you create in Class Charts can also be used collaboratively

with colleagues to track and analyse student behaviour over time.

The software lets you track both positive and negative points for good/bad

behaviour as well as generate behaviour reports.

Very good!!

YouTube Audio Library

If you are looking for music tracks to use in class projects such as

presentations, photo slideshows and podcasts, then it can be tricky

to find songs that you can use that are not subject to some form of

online, and it gets taken down by YouTube for copyright infringements.

To help with that, YouTube have just released a library of tunes that

you can freely download and use in any of your creative projects.

There’s 150 tunes to start with from a range of different genres and styles.

You can access the library clicking below.