SELF-STUDY: Ethics for Education Professionals (5 clock hours)
“As teachers, we play a very important role in the lives of children. It is, therefore, critical that we can step outside of our busy schedules and reflect on every day issues.“
With the advent of the internet and smart phones, it’s easy for boundaries to become blurred. In the […]
SELF-STUDY: Cognitive Skills – Understanding Learning Challenges (5 clock hours)
“When a task is given in school, why does one student take thirty minutes to complete it and another only eight minutes?”
The U.S. Department of Education, and others indicate thatweak cognitive skills are the source of over 80% of learning problems.
In this course you’ll come to understand the answer: […]
Teacher Resources, Tools & Giveaways for the week ( Dec 22 – 29, 2012)
Piktochart
Create your own infographics.
fodey
A simple tool to create newspaper clippings from any text.
Bubblesnaps
An user friendly interface to add bubbles to your pictures.
RESOURCES
Science Buddies Lab Report
A sample format for lab report.
Trapped
An online game to reinforce punctuation.
Dance, Factors Dance
An fun way to help students learn more about numbers.
GIVEAWAY OF THE WEEK
Book: Treasury of Joy and […]
Teacher Resources, Tools & Giveaways for the week ( Dec 15 – 22, 2012)
TOOLS
ScootPad
Personalized learning to master skills in math and reading.
RESOURCES
AlgebraLAB
An online math learning environment for high school students.
Expository Essay Format
A handout to help students write their own essays.
Tactile Parts of Speech
A lesson plan to reinforce the differences between nouns, verbs and adjectives.
GIVEAWAY OF THE WEEK
Apple iPad Mini
Fill in the form for a chance to […]
Teacher Resources, Tools & Giveaways for the week ( Dec 8 – 15, 2012)
TOOLS
Desmos
A graphing calculator that works on the web without any software installation or special hardware.
kwiqpoll
A simple and easy to use website for creating polls.
Joomag
Create digital interactive magazines online.
RESOURCES
ReadWorks.org
A site for elementary-reading and lessons activities to align with books.
Mystery Cube
An interactive to help students understand, solve and create their own mysteries.
GIVEAWAY OF THE WEEK
Holiday […]
Teacher Resources, Tools & Giveaways for the week ( Dec 1 – 8, 2012)
TOOLS
szoter
Annotate, add text or edit pictures and screen shots.
Encalc
An online scientific calculator.
GroupBoard
A free online shared whiteboard and chat app that can be easily embedded into websites.
RESOURCES
VocabularySpellingCity.com
Spelling practice and activities that can be customized.
The Periodic Table of Comic Books
An interesting way to help students learn chemistry.
Interpreting Line Plots
Sample worksheet to interpret line plots.
GIVEAWAY OF […]
Teacher Resources, Tools & Giveaways for the week ( Nov 17 – Nov 24, 2012)
TOOLS
SignUpGenius
A sign-up service to organize parent teacher conferences, classroom holiday parties and fundraising online.
ABCya.com
Online educational games and activities for elementary students.
circuits.io
Design and test electrical circuits online.
RESOURCES
Teach your Monster to Read: First Steps
A free game to practice the first steps of reading.
Symbolab
A mathematics search engine. Find explanation and videos on how to solve equations.
GIVEAWAY […]
Teacher Resources, Tools & Giveaways for the week ( Nov 10 – Nov 17, 2012)
TOOLS
Xtranormal
Low-cost educator and student accounts enable creation of 3D animated movies.
youblisher
Showcase student work by creating flipbooks from pdf documents.
Ptable
An interactive and dynamic periodic table.
RESOURCES
ScienceNetLinks
Teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on-activities for science.
Amara
A potential opportunity for students to build their language (English or foreign) and typing skills while doing good to help others. Not only […]
Teacher Resources, Tools & Giveaways for the week ( Oct 20 – Oct 27, 2012)
TOOLS
BubblePLY
Personalize videos by adding stickers, photos, text, animated bubbles, hyperlinks and more.
Transfer Big Files
A service to transfer files of size 100 MB to others.
RESOURCES
ReadWriteThink Notetaker
A hierarchical outlining tool that allows students to organize up to five levels of information for reading and writing activities.
Pocket Thesaurus
A printable that can be used to enhance vocabulary […]
