Useful Sites, How-Tos, Student Samples
I stumbled across a great measurements website while preparing for my beginning of the year science unit the other day. It is called “Teaching Measures” and it has a number of helpful resources for practicing and demonstrating the basics of measurment (length, volume, and mass).
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It is directed at interactive whiteboard [...]
In case you tried to visit this blog today between 1:00-3:00 (CDT) you might have gotten an error message telling you the page was missing or unavailable. I too, received this message right before some beginning of the year meetings and had only a few minutes to try and figure out the problem. [...]
1. MrMansour.com has a new look as of today. I mentioned on my classroom blog and this blog that I was redoing the site with synthasite. In the end, I decided not to go with synthasite since it didn’t work when I uploaded it to my own web space. I would recommend [...]
I mentioned in an earlier post how much I like synthasite and I’ve been suggesting it to a few other teachers I’ve talked to recently. Currently, I’m redoing my own website using synthasite. It should be up in the next day or two. While I was working on it today, I decided [...]
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I’m a huge fan of thatquiz.org for many things, but especially math. In less than a minute I can create a quiz for review or practice. Students complete the quiz on the computer and get immediate feedback. It saves me time on grading and keeps a nice gradebook of all the quizzes. [...]
I’m currently taking an online class on computer programming. We’re working with Alice (the program) and everyone in the class was stuck on a particular problem. Unfortunately, the course interface did not give us much opportunity to collaborate beyond a message board. To remedy this I invited the class to join me [...]