Index Cards

I made an index card for a Student Information Form. One card contains student information and the other card contains parent information.

Index Cards Power Point

Tools

Tools for my future classroom

Dakota's Technology Tools

Scavenger Hunt

Click on the following link to take the Panda Scavenger Hunt !

Student Information Form

Please click the link below to share some student information.

Technology Choice- Tech Matrix

Tech Matrix provides assistive and educational technology tools and resources to support learning for students with disabilities and their classmates. I will use techmatrix.com when in need of differentiated instruction, which will mostly be common. I found the database of over 400 resources highly useful because it allows you to search exactly what type of app you need, where you can access it, and research relating to the use of technology to assist in student learning. For example, I searched for resources that can assist a 3rd Grade student who has a hearing imparement and is learning about fractions. Below is in example of the app I found on www.techmatrix.com:

Freddy Fraction

Freddy Fraction is a busy bee who needs your help! Freddy needs to collect all the honey pots for the Queen Bee. It is your job to guide Freddy quickly to the honey pots! Help Freddy find his way to each honey pot by dragging him onto the space that equals the number in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

SOURCE:www.techmatrix.com

Technology Choice - Apple IBooks

IBooks is a free application from Apple’s Itunes App Store. It is an app that can read the entire book for you or assist you along your way with the dictionary and the option to “speak single word”. With its wide variety of titles, IBooks can be used for research, entertainment, and art. It has a feature that allows teachers to create their own multimedia interactive textbooks. 

SOURCES:

Teaching and Learning with Technology 

http://tidbits.com/article/11150

Search Engines for Kids

GoGooligan 

Large, Bold font

Organize Notes feature

This engine is powered by Google’s SafeSearch and custom search engine option, though it’s clear that it’s not affiliated with or part of Google. It styles itself as an ‘educational/academic/ search engine’ for kids and teens (source: http://www.philb.com/articles/childrensearchengines.htm)

Pros:

+      +  Large text

+       + Organize Notes feature allows students to quickly organize their notes while they do research.

Cons:

-       - Minimal results. When I searched the word ‘Bomb’, I was redirected and could not view any of the results that showed up (Bombing of Hiroshima, Bombay, etc.)

-        -There is a link that reads “What is a Gooligan?” The link opens up a site called urbandictionary.com. This site has a lot of ‘slang’ terms that students may have heard from a peer or parent, heard in a song, or seen on TV. Urban Dictionary allows users to search for the definition of these words. The site contains explicit content.

f  QuinturaKids

     This site provides some animation linking to other aspects of the site (games, animals, sport and so on) with a word cloud above the search box. There wasn't any way of getting the engine to search verbatim though. (source: http://www.philb.com/articles/childrensearchengines.htm)

Pros:

+       + Related words show up after searching a certain topic.

+        +Visually appealing to kids.

+        +Games, Sports, Animals, Music, and History are shown by corresponding icons and are easy to find.

+       + Available for Iphone/Ipad in App Store.

Cons:

-        -Difficult to find exact results. When I searched for a map of the United States, of the 12 results that showed up, none of them contained a map.

Rubrics/Assessments

There are two types of assessments- formative and summative. While a summative assessment is given only at the end of a lesson, a formative assessment takes place from the beginning until the end of the lesson. A rubric is a tool that will help give students an idea of what is expected of them on an assignment. I have seen teachers create a rubric for everything from writing a paper to participating in classroom discussion. Using detailed explanations puts responsibility on students to consider the extent of their performance while carrying out tasks.

            Creating a rubric can be easy with the use of templates and various websites.

1. Rubistar - Enter key words (ex. 3rd Grade Math) and search rubics that others have created and used.

2. Essay Tagger - Common Core is included.

Teaching and Learning with Technology

http://edtechteacher.org/assessment/

My LiveBinder

On www.livebinders.com, I created a binder of resources that I will use when I am a classroom teacher. Some of the tabs I've included are a blog that provides templates to create a Substitute Binder and State Standards. In the future, I may create a LiveBinder for my subs so that they can access it before even coming into the classroom. I think it's a good feature because I can easily updated with what we are currently working on without having to make copies, etc.

My LiveBinder

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1645574