Wikis for Maths Classrooms

Some more wiki sites as I prepare for another Web 2.0 presentation

All about Maths wiki – great concept – http://allaboutmath.wikispaces.com/

Mr Lee’s Math wiki and ePortfolio for the achievement of Maths outcomes  -  http://acrospire.pbwiki.com/

Photo Story 3 for Windows

Some tutorial sites for Photo Story  -  http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PhotoStory3/

http://www.windowsphotostory.com/

A great step by step tutorial can be found at http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf

This site has some excellent ideas for using digital images across KLAs as well as clear instructions for using Photo Story 3 -  http://drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/photostorytelling/storytelling_PhotoStory.htm

This site has so many links to digital story telling, podcast and more  -  http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/digitalmedia.htm#Photo_Story

Video clips for use in the Maths classroom

Kate has started a list of clips that can be used in Math  -  http://function-of-time.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-list-beginning.html

From Next Vista for Learning some more videos for Maths  -  http://www.nextvista.org/collection-list-light-bulbs/

Comic Life

A great example of Comic Life from the PlasQ site –  Robert Fripp and Tony Levin  sharing the day-to-day stories of touring within one of the most influential prog rock bands – on King Crimson’s 40th Anniversary Tour  -  http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=11389

A reminder of how to use Comic Life in the Classroom  -  http://www.macinstruct.com/node/69

TeacherTube has a great video on Comic Life  -  http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=cc5b9f5a2aaa74da584e

Some examples of Student work from the Comic Life Community Forum  -  http://homepage.mac.com/adam_bezark/comiclife/

Create comics on-line for free

This site allows students to make comics on-line  -  http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

On-line quizzes

Here are some links that can be used to for the creation of on-line quizzes

For Maths students can complete the quiz at home – http://www.thatquiz.com/

Hot Potatoes from Half Baked software to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the web – http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

Another option is QuizPress – http://www.solrobots.com/quizpress/

And for more options from the Centre for Learning and performance Technologies – http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Directory/Tools/testing.html

Web 2.0 Tools

This site has been set up for school library media specialists to learn about new web tools – http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/

Another site for Web 2.0 tools – http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html

Interactive Whiteboard Resources

Promethean – ActivStudio -  http://www.prometheanplanet.com/uk/ and educational resources
http://blog.prometheanplanet.com/?p=165
Smart Board -  www.smarttech.com and resources http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/

Quality Teaching Programme

This site has been developed as a result of the Quality Teaching initiative – check the Quick links – http://www.qtp.nsw.edu.au/

Comic Life Resources

Thanks to Judith and Marilee for this list of resources and examples for those who have found Comic Life – http://www.countrymeadows.district96.k12.il.us/Comic_Life_site/CLindex.html