Posted by tekkieteacher on 21st April 2008
SOLs are approaching very quickly! I remember when I returned to education in 2004 I was a bit taken aback by the World Geography pacing guide which had me finishing instruction by April 21. It did not make much sense to me since the last day of school was not until June. And then I remembered — SOL End of Course exams are actually given in May, many weeks before the end of the school year. (I still have issues with this, but that’s a topic for another day)
With that in mind, I know many of you are getting ready to delve into SOL preparation and review for your students and you may not know where to find our SOL online resources. At the start of the school year, I moved them all to our web portal. You can find them under the category “SOL Preparation”.
If anyone is aware of any resources that are not included in the portal, please post a comment with the link so that they can be shared with your peers. Then, I will add them to the portal ASAP.
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Posted by tekkieteacher on 16th April 2008
I love my PLN (Personal Learning Network). During the last few months, I’ve set up networks in Twitter, Diigo, Delicious, and Classroom 2.0 and I’m learning so much! Last night I needed to find another way to convert a .wav file to a .mp3 file because my converter wasn’t working. I posted a question to Twitter and had my answer within minutes!
This week’s featured websites are ones suggested by my “friends” in my PLN.
The first came from Jim Gates’ Tipline and is called Gadgets, Games, and Gizmos for Learning. The name pretty much says it all!
The second came from one of my Diigo contacts and is called 4Teachers. The primary objective for this site is to provide teachers with nice resources they can use to integrate technology with instruction.
The third one comes from Greg Smith at Tech Ed Know-How and is called Real World Math. This one looks really neat! It provides lessons where you use tools like Google Earth to teach math.
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Posted by tekkieteacher on 15th February 2008
Here is a Feel Good Friday post provided by our very own Lauren B.!
Have a great weekend!
Download Video: Posted by tekkieteacher at TeacherTube.com.
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Posted by tekkieteacher on 17th September 2007
I admit it. Math was never my strongest subject. I have an inestimable amount of respect for those of you who have mastered the foreign language that is Math. With that in mind, here is a fun video that both Math experts and the Math challenged should enjoy.
Download Video: Posted by g_morris at TeacherTube.com.
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