The website that I have interesting is known as hippocampus.org. There were many websites that brought my attention to them, but something about this one brought me to it, maybe it was the hippo, maybe it was the fact that it is a website that includes more than just math, I’m not too sure (but it was most definitely the hippo). Hippocampus is a website that is devoted to teaching students through digital media, which is a big part of what our course is about so I figured this would be a good choice.
As I mentioned the website has many different subjects, such as math, science, humanities, and history. Another great thing was that within each subject there are the different classes that range from middle school to college. Even better though is that it breaks these classes down into the various topics and provides a video for students to watch to improve their skills in whatever was selected. I watched a view of them, which were informative and could help improve a student’s skills in any of the topics. The website also provides links into other websites that will provide extra help for the selected topic and there is even a teaching blog that could help us, as future teachers, with ideas to incorporate into the classroom.
Finally, one last reason I selected this website was the fact that it a Khan Academy Collection (as well as collections in other subjects). Although I am still a little unsure what the Khan Academy is (It says it is lectures on mathematics and science.) , I know we will be working with it and this website could be a resource for me.
I chose the wolfram alpha site. I liked this one because it is like a mathematical search engine. You can give it any kind of mathematical function and it can either solve it, and provide steps towrd the conclusion, or give reasearch articles about what was entered. I would use it to check work and investigate alternate solutions to math problems.
I found that the 101 smart goals link on edutecher was a useful link. I believe that this link isn't directed specifically towards math, but gives the students a set of responsibilities and goals that they want to achieve for the year. The student is able to add and delete goals and check off when a goal has been achieved. This is a great source for students to become organized and set goals for themselves. Goals can be about anything either academic or personal goals. I would have the students create a list of goals at the beginning of the year and have them check up on it periodically to see what they have achieved.
I found that http://illuminations.nctm.org/ was a particularly useful website for me as a student getting ready to become a teacher. Through this website you can access activities, lessons, and NYS standards; which can be very helpful with us through our final year of schooling. This website can work as a tool to help us organize creative lesson plans through the help of already completed lessons. Through these activity and lesson examples we as students can discover what can make a good lesson plan into a great lesson plan.
I found the website www.charts.hohli.com to be pretty useful. It's an online chart and graph builder that has easy to use options for content, size, aspect ratio and colors. I would use this in any report or assignment in the classroom where a chart or graph would enhance the understanding of the material. Creating charts or graphs is rather complex within Microsoft Office, and this website would be much easier for students of any grade level. The implementation of a pie graph, bar graph, or line chart tends to make data a lot easier to visualize and that is why I find this tool to be so useful.
The tool I found most useful on eduTecher.net is the Data Masher tool. Data Masher "mashes" two different types of data together. For example, you can mash together tax rates plus number of injuries related to fire arms. This can be useful for the mathematics teacher to teach lessons on statistics and probability. Also, the mathematics teacher can collaborate with teachers in different subject areas (science, social studies, etc.) to make the data more relevant to the students and to make connections across different subject areas.
The feature I found most useful was www.lovelycharts.com. It's a strange name, but is a free web-based and surprisingly intuitive tool for creating concept maps. As a teacher, concept maps are a very important tool for illustrating a topic, since nothing in math or any discipline is linear, and everything is interrelated. Drawing concept maps is a difficult process on paper, and there are a few tools such as cmap that are usable, but they are kind of cumbersome and have a huge learning curve. Lovely charts creates nodes and maps with great ease, and it's available online so you don't have to worry about saving anything.
Mercy Kurian There were two sites that I really liked, one was wolframalpha.com. It is not just good for solving complex problem with steps. If you type in any topic it will give you mathematical data on it. This feature would help if a teacher needed ideas for a math lesson on a random topic. The second website I liked was worksheetswork.com as a tutor I am always making worksheets for the students I work with. A site like this would save a lot of time and is ready for me to use it as soon as one of my students need it for extra practice.
I think mine was called "Cool Math". It's this really interesting website that has ways of making math "cool". So I was looking around on it, and I found a bunch of really fun games (my favorite being ribbit math or something like that). The point of my favorite one was to do the math and then catch the flies with the correct number on them. I can honestly say that I, sadly, sat there for at least a half hour playing. So this site offers tons of math games that are actually a blast. You can pretty much chose any area of math as well. In addition to these awesome math components, there are links I believe at the bottom there are multiple links to other areas and the website's network of other links. I think it's a cool way to make math come alive and keep the brain active.
After looking at many different links my favorite link is called White House 101. I like this link because it not only gives you information about the White House it also gives you information about past presidents and the pets they had. For each president they give a detail bio. This link also gives fun facts about the president.
The feature I found was called Explore Learning. This website has "gizmos", which are interactive stimulations, free to the public. If you sign up you get more gizmos and a free 30 day trial. There are over 450 and are broken down by academic standard or topic. There are 7 gizmos just for quadrilaterals alone. You can construct angles, line segments, and shapes. This can be a very helpful tool for students.
After looking at some on the links on edutecher i found a great link called "studyJams." This site is math and science based. In the math section topics are separated by topics. Students are able to click on topics that they need to learn and/or review. There are small quizzes and step by step review problems that students can explore. The best feature is that the website made up songs for major rules that the students need to learn.
The site that I liked on the edutecher site was Altapedia. This site is based on geography and it has an abundance of interactive maps for both student and teacher use. There is also alot of information on every country and geographic location throughout the world. I think that geography is something that needs to be taught more in our schools and this website can be a fun way to do that. There are also additional links and resources to help teachers implement more geography into their classroom practices.
My favorite edutecher resource that i found was a program that held a graphical interpretation of the methods of calculus. Too often students are taught calculus through rote methods and are not able to see the true inner workings behind the scenes. the display i found was on illuminations.nctm.org. While this website is chock full of useful resources, I chose this one as it really shows just how the idea of the integral and the derivative came to be and how the formal definitions of each work.
Steve Roveto
ReplyDeleteThe website that I have interesting is known as hippocampus.org. There were many websites that brought my attention to them, but something about this one brought me to it, maybe it was the hippo, maybe it was the fact that it is a website that includes more than just math, I’m not too sure (but it was most definitely the hippo). Hippocampus is a website that is devoted to teaching students through digital media, which is a big part of what our course is about so I figured this would be a good choice.
As I mentioned the website has many different subjects, such as math, science, humanities, and history. Another great thing was that within each subject there are the different classes that range from middle school to college. Even better though is that it breaks these classes down into the various topics and provides a video for students to watch to improve their skills in whatever was selected. I watched a view of them, which were informative and could help improve a student’s skills in any of the topics. The website also provides links into other websites that will provide extra help for the selected topic and there is even a teaching blog that could help us, as future teachers, with ideas to incorporate into the classroom.
Finally, one last reason I selected this website was the fact that it a Khan Academy Collection (as well as collections in other subjects). Although I am still a little unsure what the Khan Academy is (It says it is lectures on mathematics and science.) , I know we will be working with it and this website could be a resource for me.
I chose the wolfram alpha site. I liked this one because it is like a mathematical search engine. You can give it any kind of mathematical function and it can either solve it, and provide steps towrd the conclusion, or give reasearch articles about what was entered. I would use it to check work and investigate alternate solutions to math problems.
ReplyDeleteLucia Vigliotti
ReplyDeleteI found that the 101 smart goals link on edutecher was a useful link. I believe that this link isn't directed specifically towards math, but gives the students a set of responsibilities and goals that they want to achieve for the year. The student is able to add and delete goals and check off when a goal has been achieved. This is a great source for students to become organized and set goals for themselves. Goals can be about anything either academic or personal goals. I would have the students create a list of goals at the beginning of the year and have them check up on it periodically to see what they have achieved.
Robert Fox
ReplyDeleteI found that http://illuminations.nctm.org/ was a particularly useful website for me as a student getting ready to become a teacher. Through this website you can access activities, lessons, and NYS standards; which can be very helpful with us through our final year of schooling. This website can work as a tool to help us organize creative lesson plans through the help of already completed lessons. Through these activity and lesson examples we as students can discover what can make a good lesson plan into a great lesson plan.
Jamieson Costello
ReplyDeleteI found the website www.charts.hohli.com to be pretty useful. It's an online chart and graph builder that has easy to use options for content, size, aspect ratio and colors. I would use this in any report or assignment in the classroom where a chart or graph would enhance the understanding of the material. Creating charts or graphs is rather complex within Microsoft Office, and this website would be much easier for students of any grade level. The implementation of a pie graph, bar graph, or line chart tends to make data a lot easier to visualize and that is why I find this tool to be so useful.
The tool I found most useful on eduTecher.net is the Data Masher tool. Data Masher "mashes" two different types of data together. For example, you can mash together tax rates plus number of injuries related to fire arms. This can be useful for the mathematics teacher to teach lessons on statistics and probability. Also, the mathematics teacher can collaborate with teachers in different subject areas (science, social studies, etc.) to make the data more relevant to the students and to make connections across different subject areas.
ReplyDeleteSam Herwood
ReplyDeleteThe feature I found most useful was www.lovelycharts.com. It's a strange name, but is a free web-based and surprisingly intuitive tool for creating concept maps. As a teacher, concept maps are a very important tool for illustrating a topic, since nothing in math or any discipline is linear, and everything is interrelated. Drawing concept maps is a difficult process on paper, and there are a few tools such as cmap that are usable, but they are kind of cumbersome and have a huge learning curve. Lovely charts creates nodes and maps with great ease, and it's available online so you don't have to worry about saving anything.
Mercy Kurian
ReplyDeleteThere were two sites that I really liked, one was wolframalpha.com. It is not just good for solving complex problem with steps. If you type in any topic it will give you mathematical data on it. This feature would help if a teacher needed ideas for a math lesson on a random topic. The second website I liked was worksheetswork.com as a tutor I am always making worksheets for the students I work with. A site like this would save a lot of time and is ready for me to use it as soon as one of my students need it for extra practice.
Carissa Brtalik
ReplyDeleteI think mine was called "Cool Math". It's this really interesting website that has ways of making math "cool". So I was looking around on it, and I found a bunch of really fun games (my favorite being ribbit math or something like that). The point of my favorite one was to do the math and then catch the flies with the correct number on them. I can honestly say that I, sadly, sat there for at least a half hour playing. So this site offers tons of math games that are actually a blast. You can pretty much chose any area of math as well. In addition to these awesome math components, there are links I believe at the bottom there are multiple links to other areas and the website's network of other links. I think it's a cool way to make math come alive and keep the brain active.
Venetta Lewis
ReplyDeleteAfter looking at many different links my favorite link is called White House 101. I like this link because it not only gives you information about the White House it also gives you information about past presidents and the pets they had. For each president they give a detail bio. This link also gives fun facts about the president.
The feature I found was called Explore Learning. This website has "gizmos", which are interactive stimulations, free to the public. If you sign up you get more gizmos and a free 30 day trial. There are over 450 and are broken down by academic standard or topic. There are 7 gizmos just for quadrilaterals alone. You can construct angles, line segments, and shapes. This can be a very helpful tool for students.
ReplyDeleteKristin Godsell:
ReplyDeleteAfter looking at some on the links on edutecher i found a great link called "studyJams." This site is math and science based. In the math section topics are separated by topics. Students are able to click on topics that they need to learn and/or review. There are small quizzes and step by step review problems that students can explore. The best feature is that the website made up songs for major rules that the students need to learn.
The site that I liked on the edutecher site was Altapedia. This site is based on geography and it has an abundance of interactive maps for both student and teacher use. There is also alot of information on every country and geographic location throughout the world. I think that geography is something that needs to be taught more in our schools and this website can be a fun way to do that. There are also additional links and resources to help teachers implement more geography into their classroom practices.
ReplyDeleteDan Summers
ReplyDeleteMy favorite edutecher resource that i found was a program that held a graphical interpretation of the methods of calculus. Too often students are taught calculus through rote methods and are not able to see the true inner workings behind the scenes. the display i found was on illuminations.nctm.org. While this website is chock full of useful resources, I chose this one as it really shows just how the idea of the integral and the derivative came to be and how the formal definitions of each work.