Wow! Look at this Interactive Math Site!!

I decided that if I follow other educators' blogs/bookmarks, I will learn more about what is out there on the web. Today, I found this site. All you have to do is register and install Silverlight 3.0 (you'll be prompted) and you get access to a multitude of interactive math lessons/games for a variety of age levels! I can see myself using this as an activator of a lesson or as review/remediation for a flex group.

This might make my life easier.

I love when that happens.

Let me know what you think!

Video Resources!

Do you ever feel lost inside your computer? Yes, I currently feel this way! On a search for educational blogs to subscribe to, for my Web 2.o class, I have come across more sites than I could have imagined. It's amazing how much is out there to help us teachers create engaging lessons.

Anyway, enough chatter. Look at this website! I have found videos for every subject area imaginable. Videos for lesson activators, videos for review, videos for fun, videos for reinforcement, videos for grades K-8. I couldn't possibly list them all. Visit the site and find out for your self! I have bookmarked many of them on Delicious but there is so much more to see.

Let me know if you find something especially interesting!

Introduction and RIBIT

Hello! This is my first time using a blog for my own purposes. Usually I have my students blog but I have not yet tried it myself!

I plan to post helpful instructional tools and methods for educators here.

Here is a site that I have used a couple of times with my students: RIBIT

RIBIT is an inquiry-based website that fosters constructivism in the classroom. The students are given an open-ended, higher-level question and resources to help find an answer. So far, I have only used this in Science, but I'm sure I will soon use this in Social Studies.