The past year has been quite exciting and I look forward with excitement to another year. I feel overwhelmed with all the resources so readily at my finger tips so I decided to make a list of only 10 new resources that I will use during the upcoming year. That, in itself, will be quite difficult because there is always something new and interesting online. I will make an attempt to use only 10 and try and use them to the best of my ability. I will focus on my strengths this year. I want my classes to be technology rich, active, and full of positive energy. The first hardware resource I will add for next year is the E-instruction mobi that was donated through a project I wrote on www.donorschoose.org/gladys.scott . I would recommend that if you need any additions to your classes, check out this resource. I will have 2 mobis and one teacher mobi and my students will be able to interact real-time on the data projector. Will be great to use for competitions, projects, etc. I have just written through donors choose for an Ipad 2 for my students to create a video library of content covered during class. I will also be incorporating some of the many apps available to me through the I Pad 2.
As for as the web resources I will use, they are as follows:
1. Will investigate http://www.explorelearning.com -I did use this last year but not sure if the district is going to purchase it this year.
2. Very excited about using https://www.edmodo.com/ this year. I will be attending training for this in Aug.
3. Will be using http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ for lesson planning, videos, and to create a class within the site. Lots of features here
4. http://www.ck12.org/student/ just keeps getting better!! now you can us it in different languages. I may have my students create an online portfolio through this site
5. http://braingenie.ck12.org is a great resource for students to practice and compete with other students to get badges
6. http://www.sophia.org/home-teacher Now this is a brand new resource. You can get teacher training, there are videos and lessons within the site. Very excited about it.
7. I do want to focus on STEM activities and this resource will help-http://edtechreview.in/index.php/news/news/e-learning/200-free-21st-century-learning-sites
8. I will use a test generator to create test. Test Gen usually comes with textbooks but I have never really investigated it. This resource will enable me to create several versions of test to make the assessment creditable.
I will leave myself 2 more to add when I post again.
I am networking with many great Math teachers through https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/GlobalMathDept/bulletin They have online webinars a bulletin board where math teachers can network with each other. Post a comment if you use any of these resources and let me know how it goes.
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