The Rearview Mirror 9/29/2012

For those of you who may have missed a Catch of the Day or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

 

Monday

CloudOn is a free tablet app that lets you work directly in Microsoft Office, edit & store your information online, and share files with your colleagues

Tuesday

Makewaves, from the UK, provides a free social media platform for education enabling schools to create and safely share videos, podcasts, and blogs.

Wednesday

Math/Science Nucleus is an educational and research organization composed of scientists, educators, and others serving as an online science resource center for school districts, teachers, and administrators.

Thursday

United Classrooms (UClass) is a free online collaboration platform that connects students to their classmates, teachers, parents, and other classrooms through a secure classroom profile page.

COD - 9/27/2012 - United Classrooms [Collaboration]

United Classrooms (UClass) is a free online collaboration platform that connects students to their classmates, teachers, parents, and other classrooms through a secure classroom profile page.

United Classrooms takes students beyond the classrooms walls. Diverse students can connect through the creation of a safe and dynamic global community where knowledge, experiences, and relationships can be shared.

With United Classrooms, teachers can:

• Create projects, post homework/announcements, upload assignments, message students, and drive dialogue on the classroom feed.
• Collaborate with other teachers anywhere in the world.
• Post classroom announcements and information to keep parents informed and connected.
• Manage student content, including deleting communication and suspending accounts.
• Motivate lessons and discussions using content generated on UClass.

Students can dialog with their classmates, their teachers, and students around the world sharing thoughts, questions, comments, and reflections. Students can also view and download homework assignments and teacher announcements.

Watch a video overview of United Classrooms

The goal of United Classrooms is to give "students access to a world of possibility" and "to motivate and equip the next generation for more active and educated citizenship in their classrooms, their community and their world."

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COD - 9/26/2012 - Math/Science Nucleus [Science]

Math/Science Nucleus is an educational and research organization composed of scientists, educators, and others serving as an online science resource center for school districts, teachers, and administrators.

The major goal of Math/Science Nucleus is to develop students' problem solving abilities through science. To this end, they provide a free online reference science curriculum. The curriculum includes not only lesson plans, but online animated storybooks and slideshows that help educators integrate science content.

A second major goal of Math/Science Nucleus is to provide workshops to enhance the skills of educators by  increasIng their  teaching and science content skills.

Access to the K-12 Integrating Science, Math, and Technology Reference Curriculum is free and educators may use the copyrighted material in their classroom. Click on the I.Science MaTeFree Access symbol and enter over 27  years of research on how children learn science content. You will have access to both the elementary and secondary curriculum, over 6000 pages of research-based reference material.

Math/Science Nucleus has provided training in science, math, and integrating computer technology to more than 15,000 teachers. Their website averages 7000 users per day, serving students, school districts. teachers, and administrators.

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COD - 9/25/2012 - Makewaves [Broadcasting]

Makewaves, from the UK, provides a free social media platform for education enabling schools to create and safely share videos, podcasts, and blogs.


The Makewaves school blogging network has been providing safe social networking for schools since 2003 when it was first known as Radiowaves. They work with schools, local authorities, charities, and government departments to publish internet radio, school podcasts, videos, and blogs from students around the world.

Over 50,000 students with mopre than 130,000 blogs and videos stories already online are using Makewaves regularly to broadcast their school podcasts and videos using a safe social network.


Started up by brothers Mark and Tim Riches, the Makewaves team now includes teachers, broadcasters, journalists, developers, designers, project managers, and trainers.  

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COD - 9/24/2012 - CloudOn [Documents]

CloudOn is a free tablet app that lets you work directly in Microsoft Office, edit & store your information online, and share files with your colleagues.

As well as being able to format text, change fonts, and correct  typos, CloudOn enables you to track changes while editing Word documents, use pivot tables and insert formulas in Excel,  present your PowerPoint slides complete with transitions, and more.

Key features of CloudOn:

• You work in the real Microsoft Office.
• CloudOn delivers your Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive files to one place.
• Open email attachments directly in the workspace or send files to anyone, even if they don’t have a CloudOn account.
• Use the file viewer to open and view PDF, PNG, EPS, or virtually any file type.
• CloudOn automatically saves any change you make.Watch a video introduction to CloudOn

CloudOn is available for iPad from the iTunes App Store and from Google Play for Android tablets.

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The Rearview Mirror 9/22/2012

For those of you who may have missed a Catch of the Day or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

Monday
EducationWorld is a free and comprehensive resource for educators, a place where teachers can gather and share ideas, and find high-quality lesson plans and research materials.

Tuesday
A+ Click features a huge collection of illustrated, challenging math problems for students in grades 1-12 (ages 6-17). A+ Click can help students become proficient problem solvers.

Wednesday
Keen Talks, founded in November of last year, is an educational resource that curates talks, lectures, presentations, interviews, and debates, similar to TED Talks.

Thursday
STANDS4 is a provider of free online reference resources, serving content through a network of reference websites and content partners to millions of unique visitors worldwide.

COD - 9/20/2012 - EducationWorld [Resources]

EducationWorld is a free and comprehensive resource for educators, a place where teachers can gather and share ideas, and find high-quality lesson plans and research materials.

The original content offered at EducationWorld includes lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts.

Other resources at EducationWorld:

• Website reviews
• Special features and columns
• Employment listings

EducationWorld was founded in 1996, to create an Internet home for educators. It is funded by corporate sponsors and advertisers in order to keep the site free for all teachers.

EducationWorld has received many awards and recognitions, including the Parenting Journal's "Editor's Choice Award" and USA Today's "Best Bet for Educators."

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COD - 9/19/2012 - A+ Click [Math]

A+ Click features a huge collection of illustrated, challenging math problems for students in grades 1-12 (ages 6-17). A+ Click can help students become proficient problem solvers. 

A+ Click features a set of over 2200 problems, progressively organized from the very simple to the extremely difficult. Also included are hundreds of practical problems, as well as many brainteasers. 

A+ Click problems include a short description and an illustration to help problem solvers visualize the model. Most problems can be solved within one minute and without the use of a calculator.

The tests adapt to student ability and can be useful in delivering differentiated instruction. A student must correctly answer 5 consecutive questions to progress to the next higher level. The problems focus on understanding, spatial reasoning, and problem solving.

Watch Mr Barton's Web Whizz Video 29 - A+ Click Math

A+ Click requires no fees or registration and includes no ads. A+ Click was one of a handful of sites selected as a "2010 Great Web Sites for Kids" by the American Library Association.

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COD - 9/18/2012 - Keen Talks [Video]

Keen Talks, founded in November of last year, is an educational resource that curates talks, lectures, presentations, interviews, and debates, similar to TED Talks.

Keen Talks seeks to be a "one stop destination for all users who want to learn and expand their knowledge in various fields like science, technology, health, psychology etc."

Keen Talks doesn’t curate only lectures and talks, but a wide range of engaging and interesting videos from anywhere. They include any form of presentation that can bring a significant degree of cognitive content to the table.

Keen Talks rarely includes lectures delivered in a classroom setting, unless they’re particularly noteworthy. They offer a broad range of different kinds of public appearances by some of the world’s significant intellectual figures.

If you are the copyright holder of a talk, lecture, or presentation that you want to have included on Keen Talks, just upload your material to YouTube and send them the link. Keen Talks reserves the right to decide whether to publish it or not.

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COD - 9/17/2012 - STANDS4 [Reference]

STANDS4 is a provider of free online reference resources, serving content through a network of reference websites and content partners to millions of unique visitors worldwide.

STANDS4's centerpiece is Abbreviations.com, the Internet's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Abbreviations.com holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized in a variety of categories such as Computing and the Web, Governmental, Medicine, and Business.

Some of the other components in the STANDS4 network:

• Definitions.net is a multilingual dictionary that provides instant lookup and translations of word and phrase definitions, complete with images.
• Synonyms.net is a thesaurus that provides instant synonyms and antonyms that can be heard in and translated to several languages.
• Rhymes.net is a rhyming dictionary that contains thousands of rhyme entries for almost any given word.
• Quotes.net provides thousands of famous quotations from many authors that can be browsed, searched, rated, heard in and translated to several languages.
• Phrases.net is a large collection of common phrases, casual expressions, and idioms that can be browsed, searched, rated, heard in and translated to several languages.
• Convert.net is a conversions calculator for a variety of unit measurements featuring natural language queries.

STANDS4 has been awarded several prestigious prizes, including Writer's Digest's "Best Websites for 2005" and the American Library Association "Best Free Reference Web Sites 2010".
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EDge21 is on vacation this week

EDge21 is on vacation this week, September 10-15.

EDge21 will return with new posts September 17. See you then.

Extra: Publishertopdf.com [Tools]

MS Publisher is a powerful desktop publishing tool. However, many computer owners do not have Publisher. Publishertopdf.com converts Publisher documents into PDF so you can share your work with anyone.

Publishertopdf.com is totally free and easy to use. Upload your Publisher document, click a button, and then get your pdf file delivered directly to your email address.

PDF is the perfect format for users wanting to share their Publisher documents with the same look and feel as they had when created.

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The Rearview Mirror 9/8/2012

For those of you who may have missed a Catch of the Day or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

Tuesday
Kite is a free online resource that lets districts, teachers, and home-schoolers continuously monitor and assess the progress of learners.

Wednesday
Film Story is an interactive resource to explore the relationship between film and history and to start conversations and provide interaction about historical topics.

Thursday
The purpose of Teachinghistory.org is to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve US history education in the classroom.

COD - 9/6/2012 - Teachinghistory.org [History]

The purpose of Teachinghistory.org is to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve US history education in the classroom.

Teachinghistory.org builds on and shares the lessons learned by more than a thousand Teaching American History projects designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers’ knowledge and understanding of traditional US history.

The aim of Teachinghistory.org is to place history content, teaching strategies, current research and issues, community building, and easy access to resources at the forefront.

Teachinghistory.org brings together "the many communities involved in improving history education and professional development for history teachers, allowing practitioners, historians, administrators, and history educators to present multiple perspectives, debate current issues, and work together to improve history teaching in classrooms throughout the United States."

Teachinghistory.org was created by The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) and is funded by the US Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement’s Teaching American History (TAH) program.

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INKids Releases New iOS Math Game

INKids, the subject of an earlier post in May of this year, creates and delivers free and inexpensive iPad apps from Australia that help young kids learn literacy, math, and more.

INKids just released a new Classroom Game called Math Champ.

Math Champ is a challenging and innovative quiz game designed for grades 4 to 7 (ages 9-12). Any student with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch can compete head to head, in real time, to become the class Math Champ.

Math Champ was a runner up in this years Desire2Learn Edge Challenge and is changing the way kids think about math classroom.

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COD - 9/5/2012 - Film Story [Social Studies]

Film Story is an interactive resource to explore the relationship between film and history and to start conversations and provide interaction about historical topics.

Because so many people interact with and learn about historical people, places, and events through film. Film Story is intended to get people talking about the events of the past represented in film and use that dialogue as a place of learning.

Film Story strives to generate a sense of exploration and curiosity as you explore the relationship between history and film. You can dig through and interpret layers of historical information for yourself. 

Using Film Story, look beyond a film's representation of history and investigate the history of the film itself. What does a film tell you about the times in which it was made?

A goal of Film Story is to promote the access to, viewing of, and purchasing of the films featured. You should be able to locate the films featured on Film Story through online sources, DVDs, WorldCat, or local film rental stores.

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COD - 9/4/2012 - Kite [Tools]

Kite is a free online resource that lets districts, teachers, and home-schoolers continuously monitor and assess the progress of learners. 

Kite provides teachers with state-of-the-art tools for assessment, teaching, and grading including an extensive database of questions and assignments tagged to their state’s standards.  All of Kite's resources are tied closely to their advanced reporting system.

Key features of Kite:

• Automatic grading technology can be used with assignments administered on paper that can be printed and faxed in, or completed online.
• Create assignments easily using Common Core aligned question banks from the Market to create assignments quickly.
• A powerful and intuitive full-featured gradebooks.
• Proper reporting helps you understand more about your students, letting you know what standards are trending and which students need intervention.

Students can get a wide array of studying materials provided by Kite's large publisher network. 

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The Rearview Mirror 9/1/2012

For those of you who may have missed a Catch of the Day or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

 

Monday

InstallFree Nexusenables users to access common office applications on almost any device with a user experience optimized to the device.

Tuesday

Knowmia is a learning website featuring short video lessons from real teachers. It is a personal, affordable, and efficient way to find what you need to be successful in high school.

Wednesday

Mathway provides students with the tools to solve their math problems, with tens of millions of problems already solved.

Thursday

Math Pro is an iOS app from Math Pentagon, which was started in 2011 with a goal of making math learning fun, interactive, exciting, and inspiring for the students.