Catch of the Day - Number2.com - 5/11/2011

 

Number2.com offers students and teachers access to free comprehensive online test prep for the SAT, ACT, and GRE.

Students can create a Number2.com account to access a customized course that includes user-friendly tutorials, practice sessions that dynamically adapt to the student's ability level, a vocabulary builder, and more.

If you are a teacher, tutor, or parent, Number2.com can be very useful for you as well.

• Number2.com has developed a large library of free questions, vocabulary drills, and interactive tutorials you can share with your student or child.
• You can also use the Number2.com coaching system to link to students' accounts. Get updates on their performance and know if they're making good progress through the prep materials. The site is more personally adaptive than a book and implementing the coaching relationship provides the opportunity for extra support and motivation.

 

Number2.com was founded by professors and graduate students who wanted to make good test preparation widely and easily accessible to everyone. Over 2 million students have enrolled in Number2.com's online courses since 2000, and the website now gets over 50 million hits per month. Number2.com earns funding from sponsorships and licensing.

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Catch of the Day - EDSITEment - 5/10/2011

EDSITEment is a resource for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.

EDSITEment links to websites covering a broad scope of humanities subjects including American and world history, language, literature, and art. All have been reviewed for content, design, and educational value in the classroom.

Some of the features EDSITEment offers:

• links to NEH-funded projects of significance to educators
• customizable lesson plan searches that can be filtered five different ways
• direct access to student resources and interactives from the homepage
• a rotating calendar feature with access to a full yearly calendar

EDSITEment was selected as one of the top 25 websites for 2010 by the American Association of School Librarians. EDSITEment is a partnership of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities.

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Catch of the Day - Memorize.com - 5/9/2011

 

Memorize.com is designed to help you remember and understand information using interactive learning pages you or others create.

Create your own Memorize.com pages on topics of interest to you. Pages can have most of the standard elements of a web page: descriptive paragraphs, tables, bulleted lists, images, headings and subheadings, etc.

You can also search or browse Memorize.com to find shared pages created by other users that appeal to you.

Except for some advanced features such as creating a large number of private pages, everything on Memorize.com is free.

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The Rearview Mirror 5/7/2011

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

NRICH is a group of teachers specializing in the use of RICH mathematical thinking. The NRICH project offers advice and support to both teachers and learners (ages 5-19) of mathematics.

Tuesday

The Genetic Science Learning Center is a science and health education program that sprung from the bioscience research at the University of Utah.

Wednesday

The website of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a portal to American history with numerous resources designed specifically for K-12 teachers and students.

Thursday

ThumbScribes is a web platform for creating collaborative content.

Friday

WordStash allows you to create your own customizable digital flashcards.

Catch of the Day - WordStash - 5/6/2011

WordStash allows you to create your own customizable digital flashcards.

WordStash is built on a dictionary with over 200,000 English words and phrases. This lets you create vocabulary flashcards with existing definitions, saving you time.

WordStash has added contextual sentences for almost every word in the dictionary using material from actual news sources on the Internet.

WordStash calculates the optimal time to study each flashcard using multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank quizzes. This adaptive learning system adjusts to your progress and will quiz you on a flashcard at the best time.

Teachers can open a free WordStash account and create classes to share lists of flashcards with their students.

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