The Rearview Mirror 5-11-2013

For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

Monday

NEA Academy is an interactive learning environment providing practical online courses to meet professional development and continuing education needs.

Tuesday

WriteLaTeX is a free, collaborative, online service that lets you easily create, edit, and share mathematical, scientific, and technical content.

Wednesday

HealthTeacher is an online resource of tools including lessons, interactive presentations, and other resources to integrate health education into any classroom.

Thursday

ReadWriteThink’sTrading Cards is a free iPad app that allows kids a way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters.

Featured: 5-9-2013 Trading Cards [English]

 

ReadWriteThink’s Trading Cards is a free iPad app that allows kids a way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters.

Create Trading Cards for any number of categories, such as fictional person, real person, fictional place, real place, object, event, or vocabulary word.

Create dynamic, information-rich trading cards by responding to specific guiding questions for each category. The use of summarizing skills is critical as students must choose the most important information to fit on the card. Because they can share their cards with others, they must also develop the capability of writing for an audience.

Trading Cards can be sorted into collections. Kids can build a collection of cards for any topic, characters from their favorite book, landmarks in their favorite city, events from a period in history. In so doing, they find interesting vocabulary words.

Trading Cards features:

• Multi-user card storage.

• Management of users with deleting and restoring.

• Seven card categories, each with a targeted set of guiding questions.

• Add and edit an image from your device’s camera or photo library.

• Twelve card designs for styling cards.

• Ability to create collections of cards.

• Auto-saving of cards.

• Viewing of finished card for proofreading.

• Save cards to images.

• Print cards on a wireless printer.

• Share cards by e-mail.

Trading Cards is an educational app for all ages designed to add creativity and fun to the learning process.  ReadWriteThink offers a library of lessons that incorporate Trading Cards.

Watch a video demo of the Trading Cards app

Trading Cards is compatible with iPad (iOS 4.3 or later) and is available on the iTunes App Store from the International Reading Association.

A note on privacy: Your cards are private unless you decide to share them by e-mail. This app does not store any personal information.

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Featured: 5-8-2013 HealthTeacher [Health]

HealthTeacher is an online resource of tools including lessons, interactive presentations, and other resources to integrate health education into any classroom.

K-12 teachers including classroom teachers, school nurses, guidance counselors and PE teachers can make use of HealthTeacher. Lessons are optimized for classroom integration enabling every teacher to teach health.

Evidence-based HealthTeacher lessons are built by experts: doctors, teachers, learning specialists. Topics include relevant issues kids face today: bullying, obesity, depression. Health lessons are built with real, grade-specific Common Core alignment with authentic informational text evaluations aligned to state and national standards. Measurement is focused on health literacy and behaviors.

Family newsletters connect to parents, and at-home challenges reinforce healthy habits at home.

HealthTeacher can stand alone as a school's comprehensive health education curriculum or it can supplement an existing curriculum.

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Featured: 5-7-2013 WriteLatex [Math/Science]

WriteLaTeX is a free, collaborative, online service that lets you easily create, edit, and share mathematical, scientific, and technical content.

WriteLaTeX is an online editor for producing scientific/mathematical writing using LaTeX, a comprehensive and powerful document markup language used for displaying formulas.

Launched in 2011, WriteLaTeX aims to make the power of LaTeX accessible to all scientists and technical writers.

Key features of WriteLaTeX:

• Every document you create has a link that can be shared with your co-authors, and they can review, comment, and edit.

• Changes from all authors synchronize transparently, so everyone always has the latest version.

• The Beamer package helps you create presentations with complicated tables, figures, and graphs.

• Documents are compiled in the background, so you can see the results right away.

• See errors and warnings as you go, so you can catch them early.

WriteLaTeX works on iPads and other devices, so you can edit online from anywhere. There's no software to install, and no sign-up required.

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Featured: 5-6-2013 NEA Academy [PD]

NEA Academy is an interactive learning environment providing practical online courses to meet professional development and continuing education needs.

NEA Academy offers online continuing education and Master’s degrees that fit your budget, schedule, and needs. Based on your individual preferences, NEA Academy will provide content recommendations, course alerts, and additional material of specific interest to you.

 

The content of NEA Academy is peer approved. Material meets quality standards determined by NEA members. Video clips feature actual classroom teachers who demonstrate different ways to use the strategies you learn.

NEA Academy provides more than 40 degree programs with hundreds of courses, many in areas of high need such as special education, math, science, reading, technology, instructional design, and ELL.

NEA Academy tries to negotiate reduced rates for members. Master’s degrees, some from top universities, are discounted 5-20%. Some NEA-produced courses are totally free to members.

Watch a video: Welcome to the NEA Academy

With basic computer skills, time to devote to the class, and a computer with Internet access equal to the minimum requirements listed for the course, NEA Academy lets you learn at your own pace in the comfort and privacy of your own home.

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