TECHNOLOGY TIPS FOR TEACHERS
by Gloria Friedgen
iKeepBookmarks.com allows you to upload, and keep, your bookmarks on the web for free. You can access them at any time, from any computer... anywhere!
Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of
Powerful New Web Tools for Educators
News Aggregators
RSS files provide news updates from a website in a simple form
for your computer. You read these files in a program called an aggregator, w
hich collects news from various websites and provides it to you in a simple form.
NEWS FEEDS
Online Surveys
Create
your own Free Survey in Under 10 Minutes!
* No software to install
* Very easy to use
* Create e-mail or website surveys
* 100% secure and confidential
* Live results - collected automatically (you don't have to do anything!)
Take the
College Binge Drinking Survey
Use for "Teaser Questions"Course Evaluations
Create-A-Graph
Here you will find five different graphs and charts for you to consider.
Maybe it will help explain what you are trying to show.
Use homework problems, things you have a special interest in,
or use some of the numbers you find elsewhere on this site. Have fun!
Let's check out the M and M site to see if they are telling the truth about their contents!!
Trackstar
TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too!
Weather
Teach students about making observations using the weather map.
Discovery School Online
With CUSTOM CLASSROOM you can create your own online account of teaching tools and saved work. All you have to do is register once—then you have unlimited access to your Custom Classroom to save or retrieve Puzzlemaker puzzles and Quiz Center quizzes. We’ll be adding more tools to this area.
Create Your Own Website
Keep your parents, students, administrators and the general public informed of what you are doing in your class. Use it as a bulletin board for class activities.
G. Friedgen
3/31/06