Content Literacy

Nice tool for organizing your facebook feed to look like a newspaper. If you don't like the linear display used by facebook then this is a great tool. I wonder if Facebook will be buying this site in the near future. 

New tool for drawing. The drawing can be 'replayed' allowing students/teachers to tell a story or to make connections between parts of the drawing. Great visual imagery tool! Great for modeling multiple representations in mathematics.

Online pronunciation tool. 

Voxopop talkgroups are like message boards that use voice instead of text.. Used by educators all over the world, they are a fun, engaging and easy-to-use way to help students develop their speaking skills. No longer confined to a physical classroom, teachers and students of oral skills can participate from home, or even from opposite sides of the planet! Anywhere. Anytime. 

How and why to do, Storyboards. Great examples and discussions about creating effective storyboards. 

How to digital storytelling

Simple science demonstrations for middle school science classes. 

Interactive world  map

Virtual Open Heart Bypass Surgery. Somewhat interactive but very educational. Takes you through the process from giving an anesthetic to waking the patient up. Pretty cool. 

New simulations released by PhET @ UC Boulder

Science Videos for a wide range of topics

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Very interesting Interactive Map of the development of ancient Europe. 

This problem comprehension or schema knowledge is facilitated when the schema underlying a given text is used as a vehicle to translate the information in the text into a semantic representation. this would involve restating the problem, identifying the problem type (i.e. change), discerning relevant and irrelevant information, determining information that is needed for solution, and representing the problem as a diagram (Mayer, 1999).  Problem solution requires representing the problem as a number sentence or list of operations or identifying subgoals for multistep problems (i.e. strategic knowledge) and carrying out single or chains of calculations (i.e. procedural knowledge; Mayer 1999). Because additive problem structures (i.e. change, group, compare) involve a "family" (e.g. 3, 5, 8), connecting the number family to the problem structures is critical to problem solution (Van de Walle, 2004). Although procedural knowledge is important, it (is extremely limited unless it is connected to a conceptual knowledge base" (Prawat, 1989, p. 10).  SBI- Schema-based instructionGSI- General strategy instruction SBI Components (some not necessarily all) a) SBI that used either number line diagrams to understand the semantic structure of compare word problems or schematic diagrams to solve a range of word problems. b) schema-induction instruction, c) SBI that explicitly taught for transfer by focusing on similar problem types, and d) SBI combined with metacognitive instruction.  different format, different question, unfamililiar vocabulary, irrelevent information, combining problem types, and mixing superficial features

Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere. We hope to expand our understanding of history by exploring the audio dimensions of our past, and we hope to enlarge the tools and venues of historical research and publication by promoting production of radio documentaries and other forms of aural history.

Nice set of games for anatomy. Easy to play, fast paced, and interactive (to a certain extent). 

computation fluency games. I like the racecar game on page 2!

number sense and computational fluency games to play online

number sense and computational fluency games as part of computational fluency routine in a classroom.