Content Literacy

Make pictures talk. 

Resource materials and technology from St. Augustine, Florida school district. These are sites to be used with the iwb not iwb files. 

Fun site for creating opportunities for students to write an "article" and create an image of their article. 

Great game for helping students understand vectors, forces, mass/acceleration relationships, solar systems. It would take a teacher willing to let students explore some (and maybe have some fun) but very easy to connect vector forces to the activity. 

Great post about ScienceOnline2012 Sci-Art Show. I love the combination of art and science. The ability to tell a scientific story through art, metaphor, and imagery is a skill that I think we need to develop. This is a great example of why STEM needs to be STEAM. Not only does it allow us to tell the scientific story but it allows us to tell the story to mass audiences to at least get people involved in the process. 

Joint project between Berkley, Microsoft and Russian University that lays out existence in an interactive timelline. 

Neat easy picture book maker. I just made a book in under 5 minutes, very easy (although my story wasn't very good). Wonder how to create more permanent works?

A simple how to for using the flip video.

I love using digital images (or any images for that matter) to get students looking at content differently. This site takes a very simple concept (giving students a visual prompt and asking them to write) and provides great examples of pictures that people can use for this process. For me it is a natural next step to then have students creating pictures that represent a prompt or create pictures to use as prompts, and given the ease in which students can take and share images, it is simple to do in a classroom setting.

Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.  The app is pretty intuitive and turns a smartphone into a scientific tool that takes advantage of the metadata that the phone can track as well as it's ability to gather digital image, audio, and text data. 

"Initial thoughts on "Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making" The book study begins!" Book study post on the new NCTM Series "Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making"

hese tricks will help you take advantage of Google Drive, both on the desktop and on the web - whether you're looking to easily synchronize other folders with your Drive or take advantage of the features only available on the website.

Example of using commenting with a web page.

Great examples of problems/data sets that can be analyzed. I do think there are a considerable amount of regression equations that may/may not be categorized appropriately. That said, it's a great set of questions to discuss with students, great data sets that can be updated with a little bit of research as most are 10 years old. One of the best compilations of regression problems that I've come across.

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For those interested in pushing their own limits about what tools are available to me!

Great way to get students to write a dialogue. The nice thing about this tool is that students can listen and then make changes based on their reaction to their own language (at least I did when I made my little test video- no I'm not sharing it)

Some interesting activities to do with the Smart board in a mathematics classroom. I tried a couple of the activities and I did like that students were asked to estimate and predict. If teachers had clickers in their classrooms, this would be a great way of getting students to predict, record and then predict again and use the clickers for more than opening bell activities.

How to use clickers more effectively and for higher level uses.