Create links to content on the iTunes Store, the App Store, the iBookstore, and the Mac App Store, and then place those links on your website (or create a QR Code for it)
Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends
"EdX represents a unique opportunity to improve education on our own campuses through online learning, while simultaneously creating a bold new educational path for millions of learners worldwide," MIT President Susan Hockfield said.
Anticipation guides ask students to express an opinion about ideas before they encounter them in a text or unit of study. Completing anticipation guides prepares students to recognize and connect to these themes as they surface in their learning. Reviewing anticipation guides at the end of a lesson or unit is one way to help students reflect on how learning new material may have influenced their opinions, perhaps by reinforcing previously held beliefs or by causing ideas to shift.
Character ChartsGraphic organizers, like the sample below, can be used to help students organize information about major and minor characters in a text. Completed character charts are useful tools for writing essays and studying for tests. They are often used to record information about literacy characters, but can also be adapted to record information about historical figures.
Document Analysis TemplatesAnalyzing historical documents requires students to identify the purpose, message and audience of a text. Document Analysis Forms are graphic organizers that guide students through a process of identifying important background information about a document (e.g. author/creator, date created, place, format, etc.) and using this data to determine the bias or perspective of a text.
The Econ Ed Link contains a calendar of important dates in history.
It has everything from an interactive calculator to estimate how long it would take someone to become a millionaire, to a variety of other interactive tools for students to use. This website also has a large library of online interactive tools for teaching economics, personal finance and entrepreneurship for grades K-12. The interactive tools include videos and game-like activities that are broken down by subject and grade.
This website also maintains a large library of online economic lessons for teachers to access for their students ranging from kindergarten all the way thru 12th grade.
The site offers something for educators, students and after school programs. This would be a great resource to use during after school programs to keep the students interested and excited about learning.
The incorporation of technology and multimedia into the fundamental process of teaching and learning has promised to accelerate the creation of new modes of instruction. This prospect frightens many and excites others. The question is not whether computers and multimedia should be allowed in classrooms, but how they are to be used.