Math Apprentice

Math Apprentice is a site that shows kids how math is used in the real world, with real world jobs. Students can explore math through games that feature bicycle designers, biologists, artists, mechanics, inventors, doctors, engineers, astronomers, game designers, programmers, chefs, veterinarians, sportscasters, and meteorologists. Students can explore the math of these jobs as a math apprentice by selecting a character and cruising around a virtual world where they can visit places of business where math happens. The character describes how they use math and provides a fun interactive activity that gives students a chance to practice using the math.

Read, Read, Read - LEADERSHIP

Adding new books to my bookshelf!

Motivational Poster Makers

Idea: Take pictures of you class reading, writing, doing math etc....create posters and hang them in your room.

I like BigHugeLabs and AutoMotivate.

ABCya!

ABCya is a great site for interactive games and basic computer skills.

I have played on just about every site during my class tonight. Enjoy!

Create a Banner for your Blog/Wiki

Check out this link.

Word/Tag Clouds

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Ideas:
1. Poetry
2. Capturing keypoints
3. Spelling lists
4. Introducing new vocabulary
5. Reflections
6. Mother’s Day/Father’s Day
7. Famous speeches
8. Class rules
9. Ways to say things differently
10. Characters in a book (describing)
11. Artwork reflection – student reflections on a piece of artwork
12. State Reports
13. Classroom Lessons (grammar lessons)
14. Tell me About…
15. Guess the book
16. Book Review
17. Review a Historical Document
18. Information Review
19. Reflect on a holiday or special event



Tagul clouds are not toys and designed to be used on blogs, web pages or any kind of sites as a replacement of ordinary tag clouds. Each tag in Tagul cloud is linked with an URL and is “clickable” that enables visitors to use it for navigation. I can see this being a WAY COOL navigation tool on classroom wikis and blogs.

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