Cross Curriculum A wonderful site for educational software reviews easy to use with trustworthy opinions. Online software help for the really experienced user. http://www.edumatch.com/greatsites.cfm
Educational Articles: Choosing School Software How will this software help you meet your state proficiency guidelines? How can the software teach the skills that you re already teaching, http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/article/soft.htm
Extractions: Articles Choosing School Software by Tammy Payton This article has appeared on the following website: the Well Connected Educator Articles and Interviews Software Comes First Ideally, choose your software before committing yourself to what hardware and platforms you'll be using. By choosing the software before you purchase your computers, you can be sure that the programs will run efficiently. Schools often purchase their operating systems and network software before they've chosen the software. This limits your choices. All software that you purchase has specific system requirements in order for it to run properly. If you've already purchased your hardware, then you need to narrow your software choices to those that will operate on the system and the system's capabilities that you have. If you have a networked system, be sure to see if the software you are looking at has a networked version.
Internet Resources: Resources For Teachers Teaching English with Technology is an electronic journal for teachers of It contains articles, lesson plans, website reviews, software reviews and http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/resources/teachers.html
Extractions: Main Indexes OWL Home Page Writing Lab and OWL Info Handouts and Materials Workshops and Presentations Internet Resources owl home writing lab and owl handouts workshops and presentations ... internet resources This page contains Internet resources for English and writing teachers or for teachers who work with English and writing in their courses. We also have a lot of other general and scholarly resources in our online resources section. We also have an entire section on using our Writing Lab and our OWL in various courses. Help us build this page! We are always looking for links and suggestions: please mail link@owl.english.purdue.edu with any links and categories you'd like to see added! Distance Education OWL's collection of distance education resources contain information about distance education programs.
ESL Resources For Teachers It contains articles, lesson plans, website reviews, software reviews and other Help with Specific Teaching Tasks. Ann Cook s American Accent Training http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslteacher.html
Extractions: Main Indexes OWL Home Page Writing Lab and OWL Info Handouts and Materials Workshops and Presentations Internet Resources owl home writing lab and owl handouts workshops and presentations ... internet resources In addition to these resources, we also have handouts and resources for ESL students . We also have a page of general teaching resources. We're always looking to add more links to this page! If you know of any good ESL-related links, please send them to us at link@owl.english.purdue.edu Click on any of the links below to navigate this page. Online Journals Syllabi and Assignments General Reference Help With Specific Teaching Tasks Online Journals return to top Syllabi, Assignments, Quizzes and Games
Education Resources There are tutorials, concrete help in teaching through the Web, search assistance Online reviews of children s software for parents, teachers, and kids. http://www.educationindex.com/educator/
Extractions: Education Resources SM A B C D ... I J K L M N ... U V W X Y Z The American Association for the Advancement of Science promotes science, math, and technology education improvements and an even playing field for all students. This site offers news, programs, their film and book review journal, and the most recent issue of Science Education News , offering current science, math, and technology education news and activities. Past issues are archived. The Activities Involving Math and Science Education Foundation has put together this page. The Foundation publishes a magazine of math and science activities for teachers to use in the classroom. This online site doesn't have as much, but it does have a good puzzle section that anyone can access. AskERIC allows you to ask specific education questions, visit the library, and learn the latest in education technology. This site provides valuable help in making the most of the huge ERIC resource. "Mediated Learning" is a software program aimed at the improved learning of college entry-level math, other subjects to follow. This site offers detailed course information, testimonials from students and faculty, and a roundtable discussion of instruction, learning, and technology.
Lesson Plans & Teacher Helps Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies includes links to over 100 lesson plan Com classroom Activities Reproducibles has worksheets lesson plans for http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8259/lessplan.html
Extractions: Here are sights that include lesson plans and/or are of interest to educators. Since this page just keeps on growing, please choose from the menu below: Grade Level Curriculum Guidelines Educational Search Engines Grade-Level Curriculum Guidelines Developing Educational Standards is a site with links to information on every states' idea of a standard curriculum. King's Harvest Typical Course of Study offers a curriculum guide that covers the needs for homeschooling in Nebraska. Mcrel Browse the Standards is an outline of educational goals broken down by subject. The Mental Edge World Book Typical Course of Study is an outline of educational goals broken down by grade level Educational Search Engines Education World is an educational sites only search engine Pedagog.Net
Extractions: My Account Cart Contents Checkout Essential Skills provides research based educational software programs , proven to enhance early learning. Our software is developed by experienced teachers and closely aligned with current state standards. Our early learning programs are being used in more than 8,000 schools and continue to gain popularity and recognition with educators. Essential Skills equips every program with Marks Manager , a tracking, recording and reporting tool that shares information from one teaching program to another. All of our educational software programs are developed by experienced teachers who understand the balance needed when creating early learning software that is high in educational content, yet interesting enough to motivate students to want to learn. Our educational software is designed to build skills gradually and sequentially in a way that guarantees success through the effective use of reward, reinforcement and review. Our programs are effective teaching tools for all learning styles and needs utilizing a balance of auditory, visual and tactile activities. The result is that every student achieves success and develops academic self-confidence. "Our students are benefiting greatly from regular use of the software from Essential Skills. These programs build skills in a fun but methodical way. Teachers also love the software because it correlates very well to the state standards and provides excellent basic skills preparation for the FCAT testing."
Extractions: Academic Program Commitment to Learning - Free Software for the Classroom At AccuSoft, we believe in supporting education. Using VisiQuest in the classroom gives students an interactive learning experience with an incredible analysis and visualization tool. VisiQuest has been used around the world at prestigious universities as a teaching tool for software development, image processing, and data analysis studies. Use VisiQuest in courses that include topics on: machine vision, image processing, image analysis, data analysis and visualization, signal processing, software development, and advanced mathematics. Perfect for all disciplines of natural science, life science, earth and materials science. VisiQuest can help propel your research and teaching in a broad spectrum of fields of study including: engineering, computer science, biology, chemistry, bioinformatics, physics, mathematics, astronomy, geology, and zoology.
CPA Ready || CPA Exam FAQs Five convenient CPA Review study formats available Online, software, Video, Audio, Textbooks. Is CPA Ready Online as effective as a classroom review? http://www.cpaexam.com/content/faq.asp
Extractions: The launch date for the new exam is April 5, 2004. The exam will be offered up to six days a week, during two out of every three months. According to the latest information, a candidate can sit for one or more parts of the exam during a test period but may not take a specific part of the exam more than once during that same test period. Each State Board can establish its own policy on the time frame in which a candidate must pass all four parts of the exam. The AICPA has recommended that the period be 18 months.
Educom Review: Teaching & Learning Index A Little classroom Magic Jack Child interview., by Educom Review Staff Marney Morris on the Art of Interactive software Design, by Educom Review Staff http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/teachLearnIndex.html
Software For Learning Games and Simulations, Oct 1995, Shall we teach with a game? was the question More than 3000 software, CDROM, videodisc, programs are reviewed. and can http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/sw/
Extractions: For several years, the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI) has conducted software evaluations for the Maricopa Community Colleges . Critical is the identification of the software's effectiveness as a tool for learning. All reviews were completed by faculty members. Topic Date Description Counseling Sept 1996 Counselors reviewed several titles in the areas of personal development and decision making, for potential use as a classroom tool and as a tool in a counseling-client setting. Games and Simulations Oct 1995 Shall we teach with a game? was the question we asked faculty in several disciplines. They looked at the games in how useful they might be as an instructional tool and each provided a learning activity that could use the software. Humanities Jan 1995 LynnAnn Wojciechowicz of South Mountain Community College reviewed 23 Humanities software programs, most of which are available on CD-ROM. Mathematics Aug 1994 Math software was last reviewed by us in 1987, and a new round was completed in the summer of 1994. Some of the reviewers took on the extra option to create lesson materials for the program under consideration. NOTE: These reviews have been removed since they are several years out of date.
The Math Forum - Math Library - Materials Comments A collection of software reviews and comments on the use of math software, A review site designed to help teachers and parents find out about software, http://mathforum.org/library/ed_topics/mats_comments/
Extractions: A site for K-12 professional development providers, with a conceptual framework "Designing Effective Professional Development" (short essays on: Understanding the Needs of the Target Audience; Deciding on the Purposes of the Professional Development; Building on Current Knowledge about Professional Development; Adapting Professional Development Programs to the Particular Context; Selecting Appropriate Professional Development Strategies and Materials; Preparing Professional Development Providers; Implementing Effective Professional Development; and Evaluating the Quality and Impact of Professional Development); a searchable collection of reviews of materials ; and practitioner essays on some aspects of the design, implementation, and evaluation of professional development for mathematics and science teachers.
Northwest LINCS - What's New New software Review. ABE Math classroom Guide. Everyday Math Exercises. Family Literacy How to use Video Audio in the classroom. GED Teaching Tips http://www.nwlincs.org/NWLINCSWEB/Northwest LINCS - What's New.htm
Extractions: What's New Last Update 6/4//2005 On The NW LINCS Site NW LINCS States National LINCS What's New !! June 2005 America's Literacy Directory Looking to find locations near you where Adult Education services are provided? Check out America's Literacy Directory (ALD). Click on the "America's Literacy Directory" button on the NW LINCS home page to find what you need. Adult Education Professional Development Online Course AEPro, the Online Professional Development project of the Ohio Literacy Resource Center, the Center for Literacy Studies in Tennessee, and national LINCS, is pleased to offer to individual practitioners an online professional development course,
CALL Help Page CALL Help Page. Sources of software for Language Teaching. Ruth Recommends Linda Thalman s software reviews at Volterre_Fr a very informative list. http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/LangHelp/softwarelist.html
Extractions: Ruth's Software Projects - Programs developed by Ruth with her HUT students. Cross-platform authoring tools, running on the Web, the latest being Xercise Engine. Free demo available now. Write your own interactive teaching material, or get your students to! Jackass - There is no charge for this program, but if you like it and use it ofthen kindly make a donation to a local cancer charity. Feedback would also be welcome. Authoring Tools Editing Tools Hot Potatoes, a superb free set of authoring tools in Java , by Martin Holmes of Victoria University. Hot Poatoes 2 , with scripts by Martin Holmes. Markin 32 , a program for editing students' writing, developed by Martin Holmes Publishers, Software Developers, Bookstores, etc., for TESL/TEFL, Linguistics, and Communication by Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao. RichLink Author , a great tool that allows you to create multiple layers of annotation for any word or phrase on the page. Glossary tool, by Ross Reid
Extractions: Read full review While innumerable attempts have been made to produce superior ways of introducing young minds to the benefits of language enrichment, most have suffered from either basic pedagogical flaws, or being what is often known in layman's terms as "dry as sawdust." It was a pleasure then to see the alternative that Musical Spanish CD series offers beginning students. Read full review In creating Musical Spanish Musical Spanish more importantly promotes the retention of essential grammar structures, since students are not so much memorizing grammar rules as learning them intrinsically through the music. Read full review The Calico Review of Software, Sept 2002
Teaching Sociology: Volume 32 - Comments From The Editor of scholars devoted to improving teaching and helping students learn. He has already been busy managing the book, film and software reviews that http://www.lemoyne.edu/ts/tscomments_vol32.html
Extractions: January 2004 DURING MY FIRST SEMESTER of graduate school, whenever I was asked what I planned to do in the future, I would answer teach. After seeing a few raised eyebrows, I realized I needed to silence those ambitions if I were going to be taken seriously. Slowly, as the arduous work of graduate school took hold, my thoughts about teaching drifted further and further from my mind. At that time, I had no idea there was a possibility of becoming a teacher-scholar and merging my budding interests in research with my desire to teach. This journal was partially responsible for guiding me back to the path of teaching. When I first saw an issue of Teaching Sociology, I understood that my desire to teach was not a private endeavor. Indeed, I discovered a strong community of scholars devoted to improving teaching and helping students learn. This gave me confidence to be open about my passion for teaching. (I also have Reece McGee to thank for that.) Later, as I came to understand the role that the American Sociological Association has played in creating and supporting the teaching of sociology, my appreciation and connection to this community of teacher-scholars deepened. Teaching Sociology represents, in my mind, a concrete reflection and reminder of the importance placed on teaching by the ASA.
Teaching Sociology: Abstracts, Volume 30, Number 3, July 2002 and report writing) that may help others consider teaching and learning For book, video, and software reviews, send manuscripts to Laurie Scheuble, http://www.lemoyne.edu/ts/30tsabstracts3.html
Operations Research Management Science - Software Review software Review Insight 2.0 New edition of Sam Savage s Excel addins This is sufficient for classroom teaching and for many small-scale applications. http://www.lionhrtpub.com/orms/orms-2-04/frswr.html
Extractions: Sam Savage is known as one of the fathers of the spreadsheet movement in management science. He developed the prize-winning spreadsheet optimization software What'sBest! back in the 1980s when most OR practitioners still solved their optimization problems on mainframe computers, and students like me, even if they loved the subject, didn't have the faintest idea how the wonderful concepts and techniques could be applied to real-world problems. Of course, the subject has moved on over the past 20 years. Industrial-strength optimization solvers and simulation packages are now readily available, and their use is facilitated by high-level, easy-to-use modeling environments such as AMPL, GAMS, Mathematica and Matlab. The vendors of many of these packages offer inexpensive student versions, which are used throughout the world for OR teaching in engineering departments, including financial engineering. Interestingly, these advances have not had a significant impact on generic management science teaching in business schools. Why is this? The prime reason is that, in comparison to their engineering pendants, management applications are typically an order of magnitude messier. They are highly complex with lots of independent actors and lots of uncertainty in the data. It seems unrealistic to assume that one can build a valid computer model of a real management problem, let alone find the "right" solution. But what is management science good for then? I had long discussions about this issue with Savage two years ago when I was visiting Stanford and happened to have an office next to his. These discussions came in handy at a time when my teaching audience changed from engineering to MBA students.
Creating Computer Videos In The Classroom - Home be on the less expensive software programs available for classroom use. Utilize video enhancements and techniques for teaching various skills in a http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/video/
Extractions: Description: Visual literacy's impact on the learning process when integrating digital media with educational curriculum. Pedagogical considerations for using multimedia to stimulate inquiry, creativity, and higher order thinking. Examination of pre-production classroom practices, video editing, distribution methods and criteria for evaluating student work. Discover exciting new ways to integrate digital video clips and multimedia as an integral part of the classroom and library media center curriculum. All K-12 curriculums can be enhanced as educators utilize digital media to augment teaching, engage the uninterested student, and encourage students to apply their visual creativity to the inquiry learning process. K-12 educators and community college instructors need to understand how constructivist learning theories apply in using digital media instructional activities. This course provides a valuable experience for those interested in exploring how to use an image-rich curriculum to reach more students and meet the needs of visual learners in all subjects literacy, history, science, social studies, math, the arts, and physical education or for those teaching media production and gifted and talented.
Digital Photography For The Classroom Teacher - Home Includes extensive tutorials and uses PhotoShop Elements software. gain experience that will help them meet the following Wisconsin Teaching Standards http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/photo/
Extractions: EDUC 796 728F January 18 - March 31, 2006 Examination of visual learning theories and visual literacy using photographic resources for individual and group learning to stimulate inquiry, creativity, and higher order thinking. Application of learning principles using digital photography and graphics when designing lessons and parent communications including beginning to intermediate photo production and editing techniques. Explore the exciting field of digital photography! During this class you will create your own pictures using a digital camera and scanner. Includes tutorials and uses PhotoShop Elements software. Review a few comments from our past participants. Participant's Outcomes:
