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MATH AND SCIENCE SITES MUSIC ONLINE RESOURCES AUDIO SOURCES ONLINE
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GENERAL SITES
MindShift: http://mindshift.kqed.org/ explores the future of learning in all its dimensions – covering cultural and technology trends, groundbreaking research, education ...
Instructional Strategies Online: http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/pd/instr/index.html
http://educurious.org/ Educurious is on a mission to reduce our high school dropout rates. Our project-based curriculum connects students to real issues they care about and equips them with the lifelong learning skills for success. Our courses deliver on Common Core Standards via our web platform, which fosters collaboration among students, teachers and our global network of real-world Experts. Together, we’re creating the 21st-century education that our kids and our country need to thrive in a fast-changing world
Annenberg Learner: http://www.learner.org/
Teacher Professional Development and Classroom Resources Across the Curriculum
BrightStorm: http://www.brightstorm.com/
A tutoring Website
Google: The Google Basic Search is usually the first place most people begin a search and it is also the last place they end. Many times students just type in some words and get lost in millions of results trying to find an answer. Impressed by the number of hits they get, many times they forget that the art of searching is getting fewer results with relevant answers. Refer to this document for ten important concepts to think about in getting optimal searches from the Google basic search engine. Print this off and hand out to others. It really is the very basic in using Google. Please note that the last item includes over twenty basic commands that will really help you and your students be more productive.
Inquiry Learning: http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/bestpractice/inquiry/index.html
This teacher-friendly resource was designed by a team of Regina Public School teachers. The site includes definitions, processes, examples, assessment & resources for Inquiry based learning.
Free Technology 4 Teachers: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
PDF to WORD Converter: http://www.pdftoword.com/
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms
Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/ is a website where registered users submit content, in the form of either a link or a text "self" post. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down," which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's pages and front page.
http://www.socrative.com/ Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
http://todaysmeet.com/
Allows audience input in presentations - audience members can make comment or ask questions through cell phones or computers
Evernote: a tool that works across multiple platforms and has multiple ways for users to make an entry which also includes audio.
http://www.evernote.com/
Will Richardson’s Wiki: http://weblogged.wikispaces.com/Information+Literacy
- A variety of resources
- Lots of ideas for online tools in education
The Gateway to 21st Century Skills: http://www.thegateway.org/ a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plasn to online projects to assessment items.
November Learning: http://novemberlearning.com/team/alan-november/
Alan November thrives on confirming and challenging educators’ thoughts about what’s possible in the world of teaching and learning. More than anything, he is a teacher at heart, with a wealth of experience teaching learners of all ages.
MATH & SCIENCE SITES
KHAN Academy
With a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 253 practice exercises, to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
It has a vast and useful database on math related topics. Whether you want to learn about Fractions, or if you want to dive in the complex world of Tangent Planes. Everything is free to use and learn from at PatrickJMT.
When you open up a topic, you are also displayed related math tutorials to test your newly acquired knowledge on.
http://patrickjmt.com/
WolframAlpha is a website that not only solves equations for you, but also has simple explained lessons for certain topics.
Though, the list of topics to learn from is not as vast as the directory of Khan Academy or PatrickJMT, WolframAlpha has the “calculation” function which calculates anything you want. Just enter in the equation and the website will automatically solve it for you.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
OnlineMath Learning is a good website if you want to learn math topic by topic. The website has a database of topics from which the user can choose from.
Under each topic you can find all the details about, even video demonstrations and tutorials to effectively communicate the message (knowledge).
Another great things about this site is that it also has different sections, from Pre-K to Grade 11 and 12. That allows users to effectively find the topic they are looking for. This way, a user can focus on the topics they will study in the certain grade.
http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/
Instructional math help video lessons available online
http://www.mathtv.com/videos_by_topic
Math.com: The world of math Online
http://www.math.com/
Better Explained: Learn Right not Rote
http://betterexplained.com/
Exploring Science Through Inquiry: This site offers a definition and list of qualities for inquiry; effective questioning techniques; sample lesson plans implementing inquiry and more.
http://justsciencenow.com/index.htm
Simple accessibility to resources made available in a compact and unified Internet package. Research was collected in subject matter and varying levels of education and curricula. Demonstrations were sought, tested, and adjusted to be more effective. The content was combined in a custom web site, using the Joomla! content management system as a framework. The resources contained within ChemTeacher are available for teachers in secondary chemistry and are best suited for less-experienced teachers, including substitute teachers. The content can be adjusted for several levels of study, ranging from general science to Advanced Placement. Demonstrations cross several different budget and experience limits, ranging from household materials to stockroom chemicals. This project should facilitate the access of teachers to quality resources to positively enhance a students learning experience and the general instruction of chemistry.
Periodic Table Live! allows you to explore a broad range of information about the elements, their reactions, their properties, their structures, and their histories.
The American Chemical Society's (ACS) Science for Kids web site contains resources for 4th-6th grade students. Find activities, games, puzzles and articles that cover a variety of chemistry topics to share with students
MUSIC Online Resources
Here are nine free tools that students can use to create their own music online.
Loop Labs (http://www.looplabs.com/) is a free service from Club Create for creating your own music mixes using existing music loops and your own recordings. To get started using Loop Labs select from one of nine sound loop libraries. Within each library is a selection of base instrumental sounds. Browse through your chosen library until you find a sound you like. When you've found a sound you like click the "+" icon to add it to your mix. You can continue to add sounds until you have enough for your project. To have a sound played in your track just click on its timeline to hear it. Wherever you click on its timeline that sound will be played. You can also add a voice recording to your track or import sounds from your computer by clicking on the "record" button. Your finished project can be saved to your online Loop Labs account or downloaded as an MP3 file. In order to download your projects as MP3s you do have to Tweet or Facebook to your friends that you're using Loop Labs.
Music Shake (http://eng.musicshake.com/create/) provides a free online tool for students to experiment with and create music from scratch. Like most of the other services in this list, Music Shake provides the instrumental sounds and students select the beats. Music Shake also has some vocal sounds that can be incorporated into a soundtrack. It is free to experiment with the service and play your music online, but you have to be a paying member in order to download your musical masterpiece.
Using Aviary's Roc (http://www.aviary.com/tools/music-creator) service you can create your own music loops or samples. After you've created your music samples you can download them, reuse them in Myna, or embed them into your blog. Below you will find a brief tutorial on how to create sound loops using Aviary Roc.
Beat Lab (http://www.beatlab.com/) is a free service through which you can experiment with thousands of sound and rhythm combinations. Using Beat Lab is easy. Beat Lab provides a grid on which you select the sounds you want to have played. You can specify how often you want each sound played and how quickly you want the sounds played. There are twelve default sounds provided in the Beat Lab grid. You can add more sounds by selecting "add more sounds" and choosing from the huge catalog of sounds. If the sound you want isn't available in the Beat Lab catalog you can upload your own sounds.
Incredibox (http://www.incredibox.fr/) is a neat website that allows you to create unique rhythms and sounds from drag-and-drop menu. The sounds in the menus are recordings of a Bobby McFerrin-like artist making "human beat box" sounds. You can experiment with different sound loops, choruses, and instrumental sounds to create your own unique sound loops. To use Incredibox just head over to the website, select the English or French version, then start mixing sounds by dragging from the menu to the "people field." Every time you add a new sound a new person appears in the screen. Click a person to delete the sound he represents.
UJAM (http://www.ujam.com/) is a service that aims to make everyone a singing sensation. Okay, so it might not make you a singing sensation, but it could help you create music tracks that you can share with friends and use in multimedia productions. Here's how UJAM works; you sing or play an instrument while recording to UJAM. When you're done recording, use UJAM to alter the sound quality of your voice, turn your voice into other sounds, adjust the tempo of your song, and or remix a song to include your recording. UJAM is essentially an online, light weight version, of Garage Band. Watch the video below to learn more and see UJAM in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyK2mmFvutk
Soundation (http://soundation.com/) is a free service that allows anyone to create and remix sound tracks online. If you have used Apple's Garage Band or Aviary's Myna, Soundation will look familiar to you. Soundation provides five tracks on which you can place music clips and sound effects to mix together. To create your original work you can select from Soundation's gallery of 400 free sounds, upload your own sounds, or record new sounds using the instruments and keyboard built into Soundation. When you've created a product you like, you can download it or share it in Soundation's gallery.
From the same people that brought us the great computational search engine Wolfram Alpha comes Wolfram Tones. Wolfram Tones (http://tones.wolfram.com/) uses algorithms, music theory, and sound samples to generate new collections of sounds. Visitors to Wolfram Tones can experiment with sounds and rhythms to make their own sounds. Wolfram Tones allows visitors to choose samples from fifteen different genres of music on which to build their own sounds. Once a genre is selected visitors can then alter the rhythms, instrumentation, and pitch mapping of their sounds. When satisfied with their creations, users can download their sounds or have them sent directly to their cell phones.
Having students experiment with rhythms on a drum set is usually a very loud experience for the students and for anyone within earshot of those students. Fortunately, developments in technology have made it possible for students to experiment with drum rhythms on a quieter scale than was previously possible. One such tool that makes this possible is Monkey Machine.
Monkey Machine (http://www.rinki.net/pekka/monkey/) is a free web-based program that allows students to experiment with drum set sounds and rhythms. Using Monkey Machine students can customize the selection of drums and cymbals in their virtual drum set. Monkey Machine also allows students to customize the tempo in their drum tracks and the frequency with which each drum or cymbal is played. All tracks created using Monkey Machine can be downloaded as MIDI files.
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/music/piano/
Audio (music) from Creative Commons sites like:
Internet Safety Sites
http://www.thedoorthatsnotlocked.ca/app/en/
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/protect/protect-your-family/social-networking/
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/protect/protect-your-family/child-safety/article.aspx?article=age-based-guidelines-for-kids-internet-use
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/is-si/index-eng.htm
http://weron2u.ca/home/
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PREZI: Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery.
Discovery Education: (How to create an account) Discovery Education site: www.discoveryeducation.com
Teacher Web Resources SKYPE - Using Skype
Virtual Keyboard
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