NYS Common Core App. Assessible, Searchable and Updated for free! for your iOS google and android devices. Search for “MasteryConnect” in your favorite app store. Click on the app icon on the left for more information.
Friday, December 5, 2014
NYS Common Core App
NYS Common Core App. Assessible, Searchable and Updated for free! for your iOS google and android devices. Search for “MasteryConnect” in your favorite app store. Click on the app icon on the left for more information.
Virtual Nerd: Real math help
Virtual Nerd provides over 1,500 tutorials
video lessons covering Middle Grades Math through Algebra 2 and Geometry.
- 400 tutorials in Middle School Math, organized by topic.
- 703 tutorials in Algebra 1, organized by topic
- 690 in Pre-Algebra, organized by topic.
- 528 in Algebra 2, organized by topic
- 262 in Geometry, organized by topic.
In addition there are 1359 Virtual Nerd tutorials in
Common Core State Standards, organized by topic as well as SAT and ACT Math topics.
Each video provides links to background tutorials and notes for each session
can be printed.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Socrative Free Student Response System for BYOD
Free easy
to use student response system.
Students can BYOD and and join the learning. Engage the entire classroom with
educational exercises and games while capturing student results in real-time.
Interact with the data to further student understanding in the moment, and
review the reports to prepare for future classes. Platforms:
Web, iPhone,
iPad, Android
Phone, Android Tablet
Most Popular Activities:
- Short Answer Questions: Ask an open-ended question. Students respond and all their answers populate your screen for projection. Then ask students to vote on their favorite and watch the results come in.
- Quick Quiz: A teacher paced or student paced activity with multiple choice and/or short answer questions. Results can be viewed question by question and exported to a report that is automatically aggregated and graded.
- Create a Quiz: Design your own Quick Quizzes with our built in feature or import them with our Excel template. Share with your community!
- Space Race: Teams of students answer multiple choice questions in this fast-paced rocket race game. First team to get their rocket across the screen wins! You'll get a graded report!
- Exit Tickets: Get a quick, paper-free pulse-check at the end of class. All answers are aggregated into a report!
- Multiple Choice: Ask a MC question, and see student responses on the projection screen as a bar chart.
Video tutorials on Youtube:
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Free Tutorials for MS Office, OpenOffice and GoogleDocs inpictures
Thanks to inpictures, these tutorials are available for free to educators:
The company creates illustration-based computer tutorials that are free for any teacher or student to use. Around the Corner readers might appreciate knowing about them.That aside, you may want to check these tutorials out. Although MS Office and OpenOffice tutorials are available, you can also find some for:
The tutorials are available at www.inpics.net. They were developed through a research study funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education.
We've recently created many new tutorials, several on Google Drive applications. Considering the rapid adoption of Google Apps in schools, this might be of interest to readers of your blog.
Google Drive Apps
Google DocsGoogle SheetsGoogle Slides
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Excellent Google Drive Resources for Teachers - GAFE
This is a list
of excellent resources to help teachers make the best of Google Drive in
their classrooms. I firmly believe that Google Drive is one of the
elemental web tools with huge educational potential that every teacher
should be able to tap into.The resources in this link cover many of the "hidden" features of the Google Drive.
For more GAFE help go to https://support.google.com/ and click on the item you would like more information on.
For more GAFE help go to https://support.google.com/ and click on the item you would like more information on.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Share My Lesson -- Free K-12 Lessons by Teachers for Teachers
Share My Lesson, the
space for educators to share free K-12 learning materials, including
activities, worksheets and lesson plans. Discover how you can upload or
download resources on a number of subjects for students at any grade. Share my
Lesson has over 300,797 free teaching resources for you to use in your
classroom and school today.
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Posted by: Jim Fargione
District Lead Teacher for Instructional Technology
Three Village School District
District Lead Teacher for Instructional Technology
Three Village School District