IATEFL POLAND COMPUTER SIG JOURNAL - Editor's Message lessons actually executed in the classroom, reviews of websites used in languagelearning or of ELT software. Internet and the Language classroom, written by http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/callnl2.htm
Extractions: jkrajka@batory.plo.lublin.pl The first, January, issue of "Teaching English with Technology," a free electronic journal published by IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group, met enormous response of teachers and educators all over the world. The letters written to the editor by subscribers indicate the fact that there is a demand for a publication of a purely practical type, made by teachers and for teachers, including articles describing practical applications of technology in the school reality, plans of lessons actually executed in the classroom, reviews of websites used in language learning or of ELT software. Also, it has been emphasised by some subscribers that the journal is even more valuable because of the fact that it is created in a non-English speaking country, by people who actually had to learn English themselves before they started teaching others. Thus, it seems that non-native teachers' own learning experiences add additional element to the value of the journal. As the editor of "Teaching English with Technology," I am honoured to present the second issue, which I do with my utmost pleasure. When comparing the first and the second issue, we can see that the journal stops being only Polish, but becomes international. This issue features the review of Gavin Dudeney's notable book
IATEFL POLAND COMPUTER SIG JOURNAL - Website Reviews software reviews. Book reviews. in this way giving students the real purpose to communicatein English, bringing novelty to the classroom and maximising writing http://www.iatefl.org.pl/call/j_review5.htm
Extractions: http://batory.plo.lublin.pl/~jkrajka It is often said that the Internet is an enourmous and endless treasure trove of resources and activities for learners of English. However, sometimes it is hard to find the really useful sites among the list of hits received from the search engine query. To answer that question, in this month's Website review I am going to deal with a few sites allowing us to learn and teach writing online. Flo-Joe http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/
WholeGrain Software--Diet Self-Study Software It is original software designed for students to use reviews vitamin/mineral intakein relation to RDA, and reinforces what you've taught them in the classroom. http://www.wholegrain.com/dssac.html
Extractions: If you have taught a nutrition class at the college level, you are probably familiar with the traditional diet analysis software used in these courses-free software handed out by textbook publishers, or expensive and complex software that is difficult for beginning students to use Both of these will perform competent diet analysis for your students, but neither type provides the student with any background or interpretation, and neither engages the student in basic nutrient-related calculations. The Diet Self-Study is interactive diet analysis software that was written specifically for use by beginning students. It not only performs diet analysis, but it helps you teach students about nutrition by helping them understand what their analysis results mean. Here's what DSS has that most ordinary diet analysis software doesn't have: DSS was written by a nutrition instructor specifically for use as a student diet analysis assignment for nutrition/health science classes. This is not a re-hash or spinoff of a standard diet analysis program for dieticians.
Learning Disabilities OnLine - LD-Indepth: Technology Information Making Technology Work in the Inclusive classroom A Spell CHECKing Technology reviews.A Comparision of Three Typing software Programs Mavie Beacon, Type to http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/technology/technology.html
Extractions: Technology can open doors and break down barriers for children, youth and adults with learning disabilities. Whether in the classroom or workplace, technology can provide a vital difference. Here we explore new developments in technology, and practical insights into the promise and realities of making technology work for people with learning disabilities. a topic from the list below and click GO Select a Topic Abilities ADD / ADHD Adult Issues Assessment Behavior / Discipline Bilingual / LD Early Identification Family Relationships Foreign Language Acquisition Gifted / LD Glossaries I.E.P. LD In-General Math Skills Nonverbal Paraprofessionals Parenting Postsecondary Education Processing Deficits Reading Research Digest Self-Esteem Social Skills Special Education / IDEA 97 Summer Programs Teaching Technology Transition Writing The Coordinated Campaign for LD The National Joint Committee on LD TechTalk - great ways to learn about the effective use of technology TechGuide - A comprehensive listing of technology products General Information Adult and Postsecondary - information on using technology in college and in the workplace
Dynomatrixsearch Fax Abstract Reform ideas, lessons, software, professional development recommendedweb sites, book reviews, and more. technology into their classroom teaching http://www.portical.org/find/sof/sof_tssa_lt.html
MCH Multimedia - Developers Of Interactive Educational Software Check the Way Cool software Review website gave very positive reviews to all of ourtutorials high school homeschool setting, or college level science classroom. http://www.mchmultimedia.com/awardsreviews.mv
Extractions: MCH's Physical Chemistry just won ComputEd Gazette's 2002 Eddie Award for best science software. MCH's Physical Chemistry just won ComputEd Gazette 's 2002 Eddie Award for best post-secondary science program. In 1999, MCH was the proud winner of PhysLink.com's prestigious "Best Science Software Award" for most outstanding physics tutorial. MCH has been reviewed by all these recognized medias: The Journal of Chemical Education LTSN Our Organic Chemistry CD-ROM was recently reviewed by The Journal of Chemical Education leading to quotes such as "I know of no aid available in any format that will better enable students to learn the mechanistic aspects of organic chemistry."* You can view the outstanding results by clicking here Check out the Journal of Chemical Education website The UK's Learning & Teaching Support Network (LTSN) had their Physical Sciences experts review our product and they describe General Chemistry 5.0 as "a stimulating package that uses a variety of teaching styles and constantly prompts the user to think". We received 5 out of 5 stars in the following categories: ease of use, ease of learning and usefulness to student. Check out the rest of the great review
Extractions: AMERICA'S HEROES AND YOU, a new curriculum for students in grades 5 through 9, focuses on the lives of 11 American heroes to foster citizenship and offer positive role models for principals, teachers and students. The curriculum highlights the achievements of heroes like Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Cesar Chavez, and describes how each of their lives exemplified one heroic quality - such as courage, determination, self reliance, problem solving or self giving. In the discussion questions and follow-up activities students are invited to recognize that quality in themselves or in someone else close to them, and to use that quality in their lives to become better citizens of their school or community. This online classroom offers appetizers and lessons for math from arithmetic to calculus or why slopes; for deductive reason (logic) and critical thinking; and for learning in general. Included here are opinions on the communication of skills and mathematics instruction. The logic appetizers are math free. Each appetizer is different. If one is not to your liking try another. Most are from three books on understanding and explaining math and reason.
NetQuest Educational Sites use cable TV and the Internet in the classroom. Superkids software Review, providesimpartial reviews of children's educational software by parents http://www.nqks.com/nqed.htm
Magazines to the printed version; helps educators keep magazine, providing ideas for classroomuse and Technology and Learning Online software reviews, online course http://members.tripod.com/~BrianKelley/magazines.html
Extractions: Get Five DVDs for $.49 each. Join now. Tell me when this page is updated Magazines Up to 80% off from Barnes and Noble Creative Classroom Kid City Education Week American School and University - devoted exclusively to the business of managing educational facilities. American School Board Journal - editorially independent education magazine published monthly by the National School Boards Association. Black Issues In Higher Education - news magazine dedicated to minority issues. Catholic Teachers Gazette - consists of teacher vacancies plus the occasional short article of interest. Class IV Publications - online news and resources for teachers. ClassWeb CollegeFreshman - entertainment and edcuation center offering news and info for college bound high school students. Continuous Improvement Monitor Crosstalk - from the California Higher Education Policy Center; provides news and analysis on the issues facing postsecondary education in California. CSS Journal - electronic educational journal dedicated to the encouragement of the use of computers and related technology in social studies classrooms. Published six times a year. CyberSchool Magazine - the world's most comprehensive education resource, CyberSchool Magazine has something for everyone including thousands of links and resources.
Teaching Sociology: Abstracts, Volume 26, Number 3, July 1998 These presentations encourage classroom interaction, heighten interest how this assignmenthelps to expand book, video, and software reviews, send manuscripts to http://www.lemoyne.edu/ts/26tsabstracts3.html
Extractions: Linda A Mooney Using an experimental design, the present study examines the impact of faculty guest speakers on introductory sociology students: (1) certainty of registering for another sociology course, majoring in sociology, or minoring in sociology, (2) interest in taking another sociology class, and (3) perception of sociology as applicable to their lives, to their careers, and as a valued course of study. The results indicate that the experimental manipulation had very little impact on the seven dependent variables, leading to a discussion of the role and content of the introductory course and some suggestions for enhancing student recruitment efforts. Return to top of page.
Extractions: Email: David J. Rosen Updated November 19, 2002 The Harnessing Technology Web pages help adult literacy education (ABE/GED/ESL/ESOL) teachers and learners to use computers, television, audio and video cassettes, and other electronic technology to help solve learning and instructional problems. The Web pages grow and improve as practitioners and learners describe problems and contribute good solutions which use technology. Problems and solutions which are unattributed are those of David J. Rosen. Table of Contents LESSON PLANS READING/WRITING/SPELLING ESOL/ESL FAMILY LITERACY ... WEB-BASED TEACHING TOOLS List of Problems LESSON PLANS READING/WRITING/SPELLING Easy reading articles on health and other current events High interest, low-level reading materials How multi-level readers in one class can read, discuss, and write about the same material
Read This: Cinderella: The Interactive Geometry Software from Sketchpad or learning in a classroom environment. Publication Data The InteractiveGeometry software Cinderella, by page; The index of all reviews; The MAA http://www.maa.org/reviews/cinderella.html
Extractions: by Jürgen Richter Gebert and Ulrich H. Kortenkamp Since The Geometer's Sketchpad revolutionized the way we teach geometry, people have seen little need for much else in the way of geometry software. Cabri has developed a bit of a following, but it and most other geometry software are usually described as "like Sketchpad , but ..." The Geometer's Sketchpad has remained the standard. Cinderella is more. Besides all the familiar constructions of Sketchpad Cinderella supports constructions in spherical and hyperbolic geometry, includes a theorem prover (more about that later), has more general animation features, and generates Java applets that paste easily onto web pages. You can also generate applets to create self-checking construction exercises. The creators of the software have a web site, http://www.cinderella.de , that demonstrates many of these features. The animation of a cycloid on a sphere is particularly spectacular. There is a nice animation of a linkage, and the self-checking construction of the bisection of a line segment gives an alluring hint of how Cinderella could be used in the classroom.
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Extractions: DESCRIPTION: Fraction Attraction provides a stimulating environment where students can explore critical fraction concepts including: ordering, equivalence, relative size, understanding fractions as representing distance on a number line, addition and subtraction of fractions, and "counting on" fractions. Frac Trac is a representation of the game in which players shoot water at a target to move race horses from start to finish. In Place Horses, the student must analyze the fractions/decimals illustrated on the horses' blankets and predict the finishing order. In Place Jockey, the order of finish is predetermined, and the student must place the correct number on the horse to match the finishing order. The game addresses the concept of a fraction representing a specific distance, as opposed to simply a point, on a number line. It also introduces students to "counting on" incrementally with fractions, decimals, and percents.
Apple Learning Interchange of Educational software Children's software Revue (CSR by providing jargonfree,independent reviews of the provides primary teachers, classroom assistants and http://ali.apple.com/features/primary_lit/tools.shtml
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The Kids On The Web: Educational Sites software Review provides impartial reviews of children's as parental empowerment softwareand acceptable The Intercultural EMail classroom Connections project http://www.zen.org/~brendan/kids-ed.html
Extractions: The Kids on the Web: Educational Sites First and foremost, take a look at the Yahoo Index of K-12 educational sites. It's constantly growing and adding newly discovered schools that have web pages hooked up to talk to the world. The Math League provides math contests for grades 4 through 12, contest problem books, and math educational software for grades 4-8. They also let you read the contest results from their math league competitions in the U.S. and Canada. A fantastic set of information by Joan Fleitas of Fairfield University, BandAids and Blackboards is intended to help deal with chronic illness, or other medical problems, in a school setting. It's written to be used by both children and adults, and tries to help sensitize children to what it's like to grow up with a medical problem. Why'n'Not Education aims to design and develop a syllabus for elementary schools, bearing the same name as the organization ``A Why'n'Not Education''. Using the principles of integrated curriculum, they're working towards creating a syllabus which is as unified as possible-not only in terms of content but also in terms of usability. They're currently concentrating on grades 3 through 6.
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Selected World Wide Web Educational Resources Effective Teaching software reviews. Center for Teaching Excellence Book reviews. InstructionalTechnology/Integrating The Web Into Your classroom. http://www.nv.cc.va.us/loudoun/teachexl/links.htm
Extractions: AskLN (online mentoring program that provides coaching to teachers, by teachers, on how to use technology effectively in the classroom) Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources Claris K-12 Educator Connection (Claris software program files and templates for creating a course syllabus, evaluating software, seating charts, databases, classroom presentations, student assessments, a gradebook, and a lesson creatorfree clipart also) Classroom Connect (hard to beat for resources for integrating computers in the classroom) Community Learning Network (CLN helps K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms) Computers in Social Studies (promotes the use of technology and computers in the K-12 social studies classes) Connecting Students (Interactive Sites for Students) (organized by subject) Connections+ (internet resources linked with subject area content standardsdetailed lesson plans, activities, and curriculum resources) Critical Connections (video teleconferencing, discussion forums, chat sessions, curriculum projects)
Extractions: You don't have to be ready for kindergarten to love Huggly's Sleepover. Incredible animation, well-developed characters and excellent content makes this software a hot pick for preschoolers or 1st graders! Perfect for the classroom or for at-home play, this software goes beyond the call of duty in helping kids build academic and problem solving skills. Huggly is one of the most adorable monsters you'll ever meet! Friendly, and definitely not shy, he talks to kids and makes friends with them as they join Huggly and his buddies in preparing for the Annual Monster Sleepover Party. Best of all, your kids are invited. Childen this age are so excited about sleepover parties (especially if they have older brothers or sisters). After playing this software, don't be surprised if they beg to have a friend spend the night. Hey, it beats monsters under the bed!
UALR's Fac-Tech Resources - UALR's Teaching With Tech News teachers and the grades they teach create the they learn skills not taught in theclassroom. classrooms, the introduction of technology helps students gain an http://www.ualr.edu/~factech/techfair_secondplace1.html
Extractions: Purpose of the Project The major goals of the Cyber Teacher Project are to enhance the skills of classroom teachers to use technology in teaching; to increase the number of teachers who could be technological resources in their respective schools; and to expose K-12 students to the use of technology. Project Description Innovative Use of Technology Twenty-five LRSD teachers (participants) are admitted to the Project for a six week summer project taught by a four person faculty team from UALR (faculty). All teachers are eligible, regardless of technical experience; the Project has included teachers from grades K-12. The content of the Project has two components. The first is technology; the second is an idea exchange among participants on topics of a non-technical nature.
