The Digital Backpack

A couple of years ago I posted a blog entry about the Digital Backpack, a directory of Web 2.0 tools,online applications, and resources for students and teachers.

This site has recently been refreshed and contains a number of additions.

http://www.goodhue.k12.mn.us/school242/genie224/images/files/backpack2010.html

25 places to find instructional videos

From Jane's Learning Pick of the Day blog.
A number of wonderful resources here.

http://janeknight.typepad.com/pick/2010/02/25-places-to-find-instructional-videos.html

Seeing Math™ Secondary Interactives

All of the Seeing Math™ Secondary interactives are free for you to use. Most are copyrighted by The Concord Consortium and licensed to you under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Seeing Math™ has developed interactive software tools to clarify key mathematical ideas in middle and high school mathematics. Each interactive provides a real-time connection between representations of the mathematics (symbolic, graphical, etc.), so that changes in one representation instantly cause changes in the other.

http://www.seeingmath.concord.org/sms_interactives.html

Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles

Here is another good set of math activities that vary from introductory to complex applications of mathematical principles.

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/

Math Interactives from LearnAlberta.ca

This multimedia resource includes interactive math activities, print activities, learning strategies, and videos that illustrate how math is used in everyday life. The resource addresses the following mathematics topics:

• Fractions;
• Integers;
• Percentages;
• Rate/Ratio/Proportion;
• Square Roots;
• Exponents;
• Patterns;
• Algebra;
• Linear Equations;
• Polynomials;
• Angles;
• Circles;
• Surface Area and Volume;
• Area and Perimeter;
• Triangles;
• Pythagoras;
• Trigonometry;
• Similarity and Congruence;
• Transformations;
• Shape Classification;
• Data Display and Graphs;
• Central Tendency and Distribution; and
• Probability.

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mejhm/index.html

Digital Storytelling from Silvia Tolisano's Blog

Siliva's blog, langwitches, contains a number of good posts on digital storytelling skills, resources and ideas for use in classrooms. Check it out folks.
http://langwitches.org/blog/category/digital-storytelling/

Smartboard Lessons from Wichita Public Schools

This site contains lessons organized by:

Click the content area links below to view lessons.

• Pre-K
• Elementary
• Middle School
• High School
• Foreign Language
• Music
• SMART Technologies Lessons
• Treasures Resources

http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm

Starfall.com

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to motivate children to read with phonics. Their systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development.

http://www.starfall.com/