Games - Hierogenerator. Education. Using PBworks in your academic environments.
PBworks hosts over 300,000 educational workspaces, and has helped transform teaching and learning for millions of students, parents and teachers. Educators ranging from major universities like DePaul, school districts like Baltimore County Public Schools and individual teachers trust PBworks as their collaborative learning environment. In your Classroom, Library, District or University Encourage student-centered learning. TeacherTube Docs - Sentence of the Week: Week 2 (Correcting Run-Ons) Mr. Boyer's 5th Grade Class / ProjectsReading.
50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom. Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum.
They’re often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom. Resource Creation Using these ideas, your students can collaboratively create classroom valuables. Student Participation These projects are sure to get your students involved. Group Projects Allow wikis to facilitate group work by using these ideas. Student Interaction Get your students to work together on these projects. For the Classroom Use your wiki to create spaces that are special to your class. Community Reach out to the community with these resources that everyone can appreciate. Other. Gameshow Maker. Gameshow Maker can be seen as an extension of the original Jeopardy Maker (which you should check out if you want something more basic and preconfigured).
The idea is to allow you to create your own questions/answers gameshow, such as Jeopardy or Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, with little to no work on your end. Categories, rows, columns, bonuses... Everything is done by the program. At the absolute minimal, all you need to do is type up the questions. For the more tech-savy user, virtually everything can be changed in the settings file including sounds, textures, fonts... === Improvements Over Jeopardy Maker === - HTML Support: Images and Formatting! Now away from the salespitch a bit, the program is indeed extremely customizable and will only continue to be more customizable as more feature requests come in from users like you!
To developers: If you know Flash/Actionscript 3 and want to take up improving Jeopardy Maker or Gameshow Maker, please let me know.
Tips and Tricks: Starting a new wiki. A wiki is an organic creation: it grows and changes over time as you and your community work on it.
But, like with any organic process, you’ll get the best results in the long run if you start out with a solid foundation. This month, we’re going to walk you through a few of the most important things to do as you start a new wiki. If you’re new to Wikispaces, this will give you a head start. But even if you’re an old hand at wikis, you might find some new and valuable tips. Step 1: Master the basics It all starts with the Edit button. Once you’ve figured out what you can with random poking, use the link at the top of the actions menu to create a New Page and run through this checklist of things to try: Add some links.Add an image.Upload and add a file.Turn an image into a link.Add a widget.Try out the wikitext editor.Play around with formatting. Step 2: Whip your wiki into shape You can do a lot of great things with a wiki page, but that’s just the beginning.
Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students. Catch the Wave. Ruminations on technology, leadership and the future of our schools. Home. The App Store Now Has Over 3,000 iPad Apps, Only 20 Percent Are. With iPad app frenzy in full force, the App Store is growing by the minute as iPad apps are being approved.
Early this morning, Mobile ad exchange Mobclix tallied the number of apps and the breakdown between paid and free apps in the store. According to Mobclix, there are a total of 3,122 iPad apps in the store (keep in mind, these numbers could have changed slightly in the past few hours). As of Thursday evening, there were 2300 iPad apps available for download.
Currently, 80 percent of iPad apps in the store are paid apps, coming in at 2523 apps total. Only 599 of the apps are free, representing 20 percent of all apps. While iPad apps may not be easy on your wallet, Apple’s iPhone app store’s breakdown of free vs. paid apps are similar. Of course, the actual prices of paid apps should go down, if iPad apps follow the same trends as paid iPhone apps. Ultimate Web 2.0 List. The Creative Education Blog.