Access. English. ESOL. Video Projects for Langauge Learners. Skills for Life. Communication. Storyboarding: Pre-Writing Activity The more we podcast and have our students create video clips or other digital storytelling projects, the more we need to teach storyboarding as part of the process.
Being able to pre-visualize how your story will unfold is becoming a vital skill to have for storytellers. Storyboards are defined as: Graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity. In the book by Roger Essley “Visual Tools for Differentiating Reading & Writing Instruction: Strategies to Help Students Make Abstract Ideas Concrete and Accessible”, he says Storyboarding, or picture writing, is the origin of all written languages, used by ancient cultures before text evolved and as a natural bridge to text.
Pre-Writing is defined as Pre-writing is the first stage of the writing process, typically followed by drafting, revision, editing and publishing. Numeracy and Maths. The Top 10 iPod Touch Apps to Use in Math Class. 21st Century Educator. Here are some tools which I've either used (or explored) for mathematics education.
They aren't all open source, but they are all extremely useful, and they are all free to use (free as in free beer, some of them are also free as in free speech). Geogebra This program lets you explore algebra and geometry, much like it's proprietary cousin, Geometer's Sketchpad. Having used both, I actually prefer Geogebra because I find it to be more flexible and easier to use. It requires Java to run, and can either run in a web browser with no download, or you can install it to your computer using the offline installer. Mathematics Visualization Toolkit The Mathematics Visualization Toolkit is exactly that, a program which lets you visualize mathematics. Scratch Scratch is an excellent program for learning programming but also mathematics like variables, sequences, Cartesian coordinates, and other useful mathematical concepts. Netlogo Audacity Audacity is an open source audio editor and recorder. Calculize. Prime Factorization (factor tree) 5000 free math, physics, and engineering video tutorials and lectures.
Here are the collections of sites with math, physics, engineering, and other sciences video tutorials.
Some sites also contains non-science videos as well. If you find a site with more than 50 videos, please inform me so I could include it on the list. Khan Academy – more than 2100 2600 not only for math but also includes other subjects such as economics, chemistry, physics and other fields. The math videos range from adding integers up to elementary calculus. Brightstorm - more than 500 math videos in algebra, geometry, Precaculus and Calculus.Just Math Tutorials – more than 1000 videos on algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, differential equations, and linear algebraMIT Open Courseware – videos about math, engineering, sciences, and other fields.Free Video Lectures – more than 700 (excluding Khan Academy’s which they also listed) videos.
Math Apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Yesterday, while browsing through the app store on iTunes, I came across a banner-style ad at the top of the page for apps that help you to learn math.
I found this feature very helpful and decided to browse through some of the apps. The topics were broken down into sections including Numbers & Operation, Geometry, Algebra, Calculus, Probability & Statistics, Applying Math, and Math Games. Each section provided a short list of apps to choose from based on the topic. I was happy to see that they included such a wide variety of math related topics that included teaching math to toddlers all the way through adulthood. The cost of the apps ranged from free up to $9.99.
The important factors that you should consider when buying an app to use is price, quality, interactive ability, and be sure that it is engaging and easy to use. iLiveMathSpeed iLiveMathSpeed is one of a series of iLiveMath apps provided by iHomeEducator. 115-in-1 Math Solver Rocket Math.