Tuesday, October 21, 2008

ACTEM Top Ten List

1.Google Docs- Create one document that can be accessed and edited by others online! This tool would be great for group collaborations, especially with limited amount of saving space.
2. GeoGebra- A great place for students to visualize math skills such as measuring. Very interactive. www.geogebra.org
3. Magnetic Poetry- Online magnetic poetry that is clickable. Students can create sentences or choose various different activities to encourage sentence building or differenting between words.
www.magneticpoetry.com
4. Interactive Children's Books- Clickable online books for early readers can offer varied amounts of guidance in reading. www.literactive.com
5. www.iknowthat.com-
A great learning site chock full of different subjects, lessons and grade levels with great manipulatives for learning.
6.Online visual dictionary- shows words in an inspiration web type format and would be great for students who are more visual learners and would help them create connections between words as well as develop a better understanding of them. www.visuwords.com
7. Virtual Field Trips- Online field trips that are very realistic and take absolutely no permission slips, bus requests or money. www.efieldtrips.org
8.Physics for Elementary-A great site to start introduction the fundamentals of physics, fun and easy to use! www.phet.colarado.edu
9. Publish a book- Free online publishing with out a publisher!! Create books online or in print. www.lulu.com
10. Interactive Museum- Online interactive museum with lots of information and interactive tools! www.newseum.org
The ACTEM 2008 Conference was full of opportunities to learn more about technology in the classroom! It was a smorgasbord of great technology tools!

2 comments:

Hilarie said...

That was a wonderful list of information that I might even use as a resource itself! There were some interesting sites there, most that I never even knew existed. There was a lot to learn at the confrence!

Johanna Prince said...

Erika, so glad you discovered some of these great resources. There is never enough time in class for me to go over all the things one can do, so I am thrilled to see that you are picking up new and different tools that you might use in your classroom. Your descriptions were a nice start, with some good links, I would love to have heard a little more about some of the resources and how you would use in the classroom. Jo