Another Online Video Resource October 29, 2009
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Hopefully many of you are taking advantage of our subscription to Learn360 to access videos online. I found another online video resource today … this one is free. This site is from Annenberg Media — http://www.learner.org/index.html. Click the “View Programs” tab at the top of the page to see what they have to offer. It looks like they have a mix of materials for students and professional materials for teachers as well.
~Happy Computing,
Katrina
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives October 12, 2009
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This is by far one of the coolest websites I’ve seen in a long time — if they had had things like this when I was a kid, maybe I would be better at math. This site has virtual math manipulatives, grouped by grade level and mathematics function (Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis & Probability).
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
NoveList October 7, 2009
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NoveList is basically a reader’s advisory site — it’s purpose is to help readers find things to read. This site will be useful if you are trying to give students ideas for books they might like to read and useful for yourself if you enjoy reading and need some ideas.
Right at the top of the page users will find a search box, where they can do a basic search of the site. You can also limit your searches a bit in this basic search box by: author, title, series, or describe a plot, and you can limit searches by age level: adults, teens, older kids, younger kids. After entering your search term and clicking the search button, your results will be brought up on a page with various tabs breaking the information up into categories. The tabs will vary based on your search term — one of my favorites is “series”. This tab will appear for authors who write books in series and will tell you the names of the series they have written and the books (and their order) that belong in each series.
The center of the NoveList page is a spotlight section that changes on a regular basis. The right hand side of the screen has 2 main boxes: “My NoveList” and “Reader’s Advisory”. The “My NoveList” section has links to an online tour, an informational page and a “My Folders and Alerts” page where you can access information you have saved from your searches. The “Reader’s Advisory” section is mainly for librarians and others specifically in the business of reader’s advisory.
The right hand side of the page includes links for you to browse through for various articles. These links are arranged by age group (Younger=Birth-8, Older=9-12, Teens=13-18, Adult=19+). Articles include things like: Author Read-alikes, Author Biographies, Award Winners, Book Talks, Recommended Reads and much much more.
At the bottom of the left side there is a “Working with Kids” section which is designed specifically for teachers, librarians and parents.
As an avid reader I find this to be a very useful site!
~Happy Computing!
