Videos to Remember...

I never seem to remember where I found a video.. I watch it and then forget about it...
so...
here begins my listing

Student Discipline 1947 style... fun to watch.. high school math teacher -- notice the huge slide rule hanging in the background!!

THinGS I NeeD to CHeCK OuT

THinGS I Need to CHeCK Out oVEr WIntER BReAK!!

Some neat apps, or tools I've stumbled across... and want to remember...

Tiny url-- create a shortened url --especially when one is way too long to post on blogs or forums.. Tiny URL

Put your friends' faces on your background of twitter Twilk

needing to understand La TeX found this website Getting Started With LaTeX

Maybe creating a cheat sheet with the most commonly used latex instructions for math operators/symbols might be the solution. I mean... remembering that I need "$\leq$" surround by the latex code to represent the mathematical "less than or equal's sign"

OMG-- I totally forgot about Zoho Writer.. so glad I had a chance to review. I can easily keyboard my notes from class--into Zoho and post to the mathcounts4ever blog straight from Zoho-- and keep the math type!! looks to good to be true!! WooHoo!!

Zoho Writer.. and so much more

Removing the "Next Blog" (and the Nav Tool) on my Classroom Blog (not this one) took some time. I had to find three specific lines in the Layout using html-- and they just seemed to elude me. Finally located those three lines towards the bottom of the html But followed instructions -- Success. Find instructions at The Real Blogger Status

However, this is causing some difficulty.. now I can't seem to easily get back to edit my own blogs..


Sprixi free pictures creative commons, etc.. great source of pix

Twitlonger just what I need when I can't fit my words into 140 characters

How to find anything on the Internet

Eric's bookmarks... I have it but just incase...Esheninger
Great Research Web 2.0 Cool Tools for School

Math Help Websites

Need a place to keep these websites handy-- as well as to encourage others to check out... twitter works well for getting it out to others... but reminding myself...hmmm... that's another story

Wired Math

This website looks interesting and may help my students writing math type
Algebra Lab

Definitely need to check this out and get my students using this online flashcard... its free.. and students could easily create their own-- I could as well and tell them to searc for the one's I created-- or post them on my website... Free Online Flashcards

Another Flash cards made online-free & can share with friends at FlashCardFriends

Fun website about numbers.. just for fun... Numbers Gossip.. all about any number

Maybe this isn't math help but these comics make me chuckle...
Unpractical Math but the teacher section looks great ... need to check out what is available for students....

This is Mega Mathematics Math site with great key content analysis & activities

CUEreview

Another incredible CUE Conference... Three days of fabulous sessions and CUE Tips on all things with technology. With the emerging technologies constantly and rapidly changing-- it is difficult to keep up...

Setting up all of my classes on Moodle is my top priority. Creating discussion forums for all three classes and learning about 'hot potatoes' are my number 1 items.

things to remember to check out:
GCast
Uploading all LCMS documents using Google Docs-- easy way
Google Earth- get Google Earth Pro for educators...
Using student cell phones to collect data-- surveys, quizzes-- "the survey will open at 6PM-- be the first to answer correctly..." Poll Everywhere... If it works-- I won't need to pay for Survey Monkey any more...
Goomoodleikiog - what a great name...
Knowing which tools to use, figuring out which one works the best for whatever I am doing-- is the key!!
Check out Leigh Murrell and Mark Wagner on this topic

Check out these sites posted by:
Mark Wagner Educational Technology and Life
Hall Davidson at Discovery Education
Micheline Le Blanc at http://Algebra and Technology
Now just need the time to find my 'cave' to reflect on all that I learned and develop and extend my understanding of what I just experienced...... and the 'watering hole' to share with my peers and bounce ideas off of others... as described by David Thornburg.. in his Campfires in Cyberspace..

On Being Flexible...

Yesterday was a very low tech day!!
Our tech support person came into the room just as I was beginning to teach 1st period--- with what he thought was the 'tool' he needed to get to one of my ceiling-mounted LED projector's bulb-- it wasn't... so he said he would be back .. not sure when but I knew he would!
So, instead of having my two LED projectors displaying information on two screens, I thought I would just use the one- the one with a good bulb... but then my other projector decided to "flip back and forth" between attempting to display what was on the elmo and trying to connect to my computer (which wasn't on at the time) PANICKED... I track him down.. and he attempted to figure out what was going on...as I tried to teach my first period math class. (Picture a tall man standing on top of desks in the middle of the classroom filled with sixth graders)

I originally though that the wires or connections had loosened somehow as he had worked on the first projector.. (I had tried to secure all the connections before panicking!!) Anyway, he did the same.. with no results.. so he thought it was the Elmo... we replace the elmo with another.. NO.. that was not the issue... I was without the use of any projector.. and back to my whiteboard...

Very low tech day!! I have two hearing impaired students (in two different classes) who need me to face them as I teach, but luckily we have finals tomorrow, so they won't be looking at me!!

I might get out the overhead projector if this keeps up...
I haven't had the telltale sign of using whiteboards and markers for such a long time--it was funny to see the blue stripe on the side of my right hand at the end of the day!!