Apr 05 2009
School 2.0 Bookmarks (weekly)
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Ups and downs of teacher bursaries
Double the amount of students ar studying to be teachers than last year exept for african languages in grt 1-3
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Mathematics Learning: Learning Times tables
Parents complains that with OBE all the basics like times tables are not being drilled. Here are a few ideas for just that!
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Lovely lis tof educatipnal qoutes
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Example of a maths class portfolio wiki K12
This teacher has used a wiki platform to record his learners portfolio of learning in the maths class. Great example
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50 Fabulous Web Tools for Group Projects – Annotated
This list of web tools is ideal for anyone working on a group project, whether you’re looking for task management support, scheduling and calendar organization, or just a place to collect all your materials and brainstorms.
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- That would be awesome if Evernote and Diigo merged. Currently I use Diigo’s ‘Extract Annotations’ function and then clip that to evernote – works well, but could be better. – post by caitlin032118
- Clearly the best tool for clipping (if one gives any value to the offline functionality). … If only Evernote and Diigo would merge (their functionalities)… – post by jaakko
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- THE best social bookmarking + web clipping tool out there (in April 2009). Has leapfrogged past Delicious already a while ago and seems to be picking up in speed (.. reffering to new announcements including Furl.net merger). – post by jaakko
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eduTecher – the complete ed tech reference and resource for teachers and theiur strudents
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Exploring What It Means To ‘Do’ Mathematics
This unit gives a historical background to mathematics education in South Africa, to outcomes-based education and to the national curriculum statement for mathematics. The traditional approach to teaching mathematics is then contrasted with an approach to teaching mathematics that focuses on ‘doing’ mathematics, and mathematics as a science of pattern and order, in which learners actively explore mathematical ideas in a conducive classroom environment.
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Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Diverse Classrooms
The module Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Diverse Classrooms is intended as a guide to teaching mathematics for in-service teachers in primary schools, but is suitable for maths tachers accross the curriculum. It is informed by the inclusive education policy (Education White Paper 6 Special Needs Education, 2001) and supports teachers in dealing with the diversity of learners in South African classrooms.
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Developing and using quality learning resources in an Open Educational Resources environment: The aim of SAIDE ACEMaths project was to pilot a collaborative process for the selection, adaptation and use of OER materials for teacher education programmes in South Africa.
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Getting kids to read- some inspiring post here
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Classroom tips -Intersting ways to do things
All the “Intersting things” embedded in a wiki.
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# One Interesting Ways to use a Wiki in the Classroom
Another collaborative presentation for the use of web 2.0 tools in the classroom
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What happened before the Big Bang?
PLus Magizine asked the question to the renowned cosmologist John D. Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and here is his answer. If your mind starts to bubble, don’t worry, so did ours!
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Free Online Plagiarism Detection System
Check for plagiarism before you turn it in to your tutor, and before you receive a bad grade for your paper. Also, check your web content for duplication
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Ideas to Inspire: 6 ideas for interactive maths
A presentation where you collaboratively can add your idea to the central topic, in this case, interactive mathematics. Will defintely go and play…. And also make a presentation for ML?
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Blocking of chat rooms is now available. The operation is pretty straight forward. Before going into the steps, well done Herman Heunis and team! This will surely make using Mxit much safer for our kids.
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Ideas to Inspire teachers and help them integrate ICT -collaborative site
‘Ideas to Inspire’ is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.
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Tools and toolboxes tagged with ‘collaboration’ – Social Source Commons
Tools and toolboxes tagged with ‘collaboration’
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
