Gifted & Talented Power Point

I created this power point for my ED330 class on using Differentiated Teaching strategies for Gifted & Talented students. It is set up as an open document for sharing for those that may wish to use it or anyone who may find it useful.

If you do use it, please just let me know!

Click here to open the Google file.


Thanks!
Don

Math Options....from videos to interactive websites.

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 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 algebra
• MIT 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. Videos include single variable calculus, multivariable calculus, vector calculus, probability and statistics, algebraic topology and more. Some are actual class videos.
• Math Playground – more than 70 videos for high school mathematics. Topics include integers, algebra 1 and 2, and geometry.
• Art of Problem Solving – more than 70 videos on counting and probability.
• Gresham College Public Lectures - more than 100 public lectures about mathematics particularly history of mathematics, computational mathematics, everyday mathematics, mathematical puzzles, and more.It also contains hundreds of more public lectures in astronomy, biology, physics, other sciences, and other areas such as law, arts and literature, medicine, music, politics, and more.
• University of Missouri Kansas City Youtube Channel- more than 230 videos on algebra, calculus, and physics.
• Center of Math Youtube Channel – more than 70 calculus videos.

What would we do if....

A great story printed originally in the 

 Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 14, 1994
Virginia M. MacDonald

What would we do if...

"We Ran Our Football Teams As We Do Our Classrooms"	"We Ran Our Classrooms As We Do Our Football Teams"

Look at the rest of the story and see if you think there might be a bit of a difference. 

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/what_would.htm

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Prezi -- a great way to do presentations!

Free for students and educators!   Visit http://www.prezi.com/ to get a demo and to sign-up for using this great alternative in your classroom!!

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Write Away is a great way to improve composition skills!

Write Away is a professional development project whose goal is to improve composition skills for grades 6-12 through a school-wide writing initiative based on the Four Square Writing Graphic Organizer developed by Judith S. and Evan Gould.  Writing using the Four Square Graphic Organizer is one of many initiatives for the Jefferson County Schools.  This organizer has proven to be extremely effective in helping our students to organize their thoughts for writing to a prompt in thirty-five minutes.  Teachers provide quality instruction and practice with the graphic organizer to enable students to produce a well-developed first draft of a five paragraph essay.

There are several Tennessee standards referrals as well as powerpoints created to help with the different types of writing.



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SweetSearch.com as an alternative for students...

www.sweetsearch.com  is a great search engine.

The great thing about this site if you use it instead of “Google” is the fact that it eliminates the sites that would be questionable for children to see. I also like that it has specific options (biographies, librarians, emerging learners, social studies, etc.).

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Googlio! A great way to archive...

Welcome to "Googlios" where free Google tools meet ePortfolios.  

This site is intended to be a collection of resources for those interested in using ePortfolios in Education. 

Watch the 2 minute Intro video here.   The link for the googlios is HERE.

 

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