10.)HyperPhysics: While I find this to be a useful tool for simplifying Physics, I still hate the subject with a passion. Last place Hayden, last place.
9.) Pinterest: While it really can only be used as an ice breaker, my girlfriend has sent me many a funny cat pic through Pinterest so circle takes the square.
8.) Smartboard: "I will always feel that math is best taught by a chalkboard or whiteboard, and a smartboard is nothing more than an advanced version."
7.) High School English: While as a future High School I'm all about finding the best tools to help students write essays, I feel like most of them will be turned off by the websites design...
6.) Pegby: I hate when people don't pull their share in group projects, and after some 1st Hand experience with Pegby, I can safely say it helps tremendously on keeping people on task.
5.) Wicked: As I stated in my own Cool Tool post below, I am a firm believer in the use of games to help teach students, and Wicked has games in a variety of subjects.
4.) Wikispaces: These numbers don't lie. 6 Million student teachers is more than enough to get my vote
3.) Prezi: Usually PowerPoints bore me to tears, but Prezi seems like something that could possibly regain some of that attention.
3.) Teachertube: Youtube by teachers for teachers, using the power of collaboration to provide students and fellow teachers alike with helpful techniques and lessons? Yes Please! (It even connects to Facebook!)
1.) StudentPublishing: What better way to get students to care about books then to HAVE THEM MAKE THEIR OWN! I want my own book..."Wiggles the Cyborg Gerbil" here I come!
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Cool Tool for School (Now With 100% More Zippy)
Classroom Jeopardy Y'all!
I'll Take "Fun Way to Study Before the Big Test" for 400, Alex.
You have to admit, study games are some of the best and most entertaning ways to prepare for any exam. I remember back in High School, we played Literature Jeapordy for every test up until the 11th grade. (Too mature for games. Pfft.) Unfortunately we could only play with use of the chalkboard, but now, thanks to superteachertools.com, Classroom Jeapordy can now fit on your computer/smartboard screen.
If you've been living under a game show rock, Jeapordy is a game show in which contestants answer questions from a series of random topics trying to gain more points than there opponents. Classroon Jeapordy plays off of that, allowing teams of students to face off on in fiece competition of class subject smartitude.
Classroom Jeapordy runs slmost exacty like the show, displaying Categories, Points, and Team Scores just like the original. All the teacher has to do is imput the category and and questions and let the flashgame and the students take care of the rest. CJ will automatically tally scores and with student interaction, runs through the game by itself.
I will use the heck out of this tol in the classroom. There is no better way to prepare for the test by reviewing all the imortant information before hand in the form of one of world's most famous gameshows. Back in the day when my classroom got to play Jeapordy, my test grades would be substantially better than when we had to study straight from the book. However, I would want to space out the Jeapordy days to make it more of a special treat for students (plus thinking p a bunch of questions can be difficult for smaller tests). From personal experience however, the results don't lie. I mean who wouldnt want to help their class become the next Ken Jennings.
I'll Take "Fun Way to Study Before the Big Test" for 400, Alex.
You have to admit, study games are some of the best and most entertaning ways to prepare for any exam. I remember back in High School, we played Literature Jeapordy for every test up until the 11th grade. (Too mature for games. Pfft.) Unfortunately we could only play with use of the chalkboard, but now, thanks to superteachertools.com, Classroom Jeapordy can now fit on your computer/smartboard screen.
If you've been living under a game show rock, Jeapordy is a game show in which contestants answer questions from a series of random topics trying to gain more points than there opponents. Classroon Jeapordy plays off of that, allowing teams of students to face off on in fiece competition of class subject smartitude.
Classroom Jeapordy runs slmost exacty like the show, displaying Categories, Points, and Team Scores just like the original. All the teacher has to do is imput the category and and questions and let the flashgame and the students take care of the rest. CJ will automatically tally scores and with student interaction, runs through the game by itself.
I will use the heck out of this tol in the classroom. There is no better way to prepare for the test by reviewing all the imortant information before hand in the form of one of world's most famous gameshows. Back in the day when my classroom got to play Jeapordy, my test grades would be substantially better than when we had to study straight from the book. However, I would want to space out the Jeapordy days to make it more of a special treat for students (plus thinking p a bunch of questions can be difficult for smaller tests). From personal experience however, the results don't lie. I mean who wouldnt want to help their class become the next Ken Jennings.
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