Technology for Teachers
March 2016
Wonderful Websites
Prodigy
Prodigy is a free, adaptive math game for grades 1-7 that integrates Common Core Math into a role-playing game using a Pokemon-style wizardry theme. Students complete math questions to level up (become more powerful) and ultimately defeat Crios, Prodigy’s main antagonist. On the game screen, students see avatars of other students playing at the time. They can challenge one or play by themselves.
Based on the student’s profile and an invisible diagnostic run during the preliminary tutorial, students are placed at a math level. As they play, question difficulty is increased or decreased depending upon their answers and facility with the skills. If a student struggles with a concept, following questions will backfill the necessary skills. As the student works through the math problems, many lessons (but not all) include virtual manipulatives to help solve the problem.
Prodigy’s data indicates that over 1,000,000 student users and 50,000 teachers have signed up since opening its doors. Parents can register for free and track their child’s progress.
Set up is easy. You join as a parent or teacher. Once your account is established, add your class, create/review assignments, view student progress, get help, evaluate learning materials, and more.
(Review copied from http://askatechteacher.com/2015/02/16/website-review-prodigy-game/)
National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tours
This comprehensive virtual tour allows visitors to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. You can even browse a list of past exhibits, which is included on the ground floor map. The visitor can navigate from room to room by clicking map locations or by following blue arrow links on the floor that connect the rooms. The desktop version includes camera icons to indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up view of a particular object or exhibit panel.
Valuable Videos
Find and Replace in Microsoft Word
Basically, you can search a Word document for each time you used a word. Let's pretend you accidentally misspelled that word. Instead of going back and editing every single one of those occurrences, you can use the Replace feature to have Word replace a different spelling for each occurrence. TIME SAVER!
Check out the video below for more details. Tell your friends. They will love you for it.