This post is going to be a difficult one! I have learned way TOO much this summer :) I have been spending the past week just trying to sift through it all! Here is my attempt at a short list of my favorite/most useful takeaways from my summer. Hope they help others! Feel free to add your favorites in the comments.
- Flubaroo – Google Docs + Flubaroo to grade automatically!
- Aris Games – ARIS is a tool for you to make mobile games, tours and interactive stories. Using the GPS and QR Codes, ARIS players will experience a virtual world of interactive characters, items and media placed in physical space.
- ePub Bud – You can use ePub Bud to upload, create, publish, and share FREE digital books for the iPad.
- Vernier Videos for Physics (and Math) – Vernier Video Physics for iOS brings physics video analysis to the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
- Game Salad – make iOS apps without coding
- Widgetbox – make custom mobile apps, web widgets, and rich media ads
- Polleverywhere (used this quite a bit last year and plan to use again this year) – Audience response system that uses mobile phones, twitter, and the web. Responses are displayed in real-time on gorgeous charts in PowerPoint, Keynote, etc.
- Genius Scan – Genius Scan turns your iPhone into a pocket scanner. It enables you to quickly scan documents on the go and email the scans as JPEG or PDF.
- Augmented Reality
- Learn AR augmented reality to model objects
- Argon – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/argon/id396105088?mt=8
- use this to do all the augmented reality stuff
- free
- Junaio (http://www.junaio.com/)
- example: hold phone over #12 football player and you’ll get info from the game
- Mathematica
- Interactive demonstrations to be used free: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/
- smiley changer: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SmileyChanger/
- Wolfram Alpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/
- http://www.computerbasedmath.org/
- Tagging system — so imporant!
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- stay in the question: we don’t know where the information is going… where things are going to land
- tag data so that you can use it later on
- spot: elgg-based platform; open sources; whatever device students are using can go here and be tagged; becomes a giant source of information
- Alternative to coding:
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- unity: http://unity3d.com/
- unreal engine (windows): http://www.udk.com/
- epic citadel: http://www.epicgames.com/technology/epic-citadel
- game salad creator: http://gamesalad.com/products
- head first labs: http://headfirstlabs.com/
- The importance of formative assessment:
- A systematic review of the impact of summative assessment and tests on students’ motivation for learning:http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPIWebContent/reel/review_groups/assessment/ass_rv1/ass_rv1.pdf
- Create mindmaps using flickr (allows you to create hotspots of pictures) to show mastery of a concept
- solutions wiki: in ap calculus as final review – http://apcalc2008.pbworks.com/w/page/8656213/FrontPage
- Calculus Commercial Challenge by @dkuropatwa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnmTnDudQR0
- How to create your own interactive video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S2gWaySCEA
- PSI and PMI: Effective New Approaches to High School Science and K-12 Mathematics: www.njctl.org
- QR code activity: https://sites.google.com/a/gafetraining.com/bmlc-blc2011/activity1/overview
- iPad/iPhone tips/activities
- Data Reveals Stories
- KinectEDucation
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