Online Flashcards

In this morning’s blog post from Richard Byrne (on Free Technology for Teachers) shared VocApp.  Sign up for a free account and explore their flashcards or create your own.  These flashcards include audio as well as images (and audio).  If you are working to learn a foreign language, you can add the word and it will automatically add the same work in the foreign language you selected.  Use it on a laptop/Chromebook or download the app for the iPad or Android.

Wisdom from kindergarten

I had a great time this morning in kindergarten.  In addition to using the iPads to make flashcards fly (AR Flashcards), the students also colored sheets and brought them to life.(Quiver).  While all this happiness was going on in the classroom, I worked with students (a group at a time) to create this iMovie with ChatterPIX using their drawings and reflections on their time in kindergarten.

Here are some photos from our morning:

Show me your math magic!

Are you a math magician?  This math site allows you to select the operation as well as level.  Then let the math problems begin.  This would work well as a center, interactive whiteboard, or for homework practice.
For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.

So what’s your function?

Or input? Or output?  The Function Machine is geared to younger learners (grades 3-4)  as they begin to explore algebra. The output is similar to tradition flashcards.  But working backwards (the input) or finding the relationship (the function) is slightly more challenging.  This would work well as a station or on a whiteboard.

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Math Flashcards

Online math practice has really improved since my children were young.  That’s a Fact allows you to select the operations (or combinations), the number range, as well as a timer.  You can respond by selecting the number on the screen or using your toolbar.  When you are done, you get a summary of your results and any problems you skipped or were wrong. This would be great as a station in the classroom or a home resource for students who want extra practice.

For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.