Creaza <https://www.creaza.com/>
Containing endless exercises on a variety of topics at every grade level, Creaza allows teachers to select exercises, edit or create as needed, and then assign them to students. Students can then collaborate with other students to complete assignments and turn them in. Creaza is a great way to encourage creativity in the classroom and can even be applied to mathematics. Using the cartoonist feature, students can create visual representations of real world word problems to help them understand and solve application problems.ShowDocument <http://www.showdocument.com/>
The ultimate tool for collaboration, ShowDocument is ideal for group projects. ShowDocument allows students on different sides of campuses, towns or hemispheres to upload material and invite fellow group members to join. Everyone in the group can then view, edit, and discuss the content without actually having to be physically together. ShowDocument could be used to help students learn to work with others, particularly those of different cultures. Students could be paired with other students in a partnering school in another country and be assigned a project to be completed using ShowDocument.
Study Jams <http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/index.htm>
It is an understood idea that most students enjoy and benefit from playing educational and entertaining games, and Study Jams is the perfect place to find just that! Study Jams contains interactive math and science games covering a variety of topics, such as writing equations based on word problems. Study Jams is geared toward younger students, with songs and animations to help students learn before taking a practice test. The topics covered in Study Jams are very elementary, but that does not mean they can't be useful in high school. Unfortunately there are always students who were not taught or did not learn basic skills needed to succeed in with more difficult topics, so Study Jams can be used to help students who never learned these skills or those who need a refresher. Chart Gizmo <http://chartgizmo.com/>
Bar graphs, and line graphs, and pie charts, oh my! Chart Gizmo is a user-friendly website that is great for creating colorful, organized graphs, because we all know making graphs by had can be a time-consuming pain. You just enter the data, axis names, type of graph and choose your colors. This website could be used by students to create graphs for projects to be printed out our added to a presentation. Although the website is easy to use, students will have to apply their knowledge of graphs to be able to properly enter the information to create the graph.
What 2 Learn <http://www.what2learn.com/>
Similar to Study Jams, What 2 Learn has educational games in a variety of subjects. However, What 2 Learn addresses slightly more advanced subjects, such as 9-12 Geometry. What 2 Learn focuses on is vocabulary associated with a subject rather than working problems, and the games are actually pretty entertaining. The great thing is you can either use games already provided or create your own! Rather than handing out a vocabulary test, What 2 Learn can be a fun alternative that still allows teachers to ensure that their students are understanding the terminology by keeping track of their students' progress. The students commit the knowledge into their memory, and they have fun doing it. Slide Boom <http://www.slideboom.com/>
One of the most common forms of presentation in high school is PowerPoint, but Slide Boom takes this to a whole new level. Using Slide Boom you can upload your PowerPoint files, share your presentations to your blogs and websites, and collect feedback. Slide Boom is all about sharing and communicating with your audience. In a classroom setting, Slide Boom can be used to share presentations with the students and encourage discussion. Students would be able to enter comments regarding the presentation and perhaps answer assigned questions. SimpleVLE <http://www.simplevle.com/v2/students/WelcomeStudentV2.jsp>
Using the same concept as online classes, SimpleVLE allows students and teachers to communicate online in a private forum. Teachers can create and assign quizzes and upload information about the class, such as lectures and assignment information. Priding itself on its user-friendly set up, SimpleVLE provides teachers and students with quick and easy access to course content and the opportunity to Museum Box <http://museumbox.e2bn.org/>
This is a neat presentation tool that allows students to create a timeline of events by placing information into boxes that come together to form a cube. You can upload pictures, documents, and video, and they add voice over to narrate your "story." The boxes can be customized and multilayered, meaning the presentation can be as big as you want. Museum Box would be an excellent presentation tool for history, and that is how it can be incorporated into a math classroom, by using it to explore math history. It is important for students to understand where the concepts that we're studying came from, and they could use Museum Box to compile a chronological history of the development of mathematical methods were are studying, such as Rolle's Theorem.Meeting Words <http://meetingwords.com/>
Another collaboration tool, Meeting Words allows people to communicate in real time. Ideal for editing documents, having a discussion, or doing homework, the best part about it is that it's free! Meeting Words is user-friendly and essentially works as a chat room, allowing members to receive Jeopardy Labs <https://jeopardylabs.com/>
We're always on the lookout for ways to make learning fun, and Jeopardy Labs is it. As the name suggests, Jeopardy Labs allows you to create your own Jeopardy game that can be accessed by anyone in the world. It is free and extremely user friendly; just enter your questions and voila! This would be a great tool to use in a math classroom, because students love games and competing against one another. The class could be divided into two teams that would pick the category and difficultly, and then they would work the math problem revealed and give the correct answer for points.
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