- http://www.what2learn.com/
- What2Learn is a site that allows teachers to create fun and interactive games that assess students on mastery off common core standards and content. This is a great way for giving students a formative and summative assessment while engaging them in the process.
- http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
- Wink allows teachers to create tutorial course though Microsoft for student to interact with and create fun opportunities for remediation. This is a great tool for differentiation and creating groups with the classroom.
- http://www.courselab.com/view_doc.html?mode=home
- Courselab is a online tool that allows teachers to build their own LMS for their classroom. This is beneficial because it give the teacher the opportunity to customized the LMS just how they want according to the needs of the students.
When thinking about which web based tools I should use, I thought about what would beneficial for my students in a math classroom. I googled virtual versions of the tools I currently use in the classroom and that helped mold the decision about what three tools I would bookmark in my social bookmarking website. The three tools that I bookmarked in my social bookmarking website were virtual algebra tiles, a math dictionary, and a scientific calculator. I chose these tools because math has been very paper based for centuries and many thinks that it’s difficult to be successful in math virtually, but it is possible with the proper tools. An orientation at the beginning of the course would be the perfect way to teach students how to find important tools like these and how to ensure that the tools are beneficial and also safe for the classroom. Important policies that should be used in deciding which tools are safe and helpful would be that is the site isn’t on the ap...
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