Technology

Technology

 * **General Resource Lists**
 * [|Math Forum] has a great list of tech tools as well as lesson ideas, activities, and support materials for math teachers!


 * **Timers**
 * [|Online-Stopwatch] is a site where you can access many different types of timers. Extremely easy to setup and use!
 * Egg timers can be bought cheap at the dollar store, for the computer less schools.


 * **Virtual Tools**
 * An [|online Virtual TI Graphing calculator]!


 * **Collaborative Expression**
 * [|Pirate Pad] is an ingenious site where groups can collaborative write in real time. Pads will be saved for future editing and use!
 * [|Scribblar] is a collaborative drawing site, much along the same lines as Pirate Pad. //(Sign up required!)//
 * [|Poll Everywhere] is a collaborative voting tool with multiple options for voting.
 * Clickers can be used as a quick assessment or attention getter. Apparently students love them! ([|Advice 1], [|Advice 2])
 * [|YouTube] can be used collaboratively to post student concerns, and student solutions. Could be a wonderful tool to build scaffolding!


 * **Collaborative Organization**
 * [|Dropbox] is a necessary tool to use in my digital life. I can sync across multiple platforms (i.e. my laptop and my desktop) seamlessly. As I teach, I will also be able to give public links to direct hosting. e.g. [|Offline Copy of Online-Stopwatch]
 * I've also been tinkering with [|MobileMe] which is similar to Dropbox. The advantage is i have an email address which is mrchow@me.com! I'll be looking into this more in the future.
 * Blogs and Wikis as a communication tool with students and between students! e.g. [|Blogger.com], Wikispaces, [|Google Sites], etc...


 * **Student Engagement**
 * [|Virtual Manipulatives!] Nothing else need be said.
 * [|TinkerPlots] is a great program to get students comfortable with graphs and tables, and data manipulation.
 * [|Geometers SketchPad] awesome program to get across math concepts. Many teachers have made [|resources that are freely available]!
 * [|Gizmos] are little applets that students can use to introduce or reinforce concepts!
 * Virtual sketchpad, courtesy [|DeviantArt].
 * [|Twitter] can be used to communicate and talk about education and curriculum. (I've setup [|@mrnchow] already :D)
 * For the record, I've also setup mr.n.chow@gmail.com in addition to that twitter account, and the [|MobileMe] mrchow@me.com account.


 * **Presentations + A/V Editing**
 * Sweet [|PowerPoint Templates]. Seriously nice backgrounds that will give a presentation some pizazz.
 * [|Zamzar]: easiest way to convert videos online, then get them to email them to you. (e.g. YouTube videos)
 * [|How To Create] awesome images to spark math curiosity. e.g. [|Parabolas].
 * [|Prezi] is an interesting tool to create different types of presentations!
 * [|Wordle] is an awesome way to create cool word pictures. Also it represents frequency in terms of size, which is super math related! (Maybe I can create a lesson plan around this!)
 * [|Camtasia] is a serious video editing program that has a lot of nice features!
 * [|Jing] is a super easy and useful screencasting utility. Great for explaining how to do something, or get something, online!