Extension Module: Resource and Fun Factors

Overview

These resources are from our discussions about templates and learning objects. Additionally, there are some resources to remind you to have fun.

 

Learning Objects

What are they?

 

• Definition on Wikipedia
• Preparing Teachers to Use Learning Objects
• Developing Learning Objects for Secondary Students (pdf download)
• The Instructional Use of Learning Objects

 

Learning Object Examples

• RETA web-based curriculum
• "multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge"
• Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching
• Links to Learning Objects
• Learning Objects Workshop

 

Content Resources for Everyone

• Google for Educators

  Book search, Earth, Maps, Personalized Web Pages

  Communicate Show and Share Tools

• NEW! Open Educational Resources
• MIT Open Courseware
• Wisconsin Online Resource Center
• PBS Teachers
• One World Journeys
• Wikibooks

 

Content Specific Resources

• Math
  • Best of the Web Algebra
  • Algebra.com
  • Equation Solver
  • RETA Modeling w/ Math Module
  • Math Illuminations
  • Homeschool Math Resources
  • Gateway - Algebra I Resources
• Science - ecology
  • One World Journeys
• Language Arts
  • good resources on voice
    • http://www.bothell.washington.edu/writingcenter/HandoutVoice.pdf (pdf download)
    • http://www.efuse.com/Design/wa-voice.html
  • grammar/writing webquest

    http://www.efuse.com/Design/wa-voice.html

  • short story--authors webquest

    http://www.btownccs.k12.in.us/bchs/shrtstor/

  • how to write a short story

    http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559304/short_story.html

  • short stories

    http://www.geocities.com/iph1954/writing.html

  • short story webquest http://www.mrswilder.org/WebQuests/Board%20Game%20WebQuest.htm
• Social Studies
  • Original Source Documents

    American History

    Free and paid memberships

  • The Library of Congress

    Primary source materials

 

Templates

• Course Objectives Resource

 

Fun Factors

• Thiagi Games
• Centra Games PowerPoint created for RETA Instructors (ppt download)
• MMOGs as Learning Environments: An Ecological Journey into Quest Atlantis and The Sims Online
• Video Games Should Be Used More in Schools, New Study Says 
• Group: Video games can reshape education

  Games teach team building, multitasking and problem-solving under duress

   

   

 

 

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