Technology has undoubtedly changed the face of education and our daily lives forever. With Weather.com you can view your local weather instantly, Youtube allows you to view previously distant videos of nearly any topic, and what quicker way is there to find out the name of the blank page before the title page in a book than the oft-visited Google? (It’s a fly page by the way.) With all of the immediate access to information now made available because of the worldwide web, where can an educator go to get hundreds of research-based instructional strategies within a few clicks?
The emerging answer is the Intervention Inventory at [link removed].
With the Intervention Inventory teachers are able to browse all of the Florida Center for Reading Research interventions, resources from ReadWriteThink.org, strategies from various pieces of professional literature, and lessons from numerous other compiled sources. The beauty of the Intervention Inventory is its ability to quickly and easily refine a large number of interventions into a desired few in a matter of seconds. Whether you would like to view by the "Fab Five," grade level, or sub-area of the content, you can then refine the number of results by a combination of search criteria including intervention name, description key words, content specific areas of focus, and source.
Let’s say for instance you are a first grade teacher who has a child that is having a particularly difficult time with decoding/encoding long vowels as witnessed by running records, writing samples, and other curriculum-based measures. You recall from the student’s interest inventory that he cherishes the time he spends playing cards with his grandparents on the weekend. The next logical step is to utilize this information to guide the assessment/intervention cycle with a sound instructional technique that will yield results. Simply guide your web browser [link removed]!
Perhaps the most unique aspect of the Intervention Inventory is its incorporation of the ability for teachers to upload their own intervention ideas to create a dynamic fund of knowledge. Educators can upload their intervention into the broad areas of phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, writing, and miscellaneous interventions. The ability for personal submission of instructional techniques provides the opportunity for seasoned professionals to create a virtually boundless source of intervention information.
With no user names or passwords required, the Intervention Inventory is available for use completely free of charge. Not part of the technologically elite? The intervention Inventory utilizes a user-friendly interface that is accommodating to even those with limited technological fluency. Today is the day to get started and become a part of the professional collaborative community!
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On 5/10/09, jamie wrote: > Interested in your thoughts on replacing the traditional > textbook with a electronic textbook. > > Has anyone considered "etexts" and not use them? Why? > > Has anyone used "etexts" and not the traditional texts? > If so, what are the outcomes of using "etexts?" > > I'm a 7th grade teacher who is contemplating a research > project on this subject. > > Any thoughts or ideas are greatly welcomed. > > Thanks in advance. >
My Girlfriend is a 2nd Grade teacher here in New Jersey. After seeing her old torn up slide rule she used to help her with grading exams (which she always seemed to forget somewhere) I decided to make iGrader. This is a very simple iPhone app used to calculate exam scores. You can see it on the app store @ [link removed]
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On 5/19/09, Joe Lonardo wrote: > My Girlfriend is a 2nd Grade teacher here in New Jersey. > After seeing her old torn up slide rule she used to help > her with grading exams (which she always seemed to forget > somewhere) I decided to make iGrader. This is a very simple > iPhone app used to calculate exam scores. You can see it on > the app store @ [link removed]
I have to find a new keyboarding software for my school. I can't find one that teaches the students correct typing skills AND has COOL games. Where can I find that?
Links to all are on L...See MoreI have to find a new keyboarding software for my school. I > can't find one that teaches the students correct typing > skills AND has COOL games. Where can I find that?
My kids have most enjoyed 2 free online programs, Dance Mat Typing and PowerTyping. Some also like Bubble Typing and Keyboard Invaders.
We don't use AlphaAttack because it's a shooting program which isn't allowed but it is a fun game. Typer Shark is similar in that you have so long to type words and Cup Stacking [link removed].
If you make sure that the kids don't use the mouse feature and actually type the words then Word Racer is a great online game for practicing after they've done some lessons. It's a Boggle Style game but students can play against each other by signing on to the same table. [link removed]
You can turn any paragraph into a typing test using MS Word. do a 2 minute test, then using Tools off the menu bar, pick word count, use characters plus spaces and divide by 10 to get wpm. A word in typing is 5 characters, because it's a 2 minute test you need to divide by 2 to get characters per minute, then divide by 5 to get words per minute or simplify and divide characters including spaces by 10. I let students round up so any partial word counts as an additional word.
I usually chat on the music teachers board, but I need some help. I am taking an online class about wikis, blogs, podcasts, and skypes in the classroom and our subject this week is wikis. I teach general music K-3rd grades. Our instructor wants us to create a wiki that we can use either with our students or fellow teachers. Any ideas? Thanks
On 7/27/09, Jamison wrote: > > Hey Julia, what online class are you taking? It's pretty > cutting edge to use wikis. You may want to try the Wiki > Blackboard. All of the underlying infrastructure is already > set up (it uses the same engine as Wikipedia, including > mathematical, scientific, and possibly, musical notation), > and it is just waiting for content. I hope this helps. > > > > On 7/05/09, Julia wrote: >> I usually chat on the music teachers board, but I need some >> help. I am taking an online class about wikis, blogs, >> podcasts, and skypes in the classroom and our subject this >> week is wikis. I teach general music K-3rd grades. Our >> instructor wants us to create a wiki that we can use either >> with our students or fellow teachers. Any ideas? Thanks
Our suite consists of a...See MoreI don't know if this is the right place, but I'd like to hear from teachers who have experience with educational software. I'm a programmer writing a new educational software suite for grades K-5. I do have some teaching experience at the high school level, and another on our team is a special education specialist.
Our suite consists of a teacher's control panel, where the teacher can decide what content each student receives (among other things), 5 games the students can pick from, as well as a "front end" where the student logs in and picks a game, and a server program, which stores all of the student progress data.
The suite runs very well on XP machines. But on Windows Vista, when the "front end" is ran, a warning from Vista appears, saying the publisher cannot be identified. It appears when the front end is run, but the warning is harmless.
We want to sell our software, as it is large, comprehensive, easy to use, and everyone who has used it likes it. But as I haven't been able to get rid of the warning message, I wonder if schools who use Vista would decide not to purchase it because of the warning message.
If anyone here uses Vista on a daily basis, would you be put off by a program that makes a warning message like that appear?