Kid Pix

Description:
This website touches on curriculum as well as being creative, and motivational, while also being student friendly. Students have a big space to use their art creativity, word processing along with other story book options, slide shows, and other activities. There are special teacher features that include project starters, using graphics that they would like to incorporate in their classroom. There are also features where teachers can type their own text or record their own voice in order to instruct students on how to use the program instead of repeating information that was already given. Instead, students can go back and hear information as it is needed. Not only can teachers use their own activities, but they can use activities that are already made up such as the example given below.

Example:
I could use this particular activity in math. This activity helps students count by grouping numbers together such as counting apples by twos, or counting fives. Having this activity available for children allows them to work on math individually instead of in a group. This lesson helps students have hands on experiences with counting objects, but the teacher does not have to provide up to 1000 objects for each individual student in the classroom in order for the students to count something other than written numbers such as 14+25.

http://web.riverdeep.net/math/destination_math/msc2/msc2/msc2/module1/unit1/session1/lesson.html?USERID=0&ASSIGNID=0


Tutorial Link:
http://web.riverdeep.net/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/RVDP_DT/PWT/525_KIDPIX_DEMO_02.SWF

This particular tutorial helps identify what the website offers and how to use a particular part of the website explaining features and certain ways to construct a project using this software.

ToonUniversity

This website is helpful in the way that it provides reading activities and games that help you sound out different letters of the alphabet as well as find words that start with that letter. It has many different activities from all subjects that the children could practice at home as well as in the classroom.

http://www.toonuniversity.com/demos.asp

Rationale:
This website could be looked at as a type of enhancement because it gives students opportunities that they may not have been able to do without technology. These activities also motivates the child because it is an interactive type of learning. Students have some type of hands on activities that they find fun, but they can also learn from the activities that this website offers.

A to Z Teacher Stuff

This website is allows teachers to create worksheets of all types as well as using worksheets that are already made up. There are different themes that you can try out in a classroom as well as tips and articles that teachers can resort to at any time during their career.

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/

Rationale:
This particular website deals solely on teacher's efficiency. Using this website allows teachers to be time efficient, while also being creative in what materials they are using in their classrooms. Being able to have templates to make worksheets and words searches for example allows teachers to focus more on what is happening in the classroom day by day instead of spending hours at a time planning for the next weeks lessons.

Scholastic

This website has many different stories that children can read along with as well as options for the children to press a button to get read to if they need help with words.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/clf/tguidesitemap.htm

Rationale:
This resource deals with the students effectiveness in learning. Having an aid that is readily available even if the teacher is not, helps the students learn words that they may not have known before. The students have a higher quality of learning rather than giving a child a book to read and having no idea how to pronounce some of the words inside of the book. This particular website allows the teacher to click on a certain activity and allow the child to go through the lesson by themselves. This helps the teacher be more efficient with his/her time also by allowing him/her to spend time with student's individually if needed because they will not have to give their undivided attention to the entire class at once.

Teaching Ideas

This website has many helpful math posters to hang in the classroom as well as many different activities to use with different subject areas.

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/contents.htm

Rationale:

This website could be used for student learning enhancement as well as the teacher's effiecieny. The teacher would be able to use resources that are readily available instead of making their own making them more time effiecient. Students will benefit by doing activities as well as having helpful information hanging around them in the classroom. Having information available helps students be more independent.

AAA Study

This website has different activities that can be used in the classroom. A few that really stuck out were English and Math games/activities that could be used with different aged students.

http://www.aaastudy.com/addk7ax1.htm#section2


Rationale:
This resource helps with the effectiveness of the students learning. It helps students with their math skills with many different activities that are available on this website. Students have a better quality of learning because they are experiencing a hands on activity rather than just sitting at their desks, by doing these activities the children are able to retain more information.