Claymation & Movie Maker website with grading rubric

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This website has a “how to” for claymation and movie maker.  It also has examples of claymation movies. This a root directory but you can still click on the links to go to the documents or you can right click, choose save target as and then save the file on your computer. 

http://www.earlyisd.net/~kflippin/

One Website from the closing speaker

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 This was the one website I was able to get down from the closing speaker http://torres21.typepad.com/flickschool/  It amazed me how many different teachers had figured out that they had to make the subject appealing to the students.  These teachers chose to use pod-casting, broadcasting, windows movies, etc. to make their subject interesting.  One school started making posters of students stories who scored a 4 on their practice writing.  Then that student was allowed to make an audio pod cast of the story.  Once that was done, they let the student make a windows movie, using still pictures the students took with a small digital camera, about their story.  The school posted the podcast and then the movie on the school website.  They said that after about the 3rd or 4th story that was made into a movie, students who had never wanted to write started revising and revising until they got the necessary 4 on their paper to be allowed to do this.

A Different Approach to TAKS

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I went to several broadcast workshops where they were using quick clips to help students with TAKS.  This website has more than just the broadcast notes.  http://www.pasadenaisd.org/tcea/ 

You can also use Photo Story 3 to make videos from still pictures and the students love it!  There was a school that used the incentive of making a Photo Story 3 movie out of the students work (they had to score a 4 to do this) that raised their TAKS writing scores.  They actually had students that had never wanted to learn about revising doing a ton of revising just to get to make a movie out of their story. 

Here is another site that has more than just broadcast information on it http://tweb.lisd.net/melissa_hall/index.htm.

Like GeoCaching? Try MathCaching! From MathBits.com

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Send your students on an internet search while refining their algebra skills.

http://www.mathbits.com/MathBits/StudentResources/Algebra1/Algebra1Student.htm

Interactive Games for Algebra

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There are several web sites listed on this page that have games related specifically to algebra, enjoy.

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/ALGEBRA/games/Aquiapage.htm

Test Prep Site for Multiple Subjects

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http://regentsprep.org/regents.cfm

YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP!

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Want to improve you math skills? Try this interactive battleship game, you have to answer the math question correctly to score a hit.

http://www.quia.com/ba/28820.html

PARALLEL AND PERPENDICULAR LINES

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Great web sites for teaching parallel and perpendicular lines.

PARALLEL SITE

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/SlopeSlider/

Check out the Teacher resource and print the Slope Slider Explorations Sheet and Slope Slider Record Sheet.  I had my students record the results of 4 different graphs on the record sheet.  They were asked to create 1 line initially and record their results (no decimals please), then they only changed the y-intercept and created 3 new lines and recorded those results.  They DISCOVERED that parallel lines have the same slope! :)

PERPENDICULAR SITE

http://regentsprep.org/REgents/math/math-topic.cfm?TopicCode=parallel

There are 3 different pages that go with this lesson. A teacher lesson, practice and a hands on activity. 

Great website

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This was a great website that has all of the power point presentations that Patrick Crispin presented at the TCEA conference.  I attended the one on Google and the other one on the Complete Waste of Time.  Even though it was a silly title, the workshop was full of great websites and was very insightful, especially the one on tiny URLs.

http://netsquirrel.com

TCEA 2008

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Including the Instructional Technology staff, 22 BISD teachers recently joined over 8000 other Texas teachers in attending the TCEA (Texas Computer Educator Association) conference in Austin. They were joined by teachers from the BHS Business Department and Technology leaders. Dedicated teachers rushed from session to session in an effort to learn all they could about integrating technology into their curriculum. Doni Bracht did a fabulous job of teaching a podcasting class to a large group of teachers from across Texas. IT is inviting our teachers to record their experiences and share links to resources about what they learned this past week at TCEA. They might even tell you about the things they won!