Technology Teaching Aids for Your Classrooms

sfitzell — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:20:11 +0000

Offers Teaching Aids for Your Classrooms

Teachnology is an information packed site for those in search of technology tools and teaching aids for the classroom! Whether you are looking for lesson plan ideas, pre-made activities for your classes, or ready-to-use rubrics, this site offers a host of information designed to help make you more productive in your classrooms.

For example, I’m researching tools, techniques and resources to teach vocabulary. I searched the word, “vocabulary” on Teachnology and found a video and several other links to vocabulary teaching tools and ideas. The site encourages membership, however, there are free tips available, also.

All grade levels and subjects are included and there are ideas for a variety of teaching and learning styles. Best of all, much of the available content is offered free of charge. Check out Teachnology today!If you decide to try Teachnology, I’d love to know what you think about the site and if you found any helpful tools.

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Learning Style Inclusion Methods

sfitzell — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:35:50 +0000

Visual

Quack! SAT Vocab Success!
This educational video set has earned high praise for it’s ability to blend an irreverent sense of humor with an “educational assisting program designed to beef up students’ language skills before taking the SAT test.” ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

This set includes two DVDs with five episodes which include interactive quizzes and pre/post tests designed to maximize retention. All in all, an excellent way to grab the attention of visual students.

Auditory

Who hasn’t had a song stuck in their head, at one time or another? Using the naturally catchy nature of tunes to have your students leaving your classes humming the answers to next weeks test seems to sell itself. The following are a couple of links that offer educational songs for download. There are songs for all grade levels as well as subjects.

SongsForTeaching.com

HaveFunTeaching.com

KidsKnowIt.com

Kinesthetic

The following was an idea suggested to me by Megan Taylor of Ozark, MO, as a method for getting physical learners to take hold of abstract ideas. kinesthetic spelling: Use your body as the letters on the line. For example: “Political” – P-stand, o-sit, l-stand, i-sit, t-stand, i-sit, c-sit, a-sit, l-stand. When an entire class spells out a word and performs this, it also adds a visual and auditory dimension to the idea.