Free Screen Capture Software
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Blended Learning
- Blended Learning Examples These pages explain the concept of bleneded learning and give a number of examples, including several online simulations. They were developed several years ago for a graduate course and some of the links are out of date and no longer work.
Multimedia Science Teacher Tools
- Jeopardy Type Game - Categories Game Maker Software The Categories Game Maker allows you to create fun and exciting review or assessment games for any curriculum that can be played with classes using a computer and projector system.
- Classroom Tool - Random Student The Random Student software randomly chooses student names from class lists that you can create and save. Use the software to choose students to answer questions, solve problems, set up groups, or for other classroom activities.
- Games - Academic Game Maker & Player Software The Academic Game Maker & Player software allows teachers to quickly and easily create fun educational games for any curriculum. Teachers use the Academic Game Maker to create learning games and then save them as game files. Students can then load these game files and play the games using the Academic Game Player. There are three different games: Laser I, Matching, and Laser II. The final game file can include up to two games of each type, for a total of six games in each game file.
- Games - Hangman Game Maker Softwar The Hangman Game Maker and Player software allows teachers or parents to create learning games based on the age old favorite of hangman, supposedly created during Victorian times.
- Classroom Tool - Sound Effects Software The Sound Effects software allows you to create, save, and load sound files that include five sounds that can be played by clicking on colored buttons from the Play Sounds screen. Use the sounds to get your audience's attention, indicate whether question answers are correct or incorrect, remind test takers to move on to a new section, play recorded directions, or help make your point.
Category Archives: Effective Teaching
Teacher Curriculum – Save for the Future?
Teaching & Technology by Multimedia Science Teacher Curriculum – Save for the Future? Many Man/Woman Hours Lost Overview During my 30 years of high school teaching, I taught several levels of physics and chemistry and a number of different math … Continue reading
FaceRig Software – 3D Avatars – Useful Teaching Tools?
Overview “FaceRig is a program that aims to enable anyone with a webcam to digitally embody awesome characters. The output can be recorded as a movie or streamed to Skype, twitch, Hangouts, or any service that traditionally uses a webcam … Continue reading
Multimedia Science SALE – December 2016 – 50% Off
End of the year sale on all chemistry, physics, and teacher tools software and materials on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Computer Game Creation Club – Part 1: Choosing the Authoring Software
Overview I started a club for students to create computer games at the high school where I taught. The school had a computer lab with 20 PC computers which we used after school once a week. It became popular with … Continue reading
Life Of A Teacher – Part 2
[like] As a follow up to the graphic organizer of a teacher’s life below, here is a more detailed analysis. It compares the common perceptions against the reality. There is a reason for teacher burnout and that is the … Continue reading
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Is Podcasting In Your Future?
[like] In simple terms, a podcast is an audio recording that in available for listeners on the Internet. Podcasting came from Portable On Demand Broadcasting. It’s pretty easy to create a podcast by using a computer, microphone, free software, and … Continue reading
Versal Internet Course Creation
[like] Versal is a set of Internet based tools that allow teachers to create Internet courses. There are core tools, viewers, and labs, many of which are both useful and creative. A course could be created with text, graphic, and … Continue reading
Primary Sources: America’s Largest Teacher Survey
[like] What do 20,000 public school teachers have to say about teaching, evaluation, standards, and collaboration. You can see the survey results and download full reports and infographics form the completed study on the Primary Sources website.
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Teaching Channel’s Theory of Professional Learning
[like] Teaching Channel’s mission is to help educators learn from each other. Teaching Channel Videos The authors of this site believe that videos are one of the prime materials to be used in education and have compiled an extensive collection … Continue reading
What Do Teachers Make
[like] It’s sad that teachers are some of the lowest paid professional workers in the United States. I remember when I switched from engineering to teaching and, in my first week, I realized that in order to make a phone … Continue reading
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