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VR in Psychiatric Therepy

50109donohue — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:25:07 CDT

http://vrlab.epfl.ch/~bhbn/psy/index-VR-Psychology.html

This website showed various ways that Virtual Reality is being employed in exposure therapy to to help patients confront phobias in the presence of their therapist without having to leave the office and create an extraordinary circumstance (i.e. flying on a plane with your therapist or exposure to spiders).

Concentration Game

50109donohue — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:24:19 CDT

http://allpsych.com/games/concentration/index.html
This game is just like the game 'memory' but for one player. It's just as fun as it was when I was five.

Classic Social Psych Case Studies

50109donohue — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:22:54 CDT

http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/psychology_experiments.html
I was familiar with a few a these, but they were all very interesting. This is collection of five classic case studies in social psychology often with surprising results. It would be nice to live in a world where everyone had read all five of these.

Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience

50109donohue — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:21:01 CDT

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cognitive_Psychology_and_Cognitive_Neuroscience

This is a huge resource for Cognitive psych, across 14 chapters it covers different perspective on the field as well as motivation, emotion, problem solving, and memory just to name a few. The wealth of sources at the end of each chapter is an equally valuable as a starting point in conducting your own further research.

Cognitive Daily

50109donohue — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:19:58 CDT

http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/
This is a cognitive psychology blog written by David and Greta Munger. Greta is a psychology professor at Davidson college outside Charlotte in North Carolina, Dave is the founder and co-president of ResearchBlogging.org, both are published writers. The blog reports on peer-reviewed developments in cognition and cognitive psychology by the fields most respected scientists.

50 ways to use a wiki!

Whitneycf — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:09:01 CDT

http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/50-ways-to-use-wikis-for-a-more-collaborative-and-interactive-classroom/
This website is for teachers, specifically to increase the use in order to make a more interactive classroom. For new teachers, or teachers that have never used wiki's before (like myself) this is a good reference tool in order to develop and make wiki's useful to you and your students. Good Luck!

Strategies for Gifted Learners

501ebner — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:07:31 CDT

http://blogs.scholastic.com/gifted/

This site is a great resource for lessons, activities, and ideas for teachers to incorporate into their classrooms to get All students involved. Teachers collaborate on this site to provide information to each other on what they find works best for them in regards to teaching gifted students. The site provides a background on "gifted students" and how to identify them in your classroom. The blog also gives insight on which level, which topic, which book, to use for meeting the needs of gifted students in the regular classroom.

Grazing for Digital Natives

501ebner — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:40:47 CDT

http://jdorman.wikispaces.com/+Wikis

This is a very resourceful Wiki with videos and information about technology in education, and the Digital Native. The wiki provides a variety of tools to help teachers create a wiki for use in their individual classrooms, including a self-guided workshop to get started. The site also provides valuable information on how wikis can support learning in academic settings with access to more notable wiki sites used in education.

Tools-4-Teachers

501ebner — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:24:47 CDT

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Math Activities for K-12 Teachers

501ebner — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:08:40 CDT

The "Math Activities for K-12 Teachers" website developed by the California Polytechnic State University in conjunction with the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center is an amazing resource. This simulation activity involves flying objects such as jets, space shuttle, rockets or airplanes. It is an awesome way to incorporate technology into your classroom, increase student motivation, enhance learning styles, and boost intelligence with mathematical skill. Math activities are divided by grade including K-4, 5-8 and 9-12. Each lesson plan is based on one or more aircraft. As a bonus, lessons are based on the NCTM Standards. At the elementary level, lessons include concepts such as estimation, shape identification, basic graphing, subtraction and symmetry. At the intermediate level, lessons include concepts such as angle measurements, area and volume, converting units, Pythagorean Theorem, rational numbers and graphing. At the senior level, concepts include logarithms, parabolic paths, relationship and Pythagorean Theorem.

The Math Game Show

501ebner — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:07:39 CDT

Looking to enhance creativity into your mathematics classroom? The Math file game show, http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/index.shtml, is designed to do just that with the ancient mathematical hosts Hypatia and Pythagoras. The site is provided by BBC education and it includes on-line games as well as games available in printouts. The online games are offered in 3 levels of difficulty and include the following categories: numbers, data handling, algebra as well as shape, space and measure. The printouts include games and exercises such as cross number, snap charts, writing checks, budgeting and spending, and sorting books based on the Dewey Decimal System.

Virtual Platonic Solids

501ebner — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:04:04 CDT

This virtual reality site, http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vm3_asid_131.html, is a great tool to use for incorporating technology into the mathematics classroom. If you want to show your students what tetrahedrons, cubes, octahedrons, dodecahedrons and icosahedrons really look like, this "virtual platonic solids application" will be a great addition into your lesson. The application is provided by Utah State University. It will let the student select which platonic solid he or she wants. Then, the student can apply a color and using the mouse, rotate the solid in 3D. He or she may change the size of it using a slider and can also change the way it appears using different "skins" including filled solid or wire frame solid. It is also possible to see it as a dual solid with one inside the other.

Teachers Year One

bsevey — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:01:22 CDT

http://yearoneteacher.blogspot.com/

This website is a blog targeted for first year teachers. Teaching in your first year is an incredible challenge, and this website allows teachers to unite and discuss strategies, difficulties, and tell stories about their own experiences. Sometimes I wish I could sit down with a group of first year teachers and just talk for hours about all of the in's and out's of teaching...and sometimes just to have someone to vent to who actually understands what you are going through. Overall, I think the first year teachers blog is an extremely beneficial resource to any first year teacher.

Online Stat Book Case Studies

bsevey — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:54:44 CDT

http://onlinestatbook.com/case_studies_rvls/index.html

The Online Stat Book is a website created by Rice University. This link takes you to a site where you can analyze real-life statistical research. The site is organized by research topic, and each topic has a list of statistical ideas used. This allows users to quickly determine which case studies will be beneficial in assessing different statistical ideas. Each case provides background information on the case, the method and materials used, the raw data and statistics, and an analysis of the statistics.

Online Stat Book Simulations

bsevey — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:48:44 CDT

http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/index.html

The Online Stat Book is a website created by Rice University. This website allows you to run various statistical simulations based on topic. For example, you can explore confidence intervals by running simulations. All you have to do is input the initial conditions and the program will run the simulation for you. This website is very beneficial to an AP Statistics class, as it allows you to represent various statistical concepts without spending time running the long, drawn out calculations. Not only can you explore and learn statistical concepts using this website, but you can also run actual statistical simulations and analyze them youself! The downfall to this website is that it is not incredibly user-friendly. Unless you have a basic background in statistics, it can be a bit confusing to use effectively.

Math Open Reference

bsevey — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:36:05 CDT

http://www.mathopenref.com/

Math Open Reference provides a list of mathematical topics. Under each topic there are a series of Java Applets. Each Java Applet provides students an opportunity to manipulate a particular shape or situation. The purpose of the site is to explore mathematical relationships by manipulating initial conditions. For example, a student can manipulate a triangle and discover that the orthocenter of the triangle will be outside the triangle if the triangle is obtuse, and inside the triangle if it is acute. I have used this website in my classroom to have students determine various mathematical relationships by exploring and "playing" with the Java Applets. I also have my students reference this website from home when they have a question while their are home studying or working on homework.

Torus Games

bsevey — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:20:59 CDT

http://www.geometrygames.org/TorusGames/

This link takes you to the site where you can download Torus Games. Torus Games offers a variety of different games such as Tic-Tac-Toe, Mazes, Crosswords, Billiards, and Chess. The catch is, all of these games are played on a Torus, opposed to being played on their standard mediums. A Torus is a topological figure, similar to an inner-tube. These games foster creativity and critical thinking skills. The games can be played against the computer, or you can select the option to play against a friend. Not only is it fun to learn how to play the game, but also to figure out how the game works on a Torus.

Numb3rs

bsevey — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 14:12:11 CDT

www.weallusematheveryday.com

This is a math-teacher resource created by Texas Instruments. The website offers a variety of specific lesson plans and worksheets for students of grades 7-12. The lesson plans are based on the tv show Numb3rs. This is sort of a math/CSI show, where an FBI agent contracts his mathematician brother to help him solve crimes. The website provides links to each season. Once you select a season, you are taken to a list of each episode. Under each episode there is a link to a couple of different lesson plans that have been created about the mathematics in episode. Each lesson is organized by topic. These serve as great, "sub plan" activites. I often use these lessons and activity sheets when I know I am going to be absent. I will have my students watch the show in class, and give them the worksheet based on the episode to finish for the next day. The best part of the website is the fact that everything is available in pdf form to simply print and copy for your students.

Concentration

50109donohue — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:55:57 CDT

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Cognitive Psychology Games

50109donohue — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:26:42 CDT

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